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 the 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.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.