Edge Virtual 2026 Product Showcase: What’s New at Lightspeed

Running an independent retail business has never been about doing just one job. In a single day, you’re an inventory strategist, stockroom manager, digital marketer, salesperson and data analyst. That also means having to make dozens of decisions per day.

At Lightspeed Edge Virtual 2026, we walked through a day in the life of a modern retailer–from buying products and receiving stock to marketing, making sales, managing cash flow and planning for the next day. On top of that, we showed retailers how our connected commerce platform can help eliminate friction, automate manual tasks and give them time back to grow their business.

The showcase brought together Lightspeed’s latest product features and innovations across six essential retail moments: ordering, stocking, marketing, selling, funding and reporting. In case you missed it, you can watch the replay or read a recap below:

1. Ordering: start the day by buying smarter

Every retail journey begins with a fundamental question: What should I order? Historically, for independent retailers, wholesale buying meant jumping across B2B portals, sifting through static PDFs or typing product lines manually into spreadsheet purchase orders.

Just entering purchase order data used to eat up hours every week. We’re changing that by building wholesale workflows directly into your POS. Here’s a quick overview of Lightspeed’s features and tools that simplify wholesale ordering:

• Lightspeed AI Chat and replenishment insights: Start your morning by asking Lightspeed AI simple questions like “What are my weekend sell-through highlights and stockout risks?” to instantly surface actionable inventory targets.
• Min/Max Stock Levels and Bulk Edits: Set exact minimum and maximum stock thresholds and apply these rules in bulk across your entire catalog to prevent stockouts and over-ordering automatically.
• NuORDER Integration: Reorder products directly inside Lightspeed, discover new brands through AI-driven recommendations and automatically sync POs and product details to your POS.
• Faire Integration: Access over 100,000 independent brands across different categories and import images, UPCs and MSRPs straight into draft POs.
• Lightspeed Agentic AI: Soon, Lightspeed AI won’t just identify what to buy–it will automatically draft the purchase orders for you, leaving you with a simple click to approve.

Retailers leveraging these tools are already seeing significant time savings. For example, Squash Blossom Boutique managed to cut PO data entry time by 80% using Lightspeed.

Beyond time savings, having more intelligent ordering workflows translates into a stronger bottom line. In fact, retailers that use Lightspeed Insights generate more than $4,000 in additional monthly profit on average.

2. Stock management: open your store with confidence

Once an order arrives, the next priority is getting inventory from the back room to the sales floor as soon as possible. Our own research shows that 20.8% of shoppers will leave a store and buy from a competitor if they can’t find what they’re looking for on the shelf.

Delays in the stockroom directly cost you revenue. Fortunately, Lightspeed lets you move inventory from delivery to the sales floor faster and more accurately, so your team can spend less time on admin and more time selling.

Here’s a quick recap of Lightspeed’s stock management tools and what’s coming next:

• AI Doc Import: Turn paper packing slips or invoices into prefilled purchase orders in seconds with the Lightspeed Scanner app.
• Distributed Landed Costs: Automatically allocate freight, shipping and duty charges across items (either proportionally by cost or via custom per-item values) to capture true COGS and exact profit margins.
• Barcode printing: Generate and print barcodes straight from the verified PO so inventory moves from backroom boxes to the sales floor in minutes.
• Multi-Currency POs (coming soon): Buy from international vendors in their native currency while your POS calculates real-time local costs and locks in exact landed valuations.
• Agentic AI (coming soon): In the near future, AI will recommend and draft inventory transfers between your store locations to help you prevent stockouts.

3. Marketing: drive discovery and sales everywhere

Modern window shopping happens through browser windows as often as glass ones. A customer might discover your product on social media, research it on your website and visit your physical store to make the purchase.

The showcase explored how we help retailers build a more connected path from discovery to purchase. Below is a closer look at the Lightspeed’s marketing and loyalty tools that make it happen:

• AI Showroom: Launch a digital presence in minutes using your existing product catalog to drive foot traffic into your physical store.
• Lightspeed eCom: Convert your AI Showroom into a fully-functional ecommerce store whenever you’re ready to sell online by simply telling AI what you want.
• AI Blogging: Create, edit and publish blog posts directly inside Lightspeed to boost search rankings and attract organic traffic.
• Klaviyo integration: Automatically sync customer purchase histories from the POS to trigger personalized email and SMS automation sequences.
• Meta Conversion API: Measure exact store sales driven by Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns to optimize your return on ad spend (ROAS).
• Connected Loyalty and Omni Customer Accounts: Give shoppers a single, convenient view of their purchase history and loyalty balance across both online and in-store channels.

Retailers see higher revenue when using these tools. For example, Paris Cartier has achieved 20% month-over-month sales growth since its digital transformation with Lightspeed.

4. Selling: never miss a sale on your retail floor

During peak trading hours, every extra tap, delay or long line creates friction for customers, putting your sales at risk. According to research, 51% of shoppers cite long lines and slow service as their top retail frustrations.

Lightspeed equips your store team with all the tools they need to keep your floor moving, eliminate long lines, deliver more personalized service and ensure no sale slips through the cracks. Here’s a quick look at Lightspeed’s selling tools our experts showcased:

• Lightspeed Scanner app: Check prices and inventory on the spot, cross-sell more items with product recommendations and grow basket sizes right on the retail floor.
• Quick Keys and Customer-Facing Display: Speed up high-volume checkout while keeping shoppers informed about items, discounts and totals.
• Integrated Lightspeed Payments: Reduce manual entry and support mobile checkout, card on file and secure pay-by-link requests.
• Special Orders, Ship from Store and ShipStation: Keep selling when an item isn’t on the shelf and make fulfillment easier.
• Offline Mode: Continue scanning items and accepting payments during outages, with transactions reconciling once the connection returns.

5. Funding: keep cash moving faster

Making the sale is only part of the equation. Retailers also need to access their revenue, reconcile transactions and invest in what comes next. Lightspeed’s embedded financial tools bring POS, payments, reporting and funding into one connected platform, giving you total control over your cash flow.

Here’s what’s possible with Lightspeed’s cash flow management and funding tools:

• Automated reconciliation: Sync sales and payment data automatically to eliminate manual errors and speed up daily closeouts.
• Faster payouts: Get quicker access to your revenue with instant payouts and same-day deposits, with no hidden fees or confusing monthly statements.
• More payment flexibility for customers: Keep every sale moving with secure online Payment Requests, Card on File support and Offline Mode.
• Simplified business funding: Apply for Lightspeed Capital from the back office, get funds in as little as two business days and enjoy flexible remittances that adjust with your daily sales.

6. Reporting: end the day with clarity

At the end of the day, retailers need more than a total sales number. They need to know what sold, what was profitable, what needs to be reordered and what the team should do next.

At the same time, wrapping up your store’s day shouldn’t mean spending your evening buried in raw spreadsheets. Lightspeed helps retailers transform hours of late-night bookkeeping into a simple five-minute recap with tools like:

• Pre-built reports: See total COGS and exact profit margins across every item sold using pre-built reports and Distributed Landed Costs.
• Automated stakeholder updates: Send end-of-day reports automatically to managers and owners so everyone starts tomorrow on the same page.
• Instant answers with Lightspeed AI: Ask natural-language questions about your daily performance to instantly identify top profit categories and flag inventory replenishment risks.

Instead of manually digging through data, Lightspeed gives you the total clarity and peace of mind you need to lock up early, get home sooner and start the next day with greater confidence.

From connected retail to the era of agentic AI

Lightspeed Edge Virtual 2026 showed what becomes possible when every part of your retail business is connected. You can use data to make smarter buying decisions, bring inventory to the floor faster, build visibility across digital and physical channels, serve customers wherever they are, keep payments moving and turn end-of-day reporting into a clear plan for tomorrow.

That’s the power of Lightspeed’s truly unified commerce platform built around the way retailers actually work.

Plus, we took a sneak peek at what comes next with agentic AI. As we move from AI that informs to AI that acts, Lightspeed AI won’t just provide insights about your business performance. Soon, it will be able to draft purchase orders and suggest inter-store inventory transfers, helping you move from insight to action more quickly–while keeping you in total control.

Watch the replay of the Lightspeed Edge Virtual 2026 product showcase to see it all in action.

Not on Lightspeed yet? Talk to an expert to understand how we can help you optimize your retail operations–from opening your store in the morning to locking up at night.