Xsilva LightSpeed 2.5
Next-Generation Point of Sale for Mac OS X
with fully integrated Web Store option.

Welcome to LightSpeed
LightSpeed is a ground-breaking, next-generation Point of Sale system built exclusively for the Mac and designed expressly to accelerate growing small businesses and improve efficiency of larger operations - even multi-site. LightSpeed excels in retail environments, providing your store with a full set of easy-to-use retail tools that make it easy to operate and track all aspects of your business.

LightSpeed presents these tools in an easy-to-learn iTunes-like Browser and an innovative 'floating' Point of Sale interface designed for high-speed, error-free checkout. LightSpeed's tightly-integrated Web Store module (sold separately) can help you take your business online and download orders right back into LightSpeed. All of this functionality is built on a solid, multi-user database that will scale to satisfy the needs of your growing retail business.

Learn more about Lightspeed's features:

• Point of sale • Purchasing • Browser & Tracking • Accounting & Reporting • Sales & Retail • Web Store • Customer Features • Administration • Inventory • Technology

...or browse our shopping pages for a list of compatible peripherals including bar code scanners, printers and cash drawers.


Point of sale

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	Next-Generation POS LightSpeed 2 features a revamped futuristic 'floating' Point of Sale interface designed for high-speed USB barcode scanner-driven retail checkout. LightSpeed reduces errors and fraud by presenting images and information in side panels that allow a cashier to quickly verify Products and Customers without distracting from the sales register. Combined with built-in credit card processing and POS hardware support, LightSpeed Point of Sale makes a powerful and complete retail solution.
	Easy, Innovative and Customisable LightSpeed POS has simplified retail checkout with its friendly and streamlined interface. It's the first POS to integrate an iSight (or other) cameras right into the POS window to capture images of Products and Customers in real-time. Scan barcoded Quotes and Orders to automate customer checkout, customise the POS with company colours and logos, play video ads when the POS is idle, and print out receipts or beautiful full page invoices that can feature full-colour product images.
	POS Hardware Support Plug and play support for... • Barcode scanners • Card swipes • Pole displays • Receipt printers • Cash drawers ...as well as credit card processing, delivering a complete POS solution for Mac OS X.

Browser & Tracking

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	Works like iTunes The all-new LightSpeed Browser features an easy-to-use iTunes-like interface that lets you quickly and easily browse your business as easily as you would browse playlists in iTunes. Access LightSpeed's powerful Sales, Service, Tracking and Purchasing tools, all from within a single streamlined interface.
	Preview, iSight and Parking Browse live previews of products, customers and sales documents, effortlessly capture product and customer images on-the-fly with an iSight (or other) camera, and park frequently-used items in the Parking area. Intuitively drag and drop business elements to create new documents or add items to existing documents.
	Searching and Tracking Save dynamic Smart Finds just as easily you would save Smart Playlists in iTunes, and create Trackers that help keep you and your team coordinated with dynamic lists of every customer or document that requires action. Use the powerful Search All feature to search every corner of your LightSpeed-managed business, or look up inventory in other linked stores with multi-store inventory lookups. Browser searches are also now based on leading-edge SpringLoader technology from Xsilva and OpenBase, meaning that even the most rapidly-growing databases can be browsed at lightspeed!

Sales & Retail

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	Quoting, Ordering, Invoicing Quotes and Invoices are the heart of Xsilva LightSpeed, powered by lightning fast SQL searches and a streamlined interface. Sales reps can create professional-looking quotes and invoices literally in seconds, with instant and complete knowledge of the inventory levels of the Product being sold. A Quote can be converted to an Invoice or submitted to Purchasing as an Order, all with the click of a button. Deposits can be taken on Quotes/Orders/SROs and applied later as credits to Invoices.
	Credit Card Processing Optional UK third party support for Paypal and Google Checkout.
	Gift Cards LightSpeed's Gift Card system is both versatile and easy-to-use. Retailers can choose to use pre-printed gift certificates or gift cards with magnetic stripes or barcodes. LightSpeed can also generate and print barcode labels that can be affixed to gift certificates or gift cards.
	Printing and Photo Capture Sales documents can be printed with ease across several pages, with wrapping product descriptions, notes and full-colour images of your products. In addition, LightSpeed can also print a wide variety of other kinds of business and retail documents, including gift receipts, packing slips, box labels, mailing labels, product labels, claim checks and more. LightSpeed is also tightly integrated with iSight (and other) cameras, so images of products and customers can be quickly and easily captured in your database.
	Product Matrix LightSpeed has a Size/Colour Matrix in its Product window for clothing and apparel-based businesses which lets these business owners create Product records and adjust inventory levels in a convenient grid format. With LightSpeed 2, you can even build your Purchase Order using the matrix, a wonderful convenience that may save you hours when ordering from your suppliers.
	Jobs and Timesheets LightSpeed's Jobs and Timesheets lets you track employee hours and lets you find out how much time your staff are spending on projects and tasks. This can be a crucial tool to determine billing for your customers, and even allows you to convert Jobs to Invoices, summarising hours at your staff's billable rates and tasks performed. Your time is money!
	Service Repair Lightspeed includes a service repair order, or SRO, that can book in Products that need repair and document repair progress. The SRO can print claim checks and service labels and can perform Apple GSX Warranty Lookups and Parts Lookups when used in an Apple Reseller environment.

Customer Features

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	Addresses, Contacts & Preferences The Customer window lets you track everything about a customer. It can store multiple phone numbers, addresses, and contacts as well as capture customer photos with an iSight (or other) camera. Default language, currency, salesperson and tax code can also be set to increase accuracy and speed up transaction speed for a customer.
	Marketing and Categories Marketing activities like mass mailings and mailing label printing are facilitated by innovative categorisation tools like Customer Groups and powerful search tools like the Advanced Customer Find and Customer Browser that take full advantage of LightSpeed's robust SQL database.
	Notes, Calls and History Track all notes and calls with a customer and flag them for review so that they appear automatically in the Tracker as follow-ups. View all of a customer's transactions and purchases in the History section.
	iCal, Google Maps and VoIP Action menus in the Customer window let you schedule a customer in iCal, print mailing labels, send emails, map their address on Google Maps, initiate a Quote, Order or Invoice, or phone them on Skype, all with a single click.

Inventory

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	Labels and Barcodes LightSpeed's Printing Labels feature prints to a range of label sizes for products and customers as part of a rapid data-entry system for sales transactions and inventory counts. Flexibility in codes you can choose for your labels allow for seamless processing at the sales station regardless of what you're selling, and can be printed to a label sheet or spooled on the Dymo LabelWriter.
	Serial Numbers Any serialised products are tracked as they move through the system, from being received on a purchase order to being sold on an invoice, booked in on a Service Repair Order, or transferred to a virtual warehouse - just enter a serial number in Serial Number History and see everywhere it has been in LightSpeed, instantly. If you add a serialised product to an invoice, you can access a list of available serial numbers in your inventory with the click of a button, or simply use your handheld scanner to scan in the product's serial number.
	Reorder Points One of LightSpeed's many "smart" features includes Reorder Point, which allows you to set reorder points for your products. When stock diminishes to the level you've set, you will be prompted to place another order using LightSpeed's clear one-click purchasing.
	Count Inventory LightSpeed 2 not only minimises the pain of an inventory count with the Count Inventory feature, it makes the process almost...fun. Making efficient use of product labels and the barcode scanner will cut your counting time significantly, as LightSpeed keeps track of what's been counted and will aggregate your quantities for you as you scan. Counts will be stored for later review, and can be edited and amended as new products are accounted for.
	Virtual Warehouses When you have products that you want to show as unavailable for sale but are still part of your inventory, use the Virtual Warehouses feature to transfer stock from your sellable inventory to one of ten "stockpiles", ie. Demo equipment, desktop units, repairs. Products can still be tracked, but do not show in available quantities and a true picture of your inventory is simple!
	Multi-Store Lookups Keep tabs on the inventory levels of your other locations with Multi-store Lookups, providing you real-time access to detailed information of the other stores in your company! Integrated into every product's inventory status within LightSpeed for your stock levels, other locations are accessed with a single click for full disclosure.
	Live Pricing Rules LightSpeed's Set Selling Prices and Set Product Info give you extraordinary control over batch changes of specific subsets of your products, including tax statuses, alternate pricing levels, and markups based on category or brand. Another of LightSpeed's "smart" features, Live Rules make it easy to set up rules that can be applied automatically to your products if they meet the particular set of criteria you've set, so you don't have to think about it.

Purchasing

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	Drag and Drop Purchase Orders Create purchase orders in seconds with drag and drop ease. Select the products you wish to order, and drag them as a group to a new PO document. Choosing the supplier will auto-populate supplier codes and costs.
	One-Click Purchasing Actions Sorting through the order requests your sales reps place throughout the day and compiling them onto purchase orders can be an onerous task, but LightSpeed's One-Click Purchasing categorizes the requests according to supplier and converts them to purchase orders with a single click. Each PO lists the breakdown of the order requests, including customer info, inventory statuses, ETAs, and costs.
	Multiple Suppliers and Costs Sourcing your products from more than one supplier is simple with the Cost Supplier Grid in every product card, which allows you to enter multiple suppliers and costs and to select one as your default supplier. When this product is attached to a PO, it will automatically pull the appropriate costing information depending on the supplier you've chosen.

Accounting & Reporting

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	250+ Reports The Reporting module features over 250 reports in over two dozen categories, including Sales, Payments, Inventory Valuation, Taxes, and Commissions. All reports can be filtered for specific, ground-level information, queried by date range, and exported to Excel or PDF format. Presets allow you to save your favourite reports for quick access.
	End of Day Reports The End of Day report is a detailed daily summary of the day's sales activities, including deposits, payments, and returns, broken down by sales station. Compare your actual funds for deposit with the balances recorded in LightSpeed, and any shortages or overages are clear and easy to understand. LightSpeed gives a concise, evident summary of the day.
	Commission Reports Because commissions can be paid in a variety of ways, LightSpeed includes a programmable Commissions report that allows you to quickly calculate commissions based on sell price or profit margin, and easily tallies an adjustable scale for discounted products. Split commissions are also a breeze, as invoices split between two users are broken out separately in reports.
	Best and Worst Performers The Intelligence module of LightSpeed's reporting features a cluster of predefined reports geared toward illustrating your best- and worst-performing customers, quotes, invoices, and products, as well as monthly revenues laid out in chart form. This provides you with a snapshot of your business and the its trending so you can identify strengths and weaknesses early, and respond quickly. The Add to Favorites feature saves your favorite reports for quick access later.
	Accounts Receivable Keeping tabs on your customer accounts is done with the Accounts Receivable module, tracking their outstanding invoices as they age through 30-day intervals. You can print statements, apply payments to particular invoices, set opening balances when you're bringing in customers from your previous system, and filter unused credits on sales document.
	Exports to MYOB, Quickbooks Exporting invoices, payments, and supplier invoices to your accounting software, whether it's MYOB or QuickBooks (Mac or Windows), is a simple process of posting and exporting. Exports of invoices and payments are GL summaries, while customer and invoice detail information continues to reside in LightSpeed. Supplier invoices are exported as payables for completion in MYOB or QuickBooks.
	Batch Printing Batch Printing allows you to print separate statements for all customers with outstanding balances.

LightSpeed Web Store

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	One-Click Updates The LightSpeed Web Store lets business owners generate and maintain a fully-customisable PHP and CSS-based e-commerce site from their LightSpeed database, with a single click. Products are set up in web categories with special web descriptions, prices (if desired), and assigned searchable keywords. The Web Store re-uses the product photos already saved in a LightSpeed database, and photos can be updated in LightSpeed by simply dragging and dropping images into the Browser, or capturing them with an iSight camera.
	Easy Order Processing Web Orders are downloaded with a single-click and can be processed using either your existing card/PDQ terminal or LightSpeed's optional third party card processors, including Paypal and Google Checkout. Shoppers are matched with customer records in the database and automatically receive an email to alert them that their order has been received. If products are not in stock, the order requests can flow directly into LightSpeed's purchasing system.
	Amazing Templates LightSpeed Web Store ships with three professionally-designed templates that can be modified to suit any business. Or retailers can design their own CSS template to match an existing web site. Introducing a new item or advertising a new promotion on the Web Store, is as easy as dragging and dropping new header and sub-header graphics from your directly into LightSpeed.
	Secure and Low-Maintenance Since it doesn't require a live database connection, the LightSpeed Web Store is a very secure and low-maintenance e-commerce solution. Retailers can host their LightSpeed Web Store on any web host that supports PHP 5.1 with standard options enabled.

Administration

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User Privileges and Logging LightSpeed features an advanced yet easy to use Privilege system so that business owners can set access levels or require authorisation for over 160 different privileges in LightSpeed. LightSpeed 2 integrates detailed logging into the Privilege system, so business owners can see who committed transactions to the database and when. Pull up logs for individual documents and even see failed privilege authentications. All privileges in LightSpeed can be enabled or disabled for logging.

Import Tools LightSpeed offers powerful migration and import tools for Products, Customers, Customer Contacts, Suppliers, Invoices and POs in a specially optimised separate application called LightSpeed Import Tools. Import presets can be saved so that import files can be processed on a regular basis quickly and easily.

Technology

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	Natively Multi-User LightSpeed was designed from the ground up to be a multi-user system and serve the needs of an entire sales team. LightSpeed is targeted at groups of 1 to 25 users, but is architecturally capable of serving hundreds of users.
	Fault Tolerant SQL Database OpenBase SQL 10 was chosen to be the foundation for LightSpeed for its rock-solid reliability and powerful SQL technology, because Xsilva believes that every small business owner should have an industrial strength SQL database to power their growing operation. Xsilva and OpenBase also collaborate closely on technology initiatives to bring high-end database functionality to Xsilva's small business customers. A good example is SpringLoader, the search technology that brings high-speed lookups to the LightSpeed Browser, even when searching huge databases.
	Remote Access LightSpeed is optimised for remote access, transferring as little as data as possible to the remote LightSpeed client. This maximises the performance experienced when remotely logging in, freeing you to work from almost anywhere.

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