About Lightspeed POS
From setup to your first sale and beyond the Lightspeed Kounta POS team is here to help get you up and running with the Point of Sale. Not that you'll need much help: its easy-to-navigate interface and intuitive functionality will have you setting up and selling products in no time. Customise your POS screen in any way you want so that Lightspeed Kounta POS adapts to the way you do business, rather than the other way around.
But don't stop there: add any number of free, built-in add-ons that extend Lightspeed Kounta POS's use beyond a full-featured POS. Track inventory and get low stock alerts, automate PO generation, create customer accounts, get detailed reporting and insights on what your customers, and when. It's a new level of business intelligence for the small shop. Third party add-ons take you even further, with loyalty apps, employee rostering, and online ordering.
Whether you have one store or ten or 100, you manage it all right from the secure back office, accessible through the web or a mobile. And the system is platform independent: it doesn't matter if you're running old POS terminals, Mac or Windows, tablets, or smartphones. Designed with hospitality in mind, Lightspeed Kounta POS has many features—like item variants and modifiers for inventory, easy discounting, or product components—work just as well with retail.
Pricing starting from:
US$60,00/month
- Free Trial
- Free
- Subscription
Key benefits of Lightspeed POS
- Bank Level Security
Banks invest in physical infrastructure, 128 bit encryption, and the personnel required to keep it all running and secure, because your money is important to them. We take the same precautions with your data, because our customers are important to us.
- Works On and Offline
Lightspeed Kounta POS has native ability to work offline mitigates the risks of computing in the cloud. Don't worry about your connection: if it goes, down, Lightspeed Kounta POS saves everything and syncs it when the outage is over
- Lightspeed Kounta POS plays well with others
The Lightspeed Kounta platform is built on Open APIs that we share with partners who want to develop their own apps to work with ours. Things like accounting, online ordering, marketing, loyalty/rewards programs are all valuable to a retail business, and Lightspeed Kounta POS connects with the best of them.
- Really…Real Time!
Stay connected with your business no matter where you are. Login to your Dashboard and get up to the minute stats and data on how each location is doing.
- Centralised Point of Sale
Manage all your sites from one interface containing one master database, and then roll out tweaks on more individual bases.
- No more patches
Since we run the server, and manage the software, we take care of all the software updates and hardware upgrades. You just use the software. That means you get instant access to new features, as soon as they’re ready
- Invisible IT that just works
With Kounta, you'll spend far less time and money each month on managing your IT. You'll probably spend no time. We're running everything behind the scenes, so downtime just isn't a concern.
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Pricing starting from:
US$60,00/month
- Free Trial
- Free
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Lightspeed POS: 8
- Customer Database
- Customizable Categories
- Customizable Reporting
- Customizable Templates
- Electronic Payments
- POS
- Real Time Reporting
- Third Party Integration
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Write a Review!- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great Product
Reviewed on 2018/01/13
Pros
Being a Hospitality professional for 20 years I have dealt with numerous POS systems. Kounta is relatively straight forward and has the functionality and flexibility to run your business with ease.
The support offered by Kounta day and night has been at an exceptional standard. The understanding and support during setup, implementation and to now has been a suprise in this all to modern world. This holistic approach will keep Kounta ahead of the pack for quite some time.
Cons
Some of the language with respect to Hospitality is not not necessarily how we refer to how things are done in my experience however it is only a minor issue.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Highly adaptable and intuitive POS
Reviewed on 2017/03/22
Kounta as a POS system has been able to grow with us, providing flexibility and ease of use that is...
Kounta as a POS system has been able to grow with us, providing flexibility and ease of use that is a massive relief when you have the pressures of an expanding business to contend with.
The ability to simply add or subtract registers, combined with the functionality of a internet based system makes change relatively pain free. Wireless waiter stations, Albert pay terminals, Bluetooth printers (which I don't have but am excited about and will probably get), its all so easy to use.
Why pay thousands of dollars in cabling, installation costs and labour in setting up your system? Good question - i'm not sure! Just research what you want - call Kounta, put it in and download the software... add your products, tailor it the way you want, and go for it!
Pros
Ease of alteration and basic use for staff
Cons
The back end of product input is a little cumbersome - a simply category/sub-category/sub-sub category system works best. Sometimes this is represented by Department/category/sub-category either way, it is far more flexible for product input, button organisation and more granular for reporting.
- Industry: Restaurants
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Horrendous POS System.
Reviewed on 2017/06/28
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!! MOVE ON TO THE NEXT!
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!! MOVE ON TO THE NEXT!
Pros
Nothing to say here. There is nothing good about this system except for the promptness of my customer service, who usually has bad news. But as I now understand my customer service rep doesn't ACTUALLY work for Kounta, she works for the company that sold it to me. I wish they would have sold me one of their other POS options.
Cons
Server level order control is an upgrade, they don't tell you that when purchasing, even though that is one of the most basic things. Check splitting is the most laborious I have ever experienced, if you have a table that needs multiple splits get them a refill of their coffee because it will take a while. No over all system close out, no way to re-open a check. In lieu of that simple option they have a refund button, but, guess what if you had multiple pay types IE Cash and CC that doesn't work, can only refund whole amount to one pay type, which then screws up the server report(one of the biggest reasons to have a POS system) Integrated credit card system has worst customer service ever. If you need to get someone after 9 good luck. Randomly loses checks! Have no idea how that happens but if you are on a check and the system reloads(which it does a lot) bye bye order!
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Not worthed as the expensive price
Reviewed on 2020/02/28
I know amount that i calculate manual in every type of payment are balance or not because kounta...
I know amount that i calculate manual in every type of payment are balance or not because kounta showing it amount minus or over, so we can double check before we accept to close cashier or shift.
Pros
Display of the pos is look modern and kounta can create recipen and inventory and back office. Pso system complet with back office.
Cons
Actually they have good features in back office for reporting. But not as good as inventory system by itself. First, POS system not completly all transaction is automaticly show in the report when want to do closing cashier (shift), like we need to do manual calculated some other transaction except cash like card and gofood payment as i used to. Because you have to submit all your type of payment on closing time then you will get report that will show your manual calculted are balance or not, split bill need to do by amount not by item, mostly apps that i was using were by item. Second, we need to buy with additional charge to get more features that we can see more details report (like insight and purchase) and that is expensive. If you dont buy, you will not get clear report as you need for analyzing restaurant performance. Third, menu item that you sell and item only you use for recipe are the same product list. Fourth, service charge and tax calculations are confusing to get the right amount. Every report that you want to dowbload as csv as not that correct way as csv.
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great system
Reviewed on 2018/09/28
Pros
Great easy system to use. Easy to change payment methods and products and downloading and updating on excel also possible. Just starting to sync with Xero so that’s good too. Customer support really has improved massively since we started using it 2 years ago. I would recommend as a good all rounder.
Cons
Reporting in close detail has been a tricky one but with Kounta insights it seems to be improving although I think it’s still work in progress.
Lightspeed POS FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Lightspeed POS.Q. What type of pricing plans does Lightspeed POS offer?
Lightspeed POS offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$60,00/month
- Pricing model: Free, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Including setup assistance and training by our team of hospitality experts, as well as 24/7 maintenance and support. Starting from $60 per month billed monthly, which means any business can afford and scale up with Lightspeed Kounta POS.
Q. What are the main features of Lightspeed POS?
Lightspeed POS offers the following features:
- Add On Integrations
- Build Intimate Customer Relationships
- Free Knowledge Base Support
- On-The-Go – Accessible
- Online Support Centre
- Open APIs
- Powerful Reports and Statistics
- Purchase Order Management
- Simple Product Creation & Maintenance
- Stock (Inventory) Control
- Supports Unlimited Sites & Registers
Q. Who are the typical users of Lightspeed POS?
Lightspeed POS has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Lightspeed POS support?
Lightspeed POS supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Lightspeed POS support mobile devices?
Lightspeed POS supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Lightspeed POS integrate with?
Lightspeed POS integrates with the following applications:
9 Spokes, Collect Loyalty, Deputy, Ento, MYOB Essentials, Preno, QuickBooks Online, ResBookPro, Saasu, Tanda
Q. What level of support does Lightspeed POS offer?
Lightspeed POS offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials, FAQs
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