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Using Mortar Actions

View the POS version of Products, Orders, and Customers, or trigger basic Mortar troubleshooting tasks like resyncs or unlinks.

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Overview

Mortar Actions allow you to easily access related orders, refunds, products, variants, or customers in your POS to verify that your integration is working properly. Actions can also resync inventory and product updates or unlink a product when troubleshooting.

Mortar Actions for products and variants

When Mortar links Shopify products to your POS, it creates a shortcut to your POS at the variant and product level.

Shopify Products List Page

Mortar Action

Result

Resync Products & Variants
(can only select one page max)

Selected Products & their Variants are queued from the POS

Resync Inventory
(can only select one page max)

Inventories of selected Products & Variants are queued from the POS

Unlink Products & Variants
(can only select one page max)

Selected Products & Variants are unlinked from the POS

Shopify Product Detail Page

Mortar Action

Result

View in POS

Related product page is opened in the POS

Unlink Product

Product & its Variants are unlinked from related products in the POS

Shopify Variant Detail Page

Mortar Action

Result

View in POS

Related variant page is opened in the POS

Unlink Variant

Variant is unlinked from related product in the POS

Step-by-step

Using "View in POS"

  1. Select your product in Shopify

  2. Choose More Actions

  3. Press the View in POS button

  4. A new browser tab will open to the linked product at the variant or product level in the POS

View the POS of a Shopify Product

Viewing a Shopify product in Lightspeed Retail

No product displayed?

If the View in POS button does not display the product in the POS, the product is unlinked.

Learn more: How Mortar links Shopify products to your POS

Using "Resync inventory"

  1. Using the checkboxes, select products on the Shopify products page. The bulk action menu will appear at the bottom of the page.

  2. From the Shopify bulk action menu

    1. Choose the ellipses

    2. Scroll down to select the “Resync inventory” action

    Resync inventory to Shopify on-demand for select products

Using "Resync products & variants"

  1. Using the checkboxes, select products on the Shopify products page. The bulk action menu will appear at the bottom of the page.

  2. From the Shopify bulk action menu

    1. Choose the ellipses

    2. Scroll down to select “Resync products & variants”

Resync product and variant details on-demand for select products

Using "Unlink from POS"

  1. Begin by verifying the Shopify product SKU matches a single product in your POS

  2. Using the checkboxes, select products on the Shopify products page

  3. From the Shopify bulk action menu

    1. Choose the ellipses

    2. Scroll down to select “Unlink from POS”

Selecting and unlinking multiple products

Unlink products and variants on demand

Relink a product

Updating an unlinked POS product will trigger Mortar matching

  1. Verify the product has a unique matching SKU in both Shopify and your POS

  2. Save the POS product

  3. In a few moments, review the Shopify product to verify product details

Mortar Action for orders and refunds

When Mortar syncs a Shopify order to your POS, it creates a shortcut to view the POS copy of the order. You can view any synced Shopify order in your POS by using the "View in POS" action right from the order in Shopify. If the order was split to multiple locations in your POS, you will see all of the order splits.

Shopify Order Detail Page

Mortar Action

Result

View in POS

Related orders displayed in the POS

Step-by-step

  1. Select the order in Shopify

  2. Choose More Actions

  3. Press the View in POS button

  4. A new browser tab will open to display the linked order(s) in your POS

View the POS version of a Shopify order

Viewing a Shopify product in Lightspeed Retail (R-Series)

No order displayed?

If the View in POS button does not successfully display the linked order(s) in your POS, this usually means:

  • The order is from before activation and was created before the Minimum order created date time.

  • The order was canceled before it could be synced.

  • The order is for an unmapped location. These will not be created.

  • The order is very recent and is in the process of being synced. This usually takes a minute or so.

  • Lastly, the order experienced an error and could not be created in your POS. This may require contacting Mortar support for troubleshooting help.

Mortar Action for customers

When Mortar links Shopify customers to your POS, it also creates a shortcut to jump from the Shopify customer to the POS version of your customer.

Shopify Customer Detail Page

Mortar Action

Result

View in POS

Related customer page is opened in the POS

Step-by-step

  1. Select your customer in Shopify

  2. Choose More Actions

  3. Select View Customer in POS.

  4. A new browser tab will open to show you the linked product at the POS variant level.

View the POS version of a Shopify customer

Viewing a Shopify customer in Heartland Retail

No customer displayed?

If the View in POS button does not successfully display the customer in your POS, this means that the customer is not yet linked.


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