Migrate from Lightspeed Restaurant
Move from Lightspeed Restaurant to PeakSpitz, safely.
Moving off Lightspeed Restaurant should feel like restoring from a backup, not a leap of faith. Your restaurant POS data is read into a PeakSpitz environment of your own, checked against your real numbers, and run in parallel — while Lightspeed Restaurant keeps running, untouched, the whole time. Here is exactly how, step by step.
Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) is a capable cloud POS: strong menu and modifier handling, floor plans, tableside ordering on iPad, ingredient-level inventory and reporting that genuinely helps you run the pass. That depth is its strength. Restaurants tend to move when the module stack adds up — advanced reporting, ordering and deeper inventory often sit in higher tiers or add-ons priced per register, and the POS still leaves accounting and VAT to a separate system. PeakSpitz consolidates the back office: sales, inventory, real accounting with VAT, a built-in storefront and payments in one EU-hosted platform, unlimited users included.
The safe way to leave Lightspeed Restaurant
Work down the list at your own pace. Nothing here is irreversible, and your current system stays live throughout.
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Before you touch anything — get a backup you own
Get a copy of your data out of Lightspeed Restaurant that you control — a file held on your side, not just a setting inside the system. Confirm in your contract that you have the right to export, and note any renewal, notice or lock-in dates so the timing stays on your terms.
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Export your data
Pull your menu, orders, customers and sales history out of Lightspeed Restaurant in the most complete format it offers — CSV, spreadsheet, or an account/API export. Take the history too, not just open items: past records, documents and contacts are worth keeping.
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Send us a sample
Before you commit, send us a representative slice — a handful of customers, a few recent orders or bookings, part of your catalogue. We map it into PeakSpitz and show you the restored result, so you see exactly how your restaurant POS data lands before you move the rest.
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See what maps to what
We line Lightspeed Restaurant up against PeakSpitz: your menu, orders, customers and sales history become customers, catalogue, orders, documents and ledgers in one joined-up system. Anything without an obvious home is flagged early, not discovered late.
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Bring it in — a read-only restore
Your data is read into a fresh, isolated PeakSpitz environment of your own. Nothing inside Lightspeed Restaurant is touched, changed or switched off — it keeps running exactly as it is.
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Verify against your numbers
Before you trust it, reconcile the totals — balances, counts, tax and revenue — against what Lightspeed Restaurant shows today. The numbers have to match before anything goes live.
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Run both in parallel
Keep Lightspeed Restaurant live and run PeakSpitz alongside it for as long as you like. Compare like for like, move one area across first, and build trust before you depend on it. No big-bang cutover, and no deadline from us.
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Cross over and decommission — on your terms
Switch over only when PeakSpitz has earned it. Keep your Lightspeed Restaurant export archived as a safety net, and close the old subscription when you are ready — not a moment before.
What maps where: Lightspeed Restaurant → PeakSpitz
Lightspeed Restaurant
Products (menu items)
PeakSpitz
Products / catalogue
Lightspeed Restaurant
Menus & categories
PeakSpitz
Product categories
Lightspeed Restaurant
Modifiers & combos
PeakSpitz
Product options and add-ons
Combo pricing is rebuilt deliberately rather than imported one-to-one.
Lightspeed Restaurant
Ingredients & recipe-level inventory
PeakSpitz
Tracked inventory items with components
Ingredient depletion and theoretical food cost are re-mapped as a deliberate decision, since yields and waste assumptions are choices, not data.
Lightspeed Restaurant
Floor plans & tableside orders
PeakSpitz
Open sales orders (tabs)
The floor layout is re-created at the terminal front-of-house.
Lightspeed Restaurant
Staff & user roles
PeakSpitz
Users and roles
Unlimited users on every plan, so per-register user limits no longer apply.
What to watch when leaving Lightspeed Restaurant
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Ingredient-level inventory is Lightspeed's real strength and also the most careful part of the move. Recipes, yields, waste and cost assumptions are re-mapped deliberately — treat it as the moment to correct the numbers rather than inherit them.
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Production centres and the KDS / printer routing rules are re-paired on site. The routing logic that sends items to the right screen or printer does not export with the menu.
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Combos and multi-level modifier trees are rebuilt rather than migrated one-to-one, because the option model differs between systems.
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Years of K-Series sales and labour reporting typically archive read-only. Bring opening balances and a current stock count into PeakSpitz instead of the full transaction history.
Common questions about leaving Lightspeed Restaurant
We rely on ingredient-level food cost — does it come across?
Lightspeed's ingredient inventory is worth crediting, and it is exactly why this part is a deliberate step rather than a copy. In PeakSpitz ingredients map to tracked inventory items and components, and how a sold dish depletes them is re-mapped once — the point where you fix yields and waste. Spitz can propose the mapping and apply it the moment you approve.
Is PeakSpitz cloud-based like K-Series?
Yes. PeakSpitz is cloud and EU-hosted with per-customer data isolation and a full audit trail, so the cloud, always-current model you already run stays. Most businesses are live in about a week without consultants.
What about tableside ordering and Order Anywhere?
Front-of-house tableside terminals and KDS are a POS surface that is re-set on site; PeakSpitz owns the order, inventory and accounting behind them. For customer-facing online and QR-style ordering, the built-in storefront covers direct online orders on the same catalogue.
As much help as you want
Do it yourself, or have us map your fields, run the import and reconcile the result with you. Support is a ladder — you start where you are comfortable and step up only where an area needs it.
See the full safe-migration approach →Why people leave Lightspeed Restaurant
PeakSpitz runs the whole business on one AI platform — not a single corner with the rest bolted on — with Spitz AI and unlimited users included. See the difference side by side.
Compare PeakSpitz vs Lightspeed Restaurant →Bring your Lightspeed Restaurant data in safely. Cross over when you are ready.
Send us a sample of your data and we will show you the restored result — no commitment, no risk to your live system.