Anyway to get ShopifyPOS to work on a Mac or desktop?

Topic summary

A user asks whether Shopify POS can be used on a Mac or desktop computer.

Current Solution:

  • No official desktop/Mac version of Shopify POS exists
  • The recommended workaround is using Shopify’s ‘Draft Orders’ feature through the regular Shopify admin interface
  • This allows manual order creation from a desktop environment

Status: The question has been answered with an alternative approach, though no native desktop POS solution is available.

Summarized with AI on November 13. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Is there anyway to get ShopifyPOS to work on a Mac/desktop computer?

There’s not an official way to do this.

If you’re using a desktop computer, then you’d just want to use the ‘Draft Orders’ functionality to manually place orders, via the regular Shopify admin.

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/orders/create-orders