Paired Accelerator
Shopify & Lightspeed Retail EPOS
The Shopify & Lightspeed Retail EPOS accelerator is a pre-built integration package that seamlessly synchronises key commerce, brick-and-mortar sales, and stock data between your Shopify ecommerce CMS and Lightspeed Retail EPOS point-of-sale system. Engineered natively on Patchworks’ API-first iPaaS, this enterprise accelerator bridges the gap between your physical stores and digital storefront to enable true omnichannel retail ecommerce automation.
Keep Shopify and Lightspeed working as one system
Omnichannel Stock Sync
Connect Shopify with your point-of-sale platform to eliminate manual stock transfers and data silos. Protect your brand from overselling by syncing inventory across physical shops and online storefronts simultaneously.
Unified Order Management
Automatically trigger order and fulfillment updates across your retail operation. Maintain total accuracy by letting online purchases and in-store transactions feed into a single, unified inventory and ledger system.
Centralised Product Control
Gain a comprehensive view of your entire inventory and catalogue. Patchworks ensures that pricing updates, product variations, and customer databases are powered by accurate, live cross-platform data.
Integrations out of the box
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Instant Inventory Synchronisation
Two-way synchronisation of live stock levels between Lightspeed EPOS and Shopify to maintain absolute data accuracy across all channels.
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In-Store & Online Order Sync
Two-way automated routing of transaction records, ensuring physical EPOS sales and digital orders map to centralised reports.
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Product & Variant Mapping
Streamlined one-way push of new items, matrix variations, prices, and core descriptions from Lightspeed to your Shopify store.
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Customer Profile Harmonisation
Two-way synchronisation of customer databases, allowing loyalty details and purchase histories to align online and offline.
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Multi-Location Stock Routing
Intelligent inventory mapping that correctly assigns product volumes to individual physical brick-and-mortar storefronts or warehouses.
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Payment & Refund Reconciliation
Seamless data flows tracking cash drawer sessions, digital card payments, and refunds across your business ecosystem.
Technical process and implementation
For growing merchants, expanding into brick-and-mortar or managing disparate online and offline sales points can lead to inaccurate stock levels, manual data transfer headaches, and fragmented customer experiences. The Patchworks Shopify to Lightspeed integration natively eliminates these hurdles. By automating key data processes and synchronising business-critical information in near real-time, our pre-built Accelerator delivers an efficient, robust, and scalable ecommerce to EPOS integration that drives growth.
Rather than designing expensive, high-risk bespoke middleware paths from scratch, this proven template allows you to connect your tech stack swiftly. Built on pre-configured, tested connectors, the platform automates data translation, simplifies the checkout process, and eliminates operational siloing. This gives retailers, operations managers, and growth-oriented agencies the agility to add new retail technologies, expand geographically, or replatform with total peace of mind.
Because this framework operates entirely via our modern, low-code, API-first architecture, your technical users maintain total creative governance. Through our intuitive drag-and-drop Visual Canvas, teams can effortlessly design, expand, and tailor data mappings to mirror precise business guidelines. To explore how to view raw payloads, resolve data exceptions, and run real-time transaction logs, visit the Patchworks Platform Overview.
Common Asked Questions
Deployment can be achieved rapidly. Because the Patchworks Accelerator utilises a pre-built template with native connectors, standard data mapping flows are operational right out of the box. Once you authenticate API credentials and establish your secure connector instances, you can link your online store to your EPOS registers immediately without complex custom coding.
You have full operational visibility with Patchworks Real-Time Monitoring. Our dashboard delivers clear, transparent logs that allow users to easily track API interactions, view specific payloads, and monitor data transformations. This gives your staff the power to identify and troubleshoot operational bottlenecks instantly.
Yes, the platform is designed to effortlessly handle multi-location retail setups. The Accelerator dynamically maps inventory levels and distinct transaction data from multiple physical Lightspeed EPOS branches back to your central Shopify store, ensuring your digital and offline stock points remain perfectly harmonised.
No technical coding expertise is needed to run day-to-day data syncs. Patchworks delivers a user-friendly, low-code platform interface. While the underlying technology is an enterprise-grade iPaaS, regular retail operations, marketing, and management teams can confidently adjust field mappings and track transactions using our visual control panel.
Our enterprise-grade architecture relies on automatic request queuing and smart data buffering. If either Shopify or Lightspeed Retail EPOS hits API rate thresholds during extreme traffic spikes—like a seasonal physical store sale or Black Friday online—Patchworks safely stores your data payloads and retries transmission automatically, meaning zero orders or stock updates are ever dropped.
Proven by retailers operating at scale
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“What surprised me was just how effortless it was. Once the data was prepared properly, Patchworks moved it into Shopify incredibly fast.”
Andy Richley
Head of Tech, Castore
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“Patchworks offers a great portfolio of integrations and are working towards many more.”
Paula Abisolo
Omni-Channel Delivery Lead, Mint Velvet
