
About Lightspeed Restaurant
The one-stop restaurant platform built for ambitious hospitality professionals to make fast, data-driven decisions, serve more customers and maximise efficiency. Transform and unify your digital and physical operation through innovative features such as unified POS & payments, advanced insights, smart inventory management, accounting and much more. Build a thriving business and unlock the potential of your restaurant with Lightspeed.
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of Lightspeed Restaurant
Lightspeed helps everyone from hole-in-the-wall cafes to multi location empires to attract more customers, grow revenue and streamline operations all from one central platform.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
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Features
Total features of Lightspeed Restaurant: 64
Alternatives
Square Point of Sale

Squirrel POS

Clover

TouchBistro

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- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Lightspeed is an excellent partner to us
Reviewed on 15/07/2021
Lightspeed is a true partner with us at Campus Towers. With their programs we have a reliable easy...
Lightspeed is a true partner with us at Campus Towers. With their programs we have a reliable easy to use program. We are very satisfied with the service provided.
Pros
Lightspeed is so easy to use. The simplicity of the program makes it so efficient for even my newest team members to use. We would be lost without it. The service team is outstanding to work with. The reliability is outstanding.
Cons
Actually we are very satisfied with the services that we are receiving from Lightspeed.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Overall very happy with our decision to move to Lightspeed as our POS
Reviewed on 25/05/2021
We are very happy overall that we moved forward back in November with Lightspeed. No regrets and...
We are very happy overall that we moved forward back in November with Lightspeed. No regrets and very happy we made the switch. Thank you
Pros
Very user friendly for our staff, we have some "older" staff that are not very computer knowledgeable and they were able to learn the workflow very easily, and our younger staff love it because its like using their phone. We have recommended Lightspeed restaurant to other restaurant operators. Reporting is great, back office can be accessed from a tablet our phone to make changes and see reports on the fly.
Cons
Would like to see more integration with other platform for online gift card sales, also would like to see a few different hourly reporting functions.
Alternatives Considered
TouchBistro- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Go with something else!
Reviewed on 29/04/2022
If it was up to me, I would cancel our contract.
If it was up to me, I would cancel our contract.
Pros
Fairly easy to set up for basic items. Not much else is easy with this.
Cons
Anytime we lose power, printers will not work and requires a 45 min - 1 hour call with support. Cannot set up a tab using a credit card at our bar. Tickets print too long with unnecessary information that is redundant. Multi-choice items are difficult to program and then make the order tickets EXCEEDINGLY long. System freezes up when the restaurant is busy causing delays.
Response from Lightspeed
Hi Kesha,
We would like to sincerely apologize for your recent experience with Lightspeed. It is our utmost priority to provide a product and service that allows our customers to focus on running their businesses with ease. We value our customers' feedback, and would like to learn more about your specific experience, to have the opportunity to address your needs and concerns.
As we are unable to identify your account within our records, please feel free to contact our Customer Success team should you wish to provide further feedback.
You may reach us Toll-Free at: 1-844-365-2868
Thank you,
Lightspeed Commerce
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
How Lightspeed will help improve your business.
Reviewed on 23/03/2019
I signed up with Lightspeed back in Nov 2016 and I have never looked back.
Lightspeed gives me...
I signed up with Lightspeed back in Nov 2016 and I have never looked back.
Lightspeed gives me accuracy and analysis.
Through Lightspeed's data I was able to save costs through employee shrinkage.
Combined with Lightspeed's great customer and tech support, you've got a winning combination that no one can beat.
Pros
They are accuracy and analysis.
With Lightspeed each and every order is entered with 100% accuracy, so you don't have to worry about wrong items or amounts being entered. And with their integrated system you can manage your inventory, and analyze your sales patterns. All because Lightspeed gives you sophisticated and detailed sales reports at your fingertips all while saving time and money and reducing costs.
Cons
There was no onsite tutorial on how to access certain data, but a quick call with tech support and within a few minutes I mastered the system and where everything is placed.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Not worthed as the expensive price
Reviewed on 28/02/2020
I know amount that i calculate manual in every type of payment are balance or not because kounta...
I know amount that i calculate manual in every type of payment are balance or not because kounta showing it amount minus or over, so we can double check before we accept to close cashier or shift.
Pros
Display of the pos is look modern and kounta can create recipen and inventory and back office. Pso system complet with back office.
Cons
Actually they have good features in back office for reporting. But not as good as inventory system by itself. First, POS system not completly all transaction is automaticly show in the report when want to do closing cashier (shift), like we need to do manual calculated some other transaction except cash like card and gofood payment as i used to. Because you have to submit all your type of payment on closing time then you will get report that will show your manual calculted are balance or not, split bill need to do by amount not by item, mostly apps that i was using were by item. Second, we need to buy with additional charge to get more features that we can see more details report (like insight and purchase) and that is expensive. If you dont buy, you will not get clear report as you need for analyzing restaurant performance. Third, menu item that you sell and item only you use for recipe are the same product list. Fourth, service charge and tax calculations are confusing to get the right amount. Every report that you want to dowbload as csv as not that correct way as csv.
Lightspeed Restaurant FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Lightspeed Restaurant.Q. What type of pricing plans does Lightspeed Restaurant offer?
Lightspeed Restaurant offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: View Pricing Plans
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Starter $3/day (billed monthly) Essential $6/day (billed monthly) Premium $12/day (billed monthly)
Q. Who are the typical users of Lightspeed Restaurant?
Lightspeed Restaurant has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200
Q. What languages does Lightspeed Restaurant support?
Lightspeed Restaurant supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Q. Does Lightspeed Restaurant support mobile devices?
Lightspeed Restaurant supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Lightspeed Restaurant integrate with?
Lightspeed Restaurant integrates with the following applications:
5stelle, Abacus, Abacus POS, Apaleo, Apicbase Restaurant Management, BPL Digital, Base7booking, Bookingplanner, Cloudbeds, Cockpit IT Service Manager, Combo, Deliverect, Easilys, Flipdish, Fourth Suite, Frontdesk Anywhere, Homebase, HotSoft PMS, Kitchen CUT, Lydia, Marketman, Mews Commander, Misterbooking PMS, Mobi2Go, Onvi, OpenTable, Oracle Hospitality Suite8, Orderlord, Payworks Payment Gateway, Planday, QuickBooks, Rotaready, SevenRooms, Skello, Stayntouch PMS, SumUp, Tenzo, UberEats Clone, WebRezPro, aleno, iZettle, protel PMS
Q. What level of support does Lightspeed Restaurant offer?
Lightspeed Restaurant offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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