LightSpeed for iPad 1.4 is now available in the App Store. This update adds support for Merchant Warehouse’s Genius platform, Moneris payment processing in Canada, encrypted card payments using MagTek’s uDynamo, and rounded cash payments. 

• Genius platform from Merchant Warehouse – Utilizing the Genius platform will allow LightSpeed for iPad to accept all types of mobile payments, including Google Wallet and LevelUp, while seamlessly working alongside the payment terminal to provide secure and convenient point-to-point transactions from the selling floor. With Genius, retailers can honor customer loyalty programs and never need to worry about manual updates—Genius adds new payment options automatically as they arise.
• Moneris – LightSpeed’s Canadian customers can now integrate their Apple device with Canadian payment terminals, eliminating the need for bulky device add-ons or sales counters.
• uDynamo – LightSpeed for iPad now supports encrypted card payments using uDynamo card readers. Perfect for small to medium sized businesses, uDynamo simply plugs into the headphone jack of an iPad to process payments.
• Rounded cash payments – Retailers can now process transactions using rounded cash payments in order to accommodate customers using currencies that are phasing out smaller denominations.

Today, we released LightSpeed 3.8.1, which includes a number of bug fixes and interface enhancements. Some key changes:

• Gallery view is synchronized when scrolling or selecting an item in the list
• Multi-keyword searches, as well as Customer email and First/Last name searches
• Double-clicking a Gallery image now opens the document
• Several system crashes have been resolved.

You can see the full list of changes here, or download the new version from our Downloads page. A big thank you to everyone who’s been using 3.8; your feedback has been crucial in making these improvements, so please keep it coming!

Our CEO Dax Dasilva was recently in California for the 17th Stanford Accel Symposium, the theme of which was The Re-Imagining of the Modern Enterprise. He and John Locke from Accel Partners sat down with John Furrier of SiliconAngle about the present and future of both retail and LightSpeed. See the full interview below.

Last Thursday, we had a great event at our new NYC office to celebrate the release of LightSpeed 3.8. We had wonderful hors d’oeuvres provided by Mary Giuliani, DJ Gino Santos providing live music, and an open bar with our own celebratory cocktail – The Thirty Eight. The demo room was packed all night with people trying out the new release and sharing their stories of retail success.

A sincere thank you to all of the customers, resellers and friends who made it out – we hope we’ll see you at our New York office again soon.

Complete photo album on Facebook.

We’ve covered the all-new StoreMaster and Dashboard features in-depth already, but there are some other great 3.8 features that we’re sure a lot of people will love.

Sell-Through Report

Get insight on which items are rising rapidly in popularity, week-on-week. The Sell-Through Report shows you the week’s starting quantity, received quantity for the week, the quantity of the items sold, and the final sell-through percentage. This information is invaluable for seeing what’s hot and what you should be ordering for your store.

Cash Rounding

Several countries have begun phasing out smaller denominations of physical currency. Both Canada and Australia have eliminated one-cent coins, and New Zealand has gone even further by discontinuing five-cent coins as well. Cash rounding simplifies the totals for cash purchases in these countries.

Integrated Payment Processing Comes to Canada

No more double entries: we’ve added Moneris Solutions as our exclusive partner for integrated payments in Canada. Moneris is Canada’s largest provider of electronic payments and delivers leading-edge payment technology, superior service, and support to more than 350,000 customers across North America.

The new Genius Customer Engagement Platform from Merchant Warehouse has the power to do what no other payments solution can do – aggregate and integrate every conceivable transaction technology, payment type, and customer program into a single platform. And now, you can use it with LightSpeed. Visit MerchantWarehouse.com for more info.

Download a free 30 day trial now and experience the latest that LightSpeed has to offer. If you have a Maintenance Plan, you can upgrade to 3.8 whenever you like. If you don’t have a Maintenance Plan and want to use 3.8 in your store, send us an e-mail at sales@lightspeedretail.com and we’ll sort things out for you.

While technically a part of StoreMaster, the Dashboard is one of the biggest new additions to LightSpeed for Mac; we wanted to give it some time in the spotlight. Dashboard harnesses the power of LightSpeed’s built-in analytics tools and distills your store’s data into widgets that are easy to read and totally customizable.

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The browser is the part of LightSpeed that store owners interact the most with. For LightSpeed 3.8, we wanted to create a new experience for store owners that makes their jobs significantly easier.

StoreMaster is the new browser, and it’s our vision of a LightSpeed built for the future. Not only has it been rebuilt from the ground up using Apple’s native Cocoa programming language for faster performance, it’s been redesigned in both form and function. In the case of StoreMaster, beauty isn’t just skin deep.

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We’re proud to announce that LightSpeed 3.8 – one of the most significant updates in the application’s history – is available now. Over the next few days we’ll be posting about the new features in-depth, but here’s a high-level look at what’s new.

StoreMaster is our redesigned and re-engineered browser. It’s the window into your business and lets you manage your products, customers, suppliers, and everything in between. It’s also a glimpse at the future of LightSpeed; it’s been coded from the ground up in Apple’s native Cocoa programming language, and has a beautiful new interface that’s easier than ever to use. It still has all of the functionality you’ve come to expect from the browser, like quotes, invoices, SROs, time-billing, purchasing … and everything else.

The new Dashboard harnesses the power of LightSpeed’s built-in analytics tools and distills your store’s data into customizable widgets. See your last twelve months of sales at a glance and keep up with your top selling products, total sales, and targets. Each user can customize the Dashboard so that they see only what’s important for them.

Other great new features include:

• a new Gallery interface that makes browsing images and checking inventory faster than ever
• a revamped Smart Find with more powerful search options
• a live stream of Notifications with updates on sales from the web, completed reports, and license updates
• popularity tracking with Sell-Through Reports
• simplified cash processing in countries that are eliminating smaller denominations with Cash Rounding
• integrated credit card payments in Canada with Moneris
• support for Merchant Warehouse’s Genius platform

Stay tuned to the blog this week for an in-depth look at some of the great new features.

Download a free 30 day trial now and experience the latest that LightSpeed has to offer. If you have a Maintenance Plan, you can upgrade to 3.8 whenever you like. If you don’t have a Maintenance Plan and want to use 3.8 in your store, send us an e-mail at sales@lightspeedretail.com and we’ll sort things out for you.

LightSpeed’s founder and CEO Dax Dasilva was on Bloomberg TV’s Taking Stock program last night to discuss how LightSpeed can help retailers by giving sales teams instant access to product information, and engendering customer loyalty with personalized shopping experiences.

Check out the full video.