Improved printing of invoices on Shopify POS

We launched our first integration with Shopify POS in 2015 and watched it become very popular with retail stores, pop-up shops, markets, and other businesses where POS systems see daily use.

The integration allows users to easily print invoices for orders placed through the POS app.

The problem we ran into was that, until now, the POS app did not support the direct printing of PDF documents. Instead, a similar (but not always identical) HTML version of invoices had to be used.

This meant that invoices printed from the POS app weren't always consistent with the invoices displayed in a user’s Sufio account, or invoices printed from their Shopify admin.

Exciting updates to Shopify’s POS extensions

With Shopify's introduction of the latest version of POS UI extensions, we now have a way to let you print the PDF versions of your invoices directly from the Shopify POS app.

This makes it easier to keep the invoice design consistent as well as ensuring the correct placement of the footer on printed documents—especially ones with multiple pages.

At this time, printing of PDF documents is only supported by the iOS version of the Shopify POS app, which runs on all modern iPhones or iPads.

For merchants running Shopify POS on Android devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, you will have an option to either print the HTML version of your invoices or download the PDF version and print it using another app on your device.

What can Sufio’s POS extension do?

Like all of our recently launched Shopify extensions, such as the Customer Account UI extension and the Checkout UI extension, the new Shopify POS extension is automatically translated into one of seven supported languages, based on the language selected in your Shopify POS app.

Merchants might also want different versions of their invoice template, depending on whether a sale is made through POS or your online store. Our powerful template editor allows you to do this with ease.

For stores that need more than just printed invoices, Sufio also allows you to include links to invoices in POS receipt emails sent by Shopify.

If you use POS in your business and have any other things you would like us to include in our support for Shopify POS, we would love to hear your feedback.