Changing the Shopify POS app settings
Changing the Shopify POS app settings lets you tailor the Shopify POS experience for your store’s devices and staff. Adjusting these settings can help ensure smoother operations, enhance device security, and create a workflow that fits your retail environment.
You can modify app settings directly within Shopify POS. Some advanced settings require you to access your Shopify admin. Review the available options to customize your Shopify POS experience.
Changing the autolock settings
You can set your device to lock after a period of inactivity, or whenever a sale is concluded. You need to enter a 4-digit PIN to unlock the screen.
Steps:
- On the home screen of Shopify POS, tap
. - Tap Settings.
- Under Display, tap Screen lock.
- Tap a time option. If Shopify POS is inactive for the selected length of time, then the screen locks.
- If you want the screen to lock after each order is completed, then activate Lock screen after sale.
Changing the display mode
You can configure Shopify POS to use light mode or dark mode. Light mode displays dark text on a bright background, whereas dark mode displays bright text on a dark background.
You can select the mode that you want Shopify POS to use, or you can have Shopify POS use your device settings.
Steps:
- From Shopify POS, tap the button, and then tap Settings > Dark/light mode.
- Tap the mode that you want Shopify POS to use, or activate Use device settings.
Changing the language settings
You can select the language that the Shopify POS app uses. Shopify POS supports the following languages:
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Norwegian Bokmal
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
Change the Shopify POS product language
To change the language of the products on Shopify POS, assign a language to a POS location in your Shopify admin. The language you assign to your POS location also affects email, SMS, and printed receipts. Only one language can be assigned to a location at a time.
By default, all locations are assigned to the market default language. The default language can't be assigned to locations from the Point of Sale sales channel settings. If you want to change a location back to the default language, then you can uncheck the location from its assigned language.
Before you can set product languages on Shopify POS, configure languages in your Shopify admin language settings.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go to Point of Sale > Settings.
Click Language.
In the POS language section, click the language that you want to edit.
In the Language section, click Edit.
In the Edit locations window, do any of the following to change the language:
- check any locations that you want to assign the language to
- uncheck any assigned locations to revert back to the market default language
Click Done.
Confirm that the locations that you want the language assigned to are displayed in the Locations section.
Click Save.
Change the Shopify POS app language
To change the language of the Shopify POS app, you need to change the language of the device through the device settings.
Steps:
iOS
- Close Shopify POS.
- In your iPad, tap Settings > General > Language & Region.
- Tap iPad Language > Add Language.
- Select your preferred language from the list and then tap Done.
- Tap Change to (Selected language).
Android
- Close Shopify POS.
- In your device, tap Settings > System > Language & input.
- Tap Language and region, and select your preferred language from the list.
- Optional: If your preferred language isn't displayed in the list, then tap Add language and select your preferred language.
Other languages not listed here might work, but they aren't supported and could result in missing translations that display in English by default.