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The State of Lightspeed in 2025

Updated Apr 25 2025

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

In this report, we'll cover the following essential statistics on Lightspeed usage.

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Lightspeed Growth

At present, there are 20,338 live stores running on the Lightspeed platform.

Here is the historical growth of stores running Lightspeed.

  • Lightspeed stores decreased -0.8% quarter-over-quarter in 2025 Q1.
  • Lightspeed stores decreased -10% year-over-year in 2025 Q1.
Quarter
Active Stores
2020 Q3
3,542
2020 Q4
3,894
2021 Q1
4,306
2021 Q2
4,570
2021 Q3
4,777
2021 Q4
5,035
2022 Q1
5,163
2022 Q2
5,257
2022 Q3
5,580
2022 Q4
14,096
2023 Q1
14,016
2023 Q2
14,039
2023 Q3
23,693
2023 Q4
23,265
2024 Q1
22,791
2024 Q2
22,386
2024 Q3
21,649
2024 Q4
20,975
2025 Q1
20,506
2025 Q2 (to date)
20,338
Active Stores by Quarter

Note: the store counts displayed in this section are based on actual historical store counts.

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

Social Media Usage On Lightspeed Stores

Ecommerce brands use social media sites to engage with millions of consumers. Instagram and Facebook are the dominant social media sites for ecommerce stores, by far, with Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube also having notable usage.

  • Facebook is used by 37.9% of Lightspeed stores.
  • Instagram is used by 35.2% of Lightspeed stores.
  • YouTube is used by 9.5% of Lightspeed stores.
Type
Stores
Facebook
7,708
Instagram
7,153
YouTube
1,939
Twitter
1,693
Pinterest
711
LinkedIn
696
WhatsApp
432
Tiktok
227
Facebook Group
45
Yelp
19
Snapchat
4

Contact Information On Lightspeed Stores

Email remains an extremely popular communication channel for merchants. Many merchants also provide a phone number so that their customers can reach them instantly.

  • 44% of Lightspeed stores provide a phone number on their website
  • 18% of Lightspeed stores have an email on their website
Type
Stores
Phone
9,013
Email
3,684

Top Categories For Lightspeed Stores

Here is the breakdown of industry verticals for stores on Lightspeed.

  • 4.7% of Lightspeed stores sell Apparel products.
  • 3.2% of Lightspeed stores sell Sports products.
  • 2.7% of Lightspeed stores sell Home & Garden products.

Top Countries For Lightspeed Stores

Here are the top countries for stores using Lightspeed.

  • 28.4% of Lightspeed stores are in Netherlands
  • 9.6% of Lightspeed stores are in United States
  • 4.9% of Lightspeed stores are in Canada
  • 3.6% of Lightspeed stores are in Belgium
Country
Stores
5,776
992
742
448
315

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

Number Of Employees For Lightspeed Stores

Here is the breakdown of Lightspeed stores by the number of employees.

  • 98.3% of Lightspeed stores have Unknown employees.
  • 1.0% of Lightspeed stores have 1 - 9 employees.
  • 0.4% of Lightspeed stores have 10 - 24 employees.
Employees
Stores
Unknown
19,986
1 - 9
212
10 - 24
82
25 - 49
11
50 - 99
18
100 - 249
18
250 - 999
7
1000 - 4999
2
5000+
2

Number Of Products Sold For Lightspeed Stores

Here is the breakdown of Lightspeed stores by the number of products that they sell.

  • 13.3% of Lightspeed stores sell 250 - 999 different products.
  • 9.6% of Lightspeed stores sell 100 - 249 different products.
  • 9.3% of Lightspeed stores sell 1 - 9 different products.
Products Sold
Stores
1 - 9
1,899
10 - 24
433
25 - 49
935
50 - 99
276
100 - 249
1,951
250 - 999
2,710
1000 - 4999
1,212
5000 - 9999
217
10000 - 24999
133
25000 - 99999
38

Top Technologies on Lightspeed Stores

We're tracking 215 different technologies that have 71,299 collective installs on Lightspeed stores.

  • Cloudflare is used by 99.9% of Lightspeed stores.
  • Google Tag Manager is used by 37.0% of Lightspeed stores.
  • Google Adsense is used by 35.8% of Lightspeed stores.

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

Technology
Stores
20,308
2,335
1,891
1,885

Top Shipping Carriers Used By Lightspeed Stores

  • UPS is used by 2.0% of Lightspeed stores.
  • USPS is used by 1.0% of Lightspeed stores.
  • Fedex is used by 0.5% of Lightspeed stores.

Here are the top 10 shipping carriers across all Lightspeed stores.

Shipping Carrier
Stores
UPS
415
USPS
197
Fedex
92
DPD
73
Royal Mail
53
DHL
45
Canada Post
27
GLS Parcel
21
La Poste
9
Purolator
8

Lightspeed Store Top-level Domain Distribution

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

That said, you'll find stark regional differences in certain countries. In Australia, .com.au is the most common top-level domain with .com a close second. This is the exception however as .com domains dominate in virtually all other countries.

  • 70.5% of Lightspeed stores have a .com domain.
  • 17.1% of Lightspeed stores have a .nl domain.
  • 3.3% of Lightspeed stores have a .be domain.
Top-level Domain
Stores
.com
14,331
.nl
3,474
.be
680
.ca
451
.de
368
.eu
215
.shop
104
.ch
78
.net
74
.org
73

Top Lightspeed Stores

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

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
Anne Frank Stichting
1,527
2016/12/30
The Toy Store
17,548
2020/06/26
www.labyrinthdc.com
18,138
2021/06/04
Airsoft Extreme
20,750
2016/12/30
Hub Hobby
21,379
2019/08/02

New Lightspeed Stores

Here are the 0 highest-ranked stores added most recently.

Name
Domain
Rank
Created
qczqsj.bond
7,133,948
2025/04/25
Fanning's Appliances Yo
7,918,331
2025/04/25
Verse glutenvrije pizza's thuisbezorgd
8,135,557
2025/04/25
Getroadready
8,275,226
2025/04/25
japitrailerparts.webshopapp.com
12,704,324
2025/04/25

Stores Switching to Lightspeed From Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Lightspeed has taken 18 merchants from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Platform
Stores
2
1

Here are the top stores that have switched to Lightspeed from competitive ecommerce platforms.

Name
Domain
Rank
Last Platform
Changed
YourUnderwearStore (Aanrader!)
377,698
Magento
2025/04/08
Tuningstickers
518,469
Custom Cart
2025/02/13
Joanne's Store
540,209
WooCommerce
2025/04/01
www.plasticz.nl
666,216
Custom Cart
2025/02/19
www.drankenhandelleiden.nl
692,708
CCV Shop
2025/03/09

Stores Switching from Lightspeed To Other Platforms

Over the last 90 days, Lightspeed has lost 169 merchants to competitive platforms.

Here are the top Lightspeed stores that have recently changed to a competitive platform.

Name
Domain
Rank
New Platform
Changed
ibizamode
63,755
Shopify
2025/02/12
Kartent
91,424
Shopify
2025/04/06
CurvesWear
95,175
Shopify
2025/04/13
Paws on Chicon
109,384
Shopify
2025/03/30
CAPITOL
119,968
Shopify
2025/02/19

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