TrainingUser Guide

iStats

Setting up LightSpeed iStats

Staying in touch with your business every day is simple with LightSpeed’s iStats, no matter where you are. With your iPhone and an internet connection, stay up to date by looking up the following information:

Sales

The Sales tab on your iPhone displays your total sales, returns, payments, and number of invoices for the day, the week, the month-to-date, or the year-to-date.  

Intelligence

Track the invoices, products, and customers generating the highest revenue, again for the day, week, month, or year. Knowing which products are your bestsellers will keep you ahead of the curve on stocking and marketing, and knowing which customers are buying the most will let you know who to send the biggest gift baskets to. 

Staff

From your iPhone, you’ll be able to tell who’s clocked in at your store, when they started, and whether they’ve been working on specific jobs. Tap their phone number or email address to contact them instantly. 

Configuration

To configure LightSpeed for iStats, follow these steps:

  1. Download the installer file (iphone.zip) found at http://downloads.xsilva.net/iphone.zip
  2. If a file named iphone.zip appears in your downloads folder, double click it to decompress it. If an iPhone folder appears from the download, you’re already set. 
  3. With a graphical FTP client, connect to your web server and upload the iPhone folder from step 2. If you don’t have an FTP client, we suggest one of the following:
        CyberDuck (free)
        Transmit
        Fetch
        Yummy FTP
  4. These FTP clients will let you connect to your web server and browse the files and folders there. Once connected, you can copy the iPhone directory by dragging it into the FTP window. If you are using the LightSpeed Web Store, just connect to the store and drag the iPhone folder into the store (xlsws_php) directory. Do not rename the iPhone directory.
  5. Enter your connection info (the same that you used in step 3) into the iPhone Stats setup panel, found in the Tools menu. You do not need to specify the iPhone directory.
  6. Be sure to set a PIN in the iPhone Stats setup panel. 
  7. Bookmark the URL in Safari.