Vend API
Lightspeed Retail X-Series (formerly Vend) publishes an open REST/JSON API: OAuth 2.0 for marketplace add-ons, personal tokens for single-retailer integrations. Coverage spans sales, inventory, customers, and loyalty, with webhooks on core objects. The only SDK is community-built PHP.
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Vend scores C on the API Report Card. Lightspeed Retail X-Series (formerly Vend) publishes an open REST/JSON API: OAuth 2.0 for marketplace add-ons, personal tokens for single-retailer integrations. Coverage spans sales, inventory, customers, and loyalty, with webhooks on core objects. The only SDK is community-built PHP.
Vend has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Vend is a cloud point-of-sale and retail management platform originally launched in New Zealand in 2010, acquired by Lightspeed Commerce in 2021 (USD 350M) and rebranded as Lightspeed Retail (X-Series). The vendhq.com domain now 301-redirects to lightspeedhq.com/vend/.
Specialty and general retail SMB-to-mid-market: apparel, footwear, jewelry, beauty, sporting goods, homewares, gift, bike, vape/CBD, liquor and wine, pet, books, electronics. A store associate rings up sales on an iPad-based Sell screen, scans barcodes, applies promotions/loyalty, takes payment through Lightspeed Payments or a third-party terminal, prints/emails a receipt.
High inside specialty retail. Lightspeed (parent) reports ~165,000+ customer locations across its product suite; Vend/X-Series alone was used by tens of thousands of retailers across 140+ countries at acquisition.
Parent: Lightspeed Commerce Inc. (TSX/NYSE: LSPD), Montreal HQ; acquired Vend June 2021 for USD 350M. Founded: 2010 (Auckland, New Zealand), founder Vaughan Rowsell. Product line: now branded Lightspeed Retail (X-Series); developer surface at x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com.
Vend launched 2010 in Auckland; Lightspeed acquired in 2021 and rebranded to Lightspeed Retail (X-Series) in 2022.
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.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Vend API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Vend data. See the Vend integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/vend-api.