8 Best POS Systems for Shopify of 2026

Shopify POS ranks first because there is nothing to sync: the register runs inside the same Shopify admin as the online store, so a sale in the shop lowers the stock count online at once and a customer profile follows the buyer across channels. Shopify's App Store listing says POS Lite is included with all Shopify plans and is meant for pop-ups, markets and fairs, while POS Pro costs $89 per location per month and is meant for brick-and-mortar stores. POS Pro is where shop-floor tools live: stock-take, stock transfers, staff permissions and sales commissions. Omnichannel features include local pickup, email carts, ship to customer and selling stock held at another location. The trade-off is that payments and hardware come from Shopify, and a merchant with three shops pays POS Pro three times. The listing's 3.2 rating from 402 reviews is lower than several connectors, and reviewers mention the per-location fee.

Hike suits a Shopify merchant who wants a dedicated retail POS without paying for a separate connector. Hike's Shopify page describes a two-way sync of products, inventory, customers and orders, and says the integration is developed by the Hike team and available to Hike and Shopify users at no additional cost. Merchants can pick which store's inventory links to Shopify and leave some products off the website. Shopify orders arrive in Hike, which lets staff handle in-store pickup, exchanges and payment on pickup, and a sync log records any item that fails. Pricing is clear: Essential costs $59 USD a month billed annually or $69 monthly, but it covers a single outlet only, and Plus at $99 USD a month billed annually is needed for more stores. Hike runs on iPad, PC and Mac, with Android listed as coming soon. Merchants who want everything inside one Shopify admin should still prefer Shopify POS.

Lightspeed Retail X-Series fits Shopify merchants whose stock control has outgrown Shopify's own tools. Lightspeed's Shopify page says retailers select which store and warehouse inventory to combine and sync with Shopify, and that edits made in Lightspeed sync back to Shopify, so there is one place to manage products. Its support center documents mapping several Retail POS outlets to matching Shopify locations. The Shopify App Store listing prices Lean at $89 per location per month or $828 a year, with 1 register, multiple locations, integrated payments and 24/7 support; Standard at $149 adds integrated accounting and Advanced at $269 adds omnichannel loyalty. The catch is that Lightspeed becomes the system of record, which suits a retail-led business but feels backward for a brand that started online and manages everything in Shopify today. Lightspeed bills separately from the Shopify invoice.

ConnectPOS is a POS that sits on Shopify's data, built for merchants who have outgrown one shop. Its Shopify App Store listing describes real-time sync of products, inventory, orders and customer data, stock transfers between locations, local-currency selling, store-level staff roles and checkout on desktop or iPad from one HQ dashboard. Self-checkout through kiosks and customer apps is unusual among the options here. Pricing is per register: Standard at $49 includes exchanges and refunds for online and POS orders, offline mode, draft orders and unlimited staff accounts; Advanced at $79 adds quotes, inventory adjustment, gift card and partial payments and a second screen; Premium at $99 adds stock transfers and stock-take. Payment options include Adyen, Stripe and Zettle by PayPal. For a single small shop, the core tools a retailer expects are spread across tiers, so the real starting cost is often $79 or $99 per register.

PHP Point Of Sale is the value pick for Shopify merchants who want to keep Shopify for the website and run the shop on a separate system. Its Shopify page says the integration syncs items, orders, customers and inventory in both directions, and its pricing page lists the Shopify app at $29 a month, billed through Shopify, with a 14-day free trial. The POS itself costs $32.50 a month on Standard, billed in USD annually, with unlimited registers and phone, appointment and email support; Pro at $54.00 a month adds the PHPPOS Genie AI tool and custom label and receipt designers. A shop with several tills pays the same software fee, which is the main reason to look at it over per-register or per-location tools. The trade-off is polish: setup involves more settings than Shopify POS or Hike, and the annual billing on the POS plan is a commitment up front.

SKU IQ answers a common situation: the shop already runs Square or Clover, and the owner wants the Shopify store to stop overselling. It is not a point of sale; its Shopify App Store listing describes it as a sync for inventory, orders and the product catalog between Shopify and Clover, Square or Lightspeed Retail, with a dashboard of sales, orders and sync events and detailed logs. Pricing scales with how much you sync. Basic at $19 a month syncs quantities only, Plus at $49 syncs most product attributes and Pro at $99 syncs all product attributes and images, each with a 14-day free trial. That makes SKU IQ the cheapest way to connect an existing register to Shopify, but the total cost includes the POS subscription and card fees you already pay. Merchants starting fresh are usually better served by Shopify POS or a POS with a built-in Shopify integration, since two systems mean two catalogs to keep tidy.

Vibe Retail is a full retail POS for shops that want loyalty, gift cards, supplier orders and work orders on the same system as their Shopify sync. Vibe's help center explains what moves each way: titles, descriptions, images, prices, cost, SKU, barcode, quantity and variants import from Shopify, and price, cost, SKU, tags and quantity go back. A separate online price tier lets Shopify prices differ from shelf prices, and you choose which store's inventory links to the website. Collections, tax settings and sales channels stay in Shopify. The pricing page lists ecommerce and third-party integration access as Pro features, so the realistic price for a Shopify merchant is $119 a month for Pro with one register, not the $29 Essential plan, which is capped at 100 items. Multi-location real-time sync is only on Ultimate at $1,599 a month, so Vibe fits a single shop better than a chain.

Epos Now is a hardware-first option for Shopify merchants who want a complete till delivered and set up for them. Its US Shopify page says the integration syncs sales data, inventory and online orders automatically, that the app is installed from the Epos Now Back Office and that onboarding is managed. Stock levels, sales data and orders from multiple stores are kept in step, and the Shopify dashboard then shows in-store and online performance side by side. Epos Now sells configurable hardware and software bundles, which suits someone opening a shop from scratch who wants one vendor for the whole counter. The weak spot for comparison is pricing: the US pricing page we fetched promoted hardware bundles rather than a clear monthly software fee, so we list the price as pending. It also publishes less detail on field-level sync than Hike or Vibe, so ask which product fields move each way before you buy.