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ROI categoryrevenue velocityrevenue velocity
Time-to-ValueAbout 4 weeks (~30d)1–2 weeks (~14d)
Typical annual TCO$3,468/yr$0/yr
Starting price$1,068/yr$0/yr
Implementation feeNoneNone
Seat tiersOne register included per plan; extra locations and additional registers are billed on top.Self-serve free plan; paid plans scale by seat count and credit volume; Custom plans for large organizations.
Implementation friction3/52/5
Friction meter
Best forIndependent retailers in apparel, footwear, bike, garden, home, sporting goods, CBD and vape who sell in store and online; Multi-location merchants that need one inventory, customer and reporting view across stores; Inventory-heavy retailers managing thousands of SKUs who want forecasting, purchase orders and wholesale ordering built in; Retailers that prefer POS, payments, loyalty and eCommerce from a single vendor instead of a stitched-together stackB2B sales and GTM teams that want prospecting data, sequencing and dialing in one system; Startups and mid-market teams that want a free-forever entry plan with self-serve onboarding; Enterprise revenue orgs needing governance, admin controls and 200+ CRM and email integrations; Teams open to AI agents that research accounts, write outreach, follow up and book meetings
Not forPowersports, marine and recreational vehicle dealers, which Lightspeed states it does not serve; Retailers who want fully self-serve, transparent pricing without a conversation with sales; Businesses that need a free POS tier or a no-contract monthly plan; Retailers locked into an existing ERP or POS that cannot migrate transaction historyCompanies that need to embed or resell contact data in their own product; Buyers who require published list pricing for large enterprise deployments before shortlisting; Non-sales vertical software buyers with no outbound prospecting motion; Teams that must verify certifications on a dedicated trust page before purchase
Stack fit matrix
SalesforceNot supportedIntegration
AWSNot supportedNot supported
SnowflakeNot supportedNot supported
HubSpotNot supportedIntegration
Google WorkspaceNot supportedIntegration
Microsoft 365Not supportedIntegration
SAPNot supportedNot supported
SlackNot supportedNot supported
MCP (Model Context Protocol)Not supportedNot supported
Compliance
SOC 2
ISO 27001
GDPR
HIPAA
FedRAMP
ISO 42001
IAPP AIGPnamed staff
Company & support
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Founded2005 (21 yrs)2015 (11 yrs)
HeadquartersMontreal, CanadaNot recorded
PhonePaid plansNot listed
EmailNot listedPlan not stated
Live chatPaid plansNot listed
Support portal / ticketsNot listedPlan not stated
Community forumNot listedNot listed
Help centre / docsAll plansNot listed
Dedicated account managerPlan not statedNot listed
In person / on-siteNot listedNot listed
Support hours24/7Not recorded
Response timeNot statedNot stated
AI & MCP readiness
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MCP connectionreaches AI clientsNot supportedNot supported
AI featuresCopilot / assistantAgentic workflows; NLP automation
Model keyNot recordedNot recorded
AI usage auditNot recordedNot recorded
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