What's New in Lightspeed Retail
At Lightspeed, we innovate and deliver new product updates and fixes for our customers all year round. Check out what’s new in Lightspeed Retail POS (R-Series).
Surcharging with Lightspeed Payments.
You may choose to offset your credit card processing fees by transferring a portion of the cost to your customer through a credit card surcharge.
Note: You are responsible for ensuring that you follow surcharging rules and regulations and are responsible for any non-compliance. It’s recommended to seek independent counsel before enabling surcharging.
eCom (E-Series) updates.
More ways to display products in your online store
In the site editor (Page: Product > Product details), you can now:
-Display product page information in a compact view by collapsing blocks such as product description, estimated delivery time, reviews and wholesale prices.
-Change the order of additional product information that appears on the Product details page.
You can also now add the Products section to any page of your eCom site and specify what products to show to your site visitors (Page: Homepage > Featured Products > Products to show dropdown).
New Instant Site theme: Forme
Forme is a new Instant Site theme designed specifically for apparel stores, featuring wider sections, a focus on imagery and a product grid with narrow spacing and vertical product photos to better showcase clothing and accessories.
eCom (C-Series) updates.
Edits to custom field sets apply to included products
You can create custom fields to offer customization choices for products, like text engraving or delivery times, and group them into sets. Now, edits made to custom field sets automatically apply changes to products within the set.
Edits made at the product-level will not apply to other products in the same set.
Enable the CBE Waste Recycling Fee
The California Covered Battery-Embedded (CBE) Waste Recycling Fee requires merchants to charge a specific fee to customers based in California when selling certain products with embedded batteries. If you have shipping to the US configured in your settings, you can enable the CBE fee in your eCom (C-Series) back office.
Note: You are responsible for ensuring that you understand and follow applicable regulations and are responsible for any non-compliance.
Load scheduler for Lightspeed Accounting.
Lightspeed Accounting Super Users can now efficiently find and fix gaps in Retail POS with the bulk POS load scheduler. The tool allows you to re-run Retail POS loads in bulk across multiple stores and dates.
Lightspeed Analytics AI summarization helper.
A new AI-powered Analytics Smart view summary provides insights into store performance. The summary will suggest possible contributing factors and recommend high-level next steps, helping you make faster data-driven decisions.
The AI Summary is based on data included in your dashboard and can’t account for factors outside of your sales data. AI-generated responses can contain errors. Your use of Lightspeed AI is subject to Lightspeed’s AI Terms.
