- Short answer
- No — the Shopify Lite plan is closed to new stores, and a merchant already on it cannot revert to it after changing plans.
- If you are already on Lite
- You keep POS, the Buy Button, one staff account and the plan's reports — but leaving Lite is one-way
- POS Lite is not the Lite plan
- A feature set on any paid plan at no extra cost; POS Pro is a per-location add-on
- No closing date published
- No official Shopify page we read on August 30, 2026 gives a date for closing Lite to new stores
- No current price published
- No official Shopify page we read on August 30, 2026 shows a Lite price; shopify.com/lite redirects away
- Starter and Retail are closed too
- Starter and Retail carry the same notice with only the plan name changed — neither is the fallback
Can you still sign up for the Shopify Lite plan?
No. Shopify's Help Center page for the Lite plan says it is not available to new stores. Lite survives only on accounts that already had it.
The Lite plan isn't available to new stores. If you're a merchant currently on the Lite plan and you decide to change your plan, then you can't revert back to the Lite plan.
Reading the Lite and Starter plan pages, the plans-and-features index and the Shopify changelog on August 30, 2026, we found no Shopify page that gives a date for closing Lite to new stores — our Starter guide explains why that date is missing.
What you keep if you are already on the Lite plan
You keep the plan and what it does: selling without a full online store, through Shopify POS and the Buy Button, with one staff account and reports that run from the analytics page through to customers reports.
The catch is the second half of Shopify's notice. Any plan change is one-way: Shopify says you cannot revert back to the Lite plan, so a month on Basic ends the subscription for good.
Shopify Lite, POS Lite and Starter: which one do you mean?
The name is the trap. The Lite plan is the closed subscription above; what merchants call POS Lite is a feature set. Shopify says its in-person selling features come with every paid subscription plan at no extra cost, and that Shopify POS Pro is the separate paid add-on.
Starter is not the fallback either — its plan page carries the same notice with only the plan name changed, and so does Retail's. From Basic upward, no plan page carries that notice.
Price is no guide: reading the Lite plan page, shopify.com/pricing and shopify.com/lite on August 30, 2026, we found no official Shopify page showing a Lite price, and shopify.com/lite now redirects to Shopify's free-trial page. Opening a store now? Start from the plans still on sale.
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