Integration

Lightspeed Integration Services Australia for Multi-Venue Hospitality and Retail

Custom Lightspeed integration and Lightspeed POS integration for Australian hospitality and retail. Per-venue P&L, tips, fees, inventory and Lightspeed to Xero integration, all automated.

Perth-based. Australia-wide. Fixed-price quotes.

  • AU-wide Perth-based · servicing Australia
  • 18+ yrs Building software
  • Lightspeed Lightspeed api specialists
  • Fixed Price scopes, no surprises
Connected Stack

We plug Lightspeed into the tools your hospitality or retail group already runs

The systems Lightspeed operators most often ask us to sync with — accounting, rostering, inventory and reporting. Click any platform to see its dedicated integration page.

How it runs

Your lightspeed integration services Australia project, end to end

Three stages. No surprises. Every custom Lightspeed integration is delivered personally by the founder, from scoping call through to production cutover. Live POS sales and stock stay untouched until cutover.

  1. Week 0

    Lightspeed Integration Audit

    15-minute scoping call. We map your Lightspeed setup, the systems you need it connected to, and the specific workflow gaps slowing your team down. Fixed-price quote inside 48 hours.

  2. Weeks 1–N

    Build & Parallel-Run

    Integration built in a sandbox and parallel-run against your live Lightspeed data for two weeks. Every record mapping, field translation and event trigger validated before production. No risk to live data.

  3. Cutover

    Go-Live & Handover

    Production cutover on a planned window — typically a weekend. Team training, monitoring active, 30 days post-launch support. Documentation and source code handed over in full.

Founder profile

Kasun Wijayamanna

Founder · Perth, WA · Started HELLO PEOPLE in 2008

18+ Years running HELLO PEOPLE

Founded in 2008. Two decades of technology-driven business transformation across Australia.

100+ Projects delivered

Startups to government agencies across mining, healthcare, legal, education and more.

HDR Researcher · Curtin University

Postgraduate research in Artificial Intelligence and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

MBA Oil & Gas

Deep technical expertise combined with strong business and financial acumen.

Perth Based in WA

Serving businesses across Western Australia and nationally.

AU+TH International experience

Professional background in Bangkok, Thailand before migrating to Perth.

PHF Paul Harris Fellow · Rotary

Former President of Rotary Club of Booragoon. Over a decade of community service.

Read the full bio — research, career, community involvement and how HELLO PEOPLE runs projects.

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What We Build

Lightspeed integration services Australia, by workflow

Lightspeed POS integration for accounting, inventory, labour and reporting. Every Lightspeed retail integration services build we ship is automated and multi-venue ready. Pick a tab to see how yours would take shape.

POS sales to accounting

Lightspeed Restaurant and Lightspeed Retail transactions flow to Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks. Product categories mapped to revenue accounts. GST handled automatically.

Payment types separated — card, cash, split payments, vouchers, Afterpay. Tips allocated. Processing fees tracked. Discounts and voids recorded.

Multi-venue financial tracking

Each Lightspeed location tracked separately in accounting. Per-venue P&L statements generated automatically. Revenue, COGS and expenses attributed to the correct venue.

New venues added to the integration without disrupting existing sites. Comparative reporting across all locations.

Inventory and purchasing

Lightspeed inventory connected to accounting and supplier systems. Sales reduce stock. Receiving stock increases it and creates bills. Low-stock alerts trigger purchase orders.

Multi-location stock transfers tracked. COGS calculated per product category. Stock valuation aligned with accounting.

Labour cost integration

Lightspeed sales data combined with Deputy, Tanda or Workforce rosters. Revenue per labour hour calculated per venue. Labour cost percentage tracked daily.

Rostering decisions informed by actual sales data. Peak period staffing optimised based on historical patterns.

Cross-system dashboards

Lightspeed sales, accounting data, inventory levels and labour costs in Power BI. Product mix analysis. Revenue trends by venue. Supplier cost tracking.

The numbers hospitality operators and retail managers need to make decisions — updated daily.

Lightspeed POS sales data syncing with Xero accounting
Multi-venue restaurant group with financial tracking per site
Inventory management connected between Lightspeed and accounting
Labour cost analysis combining POS sales data with rostering
Business intelligence dashboard combining Lightspeed and financial data
Capabilities catalogue

Lightspeed integration services we deliver

Every capability below has been delivered for a real Australian hospitality or retail business — from a single-venue restaurant pushing Lightspeed L-Series into Xero, through to multi-venue groups with full per-venue P&L, labour analytics and supplier purchasing automation. If your scenario is not listed, ask — we build bespoke.

Lightspeed Retail ↔ accounting

  • Lightspeed Retail to Xero daily summaries and per-sale posting
  • Lightspeed Retail to MYOB sales, payments and reconciliation
  • Lightspeed Retail to QuickBooks Online integration
  • Multi-store revenue tracked separately per tracking category
  • Payment-type split: card, cash, tap, vouchers, Afterpay, Zip
  • GST treatment by product category and store
  • End-of-day Z-read totals reconciled to bank deposits
  • Returns, refunds and store credit handled with audit trail

Lightspeed Restaurant workflows

  • Lightspeed Restaurant (L-Series) to Xero per-venue posting
  • Per-revenue-centre P&L (food, beverage, gaming, accommodation)
  • Tip pool and gratuity allocation handled against ATO rules
  • Modifier-level reporting on dish cost and menu performance
  • Voids, comps and staff meals tracked separately
  • Tab and table management data exposed for reporting
  • Online ordering and delivery-platform reconciliation
  • Gift-card sale vs. redemption tracked as liability vs. revenue

Lightspeed ↔ inventory & purchasing

  • Lightspeed to Cin7 stock and purchasing sync
  • Lightspeed to Unleashed inventory and order flow
  • Lightspeed to DEAR Systems (Cin7 Core) integration
  • Supplier purchase-order workflow tied to low-stock thresholds
  • Goods-received-against-PO matching with bill creation in accounting
  • COGS and stock-valuation alignment between Lightspeed and accounting
  • Stock transfers between venues with accounting impact
  • Stocktake and cycle-count reconciliation

Lightspeed ↔ eCommerce (Shopify, WooCommerce)

  • Lightspeed Retail ↔ Shopify stock and order sync
  • Lightspeed ↔ WooCommerce integration for retail online stores
  • Lightspeed ↔ BigCommerce inventory and order flow
  • Click-and-collect order routing between online and in-store
  • Unified loyalty / gift-card balances across channels
  • Catalogue mastered in Lightspeed and published to web
  • Returns reconciled across in-store and online channels
  • Channel-specific pricing and promotion management

Lightspeed multi-store reporting

  • Power BI dashboards across all Lightspeed venues
  • Deputy rostering ↔ Lightspeed sales for revenue-per-labour-hour
  • Employment Hero payroll ↔ Lightspeed sales analysis
  • Per-venue P&L, food-cost % and beverage-cost % dashboards
  • Menu engineering and item-mix reporting
  • Peak-hour and day-part analysis for rostering decisions
  • Loyalty program performance across stores
  • Bespoke hospitality / retail BI on top of Lightspeed data

Lightspeed migrations

  • Vend (Lightspeed X-Series) migration to Lightspeed R-Series
  • Kounta, Impos and Bepoz migrations to Lightspeed
  • Square ↔ Lightspeed parallel migration with data preservation
  • Lightspeed catalogue and customer-data cleanup pre-migration
  • Historical sales-data import for reporting continuity
  • Lightspeed R-Series to L-Series migration for hospitality pivot
  • Lightspeed ↔ Shopify POS migration projects
  • Lightspeed ↔ legacy / in-house system custom integration
Pricing

How we price lightspeed integration services australia

No hourly billing, no vague estimates. Here is how custom Lightspeed integration and Lightspeed POS integration builds are scoped, from a free 15-minute call to a fixed-price proposal. Per scope, not per venue.

Free discovery call

Tell us your Lightspeed setup. Restaurant or Retail, number of venues, accounting system, and what is hurting. We scope it properly.

Fixed-price build

No hourly billing. Clear scope with build, testing and go-live included. Multi-venue? We price per scope complexity, not per location.

Phase it

Sales sync first. Then inventory. Then labour cost dashboards. Each phase works on its own and delivers value on its own.

Why HELLO PEOPLE

Lightspeed integrations
HELLO PEOPLE vs the alternatives

Zapier, n8n and enterprise iPaaS all connect Lightspeed, in their own way. Here's how we compare on the things that actually matter to a multi-venue hospitality operator.

Concern HELLO PEOPLE Zapier / Maken8n / Self-hostedMuleSoft / Boomi
Setup for the Lightspeed API We handle OAuth + R/L-Series scopes Basic Zap app, standard events onlyYou build the Lightspeed nodesWeeks of enterprise onboarding
Lightspeed sale + stock + accounting flow Sales, stock, purchase orders handled Basic sale triggers onlyPowerful, you build each stepPowerful, priced accordingly
AU GST + retail fit AU-native, GST + multi-location done Generic, misses AU quirksGeneric, you code the rulesGeneric, needs configuration
Ongoing cost One-off + optional support plan Per-operation, foreverSelf-hosted infra + upkeepEnterprise licence
When Lightspeed updates the API We patch, no extra charge Wait for Zapier to updateYou update the flow yourselfSupport-ticket queue
Direct access to the builder Email Kasun, get Kasun Chat support tierCommunity forumEnterprise support tier
Sale, stock and customer data ownership You own it, nothing sits with us Vendor holds middlewareYou own it (self-hosted)Vendor holds middleware
Multi-channel eCommerce stock and order synchronisation across web, POS and warehouse
Case Study

Multi-channel stock + order sync for an Australian retailer

A retailer running an online store, two physical sites and a warehouse system had stockouts, oversells and write-offs caused by mismatched counts. We built a two-way sync between the eCommerce platform, POS and back-office so SKUs, reorder points and order status stay aligned everywhere.

Read the full case study
98% Stock accuracy across channels
60% Drop in oversell incidents
12hrs Saved per week on reconciliation
Real-time Order + inventory flow

Four restaurants across Melbourne, all on Lightspeed, and our bookkeeper was losing half her week reconciling with Xero. HELLO PEOPLE built a proper Lightspeed-to-Xero integration with per-venue P&L, tips separated and processing fees tracked cleanly. We can finally see which venue is actually making money.

Operations Manager Multi-venue restaurant group · Melbourne
How It Works

How our lightspeed integration services australia actually run

Every Lightspeed integration company promises a smooth build. Here is the six-step structure we actually use. Discovery, data mapping, build, testing and go-live, then ongoing support once you are live. Venue by venue if needed.

Discovery & Lightspeed Audit

We review your entire Lightspeed setup: R-Series or L-Series, number of locations, product categories, payment types, modifiers, and every system that needs connecting.

Data Mapping

Revenue categories to account codes. Payment types to bank accounts. Locations to tracking categories. Tips, fees and surcharges to the correct accounts.

Build

Integration built on the Lightspeed API with OAuth 2.0 authentication and webhook-based event processing. Multi-location routing handled natively.

Testing

Full testing across all venues and transaction types. Split payments, voids, staff meals, tips, gift cards, partial refunds. Every edge case validated.

Go-Live

Launch with monitoring. Each venue validated independently. Historical data backfilled if needed.

Ongoing Support

New venues, menu changes, Lightspeed updates. We keep integrations running as your business grows and evolves.

FAQs

Common questions about Lightspeed integration

What do lightspeed integration services australia actually cover?

Lightspeed POS integration across Restaurant (L-Series) and Retail (R-Series). We push sales, payments, tips, fees, refunds and inventory movements into Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks, then layer on multi-venue P&L, rostering data and BI dashboards on top. Every workflow is built on the official Lightspeed API.

How much do custom lightspeed integration builds cost?

Pricing depends on the systems involved, the volume of data and the exception cases. You get a fixed-price quote after a 15-minute scoping call. No hourly billing, no surprises, and multi-venue is priced per scope complexity, not per location.

Do you handle lightspeed to xero integration end to end?

Yes. Each Lightspeed location maps to a tracking category in Xero. Sales, payment splits, tips, processing fees, refunds and gift-card liabilities all flow across daily. Per-venue P&L, revenue comparison and expense tracking are standard inclusions for multi-site setups.

How long does a lightspeed retail integration services build take?

A single-venue integration takes 3 to 5 weeks. Multi-venue setups with inventory and labour cost dashboards typically take 6 to 10 weeks. Larger hospitality groups with more than 10 venues run in phases so each site goes live cleanly.

Can you split out tips, surcharges and processing fees cleanly?

Yes. Tips, processing fees, card surcharges and cash rounding are each tracked in separate accounts. Staff tip liabilities sit in their own account for ATO compliance, and split-payment transactions are decomposed correctly.

We use Lightspeed with Deputy for rostering. Can you connect them?

Yes. Lightspeed sales combined with Deputy shift data gives you revenue per labour hour per venue. Peak-hour analysis, day-part breakdowns and labour cost percentage dashboards are the most requested reports for hospitality groups.

Does the integration handle gift cards, vouchers and loyalty?

Yes. Gift card sales are recorded as liabilities. Redemptions are recorded as revenue. Outstanding gift card balances sit as a liability in your accounts, and loyalty balances stay consistent across venues.

Do you work as a lightspeed integration company for national retail chains?

Yes. We build Lightspeed Retail POS integration for national chains, including per-store P&L, catalogue governance, click-and-collect routing and channel-specific pricing. Rollouts happen store-by-store with the head office reporting live from day one.

Tell us about your Lightspeed setup

How many venues, what version of Lightspeed (Restaurant L-Series or Retail R-Series), and what accounting system you run. Tell us what is slowing your team down and we will come back with a clear next step and realistic cost.

Prefer a quick chat? Call 0425 531 127. We answer the phone in Perth.