---
name: Lightspeed
domain: lightspeedhq.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: online payment acceptance
descGrounded: 0.47
---

# Lightspeed

A POS and commerce platform that lets retail, restaurant, and golf businesses sell in person and online, manage inventory, process payments, and integrate wholesale ordering through a single connected system.

**Route:** surfaced by the online payment acceptance lane's de-branded queries → competitor to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same payment-acceptance and commerce-management capability to the same businesses (retail, restaurant, golf) that would shortlist Stripe for online and in-person payments, recurring billing, and embedded financial services.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Sell in person and online from one connected platform that simplifies your entire business.

> Accept payments anywhere, get paid faster and save hours on reconciliation.

> Track complex inventory across channels and prevent stock-outs.
