Manage important settings and information about your business under Business settings in the Lightspeed Restaurant Back Office. Here you can enter important information like your business name and address, enable time tracking or margin calculation, and enter your details for any regional fiscal compliance.

Universal

• Adding business settings: Your business settings contain critical information about your business, such as its name and other basic operational settings.

Regional settings

Regional settings will vary depending on where your business is located.

Germany

• Understanding German Fiscal Compliance TSE: Point of Sale (POS) systems in Germany must be connected to a Technical Security Element (TSE) to comply with local tax regulations.
• Mandatory POS Registration: Businesses using electronic register systems, such as a POS, must report them to the tax offices in Germany.

Quebec

• About WEB-SRM: WEB-SRM (FR: MEV-Web) is an online-only Sales Recording Module (SRM) required for Quebec businesses to be fiscally compliant.

FAQ

• A trade only involves the buying and selling of goods, while a company involves all the other activities of a business entity, like marketing, bookkeeping, etc.

  Simply put, it's the difference between what your customer sees, like your business name and location, and what your accountant sees on your official documentation.

• To learn more about reporting settings, like reporting automation and reporting shifts, visit the About reporting settings article.
• Only US and Canadian businesses can manage tax rates and tax profiles in the Back Office. In other countries, tax rates and profiles are automatically set up, but you still must assign tax profiles to your accounting groups.