Shopify POS is Shopify's point-of-sale app for selling in person — at retail counters, pop-ups, markets, and events. With Checkout Links connected, your staff can do two things at the register: scan any checkout link's QR code to drop its items, discounts, and promotions into the POS cart, or create a brand-new link straight from the cart they've just built so the customer can finish the sale on their phone — see Create a Checkout Link from Shopify POS.
Two tiles ship with the app: Scan Link and Create Link. Add either or both to your POS home grid.
What you can do
Reorder at the counter — Scan a customer's reorder link from their packaging or an email
Run a printed promotion in-store — Put a QR code on shelf-talkers, flyers, or receipts and let staff scan it to apply the bundle, discount, or free gift
Honour an online offer in person — A customer brings in a checkout link from email or social — staff scan it and the discount goes straight on the POS sale
Pop-ups and events — Hand out QR cards and let staff redeem them at the register
Save the cart for later — Build a cart at the counter and create a link the customer can pay for from their phone
Take orders without payment hardware — At markets, trade shows, or curbside, hand the customer a QR code and let them check out themselves
Before you start
You will need:
An active Checkout Links subscription
The Shopify POS app on iPhone, iPad, or Android
A staff role with access to the POS cart
At least one checkout link created in Checkout Links (for the Scan Link tile)
What carries over to POS
When a link is scanned at POS, everything you set up on the link comes along:
Products and quantities
Per-line discounts — Percentage or fixed-amount discounts on specific items
Order discounts and free shipping
Free gifts from promotion tiers — added as line items, marked with a 🎁
Line item properties — Custom properties attached to items on the link
Attribution — POS orders are tracked under the same link stats as online orders, so your reporting stays accurate
Set up the Scan Link tile
There's nothing to install separately — the POS extension ships with Checkout Links. To enable it, add the Scan Link tile to a POS device:
Open the Shopify POS app and sign in
On the home grid, tap Add tile (or the edit icon, then Add tile)
Choose App and pick Checkout Links > Scan Link
Save the layout
Repeat on each device that should be able to scan links.
Using the Scan Link tile
Tap the Scan Link tile, point the camera at a Checkout Links QR code, and the link's items go into the POS cart. If the cart already has items, you'll be asked whether to Replace cart or Add to cart. From there, finish the sale in POS as usual — discounts and promotions from the link apply automatically at checkout.
For the full step-by-step walkthrough, including the cart prompt, success states, and error messages, see Scan link.
Create links from POS
The Create Link tile turns the current POS cart into a sharable checkout link with a QR code, right from the register. Build the cart as you normally would, tap Create Link, and POS gives you a short URL and QR the customer can scan or open on their phone to pay themselves. Products, discounts, selling plans, and the attached customer all carry over from the cart.
For the full walkthrough — options like one-time use, email delivery, the pre-checkout page, and how attribution is tagged — see Create a Checkout Link from Shopify POS.