Cloud-based POS Integrates Finance, Scheduling

Lightspeed, a cloud point-of-sale system has teamed up with financial software provider Intuit QuickBooks Online, and workforce management platform Planday to bring a full suite of services to businesses in the retail and restaurant space, empowering them to grow and thrive. Together, these three Apple Mobility Partners provide an integrated service offering that supports better business management, from planning finances and organizing work schedules, to simplifying merchant-to-customer transactions.

Restaurants and retailers who use this integration can benefit from a seamless user experience that will help them to save costs, reduce time spent on admin tasks and better engage their employees. In addition, with the latest integrations of Intuit QuickBooks Online and Planday, Lightspeed customers using iPhone and iPad will have access to:

·       Integrated solutions that provide a clear picture of the overall business, enabling owners to deliver an improved customer experience;

·       Onboarding for the integrated solution via collaboration between a cross-company team of customer service representatives;

·       Mobile POS connected to inventory, eCommerce and back-of-house to take a store anywhere or serve customers table-side

 

BENEFITS

1.     Manage and report on all inventory from one centralized location with Lightspeed

2.     Have all the sales information flow automatically from Lightspeed into the proper general ledger accounts in Intuit QuickBooks Online to understand the business at a single glance

3.     Schedule all employee shifts based on expected revenues and manage individual or group communication in one place with Planday

4.     All information around sales and employees’ time and attendance will roll up from Planday and Lightspeed into Intuit QuickBooks Online to run payroll

5.     With the three platforms speaking to each other, it makes the business more efficient and saves time by consolidating reports