Lightspeed vs Shopify POS (2026): Pricing, Features, and Which One Fits Your Store

Choosing between Shopify POS and Lightspeed comes down to more than just features and pricing. Both platforms serve retail businesses, but they’re built around very different priorities.

In the sections below, we cover how each system compares on features, customer support, pros and cons, and pricing, and why KORONA POS may be a stronger fit for retailers who need more flexibility than either platform can offer.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: Side-by-Side Comparison

Lightspeed is the stronger in-store retail system and Shopify is the stronger multi-channel selling system. Everything else in this comparison follows from that split.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: Which Is Better for Your Type of Store?

The right answer depends on where your operational complexity sits. Find the store type closest to yours below.

One Store With Three or More Registers

Shopify is cheaper and simpler here. POS Pro covers unlimited registers at a single location for one flat fee of $89, while Lightspeed bills every register past the first at a reported $59 each. A three-register store saves roughly $100 per month on Shopify, and the gap grows with each lane you add.

One Store With a Real Online Business

Shopify wins clearly. Its online store builder, checkout, shipping tools, and app marketplace operate at a scale Lightspeed does not attempt. Lightspeed’s built-in storefront will display a catalog competently, but a retailer who treats ecommerce as a revenue channel rather than a brochure will outgrow it fast.

Two or Three Stores With One Register Each

Lightspeed is competitive in this configuration, and it is the only scenario where its pricing model looks better than Shopify’s. Per-location billing stays reasonable at one register per store, and the inventory tools are stronger. Watch one catch: serious ecommerce requires the Core tier at $179, which erases the cost advantage.

Specialty Retail With Variants, Repairs, or Supplier Catalogs

Lightspeed is the better fit, and the margin is wide. Matrix inventory, serial number tracking, work orders, and vendor catalog access through NuORDER have no direct Shopify equivalent. Apparel, bike, jewelry, sporting goods, and electronics retailers fall squarely in this group.

Vape, Tobacco, CBD, or Liquor Retail

Neither platform is a safe default. Shopify required merchants to remove all vape products by July 8, 2026, and both companies restrict which regulated categories their in-house processors will underwrite. Retailers in these verticals should confirm their category in writing before migrating anything, and should shortlist a processor-agnostic system alongside these two.

Restaurant, Cafe, or Bar

Lightspeed by default, because Shopify has no restaurant product. Lightspeed Restaurant handles table management, floor plans, menu building, and kitchen display integration. Hospitality operators comparing these two systems are not really comparing anything.

Pop-Ups, Markets, And Mobile Selling

Shopify is the stronger choice. Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android turns a phone into a full register with no card reader required, or the Verifone Victa Mobile handheld at $399 does the whole job on one device. Lightspeed has no comparable single-device handheld in its retail hardware store.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: What Each System Was Built For

Lightspeed was built as a retail point of sale and added ecommerce later. Shopify was built as an ecommerce platform and added a point of sale later. Both companies now sell both halves, but each one is still noticeably better at the half it started with.

The practical effect shows up in where each product puts its depth. Lightspeed’s back office is organized around the physical catalog: purchase orders, supplier records, product variants, serial numbers, and stock movements between locations. Shopify’s back office is organized around channels: an online store, social platforms, marketplaces, shipping, and the customer journey between them.

Neither origin is a flaw. It just means the comparison is rarely about which product is better. It is about which half of your business is more complicated.

What Shopify POS is Best For

• You already sell on Shopify and want in-store sales in the same back office
• You sell across social platforms, marketplaces, and a physical location
• You want eCommerce and POS integration without connectors or middleware
• Your catalog is straightforward and your channel mix is not
• You run multiple registers at one location

What Lightspeed Retail is Best For

• You carry a large catalog with variants, sizes, colors, or serial numbers
• You manage purchase orders and supplier relationships as a daily task
• You need advanced reporting and analytics on margin, sell-through, and turnover
• You handle repairs, special orders, layaways, or work orders
• You operate in retail or hospitality and want vertical-specific tooling

Retailers weighing a third option may also want to see how Lightspeed compares to Clover and how it holds up in a Lightspeed vs. Square evaluation.

Lightspeed vs Shopify Pricing: What You Will Actually Pay Per Month

Neither company’s headline price is the price you will pay for a working retail setup. Lightspeed’s plan fee covers exactly one register. Shopify’s plan fee covers ecommerce, and the point-of-sale features most stores need cost extra on top.

Getting this wrong is the most common error in comparisons of these two systems, and it usually understates Shopify by $89 per location per month.

Lightspeed Retail Pricing: Basic, Core, And Plus

Lightspeed Retail publishes three tiers, each covering one register at one location.

Annual billing saves up to 18% against monthly. Two details matter more than the tier prices themselves.

First, the published rates apply to Lightspeed Retail (X-Series). Lightspeed also sells an R-Series product, and pricing there can differ, so confirm which product a quote covers.

Second, there is no self-serve checkout. Every tier routes to a sales conversation, which means the published number is a starting point rather than a final invoice.

What each tier actually gates. Lightspeed’s pricing page lists Basic as including retail POS, inventory management, Lightspeed Wholesale, NuORDER catalog access, purchase order sync, and built-in ecommerce at a basic level. Some reviews describe ecommerce as unavailable on Basic, so confirm what your quote covers. Core adds full ecommerce, in-store and online loyalty, advanced sales and staff and inventory reports, accounting and marketing integrations, the mobile scanner app, and landed cost tracking. Plus adds forecasting, custom reporting, API access, workflow automation, custom user roles, single sign-on, and 24/7 phone support.

For a retailer comparing on inventory depth, the tier that matters is Core, not Basic. Landed costs and the mobile scanner both sit behind it.

Additional registers and locations. Every tier includes one register. Additional registers are widely reported at $59 per month, and a second location at $69, but Lightspeed does not publish either figure in its own documentation. Both come from third-party reviews, and reports disagree on whether further locations are billed at a discount or at full plan price. Multi-location pricing routes to a custom quote. Because these numbers drive the entire cost comparison, ask Lightspeed to confirm them in writing before you sign.

Lightspeed Restaurant is priced separately, starting at $69 per month. It is worth noting only because Shopify has no restaurant product, so hospitality operators comparing these two are not really comparing anything.

Shopify POS Pricing: The Plan Fee Plus The POS Pro Add-on

Shopify POS costs a plan fee plus a per-location add-on, and most published comparisons only count the first one.

Plus is available on a one-year or three-year term. The trial is three days free, followed by three months at $1 per month, and Lightspeed’s trial runs 14 days by comparison.

Plus merchants get POS Pro included for their first 20 retail locations, and Shopify waives the fee above 20 locations for merchants processing at least one retail transaction per month through Shopify Payments at a location.

The POS Pro split is the part to understand. Shopify no longer uses the name POS Lite. Every paid plan now includes what Shopify calls casual in-person selling, which means limited staff access to the POS, simple customer profiles, and returns only at the original purchase location.

POS Pro is the paid upgrade, and it unlocks the features a permanent store actually needs: unlimited POS logins, staff roles and permissions, rich customer profiles, customer loyalty insights, returns and exchanges at any location, inventory counts and purchase orders, professional retail reports, and omnichannel selling.

If you run a staffed store with fixed hours, you need POS Pro. Budget $89 per location per month, or $67 with annual billing. Shopify’s own plan cards show $67 on annual billing while the POS Pro explainer further down the same page states $89, so treat $89 as the standard rate.

Shopify also runs two programs worth factoring in. Merchants earn 1% back on sales as platform credit, capped at $5,000 on Basic, $7,500 on Grow, and $10,000 on Advanced. A promotion currently offers free hardware with a one-year POS Pro commitment, which Shopify values at $2,300. For a fuller breakdown of the tiers, see our guide to Shopify POS pricing.

Source: Shopify point-of-sale pricing page, August 2026. Shopify labels plan prices as starting rates and runs frequent introductory offers, so the number you see at checkout may differ.

Lightspeed vs Shopify Cost Comparison For Three Real Stores

Shopify wins on cost the moment you add a second register to a location. Lightspeed stays competitive when each location has exactly one. The crossover sits at two registers per location.

Here is how that plays out at monthly list prices.

One store, three registers

Shopify comes in about $103 per month cheaper, and the gap widens with every register you add, because Lightspeed charges for each one and Shopify does not.

Two stores, one register each, plus an online store

Lightspeed is cheaper here by roughly $39 per month, and it is the scenario where its pricing model looks best. Note the tradeoff: Lightspeed Basic gives you a basic storefront only, so a retailer who needs a serious online store has to move up to Core at $179 and lands back above Shopify.

Three stores, four registers each

Lightspeed prices multi-location setups by quote, and reports conflict on whether additional locations are billed at full plan price or at a discount. Both readings are shown below.

Shopify is cheaper on either reading, by roughly $180 to $400 per month, or $2,200 to $4,800 per year. A multi-location operator weighing either system should also look at what dedicated multi-location POS tooling costs elsewhere before committing.

Lightspeed vs Shopify Payment Processing Fees

Shopify’s card rates improve as you move up plan tiers. Lightspeed quotes a single flat rate regardless of tier.

Shopify Payments charges 2.6% + $0.10 in person on Basic, 2.5% + $0.10 on Grow, and 2.4% + $0.10 on Advanced. Online it charges 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, 2.7% + $0.30 on Grow, and 2.5% + $0.30 on Advanced. Plus merchants negotiate.

Lightspeed Payments charges a flat 2.6% + $0.10 for card-present transactions in the United States, including American Express. Card-not-present rates vary by account and region, and published figures range from 2.6% + $0.30 to 2.9% + $0.30, so confirm yours in writing. High-volume merchants can request custom rates, and Lightspeed sets that threshold case by case rather than publishing it.

There is a trap in Shopify’s structure that no comparison seems to name. A Basic-plan merchant pays Shopify’s worst card rate and its steepest third-party penalty at the same time. On $40,000 per month in card sales, moving from Basic to Grow costs $66 more in subscription and saves roughly $40 in processing, so the gap narrows fast, and at higher volume the more expensive plan becomes the cheaper option. Run the arithmetic on your own volume rather than defaulting to the entry tier. Our guide to POS credit card processing covers how these rate structures compare across systems.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: Inventory Management

Lightspeed is the better inventory system, and the gap is wide enough to decide the comparison on its own for catalog-heavy retailers.

Lightspeed handles matrix inventory, so a single product can carry size and color variants without becoming twelve separate items. It tracks serial numbers, manages purchase orders with supplier records attached, syncs purchase orders across locations, and gives you catalog access through NuORDER and Lightspeed Wholesale. Landed cost tracking on Core and above lets you see true unit cost after freight and duties, which changes your margin numbers on imported goods.

Shopify POS Pro covers inventory counts, purchase orders, low stock alerts, and stock transfers between locations. The tooling is competent, and Shopify added a Quick Count extension in 2026 that lets staff run cycle counts inside the POS app rather than in the admin. What it does not do is variant-matrix management at Lightspeed’s depth, supplier catalog integration, or landed costs.

The practical test is simple. Count how many products you carry with more than four variants, and count how many purchase orders you raise in a month. If both numbers are high, Lightspeed will save your staff hours a week. If both are low, you are paying for depth you will not use. Retailers who want the fuller picture can compare against dedicated retail inventory management tooling.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: eCommerce and Omnichannel Selling

Shopify is the better ecommerce platform, and the margin is not close.

Lightspeed’s built-in storefront is basic on the Basic tier and full on Core and Plus. It will display products, company information, and contact details competently. For a retailer who wants an online catalog rather than an online business, it is adequate, and it syncs cleanly with the POS.

Shopify is a different category of product. The drag-and-drop builder, checkout, shipping and fulfillment tooling, and the app marketplace exist at a scale Lightspeed does not attempt. Shopify’s 2026 releases pushed further in the same direction with Markets for retail and same-day delivery through Uber Direct.

Two details cut against the headline, though. Lightspeed includes a loyalty program natively from Core upward, tied to customer purchase history in the POS, while Shopify has no native loyalty program and needs a paid app. POS Pro includes customer loyalty insights, which is reporting rather than a rewards program.

The second detail is a caution about Lightspeed’s social selling. Hands-on reviewers report that Lightspeed Retail on its own does not sync sales to channels like Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, or Etsy. Those channels run through Lightspeed’s separate eCom product, so confirm which Lightspeed product a social-selling claim refers to before you count on it.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: POS Features and Ease of Use

Shopify POS is easier to learn and Lightspeed gives you more control. The difference starts with how each interface is built.

Lightspeed Retail runs in a browser and, in some versions, on iPad. Its screens carry more fields, more settings, and more steps through a sale. The payoff is granularity: detailed customer records, work orders, special orders, and configurable workflows. The cost is training time and more clicks per transaction.

Shopify POS is an app with a tile-based checkout screen. Staff can be trained in an afternoon. Tiles are customizable, but the workflow underneath them is not, so retailers with unusual processes will hit a ceiling.

Offline Mode: a 2026 Change Worth Knowing

Shopify POS now accepts card payments offline, which closed what used to be a real Lightspeed advantage. Merchants enable the feature in advance, assign staff the offline payment permission, and set a per-device daily limit and a per-transaction limit. Cash and custom payment methods work offline as well.

Anyone comparing these two on outage resilience using an article written before 2026 is working from stale information.

Staff Management And Permissions

Lightspeed puts custom user roles behind the Plus tier. Shopify puts staff roles and permissions behind POS Pro. Both charge for the same capability, so factor it into the tier you actually need rather than the tier you were quoted.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: POS Hardware and Costs

Both companies publish full hardware price lists in their own online stores, and the totals land close to each other. Lightspeed’s card reader and terminal cost more, while Shopify charges separately for a connectivity hub.

Both stores stock the same Zebra DS2208 scanner at the same $209, which is a useful reminder that most POS peripherals are the same third-party equipment sold through different storefronts. Shopify also builds configurable countertop kits that apply a bundle discount to the total, and it runs a hardware rental program for retailers who would rather not buy outright. Three points matter more than the line items.

Shopify’s own readers and terminals only work with Shopify Payments. If you bring your own processor, that hardware becomes unusable and you source an external terminal separately.

Shopify has an all-in-one handheld again. The POS Go was discontinued, and per Shopify’s documentation existing units keep working in mobile selling mode until May 26, 2027, after which they convert to countertop terminal mode. Its replacement is the Verifone Victa Mobile at $399, a handheld that runs the Shopify POS app, takes payments, and scans barcodes on a 6.7 inch screen with a 12 hour battery, then docks to work as a customer-facing countertop terminal. It does not print receipts, so a store that hands out paper still needs a printer. Shopify also introduced a wired POS Hub at $69 to replace Bluetooth pairing for scanners, printers, and readers.

Lightspeed has no equivalent single-device handheld in its retail store. Its closest option is the Smart Terminal V2 at $449, and Shopify’s POS Terminal at $349 is a payment terminal rather than a register, since Shopify’s own specification requires a paired tablet or phone running the POS app. Retailers weighing form factors can compare options in our overview of POS hardware.

Can You Sell Vape, Tobacco, CBD, or Liquor on Lightspeed vs Shopify?

You can no longer sell vape products on Shopify, following a platform-wide removal that took effect on July 8, 2026, and both platforms limit which categories their in-house payment processors will underwrite. For specialty retailers, this section matters more than any feature table above it.

Why Shopify Removed Every Vape Product in July 2026

Shopify banned the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems across its platform in the summer of 2026, and the policy is categorical rather than case-by-case.

The sequence, on the record:

• November 2025: A coalition of 25 state attorneys general, co-led by California and the City of New York, pressed Shopify to cut off merchants selling illegal tobacco products.
• June 2026: Reuters reported that Shopify was preparing to act after pressure from state and city law enforcement over illegal vape sales on its platform.
• June 24, 2026: Shopify sent merchant notices citing changes in legal restrictions on ENDS sales. The notice stated that Shopify “no longer supports the sale of these products” and instructed merchants to remove all e-cigarette products.
• July 8, 2026: Removal deadline. Merchants who missed it risked product suspension or store termination.
• July 10, 2026: Reuters confirmed the policy, and Shopify verified the notice was authentic.

Two points on scope. The policy applies to all vape products rather than only illegal ones, so FDA authorization does not exempt a listing. And CBD-only merchants are not covered by this action, though they remain subject to Shopify’s separate hemp and CBD rules.

Shopify confirmed the notice was authentic but did not comment further. A spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Reuters the decision applies globally. The coalition that drove the change included attorneys general from California, Illinois, and Arizona, along with authorities in New York City, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and it has pushed for similar changes at other companies, including Mastercard.

What Each Platform’s Payment Processor Will Underwrite

Platform policy and payment underwriting are two separate gates, and passing one does not mean passing the other.

Shopify Payments runs on Stripe infrastructure and inherits Stripe’s restricted business list, which covers CBD, vape, tobacco, firearms, and a range of other categories. A merchant can sometimes keep a Shopify storefront by connecting an approved third-party gateway, but that route does not survive a platform-level prohibition like the ENDS removal.

Lightspeed takes a more accommodating position on physical retail. It markets a CBD point of sale, lists vape and CBD stores among its retail verticals, and offers integrated processing for high-risk categories. The limits are real, though. Lightspeed Payments maintains prohibited business categories, requires an active liquor license for alcohol sales, and restricts card-not-present transactions for merchants selling tobacco products.

The honest summary for a specialty retailer: Lightspeed is workable for in-store sales in most of these categories and constrained online, while Shopify has closed the door on nicotine entirely.

Can You Use Your Own Payment Processor With Lightspeed or Shopify?

Technically yes on both, but the cost and the compromise differ enough to matter.

On Shopify, in-person processing is effectively tied to Shopify Payments. Shopify’s card readers and POS Terminal will not work with anyone else, so bringing your own processor means running an unintegrated external terminal and recording the sale as a custom payment method in the POS. Your reconciliation gets manual. On the online side, Shopify charges a third-party provider fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, or 0.6% on Advanced, applied on top of whatever your processor charges.

On Lightspeed, third-party processing is permitted, but merchants who do not use Lightspeed Payments pay a monthly third-party processing fee. Lightspeed confirms the fee exists in its own support documentation without publishing the amount. Independent reviews put it somewhere between $200 and $400 per month, which is a wide enough spread that you should get the figure in writing before signing.

Neither arrangement is processor freedom in any meaningful sense. On Shopify the platform decides what you may sell. On Lightspeed the processor relationship is priced to discourage leaving. Retailers who need genuine flexibility should read up on how third-party payment processors integrate with POS systems, and on what high-risk merchant accounts require.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: Customer Support and Onboarding

Lightspeed is better for guided help and Shopify is better for self-service, and your plan tier changes the answer on both.

Shopify Support

Shopify offers 24/7 access through live chat and email, with phone availability depending on your plan and region. Behind that sit a well-organized Help Center, active community forums, and a network of paid Shopify Experts. For a retailer comfortable searching documentation, the ecosystem is the largest in the category.

The weaknesses are consistent across verified reviews. Agent expertise varies for complex technical issues. No named account manager comes with entry or mid-tier plans. And escalation paths to senior technicians are not always transparent when something breaks mid-shift.

Lightspeed Support

Lightspeed includes onboarding on every retail tier and assigns specialists to new accounts, which makes a measurable difference for a store migrating from another system. Documentation is organized by vertical.

The tier gap is the catch. All three retail plans get 24/7 chat, but 24/7 phone support sits on Plus only, at $289 per month billed annually. A single-location retailer on Basic who cannot justify Plus is on chat for urgent payment errors. Response times also vary by region, with merchants outside North America and Western Europe reporting longer waits. Lightspeed’s independent merchant community is also smaller than Shopify’s, so you lean more on official channels when you need an answer fast.

Can You Use Lightspeed POS With Shopify eCommerce?

Yes. Shopify appears on Lightspeed Retail’s published integration list, so you can run Lightspeed in-store and Shopify online. It solves a real problem for retailers who need Lightspeed’s inventory depth and Shopify’s storefront at the same time.

Confirm what actually syncs before you commit. Ask specifically about product data, variants, inventory counts, customer profiles, orders, refunds, discounts, taxes, and returns. Partial sync on any one of those creates daily manual reconciliation, which is exactly the work the integration is supposed to eliminate.

Also price the arrangement honestly. Two platforms means two subscriptions, two support relationships, and two vendors who can each point at the other when data goes missing. For most single-location retailers, choosing one system well beats operating two.

Lightspeed vs Shopify: Which One Should You Choose?

Choose Lightspeed if your complexity lives in the catalog. Large product counts with variants, active purchase ordering and supplier management, serial numbers, repairs or work orders, margin analysis by category, or a restaurant operation. Budget for Core rather than Basic, because landed costs and the mobile scanner sit above the entry tier, and get the register and location fees confirmed in writing.

Choose Shopify if your complexity lives in your channels. Selling online and in person, social commerce, multiple registers per location, pop-ups, or fast growth toward more locations. Budget the plan fee plus $89 per location for POS Pro, and check whether a higher plan tier pays for itself through better card rates at your volume.

Choose neither if you sell nicotine, CBD, liquor, or other regulated products, or if you need to keep your own payment processor without penalty. Shopify has closed its platform to vape products entirely, and both companies price processor independence as a cost rather than offering it as a feature. Retailers in that position should look at Shopify POS alternatives and alternatives to Lightspeed POS before signing either contract.

A Processor-Agnostic Alternative to Lightspeed and Shopify: KORONA POS

KORONA POS is built for retailers who need Lightspeed’s inventory depth without Shopify’s platform restrictions or either company’s processor lock-in. It is a point-of-sale software company, not a payment processor, which is what makes the following possible.

Processor Freedom And High-Risk Category Support

You choose your own payment processor and negotiate your own rates. No penalty fee applies for using an outside processor, because KORONA POS does not sell processing. That also means specialty verticals are supported rather than tolerated: liquor stores, smoke and tobacco shops, CBD retailers, vape shops, and convenience stores.

Multi-Location And Franchise Management

Inventory, pricing, promotions, and employee permissions are managed from one dashboard and pushed to every location at once. Franchise operations get automated royalty calculations. Operators running several stores can see how the model works in practice in our guide to multi-store inventory management.

Inventory Depth at a Lower Tier

Automated reorder triggers at configurable par levels, vendor management, and product-level profitability tracking come standard rather than sitting behind a premium plan. For retailers who found Lightspeed’s landed costs and forecasting locked above the entry tier, the difference in where features sit matters as much as the headline price.

Reporting And Analytics

Pull margin analysis by product, category, or vendor, track employee performance, and view consolidated reports across all locations from one screen. ABC analysis and store ranking are available through the Plus module.

Self-Checkout Kiosks

Native self-checkout with RFID support lets customers scan and pay independently, which raises throughput without adding staff. See our overview of self-checkout systems for how the kiosks fit a retail floor.

Where KORONA POS Falls Short

• Steeper initial configuration. The inventory and reporting tools are powerful but take time to set up. Expect a few days in the back office before everything is tuned.
• No native ecommerce storefront. Online selling requires a third-party connector, so a retailer whose business is primarily online will be better served by Shopify.

KORONA POS Pricing

KORONA POS runs on three plan tiers, with optional module packages layered on top.

Flat monthly plans, no contracts, no hidden fees. All plans include 24/7 in-house support.

Customer Reviews

Who KORONA POS is Best For

• High-risk and specialty retailers: liquor stores, smoke and tobacco shops, CBD and vape shops, convenience stores
• Multi-location operators: franchises and growing chains that need central control without enterprise pricing
• Entertainment and leisure venues: water parks, amusement parks, recreation facilities

Lightspeed vs Shopify: Frequently Asked Questions

Is Lightspeed Better Than Shopify?

Lightspeed is better for brick-and-mortar retailers who need matrix inventory, purchase orders, work orders, serial number tracking, and multi-location stock control. Shopify is better for retailers selling online and in person who want stronger ecommerce, social commerce, and a simpler checkout interface.

Which is Cheaper, Lightspeed or Shopify?

Shopify is cheaper for most stores with more than one register per location, because POS Pro covers unlimited registers at $89 per location, or $67 on annual billing. Lightspeed is competitive when each location has exactly one register, since extra registers are reported to cost $59 per month each.

What is The Main Difference Between Lightspeed And Shopify?

Lightspeed was built as a retail point of sale and added ecommerce. Shopify was built as an ecommerce platform and added a point of sale. Each remains stronger at the half it started with, so the choice depends on whether your catalog or your sales channels are more complex.

Can Lightspeed Integrate With Shopify?

Yes, some Lightspeed Retail configurations connect to Shopify, letting retailers use Lightspeed in store and Shopify online. Confirm exactly what syncs first, including variants, inventory counts, refunds, discounts, taxes, and returns, and budget for two subscriptions and two support relationships.

Does Shopify POS Work With a Third-Party Payment Processor?

Not for integrated in-person payments. Shopify’s card readers and POS Terminal require Shopify Payments, so an outside processor means an unintegrated external terminal recorded as a custom payment method. Online, Shopify adds a third-party provider fee of 2%, 1%, or 0.6% depending on plan tier.

Can You Still Sell Vape Products on Shopify?

No. Shopify notified merchants on June 24, 2026 that it no longer supports the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems, and set a removal deadline of July 8. Reuters confirmed the policy on July 10. It applies to all vape products rather than only illegal ones, so FDA authorization does not exempt a listing. CBD-only merchants are not covered by this action.

Do You Need Shopify POS Pro?

Most staffed retail stores do. Without POS Pro you get limited staff POS access, simple customer profiles, and returns only at the original purchase location. POS Pro adds unlimited staff logins, roles and permissions, inventory counts and purchase orders, retail reports, and returns at any location.

How Many Registers Does a Lightspeed Plan Include?

One. Each Lightspeed Retail tier covers a single register at a single location. Additional registers and locations are billed separately, and Lightspeed does not publish those amounts in its own documentation. Third-party reviews report $59 per additional register, but request written confirmation during your sales conversation.