Manage Published Shopify Products to POS Channel Using Tags

This step watches your Shopify store for any product update and kicks off the workflow the moment one is detected. It captures the product's full tag list, which is what the branching logic later in the workflow uses to decide whether to publish or remove the product from POS. No configuration is required — it fires automatically on every product save. If you want to limit it to specific products, you can add a filter step after the trigger.

This step uses the product ID from the trigger to fetch the full product record from the Shopify Admin API. The most important value it retrieves is the product's unique global ID, which is a different format than the standard numeric ID and is required by the GraphQL publish and unpublish operations later in the workflow. This runs automatically and requires no configuration.

This step looks up your Shopify POS sales channel using the Sales Channel ID you provide. You'll need to enter this ID once during setup — it's the same ID used in both publish and unpublish steps, so getting it right here is important. To find your POS Sales Channel ID, go to your Shopify admin, navigate to Settings → Apps and sales channels → Point of Sale, and copy the ID from the URL or channel settings. Paste it into the field labeled "Select or enter your Shopify POS Sales Channel ID."

This step checks whether the product's tags include the value Publish To POS (exact match, case-sensitive). If the tag is present, the workflow continues down this path and the product gets published to POS. If not, this path is skipped entirely and the workflow moves to the next path instead. No configuration is needed — the tag value is already set. If you want to use a different tag name, update the value in this step to match whatever tag you plan to use on your products.

This step publishes the product to your Shopify POS sales channel using Shopify's GraphQL API. It uses the product's global ID from Step 2 and the Sales Channel ID you provide here. Enter the same POS Sales Channel ID you used in Step 3 into the field labeled "Which Sales Channel ID should products tagged with 'Publish to POS' be published to?" Once configured, this step runs automatically whenever a product with the correct tag is updated.

This step checks whether the product's tags do not include Publish to POS. If the tag is absent, the workflow continues down this path and the product gets removed from the POS channel. Like the publish path, this is already configured and requires no changes unless you've chosen a custom tag name in Step 5 — in which case, update this step to match.

This step unpublishes the product from your Shopify POS sales channel using the same GraphQL API as the publish step. It uses the product's global ID from Step 2 and the Sales Channel ID you enter here. In the field labeled "Which Shopify POS Sales Channel should products without the 'Publish to POS' tag be removed from?", enter the same POS Sales Channel ID used in Steps 3 and 6. Once configured, this runs automatically for every product update that lacks the publish tag.