Connect VoucherCart with Lightspeed POS to Drive High-Profit Revenue Growth and Low-Cost New Customer Acquisition
For luxury hotels, fine-dining restaurants, and hospitality groups, driving high-profit revenue growth and acquiring new customers at near zero cost is essential. Every transaction should not only delight customers but also drive measurable growth. That’s why our Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) POS gift card integration is invaluable: it’s a strategic upgrade to your entire revenue ecosystem.
This seamless integration automates your gift card and voucher sales, eliminates manual reconciliation, and gives your team the power to sell and redeem vouchers directly within Lightspeed, unlocking a new revenue stream while delivering a premium, frictionless guest experience.
Why Integrate VoucherCart with Lightspeed POS?
When two best-in-class systems work together, the results are powerful and immediate.
Here’s what your business gains:
- Instant Prepaid Revenue: Generate upfront cashflow and drive future bookings.
- High-Profit Revenue Growth: Drive more voucher and gift card sales through the POS and see 15-20% breakage.
- New Customer Acquisition: Attract new aligned customers to your business at near zero cost.
- Increased Retention: Retain gift voucher recipients and drive repeat purchases by issuing and reloading gift cards at the POS.
- Seamless Redemptions: Automatically sync every voucher sale and redemption with your POS.
- Effortless Operations: Eliminate manual entry, reduce admin time, and prevent errors.
- Enhanced Guest Experience: Deliver quick, elegant transactions that reflect your brand’s quality.
- Automated Reporting: Track voucher performance, unredeemed balances, and repeat purchase behaviour, all in real-time.
- Centralised Management: Control gift cards and vouchers across your venues, from one unified system.
Whether you’re managing a single luxury venue or a multi-location hospitality group, this integration allows you to operate smarter, faster, and more profitably.
High-Level Implementation Overview
Implementing VoucherCart with Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) is quick and straightforward, requiring no developer input.
Step 1: Prepare your Lightspeed POS
Before connecting, you’ll need to prepare your Lightspeed Back Office:
- Payment Method – Create a new Payment Method dedicated to VoucherCart redemptions.
- Voucher Item – Create a new Item, with ‘Manually-entered price’ selected as the price type, and assign it to a dedicated statistics group for accurate reporting and accounting compliance.
These quick preparations ensure your POS recognises voucher transactions correctly and maintains accurate sales data.
Step 2: Connect VoucherCart to Lightspeed
Connecting VoucherCart to Lightspeed takes just a few minutes:
- Log in to your VoucherCart Dashboard.
- Navigate to Integrations and click ‘Connect’ beside Lightspeed POS (K-Series).
- Log in using your Lightspeed credentials via SSO and authorise the integration.
- Select your Business, Business Location, and the VoucherCart Redeem Location you wish to connect.
- Select the Payment Method and Item you created earlier.
- Click ‘Save’ – and you’re connected.
You can add multiple locations easily, simply by clicking ‘Add location’ and following the same steps as above.
Voucher sales and redemptions will now sync automatically between VoucherCart and Lightspeed, reducing admin time and improving accuracy.
Step 3: Add VoucherCart to Your POS Menu
Make VoucherCart accessible directly from your POS interface:
- In your Lightspeed Back Office, go to Operations > Web Extensions.
- Click Create Web Extension.
- Enter the web extension URL, username, and password from the Lightspeed ‘Details’ section in your VoucherCart Dashboard.
- Click ‘Save’.
- Navigate to Menu > Menu Management > Add Button > Web Extension. Add the new VoucherCart button to your POS menu.
- Update and reload your POS devices to apply these changes.
Your staff can now launch VoucherCart directly from Lightspeed – ready to sell and redeem gift cards instantly.
Step 4: Train Your Team & Go Live
Your staff can begin selling and redeeming immediately.
- Sell vouchers or gift cards in seconds at the POS.
- Instantly issue physical or digital cards.
- Track redemptions and revenue automatically through your VoucherCart dashboard.
Most restaurants complete setup, training, and go-live in under an hour.
Visit our Help Center for:
- Integration Guide – Step-by-step instructions with screenshots to connect VoucherCart to Lightspeed POS.
- How-To Guides – Quick and practical guides for selling and redeeming in Lightspeed POS.
The Results: Smarter Operations & Higher Revenue
Businesses using VoucherCart and Lightspeed together typically see:
- 20–30% increases in prepaid revenue during gifting seasons.
- Reduced admin hours through automation.
- Improved customer retention, as seamless redemption experiences encourage repeat visits.
From boutique hotels to multi-location restaurant groups, Lightspeed POS gift card integration delivers both immediate ROI and long-term growth, empowering teams to focus less on manual tasks and more on delivering unforgettable guest experiences.
For a deeper look at profitability, explore Lightspeed gift card ROI for restaurants to see how integrating your Lightspeed POS with VoucherCart can drive revenue, enhance retention, and improve operational efficiency.
- Pro Tip: Combine VoucherCart’s automated promotions with your Lightspeed customer data to target returning guests during peak gifting seasons.
Unlock the Full Potential of Gift Cards and Vouchers with Lightspeed POS
Your customers expect luxury. Your operations should match it.
With VoucherCart <> Lightspeed POS, your gift card system becomes a dynamic revenue driver – automated, intelligent, and effortless.
Sell gift cards directly in Lightspeed POS to generate new prepaid revenue, streamline voucher sales and redemptions, simplify gift card management, and empower your team to deliver unforgettable guest experiences.
Ready to implement? Book a free Lightspeed setup call with our team or dive straight in with our Lightspeed integration help guides.
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