Mr. Ryan Tabone reports

LIGHTSPEED RELEASES NEW FEATURES, LEVERAGING DATA AND AI, TO MAKE THE HARD PARTS OF RUNNING A BUSINESS THAT MUCH EASIER

Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is providing details of a roster of new product features recently released to merchants.

From artificial-intelligence-powered menu creation to self-serve assortment planning and continued expansion of Lightspeed Payments, each new feature has been custom-built with one goal in mind: eliminate mundane tasks that bog down retailers and restaurateurs, making it easier and more efficient to run their businesses.

"Merchants start businesses out of passion, not because they love spending hours on inventory, reconciliation or schedules," said Ryan Tabone, chief product and technology officer of Lightspeed. "Our job as their technology partner is to empower them with the tools that simplify how they operate, so they can focus on their customers and scale their business. This latest round of new product features is the start of a string of functionality that gives them that ability, as well as an edge in their respective markets."

Lightspeed Restaurant leverages AI, data and insights to help restaurateurs make smarter decisions, faster

Smart items: the AI secret ingredient to building a chef's-kiss menu in seconds

New seasons means time for new menus. But what used to take hours of inputting and updating the point of sale now takes seconds with Lightspeed Restaurant's newest launch: smart items. This transformative solution:

• Generates compelling product information;
• Creates captivating images to match;
• Auto translates the menu into multiple languages to service the languages you operate in.

Whether restaurateurs are managing an extensive 100-item menu or starting from scratch, smart items can save them valuable time: up to 30 minutes per 100-item menu, or even hours and days for those building content from the ground up.

Advanced Insights levels up with Magic Menu Quadrant and staff performance tools

Lightspeed Restaurant's proprietary Advanced Insights tool just got a powerful boost with two features, now available on its flagship product globally:

• Magic Menu Quadrant, offering merchants insights into popular items and those that encourage repeat dining;
• Staff performance tools help managers optimize their front-of-house team's performance, from increasing order sizes to cross-training.

When it comes to seeing these features brought to life, Jarred Drown, owner of Terrace Bay Hotel and Freshwater Tavern in Gladstone, Mich., shared, "Lightspeed's Magic Menu Quadrant helps us expand while turning a profit on every order." What is more, Francine Joseph, business manager from Boukan in Toronto, Canada, said: "One of the greatest features we have now that we didn't have before is capturing customer data. We always encourage our staff to capture, especially our loyal customers, repeat customers, because they're spending money here and what we want to be able to do is reward that."

Lightspeed Retail simplifies purchasing and planning for sophisticated retailers and brands

Speed up vertical and target assortment planning

Brands that operate their own retail stores can reduce manual work (and the frequency of data entry errors) by using NuORDER Assortments to optimize inventory allocation, identify merchandising gaps and make more informed range planning decisions.

"Implementing NuORDER Assortments meant more accurate roll-ups and a clear process to write smarter buys," said Stephanie Gin, director of buying, Brunello Cucinelli. "We now get an immediate visual of the assortment thus making it much easier to analyze and review. The tool has replaced all manual processes and has become essential to our buying process."

For multibrand retailers, NuORDER Assortments now allows both merchants and brands to efficiently load and manage financial or allocation targets, which enables them to compare their assortment against planned spend and making it easier to see where they are overinvested and underinvested. As they write their units, buyers can review how their totals measure against their targets for different departments, categories or other product groupings.

Additionally, onboarding new brands to NuORDER Assortments is completely self-service, allowing for automated mapping of its product schema into an assortment schema and enabling the brand to configure its set-up.

Millions of products, thousands of brands, now available across all major Lightspeed Retail verticals

With Lightspeed Retail's business-to-business catalogue expanding across all major verticals such as fashion and apparel, sporting and outdoor goods, bikes, toys and crafts, and home and lifestyle, retailers can now add product info from millions of products from thousands of popular brands straight to their product catalogue. This is significantly quicker than adding products manually, and merchants can ensure that all product info, images, descriptions, universal product code and more are correct and verified from the supplier, making it quicker than ever to start selling new products.

Create, schedule, track and sell service offerings directly inside Lightspeed Retail

After a successful beta launch, the company's services module is now available on Lightspeed Retail everywhere. Better yet, it now lets merchants include back-ordered items. This module is best served by retailers with service components like bikes, sporting goods and jewellery.

Lightspeed Payments continues to expand availability globally

Lightspeed remains dedicated to simplifying complex processes for its merchants on all fronts, including Lightspeed Payments. Unified into both flagship products -- Lightspeed Retail and Restaurant -- Lightspeed Payments continues its global expansion:

• Lightspeed Payments is now available for eligible merchants via Lightspeed eCom in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Belgium.
• Lightspeed Payments is now available on Lightspeed Restaurant in Belgium and the Netherlands.

With these launches, Lightspeed Payments is now available in Australia, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, Netherlands, the United States and the United Kingdom, making international transactions more accessible and convenient for businesses of all sizes. Learn more about Lightspeed Payments on the company's Lightspeed Retail or Lightspeed Restaurant websites.

Lightspeed powers the world's best businesses, including Playbill (U.S.), W Cosmetics (Australia), Les Jumelles (Antwerp), Imagine Exhibitions, Melissa Joy Manning (New York), Neal's Yard Remedies (London), Joel Robuchon Group (Global), Alinea (Chicago), Zilte (Antwerp), Le Chalet de la Foret (Brussels), Gustoso Group (Germany), Kei (Paris) and Da Terra (London).

About Lightspeed Commerce Inc.

Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale and provide exceptional customer experiences. Its cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies on-line and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montreal, Canada, in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange. With teams across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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