Lightspeed

General Information

Website: lightspeed.fr
Software type: Solution as a Software (Saas)
Geography: 🇫🇷 France

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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.

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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

/closures/{date} Live

/locations Live

/orders/{order_id} Live

/payment-methods Live

/orders Live

/sales Live

/products Live

/product-categories Live

/payments Live

/accounting-categories Live

/orders/{order_id} On request

/customers On request

/customers On request

/customers/{customer_id} On request

/objectives On request