How can I add a historic preservation fee to my POS system?

Retail & Point of Sale

Topic summary

A florist operating two locations uses Lightspeed POS and Shopify for their website. One store is in a historic building and must collect a Historic Preservation Fee on sales made at that specific location.

Current Challenge:

  • Cannot configure location-specific fees in their POS system
  • Shopify correctly handles delivery-based taxes, but no option exists to add the preservation fee only for the historic location’s sales

Temporary Workaround:

  • Staff manually create custom sales to add the fee
  • This method is error-prone: employees forget to apply it, miscalculate amounts, or fail to adjust tax settings

Proposed Solution:
A developer offered their Shopify POS app (Chargly) designed to add various fees including custom charges, suggesting it might address the location-specific fee requirement. The issue remains unresolved pending further discussion.

Summarized with AI on October 31. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hello,

We’re a pretty small shop, and we’ve used Lightspeed for ages, with Shopify for our Website. We have two stores, one in a historic building.

A huge part of our sales is delivery floral, so it works great for us that Shopify charges taxes based on delivery location.

However, we’re supposed to collect a small percentage as a Historic Preservation Fee for our historic location- but I haven’t found any way to override the taxes for sales just from that POS. Is there any sort of solution for this or are we out of luck?

For now we’ve been making a custom sale, but it’s clunky and sometimes the salespeople will forget to add it or miscalculate, or forget to turn off the taxes etc etc.

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@EdV-Bloom

I would be happy to work with you on this.

We recently build an app dedicated to adding credit card, setup, configuration, handling and other fees specifically for Shopify POS. Would love your feedback on it!

https://apps.shopify.com/chargly

If you have any issues or want to connect to get the solution right. Happy to dig in. Support@sasquatchstudio.co

cheers