Lightspeed Commerce
Omnichannel commerce platform with REST APIs for retail and restaurant POS, inventory management, loyalty programs, and e-commerce integrations. Lightspeed serves retailers and restaurateurs with cloud-based point-of-sale systems, enabling custom integrations through APIs for sales, inventory, customers, orders, payments, and loyalty programs across multiple product lines including Retail X-Series, Retail R-Series, Restaurant K-Series, and eCom.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Lightspeed Commerce the way a machine reads it — 68 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Lightspeed Commerce scores 83.7/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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How we profile Lightspeed Commerce
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Lightspeed Commerce. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 58
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Lightspeed Retail R-Series API
REST API for Lightspeed Retail R-Series (formerly Vend) providing access to sales, inventory, customers, products, and reporting data for retail point-of-sale systems.
Lightspeed eCom API
REST API for Lightspeed eCom (C-Series) e-commerce platform providing endpoints for products, orders, customers, shipments, payments, and inventory management. Requires Advanced...
Lightspeed eCom E-Series (Ecwid) API
REST API for Lightspeed eCom E-Series, the Ecwid storefront platform Lightspeed acquired in 2021 and now sells as eCom E-Series. Provides store profile, product catalog, categor...
Lightspeed Restaurant O-Series (Kounta) API
REST API for Lightspeed Restaurant O-Series, the Kounta hospitality point-of-sale platform Lightspeed acquired in 2019 and sells as O-Series. Exposes sites, registers, products,...
Lightspeed Golf (Chronogolf) Partner API
Partner REST API for Lightspeed Golf, the Chronogolf tee-sheet and golf course management platform Lightspeed acquired in 2019. Covers organizations, courses, tee times, green f...
Lightspeed Commerce Audit API
Audit and security operations
Lightspeed Commerce Brands API
Brand operations
Lightspeed Commerce Channel Request Log API
A log of requests and responses between Lightspeed and an integration channel.
Lightspeed Commerce Consignment Products API
Consignment Product operations
Lightspeed Commerce Consignments API
Stock control operations
Lightspeed Commerce Customer Addresses API
Customer Address operations
Lightspeed Commerce Customer Groups API
Customer Group operations
Lightspeed Commerce Customers API
Customer operations
Lightspeed Commerce Financial API
V1 endpoints (`/f/finance/...`) for retrieving sales and financial data. For the newer V2 versions of these endpoints see FinancialV2 ### V1 behaviour - **Sorting**: No guarante...
Lightspeed Commerce Financial V2 API
V2 endpoints (`/f/v2/...`) for retrieving sales and financial data. ### Endpoint Mapping | V1 Endpoint | V2 Endpoint | |-------------|-------------| | `getFinancials` (`/f/finan...
Lightspeed Commerce Fulfillments API
Fulfillment operations
Lightspeed Commerce Gift Cards API
Gift Card operations
Lightspeed Commerce ID Cards API
The ID Cards API from Lightspeed Commerce — 2 operation(s) for id cards.
Lightspeed Commerce Inventory API
Inventory operations
Lightspeed Commerce Items API
The Items API from Lightspeed Commerce — 2 operation(s) for items.
Lightspeed Commerce Loyalty Adjustments [BETA] API
The Loyalty Adjustments [BETA] API from Lightspeed Commerce — 1 operation(s) for loyalty adjustments [beta].
Lightspeed Commerce Order and Pay API
The Order and Pay API from Lightspeed Commerce — 19 operation(s) for order and pay.
Lightspeed Commerce Order and Pay: Webhook API
The Order and Pay: Webhook API from Lightspeed Commerce — 4 operation(s) for order and pay: webhook.
Lightspeed Commerce Outlet Product Taxes API
Outlet Product Tax operations
Lightspeed Commerce Outlets API
Outlet operations
Lightspeed Commerce Packing Slips API
Packing slip rendering operations
Lightspeed Commerce Partner Billing API
Partner Billing operations
Lightspeed Commerce Payment Types API
Payment Type operations
Lightspeed Commerce PMS API
The PMS API from Lightspeed Commerce — 3 operation(s) for pms.
Lightspeed Commerce PMS Integration API
The PMS Integration API from Lightspeed Commerce — 0 operation(s) for pms integration.
Lightspeed Commerce Price Books API
Price Book operations
Lightspeed Commerce Product Categories API
Product Categories operations
Lightspeed Commerce Product Images API
Product Image operations
Lightspeed Commerce Product Types API
Product Type operations
Lightspeed Commerce Products API
Product operations
Lightspeed Commerce Promo Code API
The Promo Code API from Lightspeed Commerce — 2 operation(s) for promo code.
Lightspeed Commerce Promotions API
Promotion operations
Lightspeed Commerce Purchase Orders API
Purchase order operations
Lightspeed Commerce Quotes API
Quotes operations
Lightspeed Commerce Registers API
Register operations
Lightspeed Commerce Reservations for Platforms API
The Reservations for Platforms API from Lightspeed Commerce — 11 operation(s) for reservations for platforms.
Lightspeed Commerce Retailers API
Retailer operations
Lightspeed Commerce Rich Item API
The Rich Item API from Lightspeed Commerce — 6 operation(s) for rich item.
Lightspeed Commerce Sales API
Sale operations
Lightspeed Commerce Search API
Search related operations
Lightspeed Commerce Serial Numbers API
Serial number related operations
Lightspeed Commerce Service Orders API
Service orders and Job management
Lightspeed Commerce Shifts API
The Shifts API from Lightspeed Commerce — 1 operation(s) for shifts.
Lightspeed Commerce Staff API
Staff API. Authorisation Code grant type is required for this API with permission ROLE_CONFIG_USERS.
Lightspeed Commerce Store Credits API
Store Credit operations
Lightspeed Commerce Suppliers API
Supplier operations
Lightspeed Commerce Tags API
Tag operations
Lightspeed Commerce Tax Breakdown API
The Tax Breakdown API from Lightspeed Commerce — 1 operation(s) for tax breakdown.
Lightspeed Commerce Taxes API
Tax operations
Lightspeed Commerce Users API
User operations
Lightspeed Commerce Variant Attributes API
The Variant Attributes API from Lightspeed Commerce — 2 operation(s) for variant attributes.
Lightspeed Commerce Webhooks API
Webhook operations
Lightspeed Commerce Workflows API
Workflow operations
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Lightspeed Commerce MCP Servers
Lightspeed runs two hosted, anonymous MCP servers — one per documentation platform. Both are documentation-plane servers: they let an agent read and search the API contract. Onl...
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Lightspeed Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Lightspeed Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Lightspeed Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Lightspeed Commerce — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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