LightSpeed Full List of Features

Point of Sale

1. •Scan Mode offers high-speed barcode scanner-driven invoicing
   

2. •NEW!
   Button Mode offers touchscreen-friendly category-based invoicing
   

3. •Search or Browse Customers and Products using Cover Flow
   

4. •Add new or existing Customers to a sale or enter info for a Walk In
   

5. •Colour-coded inventory statuses for Products
   

6. •Lookup inventory levels for a Product in another store
   

7. •Customisable payment methods for credit cards, cash, checks, and more
   

8. •NEW!
   Built-in Credit Card Processing*
   

1. iAxia, MerchantWARE, HPS, Authorize.net
   

9.             (* not available in Australia)
   

10. •NEW!
    Built-in Debit Card Processing*
    

1. iAxia, MerchantWARE, HPS
   

11.             (* not available in Australia)
    

12. •Activate or redeem gift cards
    

13. •NEW!
    Put multiple sales on hold and restore at any time
    

14. •Apply discount to individual or all line items
    

15. •Set tax code and primary/secondary salesperson on sale
    

16. •Plug and play hardware support for many barcode scanners, card swipes, cash drawers, receipt printers, label printers, pole displays
    

17. •Print sales as receipts or full page invoices
    

Browser and Tracker

1. •iTunes-like Browser interface lets you quickly and easily browse your business
   

2. •Browse live previews of products, customers and sales documents
   

3. •Park frequently-used items in the Parking area
   

4. •Drag and drop business elements to create new documents or add to existing documents
   

5. •Save dynamic Smart Finds
   

6. •Create Trackers that help keep you and your team coordinated with dynamic lists of every customer or document that requires action
   

7. •Search All feature searches every corner of your LightSpeed-managed business
   

8. •Browser Export feature gives you the ability to export anything you can find with the Browser
   

Sales and Retail

1. •Quotes that can be converted to Invoices or submitted to Purchasing as Orders
   

2. •Lightning-fast Product and Customer search while building sales documents
   

3. •Accept deposits on Quotes, SROs and Orders
   

4. •Sales documents print across multiple pages, with wrapping product descriptions, notes and full-color images of products
   

5. •Versatile Gift Card system that can use pre-printed gift certificates or gift cards with magnetic stripes or barcodes
   

1. iRecharge Gift Cards previously sold to a customer
   

6. •Print gift receipts, packing slips, box labels, mailing labels, product labels, claim checks and more
   

7. •Tight integration with the iSight camera, so images of products and customers can be quickly and easily captured in your database
   

8. •Product Size/Color Matrix for clothing and apparel-based businesses to generate child product records and adjust inventory levels in a convenient grid format
   

1. iBuild Purchase Orders, Invoices and other documents using the Product Size/Colour Matrix
   

9. •Jobs and Timesheets track employee hours and let you find out how much time your staff is spending on projects and tasks
   

1. iConvert Jobs to Invoices, summarising hours at your staff's billable rates and tasks performed
   

10. •Service Repair Order, or SRO, can book in products that need repair and document repair progress
    

1. iSRO can print claim checks and service labels and can perform Apple GSX Warranty Lookups and Parts Lookups when used in an Apple Reseller environment
   

11. Customers
    

12. •Customer window lets you track everything about a customer, storing multiple phone numbers, addresses, contacts and customer photos
    

13. •Set default language, currency, salesperson and tax code
    

14. •Set automatic pricing levels or discounts using customer categories
    

15. •Marketing activities like mass mailings and mailing label printing are facilitated by innovative categorisation tools like customer groups
    

16. •Powerful search tools like the Advanced Customer Find and Customer Browser
    

17. •Track all notes and calls with a customer and flag them for review so that they appear automatically in the Tracker as follow-ups
    

18. •View all of a customer's transactions and purchases in the History section
    

19. •Action menus let you schedule a customer in the iCal or Now Up-To-Date calendar, print mailing labels, send emails, map their address on Google Maps, initiate a Quote, Order or Invoice, or call on Skype or the WebFones PBX VoIP phone system, all with a single click

Inventory

1. •Print Labels
   

1. iPrints to a range of label sizes for products and customers, and can be printed to a label sheet or spooled on the Dymo LabelWriter (support for either format varies per label size)
   

2. •Label Designer
   

1. iGives you full control of the layout of your product labels, including the ability to add graphics and to arrange the information that appears for a look that's unique to your business
   

3. •Serial Number History
   

1. iTracks product serial numbers as they move through the system, from being received on a purchase order to being sold on an invoice, booked in on a Service Repair Order, or transferred to a virtual warehouse
   

4. •Set Reorder Points for your products so that when stock diminishes to the level you've set, you will be prompted to place another order using the one-click purchasing feature
   

5. •Count Inventory
   

1. iMinimises the pain of an inventory count by making efficient use of product labels and the barcode scanner, aggregating your quantities for you as you scan
   

2. iiCounts, which can represent areas of your store or virtual warehouses, and can be edited and amended prior to the inventory reconciliation step
   

6. •Virtual Warehouses allow you to have products that you want to show as unavailable for sale but are still part of your inventory
   

1. iTransfer stock from your sellable inventory to one of ten "stockpiles", ie. Demo equipment, desktop units, repairs
   

7. •Set Selling Prices and Set Product Info allow you to make batch changes of specific subsets of your products, including tax statuses, alternate pricing levels, and markups based on category or brand
   

8. •Live Rules allow you to set up rules that can be applied automatically to your products if they meet the particular set of criteria you've set
   

Multi-Store

1. •Multi-Store Lookups
   

1. iKeep tabs on the inventory levels of product at your other locations, providing you real-time access to detailed inventory availability and status information
   

2. •Multi-Store Transfers
   

1. iSend, track, and receive inventory transfers between your store locations with drag-and-drop ease using Transfer Out and Transfer In documents
   

3. Multi-Store Pro
   

4. •NEW!
   Available for an additional annual subscription fee, Multi-Store Pro helps level the retail playing field by offering independent retailers the same cross-store conveniences as big box retail operations
   

5. •NEW!
   Product Replication
   

1. iEnables a master store location to replicate data to child stores to ensure consistency of products, suppliers, families, classes, and other product attributes
   

6. •NEW!
   Cross-Store Gift Cards
   

1. iAllows redemption of gift cards anywhere in a retail chain
   

7. •NEW!
   Cross-Store Returns
   

1. iAllows customers to return product to any store without hassle or time spent researching the original sale
   

8. •NEW!
   Cross-Store Reporting
   

1. iProvides sales information for each store location to owners and managers, and inventory information to purchasers and controllers
   

9. Purchasing
   

10. •Drag and Drop Purchase Orders
    

1. iAllow creation purchase orders in seconds with drag and drop ease
   

11. •One-Click Purchasing Actions
    

1. iCategorise order requests according to supplier and converts them to purchase orders that list the breakdown of the order requests, including customer info, inventory statuses, ETAs, and costs
   

12. •Multiple Suppliers and Costs allows you to source your products from more than one supplier
    

Reporting

1. •Reporting features over 300 reports in over two dozen categories, including Sales, Payments, Inventory Valuation, Taxes, and Commissions
   

1. iReports can be filtered for specific, ground-level information, queried by date range, and exported to Excel or PDF format
   

2. iiPresets allow you to save your favourite reports for quick access
   

2. •iStats on your iPhone
   

1. iTracks sales, payments, returns, and invoice counts for the day, the week, the month or even the year, as well as which employees are clocked in at the store
   

3. •Tills feature makes managing cash drawers easy
   

1. iSave payment totals at the end of the day or at the end of a user's shift
   

2. iiEnter coin and bill denominations and reconcile sales stations separately, or as a batch
   

4. •Quantity Discounts help increase sales volume and encourage larger purchases
   

1. iSet up to 66 different prices per product, based on the quantities and pricing levels you choose
   

2. iiAllows up to six discount levels alongside up to ten pricing levels to create a discount matrix for any single product
   

5. •End of Day report is a detailed daily summary of the day's sales activities, including deposits, payments, and returns, broken down by sales station
   

1. iCompare your actual funds for deposit with the balances recorded, and any shortages or overages are clear and easy to understand
   

6. •Commission Reports allow you to quickly calculate commissions based on sell price or profit margin, and easily tallies an adjustable scale for discounted products
   

1. iSplit commissions are also a breeze, as invoices split between two users are broken out separately in reports
   

7. •Intelligence reporting features a cluster of predefined reports geared toward illustrating your best- and worst-performing customers, quotes, invoices, and products, as well as monthly revenues laid out in chart form

Accounting

1. •Accounts Receivable help you keep tabs on your customer accounts, tracking outstanding invoices as they age through 30-day intervals
   

1. iPrint statements, apply payments to particular invoices, and set opening balances when bringing in customers from previous systems
   

2. •Seamless Accounting Exports to QuickBooks 2009/2010 for Mac
   

1. iExport invoices, payments and bills as journal entries directly into QuickBooks® Accounting 2009/2010 for Mac, without having to manage export files or worry about duplicate imports
   

3. •Accounting Exports to QuickBooks Pro for Mac (USA), QuickBooks Pro for Windows (USA), MYOB (USA, Canada, Australia)
   

1. iExporting invoices, payments, and supplier invoices as journal entries to your accounting software, whether it's MYOB or QuickBooks (Mac or Windows), is a simple process of posting and exporting
   

2. iiExports of invoices and payments are GL summaries, while customer and invoice detail information continues to reside in LightSpeed
   

3. iiiSupplier invoices are exported as payables for completion in MYOB or QuickBooks
   

4. •Batch Printing allows you to print separate statements for all customers with outstanding balances
   

Web Store

1. •Customer Accounts
   

1. iLet your customers create and manage their own secure accounts, for a personalised experience that lets them easily track their purchase history and outstanding work orders, simplifying reorders, building loyalty and encouraging repeat buying
   

2. •Wish Lists
   

1. iEnable shoppers to create and share lists of favourite products as well as create gift registries for special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries or birthdays
   

3. •Online Quotes
   

1. iEnable shoppers to create and email 'Carts', orders that can be reviewed and purchased online. Store owners can also email LightSpeed quotes that can be fulfilled on the Web Store, facilitating purchases and saving time for both retailer and shopper
   

4. •Product Cross-Selling
   

1. iDisplay featured or related products appear alongside customer selections in eye-catching iTunes- style sliders, encouraging related purchases and extended browsing on your Web Store
   

5. •Process credit card payments securely in real-time with your choice of secure online payment option eWay & PayPal
   

6. •Live Shipping Calculators
   

1. iInstantly provide accurate order totals with integrated live shipping calculation for UPS, Fedex, USPS and InterShipper
   

7. •Search Engine Optimisation
   

1. iEnsures Google-optimised keyword meta-tagging that helps get your Web Store product pages indexed, and helps your online prospects find your store first
   

8. •Elegant, Customisable templates offer your customers a unique Mac-like shopping experience, with innovative features such as drag-and-drop purchasing and iTunes-style sliders built into a sleek, fully customisable design that enables you to build an impressive online identity
   

9. •Web Store Admin panel allows you to control all aspects of the online shopping experience from the Store's appearance to shipping rates and payment methods, and gives you the ability to view sales charts and store data
   

10. •Tight integration with LightSpeed means Web Store seamlessly syncs with your store database, making it easy to upload new products, complete with web categories and keywords, multiple images and related items
    

1. iDownload web orders and payments back into LightSpeed with the click of a button or on an automated schedule
   

11. •Clean, customisable HTML Order Confirmation emails provide you and your shoppers with instant confirmation of web orders, offering you an extra way of tracking your online sales and giving your customers immediate assurance that their orders have been received
    

12. •Specialised turn-key Web Store hosting from MacBusiness Solutions saves your business the headache of having to set up and maintain your own e- commerce site and online database servers
    

1. iSSL security protects the privacy of your shoppers' payment information, while automated updates mean your online storefront benefits from new Web Store features and fixes as they are released
   

13. Administration
    

14. •User Privileges
    

1. iAllow business owners to set access levels or require authorisation for over 160 different privileges
   

2. iiDetailed logging in the Privilege system allows business owners to see who committed transactions to the database and when
   

3. iiiView logs for individual documents and even see failed privilege authentications
   

15. •Import Tools offers powerful migration and import tools for Products, Customers, Customer Contacts and Suppliers
    

1. iExportable Import presets can be saved so that import files can be processed on a regular basis quickly and easily
   

2. iiImage Import makes it easy for you to add images to each of your products, customers and suppliers, making it even easier to browse your database visually
   

16. Technology
    

17. •NEW!
    Enterprise-Class LightSpeed Server
    

1. iPostgreSQL, the underlying database engine for LightSpeed Server, is a high-performance, widely-deployed database platform
   

2. iiLightSpeed Server was designed from the ground up to be a multi-user system and serve the needs of an entire sales team
   

3. iiiTargeted at groups of 1 to 25 users, but is architecturally capable of serving hundreds of users
   

18. •International Support
    

1. iExtensive support for tax-inclusive selling prices for European and Australian customers
   

2. iiCurrency formatting support
   

19. •Remote Access
    

1. iOptimised for remote access, transferring as little as data as possible to the remote LightSpeed client, maximising the performance experienced when remotely logging in and freeing you to work from almost anywhere