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Landing Platform vs Lightspeed: a till that knows your customers
Lightspeed sells retail and restaurant point of sale by location and register, with marketing automation and API access as add-ons. Landing's till handles tables, tabs, split bills, tips and UK VAT, and every sale lands on the same customer as your online orders, email and support.
Landing suits you if
- You run a shop floor or a hospitality floor, and sell online too
- You want a till record built for UK electronic sales suppression rules
- You want the rota, clock-in, HR and email in the same system as the till
Where the till bill spreads.
Lightspeed is a proper point of sale. The cost and the customer data spread out from there.
Per location, per register
The bill grows with every location and every extra register, before add-ons.
Add-ons for the rest
Marketing automation and direct API access are listed as add-ons, each a separate decision.
Copies of the same people
Your till, your email tool and your HR app each keep their own copy of the same people.
Landing Platform vs Lightspeed, line by line.
On the floor, Landing's till does the work you expect. Behind it sits the rest of the business, on one record.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Lightspeed |
|---|---|---|
| Counter till | Barcode scanning with several codes per item, scan-to-teach from the shop floor, discounts and refundsScale | Retail and restaurant POS |
| Hospitality floor | Tables and open tabs, with split bills across cash and card, and only the cash counted into the drawerScale | Lightspeed Restaurant |
| Cash-ups | Shifts, drawer reconciliation, X and Z reads, and each person's variance history for managers onlyScale | End-of-day reports |
| UK VAT and a tamper-evident record | VAT by rate on every receipt, and a chained log of every sale, refund and drawer event that shows if anything was alteredScale | Sales history in its back office |
| Tips | Kept out of turnover, with cash and card tips recorded separatelyScale | Tipping supported |
| When the internet drops | Sales keep ringing and sync later, with their original time and the VAT rate that appliedScale | Offline mode |
| Customers | An in-store sale lands on the same CRM contact as their online orders, even when they have no emailScale | Customer profiles in the POS |
| Email marketing | Campaigns, flows and segments on what customers bought, in store or onlineCore | Marketing automation, as an add-on |
| Staff rota and HR | Shift rota with kiosk clock-in, leave, timesheets and HR recordsCore | Through its integration marketplace |
| Online shop | Checkout, subscriptions and rentals, on the same customer and stock as the tillCore | eCommerce, for retail |
| How you pay | Per Builder and Member. Customers are guests, and guests are free | Per location, plus each extra register |
Plan tags show where a feature starts on Landing: Core, Growth or Scale. Lightspeed details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
What it costs, side by side.
Lightspeed charges per location and per register, then adds modules. Landing charges for the people who use it, and the till, shop, email, rota and HR come in one plan.
Lightspeed, as it lists it
How Lightspeed is sold in the UK, as its pricing pages list it.
And still to buy separately: an HR and rota app, a CRM, an email tool and a helpdesk.
a month on Landing, billed yearly, ex VAT
Includes the till, tables and tabs, cash-ups, the tamper-evident record, online checkout, email flows, CRM, shift rota with clock-in, HR and a helpdesk.
Work out your own priceExample team: three managers who run the venues, marketing and the books every day, fifteen who run the till, pick up shifts and clock in. Lightspeed figures as listed on its UK site, September 2026. Credits for AI, SMS and lookups come from a shared pool each Builder adds to.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map your stack
Show us your Lightspeed setup and the tools around it. We agree what moves where, and what "ready" means for each tool, before you commit to anything.
We move Lightspeed across
Your products, prices, barcodes, VAT rates and customers move across as part of the switch. We set up your tables, staff permissions and cash-up routine, and run a trial shift before the old till goes.
You sign it off
Billing starts only when we have shown it works against the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But our tills already work.
Fair. Here are the questions retail and hospitality teams ask us most when they are weighing it up.
Does Landing's till keep working when the internet drops?
Yes. Sales keep ringing and sync when the connection returns. Each one keeps the time it was rung, so it lands in the right shift and is taxed at the VAT rate that applied then.
How does Landing handle tips?
Tips are kept out of turnover, and cash and card tips are recorded as separate events, so the drawer reconciles and the tips are clear for whoever shares them out.
What makes the till record tamper-evident?
Every sale, refund and drawer event goes into a chained log. If a row is edited, replaced or removed, the chain shows it. It is built for the UK rules on electronic sales suppression.
Can bar staff see the takings?
Only if you let them. Ringing sales, reading turnover, supervising staff and changing VAT rates are four separate permissions, so a supervisor can run the bar without seeing the books.
Planning next month's shifts?
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“We were running PR, social scheduling and the rest of our marketing across half a dozen tools that never talked. Now we plan, schedule and measure from a single screen.”
One customer, from the bar to the inbox.
Thirty minutes on your venues and the tools behind them. We'll show you what moves, what it costs and when billing would start.