Getting started
Lightspeed Restaurant POS overview
After setting up the backend, it's time to start making sales on the POS. This video will show how POS looks and how to make sales, add products, modifiers, make paymenta, and view product details.
Adding Modifiers
Modifiers are groups of items that are assigned to a product or category to add more details to an order, such as desired side dishes or preferred cooking temperature. Check this video to see how to add a modifier and how to link products and ...
Adding a Product
To sell the standard food and beverage products in Lightspeed, they need to be created first by the Resto manager. A few pieces of information about the product like name, price, modifiers, ingredients, image, etc can be added here. If you are not ...
Adding Product Categories
Before adding the products, we need to add the categories so products are organized. You can set a tax rate, course number, print template, and modifiers for each individual product but with category, you can set all these at once for all products ...
Adding Users and Customers
To access the POS or to manage the settings, user needs permission. This video will show how to add a user, user role and assign the role to a user. Lightspeed L series provides a bunch of permissions that you can select for a particular user.
Payment types and Receipt templates
There might be some specific payment types that a restauranter accepts. We will see in this video how to add a payment type. We will also see how to customize the receipt template. There are so many options to hide or show on the main receipt and ...
Setting Floor Plan
With Lightspeed Restaurant, you can set up the floor plan, and add tables, and a sitting area as per your actual layout. This helps in managing the orders in the restaurant POS. This will also help you with understanding the status of the tables. ...
Lightspeed Restaurant Settings
Settings related to Receipts, Time-zone, report type, notifications, etc., might sound small but are very crucial for Business. Small changes can have a big impact and that is the reason settings are the first thing to update for any account. Let's ...
Creating Lightspeed Restaurant account
Lightspeed Restaurant (L Series) is a cloud-based POS for restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels, and cafes. Check this video to see how the account can be set up to run the business smoothly.