Lightspeed API
Lightspeed documents public REST APIs for all four product lines: Retail X-Series and R-Series, Restaurant K-Series and O-Series. OAuth 2.0, webhooks, sandboxes, and a PHP SDK cover the retail side; the Restaurant K-Series portal is gated to approved partners via the Partner Program.
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Lightspeed scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. Lightspeed documents public REST APIs for all four product lines: Retail X-Series and R-Series, Restaurant K-Series and O-Series. OAuth 2.0, webhooks, sandboxes, and a PHP SDK cover the retail side; the Restaurant K-Series portal is gated to approved partners via the Partner Program.
Lightspeed has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Lightspeed Commerce is a Montreal-headquartered, publicly traded (NYSE: LSPD, TSX: LSPD) cloud commerce platform that combines point of sale, payments, inventory, ecommerce, supplier networks (NuORDER B2B), advanced reporting and AI tooling into a single back office for in-person businesses.
Vertical POS for in-person commerce. A retailer or restaurateur picks a Lightspeed product line (X-Series, R-Series, K-Series, O-Series, Golf) and signs up online or via a Lightspeed sales rep.
Very high in inventory-heavy SMB retail and growing in restaurants. As of Q3 FY2026 Lightspeed reported ~148,000 Customer Locations with ~2,600 net new locations added in the quarter and ~3,200 net new locations added in Q4 FY2026.
Parent: Lightspeed Commerce Inc. (NYSE: LSPD, TSX: LSPD); HQ Montreal, Canada; founded 2005 by Dax Dasilva; CEO Dax Dasilva (returned 2024); CFO Asha Bakshani. IPO: TSX March 2019, NYSE September 2020.
Lightspeed POS was founded in 2005 by Dax Dasilva in Montreal as a Mac/iPad-first retail POS. The company IPO'd on the TSX in March 2019 and dual-listed on NYSE in September 2020.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. As of August 2026 there is no official Lightspeed MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Lightspeed doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.