How we build composable ecommerce experiences with Lightspeed.

Lightspeed is a cloud commerce platform for retail and hospitality that combines point of sale, inventory, payments, ecommerce and reporting. The company was founded in Montréal in 2005 and is listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges. It also runs NuORDER, a wholesale network where retailers order from brands.

It depends on where the business is weighted. Lightspeed suits retailers whose stores lead and whose inventory is complex. Shopify POS suits brands whose online store leads and who want their stores on the same platform. If you already run Shopify online, keeping retail on Shopify POS avoids a sync between two systems.

Yes. Lightspeed offers APIs and integrations with accounting, marketing and other business tools, and custom integrations fill the gaps. The useful question is which system owns stock, pricing and customer records, because every integration after that follows from the answer.

Not automatically. If stores bring in most of your revenue and Lightspeed runs them well, the better move is often to connect it properly to the rest of your stack. If online has become the larger channel and needs features Lightspeed does not offer, moving ecommerce, and sometimes retail, to another platform can make sense. A platform evaluation settles it with your numbers rather than opinions.

Make one system the source of truth for stock and have every channel read from it. With Lightspeed running the stores, that is often Lightspeed itself or the ERP behind it. Problems start when the store and the website each keep their own count and reconcile overnight.