Add your business settings that are essential to get your business up and running including business details, receipt scan settings, time tracking and margin calculation.
- Log in to the Back Office with your Lightspeed Restaurant account credentials.
- From the navigation menu, select Configuration > Settings > Business parameters.
- Specify the business settings.
- Select Submit after you have filled in all necessary fields and selected the checkbox at the bottom.
- Change to Receipt scan settings tab.
- Select Apply changes when you’ve defined the consumer message that will be printed out on all receipts scanned by customers.
- Change to Time tracking tab.
- Enable time tracking, if you would like your employees to clock in and out in the POS. The user needs the appropriate right User can use the time clock to track worked hours, which can be activated in the User section. See About POS users.
- Select Apply changes.
- Change to margin calculation and enable Cost price include tax, if applicable.
- Select Apply changes.
Business settings
| Internal name | Name of the establishment in Lightspeed (K) |
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Trade The trade only involves the buying and selling of goods. |
Trade Name: The customer-facing name of the establishment. Address: Your trade's address. Zip: Your trade's zip code. City: Your trade's city. |
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Company The company is the entire enterprise of controlling and selling. |
Legal entity name: The company’s legal name. For instance, this name is used for tax purposes. Company Contact Full Name: First and last name of the company's contact person. Address: Your company’s address. Zip: Your company’s zip code. City: Your company’s city. Country: Your company’s country. |
| Fiscal details | Tax number: Your fiscal tax number. VAT number: Your fiscal VAT number. |
What's next?
Order settings:Order settings, or account profiles with Lightspeed Restaurant, allow you to apply specific settings to an order. See order settings.
Void reasons: Set your void reasons that can be selected in the POS when a booked item can no longer be billed. E.g.: damage or spillage. See About void reasons.
Reporting settings: Make individual adjustments on the settings affecting your reports. Adjust reporting settings for reporting automation and reporting shifts. See About reporting settings.