We build retail on Shopify — POS rollouts across dozens of stores, one inventory pool feeding online and in-store, and the ERP connections that keep them honest. We currently run 59 Shopify POS locations for a single client.
A Shopify POS build connects your physical stores to the same catalog, inventory and customer records as your online store. The work is inventory architecture across locations, POS hardware and Smart Grid configuration per store, staff roles and permissions, ERP or inventory-system integration, and the omnichannel flows — buy online pick up in store, ship from store, endless aisle — that make one stock pool useful.
Shopify POS Lite is included with every Shopify plan and handles a market stall or a single simple counter. Everything above that — multiple staff with distinct permissions, multiple locations, customers who expect to buy online and collect in store — is where POS Pro, real inventory architecture and integration work begin.
Solo Media Group runs POS at scale. We work directly with HUK Gear's CIO and marketing manager across 59 Shopify POS locations, including ERP integration, custom discount logic spanning multiple sales channels, and the apps keeping inventory synced across every store.
Around 21 retail locations. POS Pro costs approximately $89 per month per location on standard plans. Shopify Plus includes POS Pro for up to 200 locations at no extra charge. The Plus premium over the Advanced plan is roughly $1,901 per month, which is covered by POS Pro fees at about 21 stores — before counting any other Plus feature.
The arithmetic, using published list prices:
| Line | Figure |
|---|---|
| Shopify Advanced plan | $399 / month |
| Shopify Plus | from $2,300 / month (3-year term) |
| Plus premium over Advanced | $1,901 / month |
| POS Pro on standard plans | ≈$89 / month per location |
| POS Pro locations included with Plus | 200 |
| Break-even | $1,901 ÷ $89 ≈ 21 locations |
Worked example at scale. A 59-location retailer on Advanced pays $399 plus 59 × $89, roughly $5,650 per month. The same retailer on Plus pays from $2,300 per month with all 59 locations covered — a saving in the region of $3,350 per month, or about $40,000 a year, on POS licensing alone. Every other Plus capability comes on top of that.
Two honest caveats. Plus is frequently custom-quoted rather than sold at list, and above a high monthly volume Shopify moves to a variable platform fee whose thresholds it does not publish. Standard plans also cap inventory locations at 10, against 200 on Plus, so past ten stores the decision is often made for you regardless of cost. Treat this as the arithmetic to take into a conversation with Shopify, not a quote.
Hardware is the visible part of a POS rollout and the easy part. What determines whether the project works is how inventory is modelled before a single terminal is unboxed.
Shopify tracks inventory per location. The decisions that matter are which locations are sellable online, in what priority order Shopify fulfils, and what buffer each store holds back so a walk-in customer never loses a sale to a website order placed thirty seconds earlier.
Turning stores into fulfilment nodes cuts delivery times and clears slow-moving regional stock. It also puts picking and packing in front of retail staff whose day job is selling, so the operational design matters as much as the configuration.
Requires POS Pro. Increasingly expected in fashion and lifestyle retail, and one of the few features that reliably drives store footfall from online demand.
Selling stock a store doesn't physically hold, from the shop floor. Recovers sales that would otherwise walk out the door, and depends entirely on inventory accuracy being genuinely trustworthy.
Inventory accuracy decays. A rollout without a counting rhythm produces a system your staff stop trusting within a quarter, and untrusted inventory is worse than no inventory data.
Yes. Because Shopify tracks stock per location, a store locator can show live availability per store rather than just addresses and opening hours — so a customer sees which nearby shop actually has their size before they travel. It needs the locator connected to location-level inventory rather than a static list of addresses, which is a build rather than a setting, and it is one of the highest-value additions for any retailer with more than a handful of stores.
Location setup, staff roles and permissions, receipt and tax configuration, and hardware provisioning across every store. We have taken this to 59 locations for one client.
The POS home screen your staff actually touch all day. Custom tiles for store-specific workflows — the Los Angeles Apparel flagship runs staff-specific tiles built for how that shop floor operates.
The connection that decides whether the rollout reduces work or adds it. NetSuite, SAP, and custom middleware, built as maintainable integrations rather than one-off scripts.
Buy online pick up in store, ship from store, local delivery, and third-party delivery integrations. The Los Angeles Apparel SoHo flagship includes in-store pickup and DoorDash delivery.
Promotions that behave correctly whether a sale happens online, in store, or through wholesale. Genuinely harder than it sounds once three channels share one catalog, and a common source of margin leakage.
Location-level stock surfaced to customers before they travel.
Location-level performance, staff performance, and stock movement reporting that a regional manager can act on without exporting to a spreadsheet.
Where no app fits, we build one. Custom app development is a listed capability on our Shopify Partner Directory profile.
| POS Lite | POS Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Included free | ≈$89 / location / month |
| Included with Shopify Plus | Yes | Yes, up to 200 locations |
| Checkout and basic inventory | Yes | Yes |
| Granular staff roles and permissions | No | Yes |
| Buy online, pick up in store | No | Yes |
| Ship from store | No | Yes |
| Multi-location reporting | No | Yes |
| Best for | Pop-ups, markets, one simple counter | Permanent stores, multiple staff, omnichannel |
In-person card rates run lower than online rates, roughly 2.6% + $0.10 on Basic down to 2.4% + $0.10 on Advanced. Hardware starts around $49 for a card reader and reaches roughly $459 for a full countertop kit, which becomes a material line item once you multiply it across a rollout. You can upgrade Lite to Pro per location without rebuilding anything.
Outdoor apparel · POS at scale
Outdoor apparel · POS at scale
Most Shopify agencies have never rolled POS past a handful of locations, because most of their clients are DTC-only. As a Platinum-tier full service ecommerce agency rated 5.0 from 37 reviews on the Shopify Partner Directory, we run POS at a scale you can verify — ask any agency you are evaluating for their largest live location count.
POS and multi-location retail projects at Solo Media Group start at around $20,000, quoted as a line-item estimate. Shopify licensing and hardware are separate and paid directly — POS Pro at roughly $89 per location per month on standard plans, included for up to 200 locations on Plus, with hardware from about $49 per reader.
If wholesale is also in scope, see Shopify B2B development — retail, wholesale and DTC on one catalog is a single architecture decision, not three projects. Our Shopify Plus cost guide covers budgeting across build types.
Location list, current inventory systems, staff structure, fulfilment ambitions, and the reporting your regional managers actually need.
Locations modelled, sellable-online rules and fulfilment priority set, buffer strategy agreed. Documented and signed off before configuration.
ERP and inventory system connections, tested against real stock data.
Locations, staff roles, permissions, receipts, tax, custom tiles and Smart Grid layouts.
One location live, trading, for at least two weeks. Every rollout problem shows up here where it is cheap to fix.
Remaining locations in waves, with staff training per wave. Pace set by your operations team, not by us.
Support window on original scope, plus a cycle-count rhythm handed to your team so inventory accuracy holds.
Yes. Shopify tracks inventory per location, so a store locator can display live stock availability per store instead of only addresses and hours. It requires connecting the locator to location-level inventory rather than a static address list, which is a build rather than a setting.
POS Lite is included free with every Shopify plan. POS Pro is roughly $89 per month per location on standard plans. Shopify Plus includes POS Pro for up to 200 locations at no extra charge. Hardware runs from about $49 for a card reader to roughly $459 for a full countertop kit.
Lite covers checkout, basic inventory and simple staff access — enough for pop-ups, markets and one straightforward counter. Pro adds granular staff roles and permissions, buy online pick up in store, ship from store and multi-location reporting. You can upgrade per location without rebuilding your setup.
Around 21 locations on POS Pro list pricing. The Plus premium over Advanced is about $1,901 per month, and POS Pro at roughly $89 per location covers that at about 21 stores — before any other Plus capability. Standard plans also cap inventory locations at 10 against 200 on Plus, so past ten stores the decision is often made for you.
Standard plans support up to 10 inventory locations. Shopify Plus supports up to 200 by default, with infrastructure scaled beyond that on request.
Yes, because there is one inventory record per location rather than two systems reconciling. The engineering work is not the syncing — it is deciding which locations sell online, in what fulfilment priority, and what buffer each store holds back.
Yes, with POS Pro. It is one of the few features that reliably converts online demand into store footfall, and it is increasingly expected in fashion and lifestyle retail.
Yes. Ship from store turns locations into fulfilment nodes, cutting delivery times and clearing regional stock. Plan the operational side as carefully as the configuration — you are adding picking and packing to a shop floor.
Yes, and on a multi-location project this is usually the largest part of the work. We build integrations to NetSuite, SAP and custom systems as maintainable middleware or private apps.
Yes. Retail, wholesale and DTC can share one catalog and one inventory pool. It is a single architecture decision made at the start rather than three separate projects.
Scoping through pilot store typically runs 9 to 11 weeks. The remaining locations roll out in waves at a pace your operations team sets, with staff training per wave.
