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Jonathan
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Weitere für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Bewertet am 9.6.2017

An IT Pro's Experience with Lightspeed

I was hired as an IT pro to migrate a customer to Lightspeed. I have just under a decade in migrating large platforms and I have worked with numerous vendors over the years. Based on my experience, you can quickly assess which companies are "Sales Based" and possess no real infrastructure beyond the "Sale". These companies usually have very slick front-end websites, but fall very short when assisting paying customers to actually make use of the service. It is unfortunate that Lightspeed falls into this category. Lot's of promises up front, but obtaining capable support is not possible. Despite escalation and numerous phone calls and emails, not a single return contact was made within a week's time. To be sure, you can get a tier 1 person within usually a day, but they are untrained and are able to answer only simplistic questions. When a request for a supervisor is made or an escalation is requested, communications cease. Compounding this problem is the telephone "Firewall" they have erected around anyone empowered to address even the most basic of concerns. Over a week's time, I have been told supervisors are "Not Available" and will "Call Back" as soon as is possible. A weeks time to return a call to a paying customer is (far) more than sufficient time to allow. Unfortunately, once Lightspeed has your money, you as the customer are "SOL"! As a seasoned professional, it is my opinion that Lightspeed is a poorly run company and shows a troubling and dismissive attitude towards its paying customers. This "treatment" of its clients is well reflected in the reviews here. I am NOT a Lightspeed customer, as I am hired to work between the client and Lightspeed. As an IT professional, watching how this company treats its paying clientele has been disturbing.

Vorteile

Is very flexible, can be made pretty (if you can figure out the documentation), and does interface with other modules

Nachteile

The company, the company attitude, and the support it provides to paying customers. The experience during the "Sale" was filled with promises of support and help to move from a new account to a finished "Go-Live" product. Unfortunately, the Lightspeed platform is highly proprietary and therefore, success for most is dependent upon satisfactory support from the company. Here, they fall short of success and short of the promises made. When attempting to work with the company, they fall short again, lacking any of tier 2 or 3 technicians needed to satisfy anything more than a basic question. This leaves so many of the customers without any real ability to make use of what they were sold. This is a company predicated on "Sales", "Sales Pitches" and "Promises", but fails to deliver on what was promised and paid for.

Clif
  • Branche: Restaurants
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Weitere für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Bewertet am 29.6.2017

This company is all about sales and has no interest in fairness or retaining customers.

I run a tiny seasonal business for which this system was intended. If someone is unhappy with my service, refunding their money is not always my first approach, but if I know that I've fallen short on service, I absolutely look for a fair solution. I was fine with keeping the hardware originally sent to me and even paying for the time lapse on the software, but to say that all software sales are final when they are the one that set the contract lengths to being with is just shady and downright distasteful. It's not like they put money into developing software just for my company. In fact, any time I tried to get support to help tweak things, their support team seemed more annoyed than willing to help. Stay away from these guys.

Vorteile

I barely used this product. What sold me on it initially were the demos in being able to have a simple interface for my employees on both the retail and restaurant side and a much more detailed backend than square that supposedly integrates nicely with Quickbooks.

Nachteile

I was very specific about my operating needs. I am also very busy with small children and multiple businesses. The onboarding was described as very simple, and it was not. I needed three systems, and was told that was what I was paying for. They shot me an invoice which I did not read thoroughly enough. They put in fine print on the invoice that the invoice and payment is acceptance or their sales terms which you have to then go to their website to read. Once I asked for the hardware items that they did not send me, they also charged me for a bunch of extra software that were not part of the original sales discussion or even the second sales discussion. They never refunded me for two years of unused software when I decided that I was not interested in doing business with such a shady company. No class.

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hello Clif,

We would like to apologize for the service experience you had 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 appreciate the feedback you have given us on our sales and onboarding processes and will be taking it into account in the future to ensure a better experience for other Lightspeed customers.

In regards to amending your contract, we would again like to apologize for any confusion or miscommunication. We had hoped the offer we presented and discussed in detail would have allowed us to move forward in your relationship with Lightspeed.

Once again, we apologize for your experience and that the decision we reached was not the outcome you desired.

We appreciate your understanding,

Customer Success Team
Lightspeed

Beantwortet am 16.10.2017
Arjun
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Bewertet am 6.10.2022

Not what you expect

Horrible.

The support team is fantastic, but they can’t permanently solve issues, just bandaids.

Vorteile

I liked the design of the software and support was very helpful in temporarily solving issues.

Nachteile

The software. Inventory management tools were non existent. No permanent fixes for the software crashing every day.

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hi Arjun,

Thank you for your recent feedback, we are sorry to hear you were less than satisfied with the product. We 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

Beantwortet am 7.10.2022
Dawn
  • Branche: Buchhaltung
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Bewertet am 7.5.2020

LightSpeed Retail POS & Accounting for QuickBooks Desktop

Custom reporting with LightSpeed Analytics comes as a separate subscription expense. Creating and populating data is time consuming for businesses with multiple locations as the data limit is set at a 5000 row maximum output making quarterly and annual report extraction inefficient. Multiple reports are required to extract data for each location.

Vorteile

The customer profile and Inventory Item modules are fairly simple to maneuver. Creating a sales transaction is also fairly simple. The POS system itself integrates nicely with Kangaroo for loyalty rewards.

Nachteile

The Inventory Asset module is severely lacking in accurate financial reporting and auditing. Historical values change in a daily basis making internal and external auditing impossible. Inventory adjustments do not transfer to the accounting system. System is unable to provide total shrinkage or excess in any given period (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual). As inventory & COGS are an essential part of financial reporting, the lack of system capabilities does not make any sense for retail businesses.

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hello Dawn,

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.
A member of our Customer Success team will be reaching out to you shortly to explore different options that can help your business moving forward.

Thank you,

Lightspeed POS

Beantwortet am 15.5.2020
Marie
  • Branche: Sportartikel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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5
Bewertet am 8.12.2020

Definitely worth your time to try!

Vorteile

We love how easy this was to set up. It does not require buying $20,000 worth of equipment like our first POS system did back in 2008. In fact it can easily be used with just an iPad! We are not computer savvy at all and this system has never confused us or new employees. We love everything about this system! So much that if we ever strike up a conversation with a fellow business owner that mentions they are thinking about a new system you better believe they are going to hear all about this one! You can read all about the features and I could tell you everything that we love or you can just be smart like we were and just try it. If you do want to talk to an actual person that is using the system you can certainly get in touch with one by calling one of the helpful reps at Lightspeed. They will connect you with a business owner that will tell you everything you want to know about their daily experience. It helped us make the decision to pull the trigger and get the ball rolling!

Nachteile

The only aggravation that I can think of right now happens on the iPad. If I am searching for a specific vendor’s PO. I can’t quickly type the vendor name in. You choose the first letter of the vendor and then you have to arrow down. Pretty dumb to complain about this, I know. It takes seconds really. It also could be me not knowing how to use my computer - I did mention how bad I am.

Jenny
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 1-5 Monate genutzt
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Bewertet am 28.4.2021

Avoid at all costs - the worst POS system.

Customer support is good (unless you're asking for a refund). They usually respond to emails within 24 hours. And they did try to help with my many concerns and frustrations but the POS system is terrible. - their solution was for me to add an App, Quote Machine, at an extra cost of $100 per month that would give Lightspeed Retail the same features as we previously had on Lightspeed Onsite.

Vorteile

We have been using the old version of Lightspeed (Onsite) for over 10 years, which worked well for our business but had to change over to Lightspeed Retail when the older version was archived . The only pro of the new version, Lightspeed Retail, is that it can be accessed from any computer.

Nachteile

This POS system is terrible for retail shops doing anything more than a standard sale. It's unintuitive, confusing, easy to make errors and very frustrating. From the way it creates a sale and an order (confusing and vague with order and 'special order' in little tabs), to the way it handles payments for order (money goes on the customer account, not on a specific order), to creating a PO for the order which is overly complex, doesn't link with the order or bring the customer information over, to basic things like needing to email a customer after the sale is finished (TIP - it's not possible!). It’s extremely frustrating and not user friendly at all. In fact, I think the whole system is deeply flawed and unworkable.

After signing up for one year (there wasn't the option to sign up for a shorter period) and trying to persevere for a month, we decided to find a new POS system. (Lightspeed won't refund our balance and kept me waiting for 6 weeks and numerous emails before telling me this.) We are now using Shopify POS and it's brilliant - it's not perfect but it's about three million times better than Lightspeed Retail. No exaggeration :-)

Michael
  • Branche: Gesundheit, Wellness & Fitness
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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5
Bewertet am 28.11.2020

Great system for all small businesses

Excellent experience with Lightspeed, I would recommend this platform to any small or medium sized business.

Vorteile

Lightspeed is very user friendly and easy to teach employees how to use it. The reporting is top-notch and they even can help you create custom reports which was very important to us. Customer service is excellent and always very responsive.

Nachteile

It would be great if it came with a built in CRM or integrated with one like Salesforce. It's great for franchisees, as a small business, but for the franchisor it may not have all the functionality needed to roll it out to the entire corporate system.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Odoo, Clover, QuickBooks Enterprise und ERPLY

Warum Lightspeed Retail gewählt wurde

Opsuite is not very user friendly, reporting was very lacking and clunky, and for what you get it's very expensive.

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

Had all the features we needed at a great value.
Nerissa
Nerissa Mehr Details anzeigen
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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5
Bewertet am 29.9.2022

Great for Retail

Vorteile

We have been using Lightspeed for our retail firearm business and this has been very helpful for us in monitoring our sales and inventory. This is great for small businesses like us and priced reasonably.

Nachteile

None that i can think of. Lightspeed has been great for our business.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Square Point of Sale

Warum Lightspeed Retail gewählt wurde

Better in inventory management, control and audit for Lightspeed

Zuvor genutzte Software

Square Point of Sale

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

Better in inventory management, control and audit for Lightspeed
Verifizierter Rezensent Mehr Details anzeigen
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4
Bewertet am 17.1.2019

Transferring from Onsite to Retail after nearly 10 years of service..

Vorteile

We have been using Lightspeed POS systems since 2008. As we made our transition from Onsite to the Cloud based server in the Summer of 2018, Lightspeed has gone the extra mile to make sure that their product worked with our relatively unique business. Although not without its stumbles along the way, The reps have gone out of their way to make sure that we are well prepared for whatever may come our way. Both the reps follow-through, attention to detail, and never-ending patience have been exemplary.

Nachteile

There were some aspects of Retail that were told to us as if they were included, but we soon realized many of the benefits of Retail are add-ons (aka cost extra money) and needed to be heavily jerry rigged to work for our specific business. A lot of small yet important issues, like record keeping of outgoing emails with receipts, or the ability to change a purchase after it has been completed. We used to be able to edit invoices on Onsite, and now even an owner, admin or manager does not have that option. Furthermore, if a customer decides to ship their purchase after it has completed, there is no way to alter the invoice to make it so. Or that we cannot use any of the same labels or gift cards that we once used with Onsite. There are just many small things that were not made clear that we would be losing when we moved over

Richard
  • Branche: Möbel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 1-5 Monate genutzt
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Bewertet am 16.11.2018

Lightspeed wants your money and does not care about your business.

It is my mission to make sure nobody falls into the trap that Lightspeed sets for it's potential customers. I foolishly signed up for a yearly contract to save some cash as any smart businessman would do. What I didn't realize is that a company needs a POS system specific to their industry because trying to work around certain functions or the lack thereof will slow down the sales process. I realized a little under 2 weeks that this system wasn't right for me so I requested a cancellation of the contract. Considering they offer anyone a free 2 week trial, I thought they would thank me for the opportunity and wish me well in my future endeavors. Especially because I actually put some trust in the company and paid upfront instead of using their 2 week trial with no commitment whatsoever. At the very most I thought they would charge me for a month worth of service at the usual non-discounted yearly rate just to pay for any costs associated with me going through the 2 weeks of service. What came next was a shocker of a response. They actually said because I signed the contract, there was nothing that could be done. What? That's used car sales language. NOTHING? But I only used the system for 2 weeks and you give out 2 week free trials to anyone who asks? NOTHING! But my business will suffer as a result of your system not functioning the way I need it to run. NOTHING! But you guys have a digital product which costs you nothing for me to use and the only expenses incurred by you were the 1 hour of training and 1 hour of customer service I utilized in the entire 2 weeks I used the system which I am willing to pay for. NOTHING!! You signed a contract and that's that!! (Official Lightspeed Motto) After a certain point, they actually told me that it's my decision to use the system or not (well obviously) but they are not giving me back a single Canadian cent. (They're based in Canada). They only care about the almighty dollar (Canadian of course) and the lack of customer concern is mind boggling in this day and age of "no questions asked" business practices. Well Lightspeed, you have my money but you lost my respect. DO NOT USE LIGHTSPEED until you've gone through their 2 week free trial. Even after the free trial I suggest you only sign up for a 1 month commitment to put it through real world scenarios before you fully commit to their 1 year contract because Lightspeed wants their money and you WILL NOT get it back once they have it.

Vorteile

They have 24/7 customer support, their e-commerce platform is integrated with their retail platform.

Nachteile

They trap customers in a 1 year contract with no way out. Not designed for the furniture industry but they'll force you to keep using it if you're signed up with them no matter what.

Erin
  • Branche: Bekleidung & Mode
  • Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Bewertet am 8.8.2018

Worst Management...Ever!

If anyone is seriously thinking of using Lightspeed, I highly recommend that you sit down and make a list of exactly what you want, how they can help your business succeed on the smallest detailed level, not a generalized list things they say they will do by signing with them. Be specific. Ask a lot of questions. And assume absolutely nothing. Just assuming that I would have a functioning backend database was my downfall.

Vorteile

The frontline customer service agents who answer the phones. I would have to say that 98% of the agents that answered my call were fabulous. Anyone past that frontline defense is a joke.

Nachteile

Honestly, there isn't enough time in my day to go through the four years of hassle and issues they caused for my business. I know for a fact that Lightspeed is the entire reason why I ended up closing my storefront business. There were so many problems and issues that they were aware of, but because it was only happening to a small few, they wouldn't work on fixing the problems, but were very happy to give me a 'work-around' that usually ended up not working either.

You also can tell the company by the ability to talk to management...anyone past the initial agents who answer the phone. With Lightspeed, they won't let you call and talk to a supervisor. Agents are not allowed to transfer an existing customer to a supervisor or manager, only allows the management to call you. There are no emails available, list of names for various departments, and definitely no phone extensions to get further help. They do not stand by their product, therefore, there is no reason to stand by them.

David
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 1-5 Monate genutzt
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Bewertet am 10.4.2022

It's Not really a POS for retail..well it works front end but Back end..needs work for sure

Before signing up ...super great, after...it's been a struggle and frustrating.

Vorteile

The staff can pull up customer and process sales and returns with ease

Nachteile

The inventory management is really lacking.
Retailers are not able to bulk update any inventory qty or pricing changes.
The only way to update inventory is scanning one by one or manually entering it into LS.
Doing year end is going to be a big problem, we just came on board and Im asking how we can bulk update and they said we can not.
I ask if we can send the file to them and they said no they can not update in bulk...WHAT??? LOL that is crazy to think we can not do that. So that means we can not have more than one person doing inventory unless we all manually update it into LS.

Thomas
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  • Branche: Essen & Trinken
  • Unternehmensgröße: 51–200 Mitarbeiter
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5
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4
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5
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5
Bewertet am 28.7.2021

We love lightspeed!

Overall, we are thrilled with lightspeed and would recommend it all day long.

Vorteile

This is my first restaurant ipad based POS system and we love it! It is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Employees training period is very short compared to other "old school" pos systems. Lots of great features!

Nachteile

The reporting could be more thorough. There are some missed opportunities for lightspeed to be a "one stop shop" software.

Astrid
  • Branche: Gastgewerbe
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
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5
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4
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5
Bewertet am 3.10.2021

Massive improvements and proactive customer support

n/a

Vorteile

Initially we had problems getting support because they were very short-staffed. However they have done a lot to improve this aspect and I am confident that every time we call our support person will respond quickly and be able to solve our problem.

Nachteile

It was a little more difficult to implement than some other systems, so more of a learning curve for users. Also there are some product features that have some limitations at the moment but I think they will be resolved.

PierreAntoine
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
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4
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5
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4
Bewertet am 23.4.2022

Lightspeed set you up for growth

Lightspeed is a great tool and fairly priced for all the time it will make you save. Having an ACCURATE system inventory management is really important nowadays especially if you are selling online.
The uptime of the tool is probably 98/99 %

I wish the product would have a bit less upsell because the monthly bill can go up relatively fast

Vorteile

Really easy to get your hands on the product, tech savvy or not Lightspeed will help you organize and monitor your business. Products creation is quite fast

Nachteile

Lack of quality apps but once Lightspeed grow big enough I think their will be a good selection

Jamie Mehr Details anzeigen
  • Branche: Essen & Trinken
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
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4
Bewertet am 27.4.2019

Broad but often shallow

Vorteile

Lightspeed has a lot of options and is pretty well integrated. The connection between retail and ecom and loyalty in particular is great. Easy to use, easy to train staff on. Support is geared towards shopkeepers that aren't tech savvy. Look and feel of the software is good. The Retail POS has good reporting, good inventory featrures. The Loyalty add on is a great, easy to use program (with some challenges, so make sure you clarify your needs) and well priced.

Nachteile

The strategy seems to be "offer a little of everything" - but we have found that means broad functionality, but not deep functionality. In the Retail package, several basic retail store based point of sale features are missing, and according to their customer ideas forum are "Not Planned". Lack of fractional items means you can't use it to sell bulk items or anything where you need to enter a fractional quantity like '1.25'. Promotions and discounts are so limited as to be almost non-existent. While you can take simple % or $ discounts, you can't do item quantity discounts (no BOGO, no case discount), no promotional coupons, very limited automated discounting. Support says "let employees manually add discounts or change prices" which is crazy - a great way to increase shrink and sweethearting at the cash wrap. While you can create custom fields, they don't do anything - can't report on them, can't search on them, can't see them in the transaction. After being impressed with the initial demo (the broad functionality led us to believe it was deep as well) and the friendly sales team, we were super surprised during implementation that we couldn't do 50% of the things we needed to do during the actual cash register sales transaction. The ecom side seems to be more complete - it actually does have item/quantity discounts. The only challenge we have had there is lack of support (without paying extra for a third party add-on) for local delivery.

Tim
  • Branche: Gesundheit, Wellness & Fitness
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
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Bewertet am 23.5.2017

HORRIBLE! They will mislead you to get you into the contract. They do not care about the business or business owner. Their customer service is Horrible. They would rather argue with you than help you and never call back when they say they will. I have been with them for 3 years and would love to get out but they have me locked in for another year and they won't budge. THERE IS NOW WAY TO STOP YOUR EMPLOYEES FROM DOWNLOADING YOUR ENTIRE CUSTOMER BASE AND INVENTORY INCLUDING COSTS, PROFITS, AND MARGINS. Try it. Log in as an employee and click export in the items screen or the customer screen. In two clicks they have your entire business. Managers can not build, send or check in purchase orders without seeing all costs and profits. Unless you plan to always be in store and never have employees alone in the store DO NOT GO WITH LIGHTSPEED. They don't care and will just keep coming out with new items to charge for that should just be ongoing upgrades to their core system such as the new analytics. They have come out with over 4 new items to charge for while not fixing the issue they knew about for over two years. They just don't care.

Vorteile

Good looking, can be used easily. The software itself isnt horrible it is the service and the fact that they dont care about you or your business and they will not fix major issues within the software

Nachteile

Customer service is horrible, your employees can down load all items with costs, profit, margin, and your entire customer base and there is no fix and they don't care.

Kim
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
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Bewertet am 21.3.2022

Not a good fit for a liquor store/smoke shop/bar

This has been a very frustrating experience. The demos looked great. In theory, most of the features and processes look amazing, but do not work in real life situations. Again, maybe this was just a very poor fit for our store, but I wish someone would have cautioned me before my purchase.

Vorteile

There are some good features for discounting when buying multiple items (2 for $xx)

Nachteile

Extremely poor design of software.
Not intuitive.
Funcationality we needed was not available. Some work arounds available but very clunky. Support is very slow. Typically 20 min wait for phone support. Customers will not wait that long to make a purchase.
No app available.
I could go on..

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Square Point of Sale

Warum Lightspeed Retail gewählt wurde

Loved this software, but our credit card readers kept disconnecting then not connecting back. We were losing too many sales to make a change. In hindsight, I would have tried to figure something else out. Both packages are now owned by Lightspeed. We assumed the flagship product would be as good or better than the secondary...We were wrong.

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

Reorder reports, POs, Inventory management, and a credit card reader that was attached to the register. All of these things were disappointments.
Traci
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 7.6.2021

Lightspeed for Retail

We are a brick and mortar Women's Boutique and Formal Wear and have been with Lightspeed for over 5 years. We thoroughly researched many POS systems, before going with our decision and couldn't be happier. The system is easy to set up and use and simple to train employees on. The customer profiles make it easy to customize shopping experiences for all of our customers and stay in contact with them.

Vorteile

The customer service is excellent and available 24/7, which is critical in our business. The reports Lightspeed generates helps us better gauge sales and thus make better buys more cost effectively.

Nachteile

None that I can think of or have seen in competitors.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

QuickBooks Online Advanced, Square Point of Sale und Clover

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

They had very competitive rates for the same products and service and in most cases, better.
Barry
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 8.2.2018

Exceptional - It's amazing what you can do with Lightspeed Point of Sale & eCom

Quick reliable and organized access to: sales, inventory, customer information. A software system that allows me to create POs, send them electronically to vendors, document all aspects of product ordering. A system that provides an eCommerce public facing front-end that is highly customizable.

Vorteile

Ease of use (given how flexible and intricate the program is). Browser based for legacy PCs - with multiple browser tabs allowed to easily switch between POS modules. iPad based app for portability to remote sales locations. Even works on smartphones for quick updates and status checks. Cloud based - therefore, access your business information anywhere you are Internet connected. Great support staff - knowledgeable, friendly and insightful. eCom module (additional fee) plugs in seamlessly allows you to sync retail SKUs so that they are public facing via your Lightspeed hosted website. Item sold on-line via eCom is immediately updated to the cloud and reflected in POS (and vice versa).

Nachteile

While the POS and eCom integration is wonderful, you still must manage inventory on both platforms in order to get the desired results. For example, when new inventory arrives you receive the items through your POS based purchase order. This boosts your inventory and handles new/updated cost, retail pricing, etc., and passes all of this on to eCom. However, you then need to access eCom to update public facing product narratives, SEO related fields, related products, additional category related references, etc.. So, while both programs are great and work together - it will be even better when FULL integration of the two programs is achieved.

Andrew
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  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 27.3.2020

Robust and Intuitive

Overall, the technical and sales support have been superb, always able and willing to help and follow-up.

Vorteile

Lightspeed Retail works on a variety of hardware platforms, including desktop/laptop computers, tablets, and, in a pinch, our mobile devices. It makes tracking inventory between multiple locations easy, as well as receiving and tracking orders. Most importantly, it is intuitive and easy to train staff to use, something that saves our business valuable time and focus. Great reporting that continues to get better.

Nachteile

I wish the eCom platform could track inventory from multiple locations and that it had seamless accounting integration (specifically with Quickbooks). But with the advances the company makes every year, I believe those may be on the horizon!

Kaila
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 27.12.2019

Lightspeed retail POS and ecommerce

Lightspeeds customer service has been impeccable since day one. You can reach their customer service team at any time of the day, and they always follow up with a ticket to make sure the issue gets resolved. I am so happy I went with a cloud-based POS system for my retail store, and having it integrate with my online store has been a game changer. Lightspeed's inventory management is very detailed, which was an important factor when choosing a POS system because I have over 3000 skus in store. The loyalty program is very customizable and modern, and customers love that they dont have to download an app.

Vorteile

-cloud based, can access it anywhere
-all of my inventory and prices integrate with my online store
-their loyalty program is modern and very customizable
-their inventory management is detailed and able to hold a large number of skus (i have over 3000 skus)

Nachteile

They are still working out some technical kinks with their loyalty program. Also, since it is cloud-based, it is run in a browser, which means the speed of the program depends on the speed of your internet. The receipts are a little slow to print once I prompt them, since it is running in a browser.

Rebecca
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
1
Funktionalität
1
Bedienkomfort
1
Kundenbetreuung
1

1
Bewertet am 25.10.2021

Buyer Beware

Buyer beware!!! To any potential future customers, do yourself the favor and DO NOT purchase this software. My company signed up with them in May and paid up front for a years worth of service. However, in July, their software had a malfunction and reversed the authorization on our payments. I then had their collection teams and our account manager threatening us if we didn't pay again. By this time, I had time to find out that what I was told about the software was not possible, so I already had to purchase an entirely new software just to get the basic functions they promised in the beginning. I made our account manager aware that I would continue services until Jan and would pay AGAIN for their error. This turned into a huge argument with the account manager who then took it upon herself to process 2 random payments on 2 different cards. SHE DID NOT HAVE AUTHORIZATION FOR EITHER!!! Im not sure how I am supposed to feel comfortable about a company processing my payments for my customers when they cant even process their own correctly! DO NOT make the same mistake I made and sign up for this software to begin with!!!! Make sure [SENSITIVE CONTENT] is never someone that you have to deal with!

Vorteile

It was a quick set up. That is the only positive thing I can say about this software and my experience with them.

Nachteile

The company itself is horrible. Huge waste of time and money!!

Miguel
  • Branche: Bekleidung & Mode
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 1-5 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
1
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
3
Kundenbetreuung
1

4
Bewertet am 20.6.2022

Horrible Customer Service

After making our first sales we were told we would have to wait 2 weeks to get our first deposit.
We understood and gave them time even though that seemed like a very long time to wait for a startup.
Unfortunately we never got out money. We were not informed anything was wrong and only when we realized we should have been paid by then did we call and ask what was wrong. We did the run-around with their support team for more than a week and STILL have not gotten paid. They are very bad at response time and when you sit on the phone you can't talk to anyone except a support member who knows nothing beyond how to help with the software. Good luck getting an email to anyone in the payments office or even have anyone in the office on a random Monday because it's a "holiday"?
We had to threaten twice that we would be moving companies before we got any sort of reassurance we would be helped within the next day. We have had to close our shop for a week now losing sales and making our potential investors skeptical of our business because of Lightspeed's mess up.

Vorteile

The System was very use friendly and I am sad to say I will have to go with another company because the customer service was so poor.

Nachteile

Customer service is worse than anything we have experienced with more than 20 years in running a business.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

GoDaddy Website Builder

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

Functionality and features. Retail and E-com in one package.

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hi Miguel,

Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you were less than satisfied with your recent experience with Lightspeed. It is our utmost priority to provide products and services that allow our customers to focus on running their businesses with ease. Someone will be reaching out to you once more to discuss your request further and any next steps.

Thank you,

Lightspeed Commerce

Beantwortet am 23.6.2022
Helena
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
  • Täglich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 9.2.2022

First impression is the best!

Staff is professional, courteous, and knowledgeable. There are many resources available

Vorteile

The professional looking equipment and software, and the many options it provides

Nachteile

When my wifi is out and I have to re-log in the CC machine, I wish the CC machine could remember the log in

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Square Point of Sale

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

Lightspeed had it together better, they offered everything I needed and I liked the hardware
Todd
  • Branche: Möbel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
4
Bedienkomfort
4
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 19.2.2021

Good Product

The overall experience has been excellent. I am most impressed with the support I have received from Lightspeed. Phone in wait times have been very reasonable at this point. When I have spoken to a tech they have been excellent in understanding my question and providing a solution.... at times working outside the box to create the best result with the conditions present.

Vorteile

The start up process was easy to follow along. Great tutorial videos and resources to answer the basic questions. Was easy to set up the codes, pricing and inventory organization.

Nachteile

There was some frustration using matrix's and understanding assemblies. Each business is different obviously... the use of matrix was great at the start but becomes limiting later on for integration to the webstore. Assemblies are cumbersome for automatic ordering.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Square Point of Sale

Zuvor genutzte Software

Square Point of Sale

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

The free trial helped me make up my mind. I had two colleagues using Lightspeed and in speaking to them both are very happy with the product.
Michael
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
0
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 23.6.2019

Happy Customers.

I own Furniture and Blinds in Toronto, Canada, and have been a dedicated Lightspeed user for over a decade, back when you rolled out a now very-dated version of Lightspeed for Mac only. We just recently went from OnSite to the cloud and e-commerce solutions, and I am crossing my fingers that these deliver for us as the software has done in the past!

I just wanted to write to express my sincere thanks to you and the team, as well as those who provided critical support (I forget their names at the moment) last week when we orchestrated the transition. I especially appreciated my reps willingness to engage with my many different questions as I contemplated the upgrade over a period of several months starting in March, his constant support as we moved forward with the purchase more recently, and finally his critical role helping expedite the process of transition over a period of five hours last week. I must also extend my most hearty thanks to the patient support team who guided me through the process. What a professional and courteous experience throughout -- Lightspeed really does set the gold standard in this regard.

It is really incredible to receive this kind of care and support, especially from a Canadian company, and I just wanted to convey my sincere gratitude to you, and the rest of the team. We will continue to support you. 6/5 stars!!!

Vorteile

Love the cross-platform integration, cloud, and aesthetic!

Nachteile

The fact that we have to continue to pay more for upgrades, better themes, etc.

ERIN
  • Branche: Bekleidung & Mode
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Weitere für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 26.4.2017

Love this program, so glad I switched

I own a small retail shop and utilize LightSpeed Retail and LightSpeed eCom. I moved from Checkout for Mac to LightSpeed when my needs required more accurate reporting and a more thorough online presence. While I felt a little pushed during initial email/phone contact, the information was complete and to the point. I had absolutely no problems with the transfer of data over and the ease in setting up new products is seamless, once the concept is explained. Their technical support team is wonderful and has always resolved any of my issues right away. I love the ease in use of the checkout. I have several seasonal employees and assuming they remember their passwords, can jump right back in where they left off, no retraining needed. My husband loves the incredible detail of the reports and the import into Quickbooks works just fine. eCom is a huge improvement over the old 'webstore' product. I set this up on my own also...just spending time in the product will take you far, then schedule your onboard training. That way you already have questions in mind and they can review what you have established. We have over 8000 sku's, LightSpeed handles it seamlessly. In the event of an minor outage, the IT team jumps to fix the issue promptly. I also added Cayan payment processing and their Genius terminal. No more double entry and payments are accurately reported. I love that this terminal communicates with the program without the use and expense of a payment bridge. They also reduce my monthly processing charges. I haven't once regretted coming onboard. LOVE IT!!!

Vorteile

Accurate reporting and a more thorough online presence.
Ease of transfer of data over and in setting up new products
Quick to respond technical support team
ADDED - Cayan integrated payment processing and their Genius terminal.

Nachteile

No offline availability. If internet is down, you can't do anything.
No automatic notice of duplicate customer names.
No automatic account creation of customer names with credit card payments.
Unable to add single item on multiple item sale to special order.

Sam
  • Branche: Baumaterial
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
4
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 2.8.2019

Best value & functionaility point of sale. Period.

Overall it's been wonderful. Certainly has made my slow business growth possible.

Vorteile

Absolutely the BEST thing about Lightspeed is the quick access to knowledgeable support. Also, Lightspeed meets the needs of my business's work flow. The interface is clean and easy to navigate.

Nachteile

That a default option is not available for adding a drop ship address to PO.

Christine
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 51–200 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
3
Funktionalität
3
Bedienkomfort
3
Kundenbetreuung
4

3
Bewertet am 12.9.2018

Some odd programming choices that make things harder than they should be.

I am truly afraid to see what kind of inventory count discrepancies we'll have at the end of the year based on the way the year started with the most random and enormous cluster of import issues.
The software, as a whole has some odd programming choices that I never would have thought to ask about before signing on -- because they're completely foreign to every other POS system I've used, like who would think to ask if they allow negative numbers?
They're cloud-based, which is great for accessing remotely but also allows them to be constantly updating which can cause issues. I wish that they would update at specific intervals and provide customers with update logs.

Vorteile

Their customer support generally tries to be helpful and you can almost always reach someone.
They maintain a suggestion board and try to address common issues there.

Nachteile

1. Doesn't do "negative on hand" but instead auto-adds to inventory (sometimes auto-receiving from PO's) which can make actual inventory tracking a complicated nightmare.
2. Non-intuitive search which is not inclusive of all fields.
3. Inability to track total changes before finalizing inventory counts.
4. Some serious randomness in auto-combining items during initial import. This caused us HOURS and HOURS of extra labor and things are still not entirely right months later.
5. Complete inability to search custom fields. As a bookstore, we need to be able to search by author - but author is a custom field, so completely unsearchable. We ended up having to make put all our author names in the "brand" field to make them searchable. It's almost useless if the author has numerous co-authors.

Linda
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 27.1.2021

Easy of use for a small Boutique owner

My overall experience is great. I've neve experience a crash. Customer support is wonderful in helping you figure out how to do something that you might need help with within their system.

Vorteile

The pros, for me, is that the system was easy to get to know from day one. Lightspeed has a lot of training video and customer support to help you understand how to use the system. Everything I need to run a business/Boutique is on their platform including integrated e-comm with real time inventory status. My bookkeeping and email marketing is also integrated with the system so it's all in one place. I do one of a kind purchasing so everything is manual input but even that is a breeze once you know what to do.

Nachteile

I wished Facebook and Instagram had a better working platform with Lightspeed. Also, some of the work on the e-comm side is repetitive.

Daniel
  • Branche: Essen & Trinken
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
1
Funktionalität
3
Bedienkomfort
2
Kundenbetreuung
1

3
Bewertet am 19.7.2022

Horrible

Our experience has been awful. From day one we had zero help setting up our Pos system. I’ve been waiting two months to get someone from their sales team on the phone to get new equipment. Do not use this company, it’s a nightmare. They are not good partners in helping your business grow.

Vorteile

I like NOTHING about this software. It’s clunky and functions like you’re using a dial up modem

Nachteile

There’s not enough allotted characters to explain the cons. Just don’t go with this company.

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hi Daniel,

We would like to sincerely apologize for your recent experience with Lightspeed. It is our utmost priority to provide products and services that allow our customers to focus on running their businesses with ease. We value all 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 via email at [email protected].

Thank you,

Lightspeed Commerce

Beantwortet am 22.7.2022
Karen
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
1
Funktionalität
1
Bedienkomfort
1
Kundenbetreuung
1

1
Bewertet am 12.12.2017

This POS is a POS

Benefits were stress, headaches, lost customers, lost money, ripped off, as screwed by liars.

Vorteile

Easy to use IF you can get past all the problems which are nearly daily. There really are not enough pros to make it worth listing. Get away from this POS and find a different one!

Nachteile

I've called dozens of times to get the star receipt printer fixed and usually it's an every week thing.
I had the ecom too but was not able to use it at all. You have to put every item in one at a time. I don't have time for that. They don't offer much help there.
Everytime they do an update I lose data that I have added. Inventory and customers.
Because this system is so dysfunctional I have also lost customers in my store. This company will cost you money and they DON'T TELL YOU UPFRONT THERE ARE NO REFUNDS ON THIS POS.
I managed to get a partial refund for ecom.
Salespeople are as bad as scammers. Lie, lie, lie. They said it will hook up with quick
Books but it won't. You put money on this program and you will wish you didn't.
The upper management even lies.
I have had so many service calls to fix things I have lost count.
This company should be shut down. I'm a small business that opened May 2017 I have no idea what my inventory count is because this system can't even do that.
With the amount of money, this cost me I'm tempted to take them to court. I Wold win.
These people are guilty of false advertisement.
Find your software someplace else and don't get scammed by these liars.

Kesha
  • Branche: Gastgewerbe
  • Unternehmensgröße: 51–200 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
0
Funktionalität
2
Bedienkomfort
2
Kundenbetreuung
0

2
Bewertet am 7.7.2022

No Thanks

Vorteile

You can schedule tee times on one side and then go into retail for the pro-shop so you don't have to jump systems

Nachteile

Slow, complex to program, not integrated with restaurant at all so you have to have separate log ins and it takes too long

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hi Kesha,

Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you were less than satisfied with 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. Someone will be reaching out to you once more to discuss your feedback.

Thank you for your time,

Lightspeed Commerce

Beantwortet am 13.7.2022
Terry
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
4
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 10.7.2017

The best POS we have had in our 91 years in business

Our experience with several POS systems over the years indicates that it is important to understand how a proposed POS system works and what the costs are and what the assurance is that the system will work for us. Time spent in learning how well the POS matches our processes is very important. Fortunately, we took the time to go over our needs in depth with Lightspeed sales and were able to be sure the solution fit our needs before purchase. We are very happy with our Lightspeed product and service.

Vorteile

We have used Lightspeed Retail for about 5 years and have integrated it with their Webstore ecommerch for 2 years before changing over to Lightspeed Ecom for the past 8 months. Getting POS and integrated ecommerce to work together takes more work than most people realize, so it is important to have technical support available that is willing and competent. We have found Lightspeed to be flexible enough to work with our preferences for POS and ecommerce. And, we have had excellent experience particularly with the Ecom help and also with Lightspeed POS help.

Nachteile

We have found very few problems with the POS and Ecom products. There is a small rounding issue so that occasionally PO's need to be adjusted by a few cents to match an invoice amount from a supplier. We have almost always been able to get the results we need by calling tech support and telling them what we are wanting to do and getting their suggestions about possible solutions.

Jeanee
  • Branche: Bekleidung & Mode
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 1-5 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
1
Funktionalität
1
Bedienkomfort
1
Kundenbetreuung
1

1
Bewertet am 13.12.2021

worst pos and customer service ever

the worst experience iv ever had!!!!
-- id rather clover, paypal, or shopify over this company anyday.

Vorteile

I like the fact that I thought it would be a great asset to my business and team.
but quickly realized it wasnt.

Nachteile

ITS TOO COMPLICATED, THE TIME FRAMES FOR ONLINE WEBINARS CONFLICT WITH MY SCHEDULE. THE customer service is by far the worst, they lie and lock you in a contract although you are not sure if it ideal for you business, they don't try to help resolve the issues, they avoid all calls and emails. charge for long distance calls from usa
[SENSITIVE CONTENT] is the worst!!!! im almost sure they are paid by commission so their goal is to sell not actually help you get the right product to help your business. iv lost 5k dealing with this shitty company.

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hi Jeanee,

We would like to apologize for your recent experience with Lightspeed. We see that you are currently working with a member of our Customer Success Team who are best suited to get you the assistance you need.

We value our customers' feedback, and would be grateful to have the opportunity to address your needs and concerns.

Thank you,

Lightspeed Commerce

Beantwortet am 30.12.2021
Ricardo
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
4

5
Bewertet am 31.5.2022

Lightspeed review

We really enjoy using Lightspped

Vorteile

All the capabilities it provides to manage your business daily life: inventory, quotes, receipts, layaway, reports and e-commerce

Nachteile

Marketing of the e-commerce help to market the different businesses

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  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
2
Funktionalität
2
Bedienkomfort
3
Kundenbetreuung
4

3
Bewertet am 4.12.2018

Aging Cloud Based POS

It is our transaction POS system.

Vorteile

We like that Lightspeed is cloud based. We also like that it integrates with lots of other applications (scheduling, ecomm, etc). Also Lightspeed is awesome at inventory management.

Nachteile

Reporting. Lightspeed Reporting is incomplete and very buggy. Yet it is over 4 years old.
As a company they are expending very little resources on making reporting work better.
Their answer is to try to sell you Lightspeed Analytics. An OEM version of Looker.
Yet Lightspeed Analytics appears to have not been updated in over a year.
It is also incomplete and buggy.
Lightspeed management team, you would never accept that quality from your CRM vendor (Salesforce?).
So why do you expect your customers to put up with incomplete and buggy reporting?

Becca
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
4

5
Bewertet am 23.11.2020

Awesome Online Point of Sale System!

We have been using Lightspeed for over 3 years. It has been a great system for our retail book and gift store. We did a lot of research on point of sale systems and it was (and still is) the best system we can find. Specifically, the software is easy to use, adaptable to most business models, and accessible anywhere. The inventory management feature continues to be superior. We are able to precisely track inventory at all times. The reporting menu is also extensive, which is super helpful. Aside from a few lengthy wait times on support (90% of the time the support is fantastic and our issue has been resolved), Lightspeed has been a great decision for us!

Vorteile

-Inventory Management Feature
-Reporting Features
-Ease of Use
-Adaptability

Nachteile

-on occasion there were long support wait times

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Square Point of Sale und Clover

Warum Lightspeed Retail gewählt wurde

We needed online software

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

It had the best inventory management system
Corey
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
4

5
Bewertet am 10.2.2023

Awesome price with great features

Vorteile

Sense of ease is amazing and all the additional features you didn't think you needed but definitely would want.

Nachteile

Only thing we have come across is the accuarcy for your mark up and margin percentage. If you change your default price, MSRP and online price as well as current inventory cost, the margin and mark up are not always accurate. Simple fix, would be to just manual calculate your mark up and margin percentage.

Brian
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
4
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

4
Bewertet am 15.2.2022

Great User friendly

Great easy to use manage and maintain. Works on almost any tablet phone or cpu.

Vorteile

Love its ease of use. Cloud based makes taking it on the road to do mobile events a breeze for payment processing and inventory management.

Nachteile

Could have used a little more help importing our inventory but after I figured it out it was easy to do.

Scott
  • Branche: Automotive
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 10.3.2022

Great Value POS

I've had no problems using Lightspeed over the past few years, and I look forward to many more years with Lightspeed.

Vorteile

This software was extremely easy to get the hang of. Its easy to train people on, and the options are endless with inventory control.

Nachteile

The receipts for large printer paper get cut off on large receipts, but its not a deal breaker by any means.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Square Point of Sale

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

Lightspeeds customer service sold me on their product. They were responsive, and quick to handle any questions that I had.
Anthony
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

4
Bewertet am 26.10.2021

Lightspeed POS for Cigar Lounge

Overall, very good experience. Love the cloud backup.

Vorteile

The level of reports is exceptional and the customer service people know the product very well!

Nachteile

You cannot run credit cards remotely. Some issues between Lightspeed and my payment processor has "jammed" the system resulting in inaccurate transaction reporting.

Barbara
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
4
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
4
Kundenbetreuung
4

5
Bewertet am 27.8.2018

Robust Information Effectively Presented

Lightspeed's customer support is excellent overall. At least half the time when we experience a problem, it's due to our lack of understanding rather than a shortfall of the product. Their responses are usually prompt and helpful. Also, in almost three years of using the product, we have had virtually zero downtime and have seen nary a hiccup through numerous system updates and the occasional hotfix.

Vorteile

Tons of valuable information for every product we sell. And in contrast to some other systems that try to pack everything on a single page, Lightspeed Retail allocates product information across a menu of pages so you can quickly navigate to the data you want (and ignore what you don't want). And much of the information is searchable in ways that help our business create purchase orders and determine which products to stock or discontinue.
We have been cautious in taking advantage of partnerships available through Lightspeed (i.e., their ecommerce platform and loyalty program), but our recent experience with both of those has been excellent.

Nachteile

Some aspects of ongoing database management are not transparent to the technically nonproficient user. We have 5500+ SKUs that are constantly in flux, and our list of vendors also changes regularly. Our efforts to clean up the clutter of stale information are not always successful. And some types of searches are not well supported (so far).

Eric
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 26.10.2021

We've been using Lightspeed Reatil and eCom

Lightspeed has been great, especially their customer service.

Vorteile

Customer services and ease of use. Their inventory is pretty strong.

Nachteile

We wish they had one on one customization.

Alfredo
  • Branche: Finanzdienstleistungen
  • Unternehmensgröße: 201–500 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
1
Funktionalität
2
Bedienkomfort
3
Kundenbetreuung
1

1
Bewertet am 19.10.2022

Just Not Worth It

The worst customer service. It's like they have no responsibility for when something isn't working as it's intended or as promised. We have the next tier up of customer service who still take over a day to respond to an emergent situation and the issue will end up having no resolution. Support will inform me that a function that should work, simply doesn't, and I have to use another roundabout method to get something done.

Vorteile

The ease of use for simple transactions is nice.

Nachteile

There are so many simple functions missing. It's a convoluted process for something like work orders. There is no real employee sales tracking.

Antwort von Lightspeed

Hi Alfredo,

We would like to sincerely apologize for your recent experience, and we are sorry to hear you were less than satisfied with the services received. We value our customers feedback, and would be grateful 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

Beantwortet am 26.10.2022
David
  • Branche: Einzelhandel
  • Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
4

5
Bewertet am 15.12.2021

Lightspeed Works For Me

I've been very satisfied overall. And it allows me to make more money.

Vorteile

I use lightspeed for my Point of Sale, Merchant Services, E-Commerce, & Website Hosting. It also works along with my Quickbooks accounting software. The biggest benefits for me are having one point of contact for all those services, 24/7 Support, that it is cloud based, and that I can access the system when I'm away from work to make customer quotes, check pricing, or help an employee on my day off. It allows me to make more money.

Nachteile

Setting up Lightspeed Accounting To Work With Quickbooks.

Mary
  • Branche: Immobilien
  • Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
  • Täglich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis
5
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
4

5
Bewertet am 18.12.2019

We LOVE Lightspeed POS Retail

More Accurate Inventory
Many Sales Report Options Available/Analytics
Ease of Doing Business
Customer Friendly

Vorteile

This software is designed for RETAIL, makes doing business in our Realtor Store simple. Ringing up customer is a breeze. Easy and fast to create a purchase order and receive products to inventory. This software is intuitive and simple to learn. We keep track of our inventory and sales reports, with accuracy.
Love the scanners and printed product label option.

Nachteile

The only negative is the long wait by phone, when we need to speak to support. Definitely worth the wait! All customer service people are polite. They always help us work through our issue with professionalism and follow-up email.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Square Point of Sale

Warum Lightspeed Retail gewählt wurde

RAMCO was not designed for RETAIL or On-line Store

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lightspeed Retail

Even thought it wasn't the least expensive, Lightspeed seemed to provide everything we needed to meet our needs. We also had a great sales person, who explained the software to us and helped us along the way. His name was [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN].
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1
Funktionalität
1
Bedienkomfort
1
Kundenbetreuung
1

1
Bewertet am 27.9.2017

Missing Core Component of a POS System

Vorteile

Continued evolution and new features being added. Customer service can be good if you hang up on the new people and keep calling until you get someone that is knowledgeable.

Nachteile

Missing a core element of a POS that they refuse to fix while they continue to add new features. They need to focus on the core. Any retail environment that orders products by the case for any reason will be fed up with this system. The case item when broken down into singles do not communicate with each other for re-ordering. So if you set a level of singles say at 6 you would like the system to trigger an order of 1 case, it will not work. Huge inventory and ordering issues because of this. D- rating with BBB and not even accredited.

Justin
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0
Funktionalität
5
Bedienkomfort
5
Kundenbetreuung
5

5
Bewertet am 1.4.2013

We made the switch to Lightspeed, from Quickbooks, in 2011 during a major expansion of our 1000 sq ft retail clothing store. It was the perfect choice to meet our quickly growing needs for a better organized and more functional way to track inventory, make sales and view reports -- in fact, we really regretted not switching earlier!

The easy to use POS screen made training our employees a breeze and ensures that sales data is captured completely and systematically for each transaction -- something we didn't have the ability to do when we were hand-typing each sales invoice in Quickbooks. Plus, the addition of integrated hardware (a barcode scanner, barcode label printer, cash drawer and receipt printer) accomplished even more than faster transaction time and more accurate inventory records -- it made our sales staff seem more professional and our customers feel more comfortable.

Inventory tracking is one of the biggest strengths of this software. You can determine how much information you want to enter about each product, depending on what data you want to collect - multiple suppliers and costs, UPC codes, margins, related products and packaging... It was revolutionary for us to be able to know exactly what we have in inventory instead of confusing spreadsheets full of inconsistently described merchandise. We love that we can see detailed information about which products we have on the floor versus what's in storage, that we can quickly compare expenses with profits, and that we can create reorders and customer - specific orders with a couple of clicks.

We also added the Lightspeed webstore when we switched to Lightspeed - and we're so happy that we did. We'd tried using several different platforms for an online shop, but kept running into the nagging issue of inventory maintenance since we were listing the same products online that were for sale in our brick-and-mortar shop. Lightspeed provides us with an integrated inventory for both stores, updating our database live, so that we never sell the same item twice. Products are easy to add to (or remove from) the webstore and web sales are easy to track. Plus we were able to do quite a bit of customization ourselves, adding both functionality and attractiveness to the existing template. We'd recommend that if you're going to use the Lightspeed web store, you work closely with a web developer who can help you get the most out of this great feature.

Lightspeed customer service has been impeccable. They're fast, kind and very knowledgeable. Plus they really seem to care that you and your business succeed, with the help of their software. We'd recommend that you purchase the Maintenance Plan so that you get instant access to their support gurus. Totally worth it.