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June 12, 2019

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* Shopify App Store

# Install requirement for Shopify Point of Sale

You can now specify Shopify Point of Sale as an install requirement for your app, to ensure that merchants can only install your app if they use that sales channel.

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Install requirements let you specify which merchants your app will and will not work for, based on a merchant’s geographic and sales channel settings. [Learn more about Install Requirements.](https://help.shopify.com/en/api/app-store/listing-in-the-app-store/app-listing#f-merchant-install-requirements)