Lightspeed

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Introduction

Lightspeed is a cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) and e-commerce platform for retail businesses. It provides a range of features to manage sales, inventory, customers, and employees. The platform integrates with a variety of payment processors and also provides robust reporting and analytics tools. Deliver the Lightspeed integration your customers want in no time.

⚠️ To be able to use the Lightspeed connector through Chift, explicit approval of Lightspeed is needed.

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Configure LightSpeed

Prerequisite(s)

• ️ obtain Lightspeed’s approval to set up the connector via Chift
• ️ obtain a dedicated Client ID & Client Secret, with Oauth2 application
• Activate the LightSpeed integration on the Chift platform.

Process

1. You will need to request through the support team of Lightspeed to obtain a client id and client secret. Note that it’s important that you use the following redirect url: https://chift.app/oauth2/redirect
2. Keep a copy of the client id and the client secret to encode them in your Chift account, when configuring the connector.

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Test LightSpeed

To test the software integration, you must ask lightspeed for a sandbox account.

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Connect LightSpeed

To activate a connexion with LightSpeed, users will have to go through the following steps.

• French article: Help Center - LightSpeed FR
• English article: Help Center - LightSpeed EN

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Limitations & Exceptions

• You can only retrieve closed orders

  Requesting open orders will return an empty list

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Lightspeed (POS) coverage