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Over the past decade, cash registers have gone from clunky machines tethered to a counter to simple, small gadgets able to sell from anywhere. With today’s evolving retail technology, store owners can run their entire shop with nothing more than a tablet or a smartphone.
Using a mobile device, a robust point-of-sale software like Shopify POS, and a few retail apps, merchants can process transactions from their store or on the go at pop-ups, markets, fairs, and festivals.
But which retailer apps help merchants the most with day-to-day tasks? This guide shares 30 of the best retail apps that will save you time and money, broken down into four subcategories. Most are free to download and use, while others require a paid subscription plan following a free trial.
Best for: In-store and online sales integration 
Pricing: Free.
Accepting payments and selling your products offline and online shouldn’t be a hassle. Shopify Point of Sale (POS) is a free app for retailers that integrates with your online store so your products, orders, and customers are always in sync—regardless of where you’re selling from.
Retailers can also take advantage of robust reports and easy integration with all the necessary hardware to make running your store easier than ever. Take advantage of the Shopify POS mobile retail app to manage your business from anywhere, anytime.
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Best for: Flexible customer payment solutions
Pricing: Varies based on products and market.
Through the Shop app, Shop Pay Installments gives eligible customers the option to pay in full at checkout, or to pay for an order over time. You can also set up Shop Pay Installments for POS and offer flexible payments for customers in-store by letting them buy now and pay later.
Best for: Appointment booking for Shopify 
Pricing: Ranges from $19/month to $129/month. Free 30-day trial available.
Do you offer appointments to customers? Whether you’re doing Zoom consultations or arranging an in-store private shopping experience, the Sesami retail app can schedule them in—without double booking.
Sesami integrates with Google Calendar and Zoom, along with Shopify POS. And you can schedule appointments with customers wherever you are—both online and offline.
Best for: Creating QR codes for products
Create QR codes for your products in minutes with Shopcodes. Your customers can scan a Shopcode with any smartphone camera and buy your products quickly and easily. Integrate Shopcodes into your packaging or marketing materials and track conversions and traffic through Shopify Analytics.
Best for: Selling products by weight
Pricing: $25/month. Free 14-day trial available.
If your product pricing depends on weight, then you may benefit from using Filljoy. This retail app offers the capability to integrate with a scale, so you can weigh an item, calculate its price, and charge a customer through Shopify POS.
Businesses that can leverage this tool include grocery stores, pet food retailers, and butcher shops, among other businesses.
Best for: Multichannel sales management
Pricing: Free to install. First 50 marketplace-synced orders per month are free. 1% fee per additional-synced-order, capped at $99/month.
Want to expand your customer base and sell online more effectively? With Shopify Marketplace Connect, you can easily link product listings across top marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Etsy. Manage your listings and inventory in Shopify with real-time marketplace sync and sell in all regions and categories with built-in currency conversions, all with a single app.
Best for: Creating job boards and managing hiring processes
Pricing: Free plan available, with Professional plan at $4.99/month
Want to hire retail staff more efficiently? Jobly is a job posting and career page builder that lets you manage the process from your Shopify store.
The platform features two main components: job management and applicant handling. It automatically generates a careers page that displays all job listings with detailed views, and includes a built-in application system for candidates to submit résumés and cover letters.
The free tier provides basic functionality, including job board creation and simple application forms, while the Professional plan adds unlimited applications, file uploads, and candidate rating features.
Best for: Employee scheduling
Pricing: Free for self management, $15/month for up to four staff members, $30/month for up to eight staff members, with a 14-day free trial available.
Track employee working hours using EasyTeam’s POS system integration. It’s ideal for retail stores that need to manage the schedules of several team members.
The hardware comes with a mobile app for staff to tap in and out. You can also schedule their working hours, track their sales commission, and approve timesheets. All of that data gets imported into your payroll software.
Best for: Retail floor planning
Pricing: Ranges from $9.99/month to $89.99/month, with free trial available.
One of the most important decisions you can expect to make about your storefront is store layout. But it’s often difficult for merchants to envision how to optimize their space. That’s where magicplan can help.
Using augmented reality, merchants can create professional floor plans by scanning the room with their smartphones or tablets and customizing with pictures. Use magicplan to generate job estimates, view your space in 3D, plan DIY projects, or furnish your space.
Best for: Secure electronic document signing
Pricing: The app is free to download; e-signature plans range from $10/month for individual use to $40/month per user for teams.
With the DocuSign app, merchants can prepare and send documents for electronic signature—completing contracts, employment paperwork, and other forms—and get instant visibility into each document’s status directly from their smartphone or tablet.
That can make it easier for retailers to go paperless while still accessing a quick and secure way to sign contracts and send off vendor agreements for signature.
Shopify Flow helps you automate routine tasks and connect different aspects of your retail operations. The platform uses a visual editor to create custom automations and set up complex workflows using conditional logic. It connects seamlessly with other apps like Slack, Google Sheets, Trello, Asana, and Klaviyo.
Get hundreds of pre-built templates for common use cases like reordering, restocking, or managing fraud concerns. Flow also integrates with store elements like metafields, tags, fulfillment, and B2B.
Best for: Foot traffic counting and analytics
Pricing: Free to install, $99/month for analytics, plus a $200 one-time fee for hardware.
Do you know how many people visit your retail store each day? Uncover those insights with Dor. Its thermal-sensing camera attaches to the entrance door of your retail location and tracks how many people visit.
Dor also integrates with your Shopify POS equipment so you can compare foot traffic data with revenue. You can uncover insights like the time of day purchase-ready customers visit—even what weather causes an uplift in retail sales.
Best for: Speeding up customer identification at checkout
Pricing: $14.99 per month with 14-day free trial.
Barcodify offers retailers an easy way to speed up their checkout process by associating unique barcodes with customers. The app integrates with Shopify POS and allows merchants to create both physical and digital store cards, with support for Apple and Google mobile wallets.
You can distribute these codes through multiple channels, including printed cards, automated notifications, or website integrations, while tracking usage through analytics reports. With a perfect 5.0-star rating, retailers praise its ease of use and time-saving benefits during busy periods.
Best for: Managing in-store pickup
Pricing: Free plan available.
Zapiet adds in-store pickup and local delivery options to your online store, letting customers choose when and where they want their orders delivered or picked up.
The app also works with Shopify POS and lets you manage delivery zones, rates, and order limits through a single dashboard. Its user-friendly interface and integrations with Klaviyo and Shopify Flow make it a key tool for retailers wanting to improve their unified commerce strategy. 
Pricing: Starts at $50 per month. 14-day free trial available.
WorkMate helps retailers manage work orders right from their Shopify POS system. It lets you create work orders, track inventory, manage vendors, and handle labor charges or fees. Wth WorkMate, you can send work orders directly to suppliers via email and easily convert them into sales transactions.
Best for: Inventory management
Pricing: Free to install and included in Shopify POS Pro subscriptions.
Inventory management can be a tricky task when running a retail business. Stocky shows you what you have in stock, what’s running low, and which items need replenishing.
Stocky also shows your bestselling products in its app dashboard, alongside how many are left in stock. This tool can help you spot upcoming shortages, so your most popular products are always available for purchase.
Best for: Restock notifications
Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans range from $9.99/month to $39.99/month.
Experiencing a stockout? Ordersify is a Shopify app with features that include email customization as well as daily inventory reports. There are also low-stock and back-in-stock notifications, which can help you retain customers by keeping them informed.
To receive automated alerts, customers enter their email addresses and get reminders via email or push notifications when inventory is replenished and the product is available for purchase.
Best for: Expiry date tracking 
Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans range from $24/month to $199/month.
Retailers who sell perishable goods need to keep a close eye on their stock. Food and drink items, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals may include ingredients that can affect the quality of the goods sold.
Freshly Batch Inventory helps you track product batch details and expiration dates of perishable goods. It also supports demand forecasting, and as items approach expiration, you can mark them for automatic discounts. You can use these insights to prioritize which products to sell first and fulfill orders using the first-expired, first-out (FEFO) method. Freshly Commerce also helps you track recalled products based on their batch number.
Best for: Returns and exchanges management 
Pricing: Plans range from $29.95/month to $179.95/month, with a 14-day free trial available.
ReturnZap is a highly rated retail app built for Shopify. It helps retailers automate returns, exchanges, and return shipping. You can build a branded self-serve return portal that’s integrated with your Shopify store. Plus, automate return labels for dozens of carriers in the US, Canada, Australia, UK, and EU. ReturnZap is easy and fast to set up and offers world-class customer support.
Best for: Speeding up the taking process
Pricing: From $10.79/month. 14-day free trial available.
PML Stock Take Inventory Count is a solution for physical stores needing to manage their inventory through regular stock takes. The app integrates deeply with Shopify POS, so you can scan barcodes using multiple devices simultaneously and create customized stock takes for any location. It also let’s you view the progress of each stock take, and export the reports to get a full picture of your inventory status, including cycle counts and missing items.
Best for: Fast, high-converting checkout
Pricing: Free with Shop Pay.
The checkout page is arguably one of the most important pages on any retailer’s website. These days, consumers want fast and easy checkout processes. The Shop app delivers on that with Shop Pay. Shop Pay is a wallet that automatically fills in a customer’s saved email, payment, and shipping details so they can check out at the click of a button.
Shop’s mobile app also gives customers real-time order tracking and a list of popular products from the shops they follow. Retailers have the power to manage the entire post-purchase journey using push notifications to drive future sales.
Best for: Managing online business presence
Pricing: Free.
Twenty-one percent of US consumers use the internet to find local businesses on a daily basis. For example, a search query may be “groceries near me.”
The mobile app for Google Business Profile helps you to reach those local shoppers and drive them to your brick-and-mortar store. With it, you can customize your business listing on the go, as well as:
Best for: Advertising on Google
Pricing: Free to install, but you must fund your ad campaigns.
Search engines are the first stop for 30% of online shoppers when they’re looking for products. The Google & YouTube app allows you to pay to reach them with paid ads, so you’ll appear in the list of top results, even if your organic SEO strategy doesn’t get you there. You are also able to sell items from your Shopify store through YouTube, giving you another way to connect with shoppers.
With this app, you can list products for free (with a Google Merchant Center account) on Google Shopping. You can also run Google PPC campaigns and adjust budgets, without leaving your Shopify dashboard.
Best for: Selling on Facebook and Instagram
Pricing: Free to install, but you must fund your ad campaigns.
Capture the billions of consumers actively using social media with these retail apps. Facebook channel integrates with Facebook Shops and Instagram Shopping, so your inventory is accurate and up to date across channels. Leverage the Instagram channel as a marketing opportunity to generate interest for new products and create custom product pages.
Both the Facebook and Instagram apps help retailers build an audience. That’s because you are open for business on two of the most popular social media platforms globally—and can manage those orders through your Shopify admin.
Best for: Advertising and selling on TikTok
The TikTok app on Shopify makes selling on TikTok easy. Build TikTok ads in minutes by uploading images or videos. Install the TikTok pixel in one click to measure performance. Sync your product catalog and you’re ready to create engaging TikTok ad campaigns. The app lets you manage and track new orders by selling directly via TikTok Shop, if you’re located in the US and UK.
Best for: Email marketing within Shopify
Pricing: Your first 10,000 emails each month are free. After, pricing starts at $1/1,000 emails per month.
Shopify Email is an out-of-the-box email marketing tool that helps you acquire and engage customers. Create branded emails in minutes with a drag-and-drop editor, and choose from sales-ready templates to showcase your products directly from your store. Shopify Email will automatically pull your logo, images, prices, and descriptions into your template to make the emails unique to your brand.
When you’re ready to send your email, choose from Shopify’s automation templates to send the right email at the right time to targeted customer segments. You’ll find email templates for all types of campaigns, including:
The best part? Your first 10,000 emails each month are free.
Best for: SMS marketing
Pricing: Free to install; plans range from $19/month to $199/month.
There are several ways to communicate with existing and potential customers, including email, social media, and live chat. SMS marketing is a top performer when it comes to open rates.
Yotpo is a highly rated app to send out those messages to your audience. The platform seamlessly integrates with your POS and includes features such as the capability to personalize your ecommerce campaigns, customer segmentation, and SMS templates to support your conversion efforts.
Best for: Email marketing and SMS automation
Pricing: Free plan available with paid plans starting at $15/month for SMS (up to 1250 SMS/MMS credits) and $20/month for email (251 to 500 contacts)
Klaviyo is a highly rated email marketing and SMS platform for retail businesses. It combines your customer data with marketing automation to create personalized communications with your audience.
Klaviyo is deeply integrated with Shopify. With it, you can leverage customer behavior, purchase history, and browsing data to create segmented marketing campaigns. Some key features include customizable email and SMS templates, automated flows for scenarios like abandoned carts and welcome series, and real-time revenue tracking.
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Best for: Creating loyalty and rewards programs
Pricing: Free to install and use up to 200 monthly orders; paid plans range from $49/month to $999/month, with additional charges after 7,500 monthly orders.
Not only is it important to introduce your brand to new customers, it’s also important to find ways to keep existing ones. That’s where loyalty programs can help. According to one survey, loyalty programs drive 70% of US consumers to stick with a brand.
Smile is a retailer app that offers merchants the resources to create a comprehensive customer loyalty and referral program. Reward your customers with points, discounts, gift cards, or coupons for various activities like:
Best for: Charitable donations at checkout
Pricing: 7-day free trial includes 20 Donation Credits, then 0.5% + $29/month thereafter.
ShoppingGives – Donation App is a mobile app that supports these causes. It helps with your social impact strategy by providing the necessary tools to ensure you’re in compliance when making nonprofit donations, managing those contributions, and enabling customers to choose from pre-set charities or pick a cause of their choice for their donations (with the brand donating a percentage, for example).
Best for: Customizable gift registry service
Pricing: Ranges from $9/month to $40/month. Free 30-day trial available.
For merchants with products that make great gifts, one way to encourage gift giving is with a registry. But creating your own gift registry or wish list solution from scratch can seem like a daunting task. Instead, try Gift Reggie.
Gift Reggie is a retailer app that allows your customers to create a custom registry of your products and share it with their friends and family—introducing your brand to potential new customers.
Best for: Post-purchase sales
Pricing: Free for development stores. Paid plans range from $4.99/month to $14.99/month, with a 30-day free trial available.
ReConvert is a popular upsell and cross-sell app on the Shopify App Store. It works with your Shopify store to add one-click, post-purchase, and discounted upsells to your checkout and thank you pages. Easily build out and manage your checkout upsells with a drag-and-drop editor, offer product bundles, collect birthdays, and more.
Best for: Digital wallet passes
Pricing: Free plan for developer stores; Premium plan at $199/month plus 10¢/ pass per month
Novel has gained popularity with notable retail brands like Liquid Death, Anheuser-Busch, and Surely since its launch in February 2022. The platform lets you create digital wallet passes for smartphone users with features like:
The app integrates with platforms like Klaviyo, Recharge, and Attentive, making it a good addition to your current marketing stack.
Best for: Wishlist management 
Pricing: Free plan available.
Swym Wishlist Plus lets customers save products they want to buy later, which reduces cart abandonment and improves sales. The app can send them notifications when items go on sale or come back in stock, and customers can share their wishlists with friends. You can also track what products people are saving and use this data to boost your marketing efforts.
Best for: Omnichannel loyalty 
Marsello combines loyalty programs, email marketing, and SMS into one platform that works with online and physical stores. It helps you create engaging loyalty programs with points, rewards, VIP tiers, and referrals, while also enabling targeted marketing campaigns based on customer behavior.
Beyond managing rewards, Marsello provides detailed analytics that help you understand customers’ shopping patterns and make data-driven decisions. The app integrates with Shopify POS and other marketing tools like Klaviyo. If you want to track customer engagement across your retail operation, Marsello also offers unified reporting to show how your loyalty and marketing processes impact revenue across all channels. 
Read: How Retailers Reimagine Loyalty with Shopify POS and Marsello
Best for: Wholesale marketplace integration
Pricing: Free.
Faire is a wholesale marketplace where retailers can find and buy new products for their stores. You can find unique, high-quality products from brands around the world to stock your shelves.
Faire’s integration with Shopify means your products sync automatically to your product catalog. That way, you don’t have to spend time manually entering data and can focus on your business instead.
Shopify apps can unlock new functionalities that optimize your site for a better customer experience and more sales.
While these apps are some of the best apps available (including those in the Shopify App Store), there are plenty more—including email marketing, product upsell, and time management apps. It comes down to finding the best apps that suit your unique needs. Visit the Shopify App Store to browse even more retail mobile apps by use.
A retail app is a mobile software that allows customers to browse products and shop seamlessly from their mobile device. For retail businesses, these shopping apps help retailers to run their stores efficiently.
A good retail app creates a native in-store and online shopping experience. It’s organized, making it easy to find products and collections. It allows customers to add items to their cart and complete the entire ecommerce checkout process, as well as track orders to see when they’ve been shipped and delivered.
Retailers should have an app in order to create an even better mobile commerce experience for their customers. Even if you’re unable to afford the development of an app, a progressive web app (PWA) is a cheaper and more accessible version that allows customers to quickly and easily shop via mobile.
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