Shopify POS: point of sale software platform

Shopify POS has no price of its own. It is an add-on to a Shopify plan, and on 16 October 2026 the pricing page served Indian rupee figures to our request: Basic at ₹1,499/mo through Plus from ₹175,000/mo, with POS Pro at ₹7,000/mo per location. Buy it if you already sell online on Shopify. Check your own market's currency before you budget.

Rajat GuptaEditorial LeadReviewed 16 October 2026Pricing checked 16 October 2026 against the Shopify pricing page

Shopify POS in brief

Shopify POS has no price of its own.

Price: Basic at ₹1,499 /mo, with POS Pro at ₹7,000 /mo per location · Platform subscription plus a per-location POS Pro add-on
Best for: Retailers selling the same stock in store and online on Shopify
Watch out for: You give up a price you can simply read off a page, which is an odd thing to say about a vendor that publishes four plan figures.

The short answer

Buy Shopify POS if your online store is already on Shopify, or is going to be, and you want one inventory record and one customer record behind the counter and the website. The in-person side is an extension of the ecommerce back office rather than a separate system you then integrate, and that is the whole argument: one product catalogue, one stock count per location, one order history whether the sale happened at the till or on a phone.

Skip it if your website lives somewhere else and is staying there, because you would be paying for a commerce platform to get a till. Skip it if you run a full-service restaurant, since this is retail software with no kitchen display or coursing. And skip it if you need a payments rate you can read before you sign up: Shopify says card fees vary by plan and publishes none of them on the pricing page.

Where Shopify POS fits

The first thing to understand is that Shopify POS is not a product you buy on its own. You buy a Shopify plan, and the point of sale comes with it in two grades. Casual in-person selling at pop-ups and events is included on every plan at no extra charge. POS Pro, the version a real shop needs, is an add-on charged at ₹7,000/mo per location, and it is what adds staff roles and permissions, in-store inventory management, exchanges, and in-store pickup and flexible delivery. So the shape of the decision is a platform choice first and a POS choice second, which is unusual in this category and is the reason a straight price comparison against a restaurant or retail POS vendor rarely lines up.

The buyer who gets the most out of it is a retailer selling the same goods in a shop and online. Inventory sits in one place across locations, customer records are captured at checkout and feed the same marketing tools used online, and order flows like buy online and pick up in store, or buy in store and ship to the customer, are configuration rather than integration work. If your current setup is a POS in the shop, a store platform online, and a spreadsheet reconciling the two every week, that duplication is the problem Shopify POS is built to remove.

Location count, not till count, is the structure to pay attention to. Basic, Grow and Advanced each include 10 inventory locations. Plus includes 200 inventory locations and bundles up to 200 POS Pro locations, with 20 POS Pro locations included rather than charged one at a time. POS Pro on the lower three plans is charged per retail location, so a five-store retailer pays five POS Pro fees on top of one plan fee. That arithmetic is yours to do with your own store count, and it is the single most common reason a Shopify POS quote comes out different from what the plan card suggested.

Staff access and plan tier are tied together in a way that catches growing shops. Grow allows up to 5 staff accounts, Advanced up to 15, and Plus unlimited. Shop floors run many people through one system, so the staff ceiling can push you up a tier for reasons that have nothing to do with sales volume or POS features. POS Pro's unlimited staff roles and permissions sit inside the POS app, so read the two limits separately and ask which one applies to your till users.

Where it stops is hospitality and anything that needs deep local control. There is no kitchen display, no coursing and no table service model here: it is retail checkout, inventory and customer data. Hardware is sold separately and is not priced on the pricing page. Shopify states it is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant and that Shopify-powered stores are PCI compliant by default, which covers the card-data question most finance teams raise, but the payments rate itself is not published. If you run a restaurant, start with Toast or TouchBistro instead and treat this page as a retail comparison.

Shopify POS pricing

Shopify publishes list prices, with one large caveat: the pricing page localises by country, and the request made on 16 October 2026 was served Indian rupee pricing. Every figure below is the rupee figure the page actually showed, written as published and converted to nothing, because converting it would be inventing a number. Load the page from your own market, or ask Shopify in writing, before you put any of this in a budget. The second caveat is structural: these are Shopify platform prices, and the point of sale is the POS Pro line among them.

What Shopify publishes

Basic: ₹1,499 /mo (Monthly, billed yearly)For solo entrepreneurs. Sell online, in person and in AI chats, 10 inventory locations, and a 2% fee on third-party payment providers. POS Pro available at ₹7,000/mo per location.
Grow: ₹5,599 /mo (Monthly, billed yearly)Everything in Basic, up to 5 staff accounts, and a 1% fee on third-party payment providers. POS Pro available at ₹7,000/mo per location.
Advanced: ₹22,680 /mo (Monthly, billed yearly)Everything in Grow, up to 15 staff accounts, live third-party shipping rates, regional storefront tailoring, enhanced live chat support, and a 0.6% fee on third-party payment providers.
Plus: from ₹175,000 /mo (Monthly, with 1 or 3 year term options)Everything in Advanced, unlimited staff accounts, up to 200 POS Pro locations and 200 inventory locations, fully customizable checkout, priority 24/7 phone support, and a 0.2% fee on third-party payment providers.
POS Pro: ₹7,000 /mo per location (Monthly, per location)The add-on a physical store needs: unlimited staff roles and permissions, in-store inventory management, in-store pickup and flexible delivery, and exchanges. Plus includes 20 POS Pro locations.

Figures as published on 16 October 2026, in the currency the page served to our request. Plan prices are the pay-yearly figures; the page also listed higher pay-monthly figures for the same plans.

The published figures are the start of the bill, not the end of it. Four things move the total.

Your store count, because POS Pro is charged per retail location and not per company. One plan fee covers the platform; the POS fee repeats for every shop you run. Count your locations, multiply the ₹7,000/mo per location figure yourself, and then compare that total with Plus, which bundles 20 POS Pro locations instead of charging per location.
Card processing, which Shopify does not publish on the pricing page. It says card fees vary by plan, and that if you use a third-party payment provider instead of Shopify Payments a further platform fee applies: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced and 0.2% on Plus. For a shop taking most of its money on cards, processing usually dwarfs the subscription, so get the rate for your market in writing before you compare anything.
The inventory location ceiling, which is a tier boundary dressed as a feature. Basic, Grow and Advanced each include 10 inventory locations. If you run more stockrooms, warehouses and shops than that between them, the move to Plus is forced by inventory counting rather than by any POS capability, and the price step is large.
Volume add-ons at the edges. Shopify includes 50 synced marketplace orders a month free and charges 1% up to $99 USD/mo above that. It also states there are no setup fees on any plan, which removes one line that most POS vendors in this category charge for.

What costs extra

POS Pro at ₹7,000/mo per location, which is the version with staff permissions, in-store inventory management, exchanges, and in-store pickup and flexible delivery. Plus includes 20 POS Pro locations.
A third-party payment provider fee on top of card rates, at 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced and 0.2% on Plus.
Marketplace order sync above 50 orders a month, at 1% up to $99 USD/mo.
Hardware, which is bought separately and is not priced on the pricing page. Ask for a device list and total for each till, including card reader, drawer, printer and scanner.
Shopify Balance, Shopify Capital and Shopify Credit sit alongside the plans with their own terms rather than a subscription price.

Implementation and commercial terms

What the pricing page confirmed on 16 October 2026, with the currency problem recorded as a row rather than buried in a footnote.

Currency served: Indian rupees. The page localises by country, so verify your own market's figures.
How POS is sold: As an add-on to a Shopify plan. POS Pro is ₹7,000/mo per location.
Included on every plan: Casual in-person selling at pop-ups and events, at no extra charge.
Setup fees: None on any plan, per Shopify's own FAQ.
Free trial: A free 3-day trial with no credit card required, then a discounted introductory rate for the first 3 months.
Card processing rates: Not published on the pricing page. Shopify says they vary by plan.
Card data compliance: Certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant, with Shopify-powered stores PCI compliant by default.
Term: Cancel any time on the standard plans. Plus has 1 and 3 year term options.

Budget this in two lines and in your own currency. Line one is the Shopify plan, which is a platform decision driven by staff accounts, inventory locations and the third-party provider fee. Line two is POS Pro at ₹7,000/mo per location, multiplied by your shops. Then get the card rate for your market, because that is the number the pricing page does not give you and the one most likely to decide the comparison. If your website is not going to be on Shopify, run the same exercise against Square, which publishes both its software fees and its card rates, and against Loyverse at the low end, where the point of sale itself is free.

Source: the Shopify pricing page, checked 16 October 2026. Confirm current prices with the vendor before you budget.

What Shopify POS gives up

You give up a price you can simply read off a page, which is an odd thing to say about a vendor that publishes four plan figures. The problem is localisation: on 16 October 2026 the page served rupee prices to our request, so the figures above are accurate as published and may bear no relation to the plan price in your country. Nothing is marked as a global list price. Treat the structure as the finding, with the figures as a worked example, and confirm your own market in writing.

You give up a readable payments rate. Card fees are not on the pricing page at all: Shopify says only that they vary by plan, and the one processing figure published is the extra fee you pay for not using Shopify Payments, which runs from 2% on Basic down to 0.2% on Plus. That structure pushes you towards Shopify Payments without telling you what Shopify Payments costs. For a retailer, the card rate is usually the biggest line in the bill, so this absence matters more than it looks.

You give up restaurant capability. There is no kitchen display, no coursing, no table or seat management in this product. It is a retail point of sale with an ecommerce platform behind it, and the strength of the inventory and customer model does not compensate for the missing hospitality workflow. A cafe with a counter can work. A full-service dining room cannot, and the vendors to compare instead are SpotOn and TouchBistro.

You give up independence from the platform. The thing that makes Shopify POS good, one back office across online and in person, is also a commitment: your till, your catalogue, your customer data and your website live with the same vendor, and moving one of them later means moving a lot more than a POS. That is a reasonable trade for a retailer who wants one system, and a poor one for a business that chose its ecommerce platform deliberately and does not intend to change it.

You give up a short hardware conversation. Devices are sold separately and are not priced on the pricing page, so the first-year cost of a counter is a number you have to assemble yourself from a hardware quote. Shopify provides migration apps and support for switching platforms, which helps with data rather than with capital spend. Get the device list priced per till before you compare the monthly figures with anyone else's.

How Shopify POS compares

The useful split in retail POS is what gets published and what counts as a unit. Shopify prices a platform and charges POS Pro per location. Square publishes a per-location software fee and the full card rate card. Loyverse gives the point of sale away and charges for three named add-ons. Lightspeed could not be read at all. Every price below comes from that vendor's own pricing page, checked on 16 October 2026, and anything unpublished or unreachable is recorded as such rather than estimated.

Tool	Best for	Price	Where it breaks
Shopify POS	Retailers whose online store is on Shopify and who want one inventory and customer record	Plans ₹1,499 to from ₹175,000 /mo, POS Pro ₹7,000 /mo per location	No card rate published, no restaurant workflow, and the page localises its currency
Square	Shops and food businesses that want a published card rate and a free entry tier	$0, $49 or $149/mo. per location	The monthly fee repeats per location, and kitchen and kiosk software is charged per device
Loyverse	Single sites and small chains that need a till, not a commerce platform	Free core, add-ons $9, $5 and $25 USD/month	Free sales analytics covers the last 31 days only, so reporting history is a paid add-on
Lightspeed	Multi-location retail and hospitality buyers prepared to run a sales process	Could not be accessed on 16 October 2026	lightspeedhq.com returned HTTP 403, so no plan name or figure could be verified

What to test in a Shopify POS trial

Shopify lists a free 3-day trial with no credit card required, followed by a discounted introductory rate for the first 3 months. Three days is enough to test the workflow and nowhere near enough to test a migration, so plan the trial around the five things that would actually stop you, and settle the commercial questions in parallel.

Open the pricing page from your own country on your own network and screenshot it. Our pull on 16 October 2026 was served rupee pricing, so the first task is establishing what the plan and POS Pro figures are where you trade. Ask sales to confirm them in writing, along with the card processing rate, which the page does not publish anywhere.
Price POS Pro against your real store count. Multiply the per-location fee by the number of shops, add the plan fee once, and compare that against Plus, which bundles 20 POS Pro locations. While you are there, count your inventory locations against the 10 included on Basic, Grow and Advanced, because that ceiling and not the POS feature list is what forces the tier.
Run the POS Pro features that the free in-person tier does not include. Set up staff roles and permissions for a real shift, process an exchange rather than a refund, and complete an in-store pickup from an online order. Those are the things you are paying the add-on for, so make them work with your own products and your own staff before you commit.
Load a slice of your real catalogue and test stock across two locations. Sell the same item in the shop and online within a few minutes, then check what each location's count says and what the back office reports. Inventory accuracy across channels is the core promise here, and a demo store with ten products will not surface the problems your catalogue will.
Get the whole first-year cost on one page before the trial ends. Plan fee, POS Pro per location, the card rate for your market, the hardware list per till, and the third-party provider fee if you intend to keep your existing processor. Confirm the no setup fees statement applies to you, and ask what the price becomes after the discounted introductory months end.

Frequently asked questions about Shopify POS

How much does Shopify POS cost?

It is priced as an add-on to a Shopify plan. On 16 October 2026 the pricing page listed POS Pro at ₹7,000/mo per location on Basic, Grow and Advanced, with 20 POS Pro locations included on Plus. The page served rupee pricing to our request, so confirm the figures for your own market.

Does Shopify have its own POS?

Yes. Shopify POS is Shopify's own in-person selling app, and it runs off the same back office as the online store. Casual selling at pop-ups and events is included on every plan. The full retail version, POS Pro, is a paid add-on charged for each retail location.

What is the difference between Shopify POS Lite and POS Pro?

The version included with every plan covers casual in-person sales at pop-ups and events. POS Pro adds what a staffed shop needs: unlimited staff roles and permissions, in-store inventory management, exchanges, and in-store pickup and flexible delivery. It costs ₹7,000/mo per location as published on 16 October 2026.

Does Shopify charge a monthly fee?

Yes, for the platform. Plan prices published on 16 October 2026 were Basic at ₹1,499/mo, Grow at ₹5,599/mo, Advanced at ₹22,680/mo paid yearly and Plus from ₹175,000/mo, with higher pay-monthly figures also listed. POS Pro is charged on top, per location.

What is the cheapest Shopify plan with point of sale?

Basic, at ₹1,499/mo as published on 16 October 2026, includes casual in-person selling at no extra charge. If you need staff permissions, in-store inventory and exchanges, add POS Pro at ₹7,000/mo per location on top of Basic. Those were the figures the page served our request.

What does Shopify charge on each card sale?

Shopify does not publish card rates on its pricing page and says only that they vary by plan. It does publish the extra fee for using a third-party payment provider instead of Shopify Payments: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced and 0.2% on Plus. Get your market's card rate in writing.

Is Shopify POS better than Square for a retail shop?

It depends on where your website lives. Shopify POS wins when the online store is already on Shopify, because inventory and customers are one record. Square publishes its card rates and a free tier, so it wins when you want a readable processing cost without buying a commerce platform.

Do I need to buy Shopify's hardware?

Hardware is sold separately and is not priced on the pricing page, so ask for a device list and total per till. Shopify recommends its own integrated hardware and Shopify Payments for the full experience, and notes that both are available only in select regions, so check availability where you trade.

How many locations and staff accounts does each plan allow?

Basic, Grow and Advanced each include 10 inventory locations; Plus includes 200. Staff accounts run to 5 on Grow, 15 on Advanced and unlimited on Plus. POS Pro itself allows unlimited staff roles and permissions, so read the two ceilings separately when you pick a tier.

Is Shopify POS PCI compliant?

Shopify states it is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant and that stores powered by Shopify are PCI compliant by default, which covers card data handling. Staff access to the till is controlled through POS Pro roles and permissions, so ask who can process a refund or an exchange when you configure it.