2026-01-22, 6:09:39 a.m.
MONTREAL, Canada — January 22, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Lightspeed Commerce Inc. (NYSE: LSPD) (TSX: LSPD) has announced a suite of Q3 product innovations designed to streamline operations, enhance guest experiences, and drive growth for retail, golf, and hospitality businesses in over 100 countries.
According to Dax Dasilva, Founder and CEO of Lightspeed, these innovations reflect the company’s commitment to delivering technology to independent businesses. He stated that by incorporating automation, insights, and connected workflows into the platform, merchants can operate with confidence and focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences.
The new products and features span both hospitality and retail, providing businesses with enterprise-grade capabilities without complexity.
Lightspeed AI, launched in January 2026, is a new AI-powered intelligence layer across Lightspeed’s retail and hospitality platform, designed to help merchants access insights faster, simplify decision-making, and operate more efficiently. Lightspeed AI introduces conversational assistants within Lightspeed Retail, Lightspeed Restaurant, and NuORDER by Lightspeed. These assistants allow merchants and buying teams to ask natural-language questions and receive real-time, actionable insights without navigating complex dashboards or reports. Lightspeed AI will continue to expand throughout 2026 with additional capabilities across retail and hospitality.
For the hospitality sector, Lightspeed introduced Lightspeed Tempo, a feature designed to help restaurants with pacing. Using Lightspeed’s Kitchen Display System, Tempo guides servers and managers through the entire dining timeline, providing visibility into when items are ordered, prepped, ready, or served. Tempo is currently available to flagship Lightspeed Restaurant customers, with a wider availability later in the year.
Lightspeed Tasks is a new digital checklist solution that helps operators and their teams stay aligned and focused. Restaurateurs can create repeatable workflows for duties, cleaning protocols, and consistency across locations. Reminders are sent to staff, and tasks can be completed on a mobile device through the Lightspeed Pulse app.
Lightspeed Reservations provides an integrated way to manage bookings online or by phone within the Lightspeed platform. Restaurateurs can improve guest experiences and reduce no-shows with built-in automated reminders, maximizing every revenue opportunity and simplifying front-of-house operations.
Lightspeed Mobile Tap, a portable payment device, has expanded across Europe to France, Germany, and Switzerland. It allows restaurants to accept numerous payment methods without terminals, turning mobile devices into a single place to take orders and payments.
For retail, Lightspeed Commerce announced a new centralized, multi-brand shopping and ordering experience within its Marketplace, transforming Lightspeed Wholesale into a single destination where retailers can browse, compare, and purchase products from brands directly within NuORDER by Lightspeed and the Lightspeed POS system. The new experience eliminates the need for multiple brand portals and disconnected workflows, enabling faster, more flexible purchasing with built-in insights and seamless POS integration.
Lightspeed’s themes store offers access to a collection of ecommerce-optimized themes designed by industry and design experts, helping merchants create websites without design experience or coding required. Retailers can preview and trial both free and paid themes before purchase.
Lightspeed Retail merchants using Lightspeed Payments Smart Terminals now have access to customer-facing display (CFD) functionality directly on their payment terminals. This update reduces operational costs, improves accuracy, and helps with evolving regional display regulations.
Using the Lightspeed Scanner app, retailers can now accept in-person, contactless payments directly on Android devices. This feature was released in beta, with general availability now live in January 2026 for Lightspeed Payments customers in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
To learn more about these new features, visit Lightspeed’s website.
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Source: Lightspeed Commerce Inc.
