Lightspeed Retail POS (X-Series) can help your business
Sell products and/or services
- Receive payments
Manage operations
- Manage workflow
- Manage inventory
Reporting
- Internal reporting (not for compliance purposes)
Help and advice for business
- Business insights
Overview
Connect Lightspeed with Xero and let us take care of your accounting!
Lightspeed Retail POS & Payments seamlessly connects your point of sale to your Xero accounting software, saving you time and money.
Lightspeed Retail POS & Payments is a cloud-based commerce platform that powers retail businesses worldwide. With its scalable, reliable point of sale system and eCom platform, you can sell across channels, streamline operations, engage with your customers, accept payments and grow your business. The award-winning support team is available 24/7 to help you whenever you need it.

Lightspeed Retail POS (X-Series) + Xero
Lightspeed Retail POS and Xero sync so easily with each other you’ll never have to think about accounting.
Automate painful admin tasks and eliminate human error with daily sales and payment totals, cash movements, stock orders, cost-of-goods and contacts flowing easily between the two systems.
Lightspeed supercharges your Xero reports with visibility into how your business is truly performing, including your real-time profit and loss. Spend less time wrestling with spreadsheets and admin, and more time with your customers.
With Lightspeed Retail and Xero together you can see more, know more and do more:
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End of day register closures: Automatically sync daily sales totals, payment type totals and invoices to Xero, ready for bank reconciliation.
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Cash management: Cash payments, petty cash withdrawals and opening and closing float balances from Lightspeed also automatically sync to Xero.
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Cost-of-goods-sold (COGS): COGS automatically sync to Xero and are recognized as they are sold.
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Account sales: Each time you make an account sale, an accounts receivable invoice will automatically post to Lightspeed using customizable payment due dates.
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Bulk account payments: Pay off multiple account sales or layaways against a single customer in a single transaction in both Lightspeed and Xero.
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Stock orders: Send supplier inventory orders from Lightspeed to Xero as accounts payable invoices. Keep track of and reconcile any outstanding purchases.
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Integrated retail: Invoice your customers from either Lightspeed or Xero. Receive payments and manage balances on either platform.
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Account mapping: Use product level account codes to assign the sales and purchases of products to specific accounts in Xero.
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Manage contacts: Import Xero customers and suppliers into Lightspeed. Update your customer information in Lightspeed and it will automatically sync to Xero.
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Track liabilities: Loyalty and gift card transactions post to Xero with register closures for easy management of liability.
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Tracking Categories: Report on transactions by outlet or channel by mapping Lightspeed to Xero Tracking Categories.
Getting started
- Make sure you have a Lightspeed Retail POS (X-Series) store and a Xero account (you can integrate trial accounts too).
- In Lightspeed Retail, go to Setup then Add-Ons, and enable Xero.
- Then, select which Xero accounts you’d like to send Lightspeed data to.
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