How it works

Sync Lightspeed to Inventory Planner

Inventory Planner easily pulls all product information, sales orders, and purchase orders from your Lightspeed account.

Use customized forecast settings

Select your preferred forecasting methods, then enter the lead time and your purchasing frequency.

Create a purchase order

Use Inventory Planner’s data-led replenishment recommendations to create a new purchase order for your supplier.

Sync to Lightspeed

Inventory Planner syncs the prepared purchase order to your Lightspeed account.

Sync to Inventory Planner

Receiving information on the purchase order in Lightspeed automatically syncs to Inventory Planner.

Key Features

Streamline Your Multi-channel Sales

View sales and product performance across multiple channels including Amazon, eBay and many more – all in one central place.

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Smart, Data-Led Demand Forecasting

Get meaningful replenishment suggestions for your products based on your sales history, so you always order the right amount of stock at the right time.

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Customized Dynamic Reporting

Identify sales trends with an in-depth look at your business performance, from products to vendors. Customize each report to focus on the metrics that matter most to your business.

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Easily Create Purchase Orders

Use your customized replenishment recommendations to inform and create new purchase orders.

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Accurately Forecast Profits

Make faster, smarter buying decisions with full visibility into your forecasted profit and profit margins.

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Control Bundling and Kitting Components

Order components and create Assembly Orders based on the forecasted demand for finished goods.

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Manage Cash Flow with Open-To-Buy Planning

Release cash caught up in unused stock, and fill gaps in your inventory to meet revenue goals for the coming year.

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See Historical Stock Levels

Need to know what stock was like for a particular date or month? View stock levels and inventory values for any date since you connected your store to Inventory Planner.

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Replenish Multiple Warehouses

Holding stock in multiple locations? Forecast demand for each warehouse to maximize your inventory investment, or transfer stock to balance items from one location to another.

Next Steps

Getting Started

Connect your Lightspeed account
  • First, create an account in Inventory Planner.
  • Choose your platform as Lightspeed and click the “Connect” button.
  • Not yet using Lightspeed? Check out more here
  • Your sales history, product information and purchase order syncs automatically.
  • The first sync calculates replenishment suggestions for all your products – so it may take a short while.

Connect your store

Check out the replenishment report
  • Here comes your first replenishment report, which shows you what and how many products need to be purchased to smartly restock your inventory.
  • Each product displays forecasted profit and other key metrics, so you’ll know which key items to reorder to avoid losing revenue.

check the replenishment report

Create purchase orders
  • Use Inventory Planner’s data-led replenishment suggestions to confidently create new purchase orders.
  • Select all the items you need in the replenishment report and use bulk actions to make a purchase order per supplier.
  • When you’re ready to order, email directly to your vendor from Inventory Planner.

Create purchase order

Sync your data automatically
  • Inventory Planner stays updated by pulling new product information, customer orders and purchase orders with each day’s sync with Lightspeed.

Automatically sync