Lightspeed Point of Sale Rebrands, Adds Restaurant Platform

In recent (October 2014) LightSpeed Retail news:

Lightspeed just unveiled a new logo, a new product, and new branding. http://www.lightspeedpos.com/blog/2014/10/welcome-to-the-new-lightspeed/

The "private cloud" or Mac OS X platform point of sale is now Lightspeed OnSite, formerly known as Lightspeed Pro retail, formerly just Lightspeed Retail point of sale.

The public cloud offering, formerly Lightspeed Cloud (from the Merchant OS acquisition) is now Lightspeed Retail.

They also released a new version of Lightspeed Pro (now OnSite), which is great. Congrats.

Next Steps

Glad to see Lightspeed continue to pursue growth and release new versions of their core platform(s). We hope that Lightspeed will do the following things:

• Open-source the magento connector so we can fix some bugs and upgrade the Magento dependency for security and performance reasons.
• Keep improving LightSpeed OnSite.
• Ramp up growth by supporting a sales channel of integrators which can deliver on the core Lightspeed value proposition: Integrating online commerce with best-in-class brick and mortar shopping.

Fact is, getting stores to deploy a point of sale system with integrated web store is still a daunting task. A strong sales channel of systems integrators could help store owners get the system implemented. A solid open-source community around integrations is a tremendous way to leverage R&D investment and expand your footprint. We are available to help.