Lightspeed vs Ordermate:
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Lightspeed is built for every hospitality business whether you’re a food truck or fine dining.

With Lightspeed POS you can get started for free with no lock in contracts and adapt your plan as you grow.

If all you need is a simple POS to get you started, we’d recommend our Starter plan with access to all our basic POS and inventory functionality, as well as free 24/7 support for $0 per month with Lightspeed payments.

It’s easy to get started with iPad based hardware and if you can easily add extra functionality such as online ordering and delivery as your business needs it.

Staff find our intuitive design easy to pick up with minimal to no training required and you can easily customise settings to how your business likes to work.

Check out our plans here.

Ordermate offers a monthly subscription price based on one or multiple sites and additional costs for set-up, hardware, server and initial training.

Lightspeed is cloud-based with no server costs and low hardware costs as you can use existing tablets. Our menu build, set up and training is also included which allows you to save thousands on set up.

Lightspeed software plans are tailored to your business needs with plans from $0 per month with free 24/7 support and account managers to provide advice, tips and support.

With Lightspeed Payments our basic transaction rate is 1.5% with rates as low as 1.1% depending on your software plan.

Lightspeed also offers surcharging with the ability to pass both the surcharge onto your customers.

Ordermate does not offer payments processing, so you must use your own supplier.

Lightspeed POS system is flexible and let’s you use a wide range of hardware. Our software runs on IOS, Android or windows so you can use what you already have or buy the hardware that suits your business. Plus it's simple to set up, with no installation or set up fees.

Ordermate has custom hardware that you buy outright including a server which requires installation and set up fees to get started.

See our hardware bundles and options here.

Lightspeed and Ordermate both offer a wide range of features including POS for counter service and table service, inventory, loyalty, KDS and Insights.

However, Lightspeed has a wider range of kitchen and operation management tools such as tools for recipe costing and preparation.

Lightspeed offers more flexibility for online ordering, delivery, email and sms marketing, advanced reporting and features for multi-location and enterprise venues. All the tools you need to grow your business.

Lightspeed also offers dozens of free integrations and has hospitality specific integrations for loyalty, reservations, online ordering, payments, accounting and team management to help save time and get all your systems working together without paying more for integrations than your software.

Lightspeed is built to easily handle multiple sites and companies.

Lightspeed has features built for multi-site such as letting you set different prices for different locations, manage products across all locations, transfer stock between locations and configure employee permissions whether they work in a single store or travel between multiple locations.

Lightspeed Insights also allows you to view reports for one or many sites and compare performance of staff, products, sales and more between sites.

In addition, Lightspeed has the ability to build custom reports and use an Open API to customise the system to how you want to use it.

Ordermate has mutli-site functionality but requires a larger subscription to access these features.

Getting started with Lightspeed is quick and easy. Speak to one of our experts and they can get you set up. Our support team can help with set up and menu build and express ship any hardware you require.

Lightspeed is simple to set up and easy to use. There’s no need for someone to come onsite to set up which means you can get started straight away. Our team is available in minutes via the phone or live chat to help with any questions if you get stuck.

Lightspeed has an extensive library of free integrations to ensure all your systems work together from accounting to delivery to payroll. You can check out our integrations here.

Lightspeed is built for every type of hospitality business with flexible plans to make it easy to adapt what you need as your business changes or grows.

Every account will work with an account manager who will provide advice, support and expertise and can act as an extension of your team as your business evolves.

We're here to support you grow.