The State of Lightspeed

Founded in 2005, Lightspeed is a point-of-sale and ecommerce software provider based in Montreal, Quebec.

Quarterly Growth

At present, there are 4,352 live stores running on the Lightspeed platform.

Here is the quarter-over-quarter growth of stores running Lightspeed.

It's hard to know exactly when a Lightspeed store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by Lightspeed, ordered by worldwide store rank.

New Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked new stores that are running Lightspeed.

Platform Wins

Over the last 90 days, Lightspeed has taken 68 merchants from competitive platforms.

Platform Win Stores

Here are the top stores won from competitive platforms.

Platform Losses

Over the last 90 days, Lightspeed has lost 39 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform Loss Stores

Here are the top stores lost to competitive platforms.

Category Breakdown

Here are the top 20 industry verticals for stores on Lightspeed.

Country Breakdown

Lightspeed is quite popular in the United States.

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Social Media and Contact Info

Email and phone are the primary means of contacting merchants running on Lightspeed.

This is in contrast with merchants using other ecommerce platforms that have much higher usage of social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

Third-Party Technologies

Many Lightspeed merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Lightspeed App Store. We're tracking 55 different technologies that have 4,975 collective installs on Lightspeed stores.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all Lightspeed stores.

Top-level Domain Distribution

Most Lightspeed stores use a .com domain. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only recently been introduced and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

Get more insights on Lightspeed stores

Our search interface is easy to use and helps you find the Lightspeed stores that are relevant to you.

You can segment stores on a variety of dimensions:

• Social Media accounts
• Email address
• Phone numbers
• Country
• Third-party technologies
• Creation date
• Platform
• Top-level domains
• Domain status
• Domain type

Filter on stores with Facebook accounts.

For more insights on Lightspeed stores, create a free account and have a look for yourself.