Lightspeed Insights for retail
Leverage detailed visual reporting, customizable and schedulable reports, predict how much inventory to order and easily draft purchase orders with Lightspeed Insights.
Unlock detailed inventory and sales reporting
- Visual reporting let’s you track daily, weekly or monthly reporting at a glance
- Inventory reports help you understand your product performance and costs in detail
- Filters and comparisons make it easy to adjust the reports to your business needs
Customize reporting for your business
- Customize and save inventory, sales, tax and payments reports to your requirements
- Schedule regular reports to be emailed weekly or monthly
- Drill down on performance to make strategic decisions on promotions, staffing and product selection
Access insights to predict how much inventory to order
- Take into account past out-of-stock periods to avoid missing sales and order inventory with precision
- View suggested order quantities that consider past sales volumes and stockouts when deciding what to order and save time without creating manual estimations
- Have confidence with how much stock to order and minimize stockouts, reduce excess inventory and maximize profitability
Easily create purchase orders
- View current inventory and suggested order quantities while creating the PO to help determine the order amount
- Streamline the preparation of purchase orders and save hours each week that would otherwise be spent on manual inventory management tasks
- Eliminate the need to switch between systems and spreadsheets, simplifying the overall purchase order workflow
- Access accurate order quantities with POs based on up-to-date sales and inventory data, reducing the risk of overstock or stockouts
Brands and suppliers
Understand which brands and suppliers are driving sales and delivering the best margins with minimal returns.
Products and categories
Get a macro and micro overview of stock performance by understanding category trends as well as individual product performance.
COGS and margins
Keep on top of costs and make sure you’re turning a profit with detailed data on cost of goods, taxes, margins, discounting and more.
Customers and staff
Get to know your customers and your staff by viewing average items and revenue per customer or team member and other important metrics.
Outlets and registers
Explore which locations perform best whether that’s within your store or across several stores, compare outlet and register performance easily.
Drill down reports
Drive insight into your business performance with reports covering Dusty Inventory, Sell Through, Recently Out of Stock, Individual Performance and Sales by Hour of Day.
Factor stockouts
Keep track of items that often go out of stock. Our reporting measures can help you plan your ordering and gauge what inventory you’ll need for busy periods.
Forecasted demand and suggested reorder quantity
Have the ability to view suggested order quantities that consider past sales volumes and stockouts when deciding what to order.
Easily create purchase orders
Create purchase orders in Lightspeed Insights and easily determine which products and quantities to order. You can place purchase orders for all locations collectively or for individual locations.
All the sales reporting we can pull from equips the staff with the knowledge of where we’re at and where we need to be. If I wasn’t able to pull my reports—I would have no knowledge of what target I’m trying to hit.
Melanie Michaud
Founder, Thread + Seed
Customer since 2012
