How can I adjust the text size on POS tile buttons?

Topic summary

A merchant is seeking a way to adjust text size on POS tile buttons, as product collection titles exceeding 16-17 characters get truncated. They prefer displaying full titles rather than abbreviations for staff clarity, noting there’s ample button space available.

Current Limitation:

  • Shopify POS does not currently support text size reduction on buttons
  • Official support acknowledges this limitation and will forward the feedback to developers as a feature request

Workaround Solution:

  • Create custom images for tiles using design tools like Canva
  • Upload these images as featured collection images
  • This allows full control over text display and font customization

The merchant expressed interest in implementing the image-based workaround, and support provided a link to documentation on uploading featured collection images through the process steps.

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I wonder if anyone else has this problem in the POS app; however, I would love to be able to change the text size or make the text fit onto the tile buttons if the text length is longer than the 16 or 17-character limit allows. See the image for reference.

Now, I know that we could shorten our collection titles; however, I don’t want to as there is ample room for the buttons to display more text, and it is self-explanatory for our staff to have the full titles, not abbreviations.

Any thoughts?

Hey @Rod_Grey .

Thanks for reaching out.

I appreciate the context and image that you have shared with us as that is very helpful! At the moment, there is not a current way to reduce the text size on buttons using the Shopify POS application. However, I can certainly see the benefit of allowing you to make this change. I am going to provide this thread to our developers as a suggestion to include in the future. We appreciate this feedback as this is how we can make a better point of sale application for all merchants on the platform.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hi- You could make images to go on the tiles. I make mine in Canva for our POS system. That way you can customize the fonts or just have images. Hope that helps!

That sounds like a great idea! I didn’t realise this was possible. If you don’t mind sharing how I do this please?

Cheers

That’s a brilliant solution, @Heidi_R ! Thank you for sharing this with us.

@Rod_Grey , you may upload the images as featured collection images by following the steps on this page. Let us know if you have any questions about that process!