Non-integrated payments require you to manually enter the payment amount into Retail POS. This payment type can be used for physical payments, such as cash or check, or for an external card reader that is not integrated with Lightspeed. 

For payment providers that are not currently integrated with Lightspeed, non-integrated payment types are available to select when making a sale. Using Retail POS, you can use any credit card/EFTPOS card payment terminal as a non-integrated stand-alone terminal and create a button for each payment type.

Non-integrated card payments require you to manually enter the payment amount into the card terminal and process the payment, then confirm in Retail POS that the payment is accepted to close the sale.

Setting up a non-integrated payment type

Two types of non-integrated payment types are available. These are:

• Cash: for cash, checks, and promotional vouchers. These payment types will not incur card fees when using cash discounting.
• Other payment method: for non-integrated card payments, checks, gift cards, credit notes, and online payments. These payment types will incur card fees when using cash discounting.

You can create more than one payment button for each payment type. For example, you could have one button per credit card type accepted (Visa, American Express, Mastercard, etc.).

Setting up a non-integrated payment type

To set up your non-integrated payment type:

1. Navigate to Settings > Payment types.

   

2. Click Add payment type.

• Cash payment type

  1. Select Cash from the dropdown.

     

  2. Click Begin setup.

     

  3. In the Name field, enter the name of your payment type.

     

  4. For multi-store accounts: Use the Outlets dropdown to select where you want this payment type to be available.
  5. In the Rounding field, use the dropdown to select how cash rounding is applied to payments.
  6. Optionally, toggle on Conceal cash totals to hide total cash takings during register closure.

• Other non-integrated payment type

  1. Select Other payment method from the dropdown.

     

  2. Click Begin setup.

     

  3. In the Name field, enter the name of your payment type.

     

  4. For multi-store accounts: Use the Outlets dropdown to select where you want this payment type to be available.
  5. Optionally, enter your Gateway URL. This will be provided to you by your payment processor.
  6. Optionally, toggle on Ask for a reference number. This allows users to optionally record a reference number, such as a check or invoice number.
3. Click Save payment type.

If the payment type is a non-integrated card payment, you will then need to separately set up your card payment terminal using the directions that came with the terminal.

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