Connect Light speed Retail POS and Woo Commerce in Minutes

If you wish to succeed in your business, you need tools that think and work as fast as you. A point-of-sale (POS) application has become a necessity these days considering that many businesses have several brick-and-mortar stores and managing the inventory at the end of the day might be a time-consuming task. Lightspeed is one of the most popular options currently available in the market that can help you streamline your inventory and make life easier for you. With integrations available for several eCommerce platforms, you can even sell your products across several online marketplaces along with your retail stores. One of the best options available is the Lightspeed WooCommerce Integration through which you can manage your inventory and sales orders with ease. Let us see how this happens and why this integration has become extremely popular…

Why are people opting for Lightspeed WooCommerce Connector?

Managing a growing business is not easy, especially if you are expanding it or selling your products on multiple fronts. This is more prominent in the current scenario where people are making the most of the internet to sell products across eCommerce platforms. However, since the inventory or the product in stock remains the same while selling products through different stores, you might end up virtually selling products that are actually not available to you. This is a common problem faced by retailers and online sellers. With Lightspeed WooCommerce Connector you are guaranteed that this does not happen.

When you update your inventory and add new products to your Lightspeed retail POS, they get synced with your WooCommerce platform. Similarly, whenever any stock is purchased then it gets depleted from the inventory. This ensures that your accurate stock situation is reflected all the time. Moreover, any changes you made to the existing stock, i.e., whether you amend the product details including dimensions, weight, its name, price, image, manufacture details, etc. are updated to the WooCommerce site automatically. This saves you lots of time which normally would have gone in making the changes twice and tallying it to ensure no mistakes are made. When you save time, you can be more productive and expand your business further.

Different types of Lightspeed WooCommerce Integration

Lightspeed WooCommerce Integration is available as one-way or two-way sync. In one-way sync, you can import your products from your Lightspeed Retail POS to your WooCommerce platform. This is recommended in those cases where you were already using the POS for your retail or online stores and have recently shifted to the WooCommerce platform. All your products will be displayed on the WooCommerce store and sold from there and the changes made to the inventory will be reflected in your Lightspeed POS. you can easily manage the details of the products (changes in image, price, details, etc.) through Lightspeed. Thus, Lightspeed manages the inventory for WooCommerce while the latter provides selected information (sales details) back to the former.

In two-way sync, some products are available on Lightspeed while others are on WooCommerce. In this case, when Lightspeed integration with WooCommerce is done, the products are scanned to remove any repetition and integrated to form a consolidated inventory which is the same on both platforms. When this is done efficiently, you can be assured that your stock quantity is updated in your WooCommerce platform whenever a sale occurs through your POS and similarly, if a new order is placed through the online marketplace, your Lightspeed inventory will be updated to reflect the same status.

Main features of Lightspeed integration with WooCommerce

There are several advantages of using Lightspeed WooCommerce Integration. The prominent features of this integration include:

• Easy importing and synchronization of products of different categories across your Lightspeed POS and WooCommerce store with a single click. This ensures easy inventory management.
• Products can be imported from Lightspeed to WooCommerce or vice versa with ease thanks to synchronization between the two platforms.
• Managing multiple stores is easy when you opt for Lightspeed WooCommerce Integration however, synchronization is available only for the store labelled 'primary'.

What makes Lightspeed integration with WooCommerce popular?

There are several advantages in connecting WooCommerce with your Lightspeed POS, however, you need to trust experienced professionals to help you get efficient Lightspeed WooCommerce Integration so that you can have a synced communication between these two systems. Importing your inventory from Lightspeed to WooCommerce or vice versa is extremely easy. Once you have purchased and downloaded the Lightspeed plugin you can upload it to your WooCommerce store. Once you have activated the Lightspeed extension, you can then connect your Lightspeed retail account to your WooCommerce platform and import inventory easily by syncing the inventories across both systems.

When you are selling your products through several online marketplaces powered through WooCommerce, any orders made will automatically be deducted from the Lightspeed POS to ensure that overselling does not happen, ever! With Lightspeed integration with WooCommerce,you can easily get all your existing customer sale history with the sync. Moreover, if you get a new customer, a new account is created for the same with all information stored. This makes it easy for you to ship purchase orders without having to make extra efforts for creating labels. All your sales transactions are available in your POS reports making it easy to find which are your highest selling orders.