Stockroom works on the Shopify POS till, so your floor staff can receive deliveries and reorder stock without opening admin. Add the Stockroom tiles to your POS smart grid to get started.
Receive stock at the till
The Receive stock tile lists purchase orders to receive at that location, with To receive and Received tabs. Open a PO and:
Tap Receive all, or set quantities per line for a partial delivery.
Scan items with the camera to count them in - Stockroom matches each scan to a line.
Tap Save receipt to record it.
Your Shopify inventory updates at that location moments later, just like receiving in admin. Product pages in POS also show an Incoming stock block when a product has units on the way, with a shortcut to receive.
Create reorder POs at the till
The Create PO tile lets you build purchase orders as you walk the floor:
Tap Scan items and scan anything running low, or Find products to search the catalog.
Each item lands on a draft PO for its supplier at that location. Scanning the same item again adds to it.
Open a draft to adjust quantities, then Mark as ordered (with a quick confirm) to push incoming stock to Shopify.
Costs and supplier emails stay in Stockroom admin, so you can finish the paperwork later.
Count inventory at the till
The Count stock tile lists open counts at the register's location, and Start a new stocktake here begins one for that location without opening admin. Staff pick a count and scan with a POS-connected barcode scanner or the camera, or type a code into Enter a barcode or SKU; each scan adds 1, and every count is saved instantly and attributed to the staff member logged in to POS. Expected quantities are never shown on POS, so floor counts are always honest blind counts.
POS is a counting surface only. When staff are finished, tap Done counting - it confirms what was counted and points to the next step. Reviewing the differences and applying them to Shopify happen in Stockroom admin, under Inventory - Stocktakes. See Count your inventory with stocktakes.
Adding to Shopify POS
You can add Stockroom to two areas of your Shopify POS:
A tile on the home page;
An app extension on your product details
The most reliable place to do this is the POS editor in your Shopify admin: open the Point of Sale channel and edit your smart grid there. You can also edit tiles directly on the POS screen.
Stockroom is not in the tile list? The app list on a POS device can lag behind a newly installed app, so a tile you cannot find on the device is usually there in the admin POS editor. Add it from admin, then force-close and reopen Shopify POS on the device. Staff also need to be logged in to POS with access to apps.
Good to know
Staff need to be logged in to POS with access to apps to use these tiles.
Shopify POS only passes scans to apps from the scanner models it supports, so a generic Bluetooth scanner paired to a phone often will not reach the tile. Type the code into Enter a barcode or SKU instead - most scanners type the code and press Enter for you - or count from a counting link or Stockroom admin, which accept any scanner.
A product needs a vendor in Shopify so Stockroom can match it to a supplier.
Marking a PO ordered on POS makes it appear in the Receive stock tile's To receive list.