Migrate from Shopify POS
Move from Shopify POS to PeakSpitz, safely.
Moving off Shopify POS should feel like restoring from a backup, not a leap of faith. Your retail POS data is read into a PeakSpitz environment of your own, checked against your real numbers, and run in parallel — while Shopify POS keeps running, untouched, the whole time. Here is exactly how, step by step.
Shopify POS's real strength is unifying the same catalogue and inventory across your online store and the till — sell in person and online against one stock pool, which is exactly what omnichannel retailers want. The friction is usually cost and sprawl: POS Pro is typically a per-location monthly add-on, and the back office tends to fragment across paid apps for loyalty, deeper purchasing and accounting, each with its own bill and its own data. Businesses move to PeakSpitz to keep the online plus in-store unification but fold accounting with VAT, operations and the app-stack functions into one platform with unlimited users.
The safe way to leave Shopify POS
Work down the list at your own pace. Nothing here is irreversible, and your current system stays live throughout.
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Before you touch anything — get a backup you own
Get a copy of your data out of Shopify POS that you control — a file held on your side, not just a setting inside the system. Confirm in your contract that you have the right to export, and note any renewal, notice or lock-in dates so the timing stays on your terms.
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Export your data
Pull products, stock, customers and sales history out of Shopify POS in the most complete format it offers — CSV, spreadsheet, or an account/API export. Take the history too, not just open items: past records, documents and contacts are worth keeping.
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Send us a sample
Before you commit, send us a representative slice — a handful of customers, a few recent orders or bookings, part of your catalogue. We map it into PeakSpitz and show you the restored result, so you see exactly how your retail POS data lands before you move the rest.
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See what maps to what
We line Shopify POS up against PeakSpitz: products, stock, customers and sales history become customers, catalogue, orders, documents and ledgers in one joined-up system. Anything without an obvious home is flagged early, not discovered late.
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Bring it in — a read-only restore
Your data is read into a fresh, isolated PeakSpitz environment of your own. Nothing inside Shopify POS is touched, changed or switched off — it keeps running exactly as it is.
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Verify against your numbers
Before you trust it, reconcile the totals — balances, counts, tax and revenue — against what Shopify POS shows today. The numbers have to match before anything goes live.
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Run both in parallel
Keep Shopify POS live and run PeakSpitz alongside it for as long as you like. Compare like for like, move one area across first, and build trust before you depend on it. No big-bang cutover, and no deadline from us.
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Cross over and decommission — on your terms
Switch over only when PeakSpitz has earned it. Keep your Shopify POS export archived as a safety net, and close the old subscription when you are ready — not a moment before.
What maps where: Shopify POS → PeakSpitz
Shopify POS
Products & variants (options like size and colour, SKUs, barcodes)
PeakSpitz
PeakSpitz catalogue with variants
Variant option sets map to PeakSpitz's variant matrix.
Shopify POS
Collections
PeakSpitz
Categories and product groups
Shopify POS
Locations (inventory tracked per location)
PeakSpitz
Stock by location
One stock pool feeds both the storefront and in-person sales, as in Shopify's online + in-store model.
Shopify POS
Stocky purchase orders, suppliers & stocktakes (POS Pro)
PeakSpitz
Purchase orders and suppliers
Stocky's PO, receiving and forecasting data is re-created; supplier catalogues re-linked.
Shopify POS
Customers & gift cards
PeakSpitz
Customers
Gift-card and store-credit balances are a cutover decision.
Shopify POS
Orders (online and in-store)
PeakSpitz
Unified sales history
What to watch when leaving Shopify POS
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In-store and online both decrement the same Shopify inventory, so discrepancies hide inside the shared pool. Do a counted stocktake at cutover and import those figures rather than the running total.
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Purchasing and forecasting data commonly lives in the Stocky app (with POS Pro), separate from the core catalogue. Export it deliberately; supplier catalogues and cost prices are re-linked on the new system.
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Gift-card and store-credit balances, and any loyalty points held in a third-party app, are a cutover decision — snapshot and reissue, or start fresh. Payment terminals and card-on-file re-pair.
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Historical online orders are usually best archived read-only. Bring open orders and the live catalogue across; the storefront itself (theme, pages) is rebuilt, not imported.
Common questions about leaving Shopify POS
We sell online and in-store on one Shopify inventory — do we keep that?
Yes; that unification is Shopify POS's core strength and PeakSpitz keeps it: one catalogue and one stock pool feed both the built-in storefront and in-person sales. The difference is that accounting with VAT and operations sit in the same platform.
What happens to our Shopify apps — loyalty, reviews, deeper inventory?
The functions many shops add via paid apps, like deeper purchasing and accounting, are built into PeakSpitz, so some apps become unnecessary; anything genuinely custom is re-connected over the open REST API and webhooks. Balances held in apps (loyalty, gift cards) are a cutover decision.
Does PeakSpitz replace Shopify's online store as well as the POS?
PeakSpitz includes a built-in online storefront, so the online catalogue and the in-person catalogue are the same one. Historical online orders are best kept as an archive; bring open orders and the current catalogue across.
As much help as you want
Do it yourself, or have us map your fields, run the import and reconcile the result with you. Support is a ladder — you start where you are comfortable and step up only where an area needs it.
See the full safe-migration approach →Why people leave Shopify POS
PeakSpitz runs the whole business on one AI platform — not a single corner with the rest bolted on — with Spitz AI and unlimited users included. See the difference side by side.
Compare PeakSpitz vs Shopify POS →Bring your Shopify POS data in safely. Cross over when you are ready.
Send us a sample of your data and we will show you the restored result — no commitment, no risk to your live system.