Store Commerce app for Windows provides POS functionality

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Business value

The Store Commerce app in Dynamics 365 Commerce is the next generation of the Dynamics 365 Commerce point of sale (POS) app and represents Microsoft's continuing commitment to provide the best POS experience for our customers. The Store Commerce app installer supports offline deployment, multiple extensions, and ISV installers. The app is both forward and backward compatible with your Commerce Scale Unit (CSU), and you can reuse your existing extensions and customizations with minimal changes. Rendering performance is improved by using the Chromium rendering engine.

Feature details

Store Commerce is a shell app for Windows that renders the Cloud point of sale (CPOS) app. Although CPOS can run in a web browser, Store Commerce runs as a native Windows app like the Modern point of sale (MPOS). This allows Store Commerce to support a dedicated hardware station for direct integration with a payment terminal, printer, cash drawer, and other peripherals. You don't have to set up a shared hardware station to use hardware devices.

To render the user interface (UI), Store Commerce uses the Chromium engine instead of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app rendering framework used by MPOS. The Chromium engine has better rendering performance than the native JavaScript UWP app in Windows.

The Store Commerce app in Dynamics 365 Commerce provides all the rich commerce functionality that first-line workers such as cashiers, sales associates, inventory associates, stock clerks, and store managers expect from MPOS and CPOS. These workers can perform commerce-related operations such as cash-and-carry transactions, cash/shift management, customer engagement, assisted selling, clienteling, endless aisle, order processing/fulfillment, inventory management, and reporting.

See also

Store Commerce app (docs)