Retail POS will create cash, Lightspeed Payments cards, and other payment method types by default. If enabled, other payment types will appear as standard buttons on your payment page, including On account, layaway, Loyalty, store credit, and gift cards.

Understanding payment types in Retail POS

Integrated payments are payments that Retail POS automatically pushes to the card terminal and receives an approval or decline response back to close the sale.

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

Optionally, you can set up additional payment types in Retail POS:

• Cash: For cash or special vouchers. These non-integrated payment types will not incur card fees when using cash discounting. Learn more about setting up cash and check payment types.
• Cards: For integrated third-party card payments. Retail POS integrates with a number of third-party payment providers in different regions.

  • USA

    • Lightspeed Payments (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Worldpay TriPOS (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • PayPal (iPad)
    • Square (iPad)
    • Windcave (Payment Express) (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • CardConnect (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Chase (Mac, PC)
    • TSYS / First Data (Mac, PC, iPad)

    Canada

    • Lightspeed Payments (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Square (iPad)
    • Chase (Mac, PC)
    • TD (Mac, PC)
    • First Data (Mac, PC, iPad)

    UK

    • Lightspeed Payments (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Windcave (Payment Express) (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • PayPal (iPad)
    • Square (iPad)
    • Sum Up (iPad)

    Europe

    • Windcave (Payment Express) (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Sum Up (iPad)

    Australia

    • Lightspeed Payments (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Tyro (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Square (iPad)
    • PayPal (iPad)
    • Windcave (Payment Express) (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Smartpay (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • National Australia Bank (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Suncorp Bank (Mac, PC, iPad)

    New Zealand

    • Smartpay (iPad)
    • Smartpay (Mac, PC)
    • Windcave (Payment Express) (Mac, PC, iPad)
    • Verifone (Mac, PC, iPad)

    South Africa

    • Yoco (iPad)
• Other payment methods: For non-integrated card payments, checks, and other speciality payments. You can set up a button for each non-integrated payment type in Retail POS, manually enter the payment amount into the card terminal and process the payment, then confirm in Retail POS that the payment was accepted to close the sale.

Adding an integrated third-party payment type

To add an integrated third-party payment type in Retail POS:

1. Navigate to Setup > Payment types.
2. Click Add payment type.

3. From the Payment type dropdown, click Payment gateway.

   

4. Click Begin setup.
5. Add a name for the payment type.
6. From the Outlets dropdown, select the outlets to add the payment type to, if applicable.

7. Follow the steps to pair your payment terminal.

   

8. Click Save payment type.

Adding a non-integrated payment type

To add a non-integrated payment type in Retail POS:

1. Navigate to Setup > Payment types.
2. Click Add payment type.

3. From the Payment type dropdown, select Other payment method.

   

4. Click Begin setup.
5. Add a name for the payment type.
6. From the Outlets dropdown, select the outlets to add the payment type to, if applicable.
7. (Optional) Enter the external payment gateway URL, provided by your payment processor.
8. (Optional) Check the Ask for a reference number box to allow the staff to record a reference number, like an invoice number.
9. Click Save payment type.

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

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