{"title":"Product minimum requirements for POS","slug":"product-minimum-requirements-for-listing-on-pos","url":"https://support.storeconnect.com/articles/product-minimum-requirements-for-listing-on-pos","url_markdown":"https://support.storeconnect.com/articles/product-minimum-requirements-for-listing-on-pos.md","subtitle":null,"summary":"A product must be a master or variant, have a price book entry, belong to an active taxonomy category, and not be a placeholder to appear and sell at POS.","type":"Help_Documentation","video_url":"","keywords":"pos product requirements, product listing requirements, point of sale product setup, price book entry, master product, variant product, product taxonomy, product category, pos troubleshooting, placeholder product, bookable product pos, product visibility pos","last_modified":"2026-08-21T07:12:35+0000","body_markdown":"This topic is like a checklist or troubleshooting topic to ensure a product can be seen and processed at point of sale (POS).\n\n## Products cannot be a placeholder product\n\nThis means that the products should not be assigned to restricted products, and must be purchasable by customers.\n\n## Master and variant products only\n\nA product must be a master product, or a variant product linked to a master product. The checkbox 'is master' should be ticked, unless the product is a variant of a master product itself.\n\n## Price book entry required\n\nProducts without a price book entry cannot be added to the checkout at POS. It may appear at the register terminal, but it is not purchasable. You may want to create a special price book to be used for POS products.\n\n![pricebook](https://res.cloudinary.com/hzkr6fi81/image/upload/v1745891767/knowledge/pos/pricebook_sotjpn.png)\n\n## Product taxonomy and category required\n\nYour store's taxonomy must be active and products must be in at least one product category within that taxonomy. In this example, there is a record for**Categories containing this Product**, and that category is associated with a taxonomy that belongs to the store.\n\n![categories](https://res.cloudinary.com/hzkr6fi81/image/upload/v1745891767/knowledge/pos/categories_momce2.png)\n\n## Booking duration must be empty\n\nApplies to bookable products only. The booking duration information of a product is not rendered at POS. \n\n![booking duration](https://res.cloudinary.com/hzkr6fi81/image/upload/v1745891767/knowledge/pos/booking-duration_xvhunq.png)"}