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Lightspeed Restaurant

A cloud-based point-of-sale platform that handles retail operations from a single unified system

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lightspeed-restaurant

Available worldwide · Popular in: US

What is Lightspeed Restaurant?

A cloud-based POS system for retail businesses that combines sales processing, inventory management, online store capabilities, and customer loyalty in one integrated platform. Includes multi-location management, staff administration, and open API for customization.

Independently observed

Lightspeed Restaurant pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $149/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $89/month. 14-day free trial.

Basic

Contact sales
Contact sales

Essential day-to-day needs for independent retailers

  • Retail POS
  • 1 included register
  • Integrated Payments
  • Inventory Management
  • Lightspeed Wholesale
  • PO Sync
  • Built-in Lightspeed eCommerce
  • In-store and online loyalty
  • Advanced sales, staff and inventory reports
  • Accounting, ecommerce and marketing integrations
  • Mobile Scanner App
  • Landed Costs
  • Insights
  • API access
  • Workflows
  • Custom User Roles
  • SSO

Core

$149/month

Management tools to facilitate business growth

Plus

$289/month

Advanced customization and scalability for established retail operations

Add-ons

  • Extra locations
  • Additional registers
  • Lightspeed Capital

What Lightspeed Restaurant does

The capabilities that matter for restaurant pos software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Venue type
Multi-concept
Compliance
PCI DSS compliant
✓
EMV chip / contactless payments
-
Reliability
Offline mode
✓
Front of house
Online ordering
✓
Reservations / waitlist
-
Loyalty / gift cards
✓
Back of house
Kitchen display system (KDS)
✓
Inventory management
✓
Integrations
Delivery integrations (DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub)
✓
Hardware
Proprietary hardware ecosystem (terminals/KDS)
✓
Market
Multi-location support
✓
Target segment
SMB / independent
Payments
Payment processing
Built-in / proprietary processor
Pricing
Pricing model
Per location
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • iOS
  • Web
  • Android
  • Windows
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (23)

Independently observed
delivery
  • Uber Eats
gift_card
  • Upserve Gift Cards•
  • Wrapped Gift Cards
online_ordering
  • Upserve Online Ordering•
  • BPL Digital Online Ordering
property_management
  • WebRezPro
inventory
  • APICBASE
  • Inventory Planner by Sage
loyalty
  • Astro Loyalty
accounting
  • Xero•
  • QuickBooks•
  • MYOB•
  • Amazon
  • eBay
  • Google
  • Google Pay
  • Apple Pay
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
  • Stripe
  • Adyen
  • Epson

Lightspeed Restaurant FAQ

Common questions about Lightspeed Restaurant, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is Lightspeed Restaurant?

A cloud-based restaurant management system that enables operators to streamline front and back-of-house operations, track inventory, process payments, manage multiple locations, and gain business insights through integrated reporting and analytics. It is indexed under Restaurant POS Software.

Source: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/pos/restaurant/

How much does Lightspeed Restaurant cost?

Lightspeed Restaurant does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/golf/sales-marketing/dynamic-pricing/

What platforms does Lightspeed Restaurant support?

We have confirmed browser-based access to Lightspeed Restaurant. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.

Source: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/golf/sales-marketing/dynamic-pricing/

Can Lightspeed Restaurant be self-hosted?

We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Lightspeed Restaurant, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.

Source: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/golf/sales-marketing/dynamic-pricing/

What does Lightspeed Restaurant integrate with?

We have confirmed 19 integrations for Lightspeed Restaurant, including Amazon, eBay, Google, Apple Pay, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Stripe, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.

Source: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/pos/restaurant/

What security certifications does Lightspeed Restaurant have?

We have independently confirmed GDPR for Lightspeed Restaurant. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Lightspeed Restaurant not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.

Source: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/security/

Where is Lightspeed Restaurant available?

Lightspeed Restaurant is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Canada.

Source: https://www.lightspeedhq.com/golf/sales-marketing/dynamic-pricing/

Lightspeed Restaurant alternatives

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Balanced composite 55 / 100
medium · 73%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Pricing transparency1000.099.4✓
Capabilities960.044.1✓
Reliability500.063.2✓
Price level250.102.6✓
Integrations300.051.5✓
Security posture250.041.1✓

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Content

AttributeValueEvidence
Faq7 itemsmediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesKds: Yes · Pci dss: Yes · Inventory: Yes · Venue type: multi · Offline mode: Yes · Pricing model: per_locationmediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count10mediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
AvailabilityPrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: …mediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 50%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%
Price levelhighmediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%
Starting priceAmount: 149 · Currency: USDmediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60%
GdprYesmediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%
PciYesmediumsource · 2026-09-22 · 60%
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