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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

I like the simple fact that you get a live person when you call for help, and your issue is usually resolved on the initial phone call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

I wish there were more "free" features in the templates, but it works for me as it is now. This product could be better if the onboarding training was more tailored to nonprogramming folks like me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Selling my wares online is a new solution for me. This pandemic has put a wrench in live sales of my jewelry, and being able to distribute them online is awesome! I don't know if my business performance has increased, as I'm so new, but it has to help!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lightspeed eCom Overview

What is Lightspeed eCom?

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SEOshop eCommerce is an ecommerce platform especially designed for entrepreneurs. SEOshop provides small, growing businesses with an eCommerce platform that is completely SEO optimized. SEOshop supports over 50 payment methods such as iDeal, all major credit cards and bitcoin. Regular, free updates eliminate expensive maintenance contracts whilst phone, email and chat support is provided by eCommerce specialists. The eCommerce platform offers secure and reliable hosting with 24x7x365 monitoring (ISO 27001). SEOshop offer their own content delivery network (CDN) with high quality hosting. Users also benefit from fast servers and 256 bit SSL standard security.


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Year Founded
2005
HQ Location
Montreal
Twitter
@LightspeedHQ
18,953 Twitter followers
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2,979 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Lightspeed is a cloud-based commerce platform designed for retailers and restaurateurs. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for point-of-sale (POS), inventory management, eCommerce, and analytics, enabling businesses to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales. With a focus on user-friendly interfaces and powerful integrations, Lightspeed supports businesses of various sizes in optimizing their retail and restaurant management processes. For more information, visit their website at [lightspeedhq.com](https://www.lightspeedhq.com/).

Recent Lightspeed eCom Reviews

Ragul H.
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Ragul H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Integration and built at its best"
The no code phenomenon, interactive built
Sudhanshu P.
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Sudhanshu P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Lightspeed Delivers an exceptional user experience while building websites."
It's no-coding environment for developing hard features and cost effective solution helped me a lot in my ecom journey. So the best i can say is...
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2.5 out of 5
"Good ecommerce platform"
It's user friendly platform that makes it self serve without dependency
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Lightspeed eCom Pros and Cons

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Sudhanshu P.
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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

It's no-coding environment for developing hard features and cost effective solution helped me a lot in my ecom journey.

So the best i can say is it's a complete solution for a non-techy marketer, Digital Entrepreneur, Ecom Sellers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

The features are top notch and the usability to develop functional and beautiful websites is also good, but i hope we can integrate to more third-party platforms and payments solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightspeed eCom makes running an online store easy. It combines everything you need—inventory, sales, and customer info—in one place. You can sell on multiple platforms, customize your store's look, and get helpful insights. It's perfect for anyone looking to grow their online business smoothly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ragul H.
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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

The no code phenomenon, interactive built Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

Latency issues and response for quiery raised Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Marketplace seller integration, it helps to link and built websites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stéphane R.
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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

Large inventory of products and feature, clean interface, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

Service is way too long to obtain, not many feature on e com, expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Online sale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

One-stop shop if you want to have a multi-channel store including e-commerce and Retail POS. You don't have to be really technical to work with this platform as it makes it easy for you to set up your e-commerce rather quickly in comparison to some of its competitors. The platform has a good category management system, and its integration with its own retail POS works very well. It is a good platform for small e-commerce businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

Unfortunately, Lightspeed eCommerce will become a headache for someone who wants to have solid commercial-level e-commerce with major paid advertisement hooks and search engines. It's SEO capabilities are subpar. If you are selling internationally and have a multi-lingual site, the platform has major pitfalls that will prevent your shop to rank high on Google and you will not know whether or not your paid ads on social media are performing because Lightspeed lacks to ability to provide this information to Facebook Business manager properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Lightspeed eCom platform integrates well with our Retail POS and allows us to manage our inventory across different channels without any problems. Having a solid multi-channel support (eCom + Retail) was one of the reasons we selected this eCom platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trey V.
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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

The best thing is the ability to customize everything to your store's needs. Everything can be made the way you want. Also, having an online gift card that goes to our POS is fantastic! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

It is more work to do all the photos and descriptions yourself. It is very time consuming to get started, but it is just the upkeep of new products and photos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

We did not have an online shop before Lightspeed eCom. Now our customers have the ability to see what products we have in stock, so that they can either come in store or shop online from home. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammad A.
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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

Extremely excited with Lightspeed. Good reporting, great features, good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

issues i had were solved. So not come across or know off any cons Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a small furnoture business, the reporting and inventory systems have greatly helped us work systematically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

It's user friendly platform that makes it self serve without dependency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

It does not allow upload of CSV or excel to update product inventory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have taken the business online through Lightspeed and getting to experience the maximum customer reach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cameron  D.
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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

Fairly seem less integration with LightspeedPOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

A lot of manual work to update product descriptions etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

eCom integrated easily with the LightspeedPOS. It allowed us to setup a large product catalogue, with fairly reliable server capabilities. Lightspeed eCom was much faster and easier to use than WooCommerce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simone B.
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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

I really like that I am able to customize our website and integrate third party apps & APIs easily. And the customer service, the customer service is top notch! Through migration and implementation, the Lightspeed team was right there. At a moment's notice, I can chat with the team or give them a call. Although I may be a one-woman tech team, I have help! It's such a blessing to have a support team for our business. It has been easy to integrate all of our business critical resources and provide a more unified experience for our employees. Employees can access customer data, order data, shipping data, marketing data and product data in one platform. I've been able to customize our store template to our specific business needs and design requirements. It's been a developer's dream. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

My main dislike is that I don't have FTP access to my files on LS servers. This would be extremely helpful to optimize our images as needed.

I also would like to upload customer data myself. At this time, to upload customer data in bulk, I have to send the data to Lightspeed for import.

More options for discounts and coupons would be helpful - BOGO, Buy 2 Get One, or FREE Shipping codes based on domestic addresses only (not international). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lightspeed eCom:

Do your research! Most third-party applications or business software can be integrated via Lightspeed apps or APIs. If you have questions, ask! There is a customer support forum and extensive help documentation available. You will also find that there are many developers that can help with integration of your third-party or business critical applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I currently use both Lightspeed eCom & Retail (Omni-channel). This helps our retail store and online store stay synced and makes life easier for employees. Now, all POS sales and eCom sales are in one platform that is easy to use for our employees. If a customer purchases an item in our retail store, ecommerce inventory stays updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lightspeed eCom?

The only thing I appreciate about LS ecom is the somewhat easy navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightspeed eCom?

Lightspeed goes public and doesn't have gift cards. Except you can get gift cards with some terrible work around that goes to another website for payment(only $600 and $20/mo.). Paywall after paywall. You want a sign up form on your site? Paywall subscription app. Lightspeed has built an amateur skeleton platform where if you want anything basic you have to sign up for a subscription service. This structure makes it so they sell you on the 60/mo. you spend months getting everything going(digging your own grave) then you'll have to spend 5-10 times just to get the most basic features. The joke is on you if you choose to use lightspeed ecom, ever. Disgusting and manipulative tactics to gain profit while pushing a sub par product. Worst company ever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lightspeed eCom:

Don't do it. Its just not capable of handling any serious business's need to grow. Every time you want to add features for your customers/users its either impossible or its behind yet another paywall subscription. I can say that this platform has cost me financially and negatively affected my career. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightspeed eCom solving and how is that benefiting you?

LS Ecom does not have:

Gift Cards - without using some shady workaround that takes customer to another url for payment($600 setup and $20/mo. subscription)

Forms - without $20/ mo. subscription service

Affiliate marketing - without $79/mo service

Email marketing - without $40/mo. service

Loyalty program - without $80/mo. service

and on and on and on.

Unable to modify sitemap for the simplest of SEO.

SEO is terrible. I'm an SEO professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.