What is Abra for Shopify POS?

Abra for Shopify POS brings your Abra promotions into your physical retail stores through a POS extension. 

Create a promotion through the Abra admin, then run it in store one of two ways. Your team activates it from the Abra tile on Shopify POS, or a public promotion published to the Point of Sale channel applies on its own whenever a cart qualifies.

Eligible discounts apply automatically as products are scanned, with dynamic strikethrough pricing displayed on POS.

You can run promotions across your online store, Tapcart, and Shopify POS, limit a discount to Point of Sale, and configure different offers by market.

Add Abra to Shopify POS

The Abra tile lives on your Shopify POS smart grid, the home screen your team sees when they open the app.

1. Open Shopify POS and go to the smart grid.

2. Add a new app tile using the POS editor.

3. Select Abra, then save the smart grid.

Tap the Abra tile to view the promotions available at that location. Shopify's guide to customizing your POS smart grid covers adding and rearranging tiles. You only need to add the Abra tile once per POS setup.

Activate a promotion on POS

Once you've created your promotion in Abra:

1. Open Shopify POS.

2. Tap the Abra tile.

3. Find the promotion you want to run.

4. Select the promotion to activate it. If it is a tiered discount or has multiple thresholds, you can toggle left and right to see the different offers on each tier.

5. Return to the smart grid. The Abra tile will display whichever promotion is currently active.

To confirm everything is working, create a test cart and scan products that qualify. Eligible discounts apply as the cart qualifies, with dynamic strikethrough pricing displayed on POS.

Change or deactivate a promotion

To change the promotion currently running on POS, open the Abra tile and select a different promotion. You can also deactivate the current promotion in two ways:

1. From the tile when you no longer want it running in store. Tap it and select "remove promotion".

   

2. Directly from the Abra admin. End or deactivate your promotion.

Run different offers by market

A single promotion can carry a different offer for every Shopify market you sell in.

1. Create or open your promotion in the Abra admin.

2. Add a discount for each market, then assign the applicable market from the Markets section of the discount.

3. Save your promotion.

4. Activate the promotion from the Abra tile on Shopify POS.

Abra uses the market associated with the POS location to determine which offer applies, so your store team doesn't select a market or an offer at the register.

Activate POS promotions from Head Office

A public promotion can be published to Point of Sale so it applies at the register without anyone activating it from the tile. This makes it easy for the Marketing team to control promotions without needing to go to every location.

1. Create or open your promotion in the Abra admin.

2. Go to Visibility.

3. Under Public, choose where the promotion should be available:

   1. Online Store

   2. Tapcart

   3. Point of Sale

   4. Save your promotion.

Eligible discounts then apply automatically to any qualifying cart at the register. Only one public promotion can be active at a time, in store and online.

Create a POS-exclusive promotion

POS exclusivity is managed on the discount, not through the promotion's visibility settings. Limiting a discount to the Point of Sale sales channel keeps that offer out of your online store and app.

1. Create or open your promotion in the Abra admin.

2. Open the discount you want to restrict to your retail locations.

3. Set the discount's sales channel to Point of Sale only.

4. Save the discount, then save your promotion.

Some Promotions Ideas for POS

• Market Based Gifting

• Collection Based Gifting

• Up to X Off Discounts