Pilot estimate
About 15 minutes after adapter validationUnproven estimate for a future founder-assisted pilot.
Pre-production blueprint · Lightspeed Retail (cloud API)
Lightspeed Retail connection validation blueprint
Status: connection blueprint, not a live connector. This page documents the intended least-privilege API path. StoreRounds does not yet offer a production Lightspeed adapter.
Do not run these steps today. The screens and timing below are future-pilot validation criteria. StoreRounds must build the adapter, revalidate Lightspeed's current API flow, and complete a matching real-store read-back first.
Lightspeed Retail runs in the cloud. The planned path needs no store-side install or database user: a future adapter would use Lightspeed's sign-in, a limited read-only token, selected stores, and a read-back against the store's own closed-day report.
Written for the owner, not the engineer. A future approved pilot must keep the Lightspeed password at Lightspeed and retrieve only the store data allowed by a revocable, read-scoped token. That path is not live today.
Pilot support
Founder-assistedNo Lightspeed app or self-serve connection is available.
A future pilot would require
Owner plus reviewA Lightspeed owner and founder approval after the app, scopes, and revocation path are validated.
Running example throughout: a fictional two-store chain, Aurora Beauty Supply (Riverside and Eastgate), running Lightspeed Retail. Every number shown is made up for the example. Your screen shows your real stores.
First, the honest description
What is the proposed Lightspeed Retail adapter boundary?
No StoreRounds Lightspeed app or production adapter is available today. The intended design would keep the password at Lightspeed, use a revocable token limited to named read scopes and locations, and let a validated adapter retrieve approved daily totals. Every control below must be proven in a founder-assisted pilot.
What it is
- A read-only reader. It is granted read access to your sales, register, and inventory totals, and nothing that changes anything.
- Authorized at Lightspeed, not by sharing a password. A future pilot must use Lightspeed's current authorization page and never collect the owner's password.
- Scoped by Lightspeed. The owner would have to review the exact permission before Lightspeed issued a limited token.
- Cloud to cloud. The intended adapter would read Lightspeed's API over an encrypted connection, with no store-side install.
- Yours to switch off from inside Lightspeed. A pilot must prove that source-side revocation ends new reads.
What it is not
- It must be not a writer. A future pilot must prove that the token cannot ring a sale, edit a price, void a transaction, or change a record.
- It must be not a password share. The intended flow would keep the password at Lightspeed and store only a scoped token.
- It is not a remote-control tool. No one at StoreRounds gets a seat in your Lightspeed account or a login to your registers.
- It does not touch payment card data. Lightspeed handles card processing. The API returns sale totals and tender types, not card numbers.
- A future pilot must not be surveillance. It would be limited to approved store totals and exceptions, not employee monitoring.
For your IT person
A technician or managed-services provider can review the proposed boundary in the one-page connector security brief. The scopes shown below are illustrative design inputs, not a request sent by a live StoreRounds app.
The shape of it
How is a future StoreRounds Lightspeed adapter intended to read?
Lightspeed is cloud-hosted, so the proposed path would be cloud to cloud. After founder approval, the owner would authorize a named read scope at Lightspeed and a validated adapter would use the resulting revocable token. The diagram is a design target, not a live connection.
Two facts worth repeating, because they are the whole security story:
- A future pilot must keep the Lightspeed password at Lightspeed and receive only the resulting read-scoped token.
- The future token must be read-only and source-revocable. A pilot must prove that removing the authorization at Lightspeed stops new reads.
Which Lightspeed this covers
Lightspeed Retail R-Series and X-Series are plausible cloud-adapter candidates, not supported StoreRounds editions. The exact account, API generation, scopes, and location model would require validation. Older server-based systems would require a separate vendor-specific SQL pilot review.
Future pilot validation runbook
What would a Lightspeed pilot have to prove?
These four documented stages are acceptance criteria, not available product screens. A future pilot would have to verify the approval scope, location mapping, read-back, and revocation before the adapter could be supported.
1
Planned stage: start Lightspeed authorization
Future founder-assisted pilot · timing unproven
- A founder would approve the owner and a validated Lightspeed app for a named pilot.
- The pilot would identify the exact R-Series or X-Series account and current API before authorization.
- The future interface would disclose the exact scopes and Lightspeed authorization domain.
- No customer-facing Lightspeed action exists today. Do not enter Lightspeed credentials from this page.
Verify stage 1
Acceptance criterion: any future password prompt must be hosted on Lightspeed's current authorization domain. A StoreRounds-hosted Lightspeed password prompt must always be rejected.
2
Planned stage: approve named read scopes
Future Lightspeed-hosted screen · timing unproven
A future pilot must use Lightspeed's own screen as the source of truth for every requested permission. StoreRounds has no live app asking for those permissions today.
- An approved owner or manager would authorize on Lightspeed's current domain.
- Every requested field would have to be documented and limited to read access.
- Any permission that can change, add, or delete data would fail the pilot gate.
- Only after review could Lightspeed issue a scoped token to the pilot adapter.
Read this screen, do not rush it
The future Lightspeed approval screen would be authoritative. A pilot must be rejected if it shows any write, change, or delete permission.
For IT review: illustrative future authorization request
This non-executable example shows the intended authorization-code pattern. StoreRounds must revalidate Lightspeed's current endpoints and scopes before any pilot; no customer request is sent today.
# ARCHIVED BLUEPRINT. No customer authorization flow is live. GET https://cloud.lightspeedapp.com/auth/oauth/authorize ?response_type=code &client_id=storerounds &scope=employee:reports employee:inventory_read employee:register_read &redirect_uri=https://storerounds.com/connect/lightspeed/callback # A future pilot must request read-only scopes and nothing that can write. # The permissions you approve on Lightspeed's screen are the source of # truth. If any item can change, add, or delete data, do not approve.
Verify stage 2
Acceptance criterion for a future pilot: the StoreRounds screen would show the authorized Lightspeed account, exact scopes, and a truthful read-only or failed state. The adapter would also have to prove that it can read only the required totals and cannot write. This screen is not live today.
3
Planned stage: map approved Lightspeed outlets
Future founder-assisted pilot · timing unproven
Lightspeed identifies each location as a Shop in R-Series or an Outlet in X-Series. A future pilot would retrieve the approved list and require a human mapping before reporting. Aurora Beauty Supply is fictional example data.
- For each Lightspeed location the connection found, confirm the store's real name and pick its address.
- Warehouses, training registers, and closed stores would have to be excluded before read-back.
- Set each store's day cutoff (when the sales day ends, for example 11:00 PM) and time zone, so the daily totals line up with your own Lightspeed end-of-day report.
Verify stage 3
The store list shows the right number of active stores with the right names. Aurora Beauty Supply shows exactly two: Riverside and Eastgate. If a store is missing, its location may be marked Do not report, or it may live in a different Lightspeed account than the one you approved. Confirm you signed in to the right account, then choose Rescan outlets.
4
Required gate: run a real-store read-back
Future founder-assisted pilot only
This would be the release gate. A future pilot would compare one StoreRounds read-back with the owner's Lightspeed report. Only a matching real-store result could mark the adapter verified and schedule a first Morning Flash.
Receipts from minute one
How would a Lightspeed pilot prove it read the right store and numbers?
A founder-assisted pilot would select one approved outlet and closed sales day, retrieve the scoped totals, and compare them with the owner's trusted Lightspeed report. The adapter must remain unsupported until those values match and the owner confirms the definitions.
Verified Read-back test Aurora Beauty Supply, Riverside · sales day of the example
| Future pilot field | Fictional adapter result | Fictional Lightspeed report | Example match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross sales | $8,412.70 | $8,412.70 | Yes |
| Transactions | 143 | 143 | Yes |
| Cash tendered | $1,905.00 | $1,905.00 | Yes |
| Card tendered | $6,507.70 | $6,507.70 | Yes |
Numbers are fictional, for the Aurora Beauty Supply example. On your screen these are your store's real totals for the day you check.
To pass the read-back test
- The future pilot would initiate a read-back for one approved outlet and closed date.
- In Lightspeed, open that store's end-of-day report for the same date. In R-Series that is the register-closure summary or Reports, then Sales; in X-Series it is the register closure or the sales ledger for that outlet.
- Compare gross sales, transaction count, and the cash and card split. They should match to the cent.
- If a future pilot matches, the owner would choose Confirm, numbers reconcile. Only then could the connection be marked verified and a first Morning Flash be scheduled.
If the numbers are close but not exact
A future pilot must stop on any mismatch. Likely investigation points include the day cutoff, tax-inclusive versus tax-exclusive totals, and returns or voids. No Morning Flash should run until the owner confirms a clean match.
When a stage will not pass
Which failure modes must a future Lightspeed pilot handle?
These are acceptance and troubleshooting criteria for a future approved pilot, not support instructions for a connection available today.
The Lightspeed sign-in tab never opened
A future pilot would have to verify the current Lightspeed authorization domain and browser behavior. No StoreRounds Lightspeed button or customer pop-up flow exists today.
Lightspeed says I do not have permission to approve apps
A future pilot would require an authorized Lightspeed owner or manager. StoreRounds must revalidate Lightspeed's current approval roles before asking anyone to authorize.
Connected, but a store or outlet is missing
A future pilot would stop and reconcile the returned outlet list with the authorized account before reporting. Separate Lightspeed accounts would require separate, explicit validation.
The connection asks me to reconnect Lightspeed
A future pilot must treat an expired or reset token as closed access and stop reads. Any refresh or reauthorization behavior would have to stay within the approved grant, be receipted, and be revalidated against Lightspeed's current rules.
The read-back numbers are off by a consistent amount
A future founder-assisted pilot would reconcile cutoff, tax, return, and void definitions against Lightspeed's own report until the values match.
I am not sure whether I am on R-Series or X-Series
The exact series must be identified during founder review. A web address can provide a clue, but StoreRounds has no live detection tool and must not infer support from the hostname alone.
Still stuck
A future supported connection would need a truthful health record for reads, renewals, gaps, retries, and unresolved errors. This health view is an acceptance criterion, not a live Lightspeed feature.
Your off switch
How must a future Lightspeed pilot prove revocation?
No StoreRounds Lightspeed token exists for customers today. A future pilot must prove two independent stop paths: destroying the credential in StoreRounds and revoking the app at Lightspeed. Either must stop new reads.
Required switch 1: destroy the pilot credential in StoreRounds
The planned customer control would have to destroy the working token and prevent the next scheduled read. Its presence and behavior must be verified in the pilot.
Required switch 2: revoke the pilot app inside Lightspeed
The source-side test would use Lightspeed's current connected-app controls to revoke the pilot authorization. StoreRounds must revalidate the current labels and prove that the token then fails closed.
For your IT person: confirming the token is dead
Future pass condition: after source-side revocation, an attempted pilot read must fail with an authorization error and no stale-access window.
$ curl -i https://api.lightspeedapp.com/API/V3/Account \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <REVOKED_TOKEN>" HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized # Future validation target: revoked token fails closed.
Verify the revoke
Future pass condition: Lightspeed shows no active pilot authorization, StoreRounds shows no working credential, and an attempted scheduled read fails closed.
What a future pilot could keep, and must not
In a future pilot, revoke must stop new reads. Until self-serve data controls ship, export and deletion requests would go through [email protected].
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions
Status for every answer below: no production Lightspeed adapter is live. These answers describe intended pilot behavior and must be revalidated before use.
Could a future StoreRounds pilot change Lightspeed data?
It must not. Before a pilot, StoreRounds would have to prove that the requested token is read-only and cannot ring a sale, edit a price, void a transaction, change inventory, or delete a record.
Does StoreRounds see my Lightspeed password?
No customer authorization flow is live today. The intended design would keep the Lightspeed password at Lightspeed and give the pilot adapter only a scoped token.
Which Lightspeed does this guide cover?
No Lightspeed edition is supported by a production StoreRounds adapter today. R-Series and X-Series are plausible cloud-pilot candidates, but the exact account, API, scopes, and location model would require validation.
Do I need a developer account or an API key?
There is no owner setup path today. A future pilot would require a validated StoreRounds app and an authorized Lightspeed owner or manager; no one should create or paste an API secret from this page.
What exactly does the connection read, and does it read card numbers?
No production Lightspeed adapter reads customer data today. The intended boundary is sale totals, transaction counts, tender types, and the approved store list, without full card numbers or customer-level identity. A pilot would have to verify that boundary against the current API.
How long does the whole setup take?
The blueprint estimates about fifteen minutes after adapter validation. That estimate is unproven with a real StoreRounds customer and is not a current setup promise.
How do I turn it off later?
No customer Lightspeed token exists today. A future pilot must prove both StoreRounds-side credential destruction and Lightspeed-side app revocation before support.
Founding cohort application
Tell us which POS you run
You can inspect this blueprint without an account. A Lightspeed production adapter is not live, payments are closed, and applying does not promise a connection date. Suitable applicants will be contacted only if a founder-assisted pilot opens.
A portal account does not unlock a Lightspeed adapter. Do not enter POS credentials until StoreRounds confirms an approved pilot.