Lightspeed Restaurant + Make

Real-Time Lightspeed Restaurant to Make Sync - Purpose-Built for Your Business

Australian Hospitality & Tourism businesses rely on both Lightspeed Restaurant and Make. Our custom one-way integration keeps them in sync, saving your team 8+ hours/week and eliminating data entry errors.

8+ hours/week

Saved weekly

250+

Total hours saved

50+

Clients served

One-way

Sync direction

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Why Connect Lightspeed Restaurant to Make?

Lightspeed Restaurant uses a REST API while Make uses REST + Webhook, requiring careful middleware to translate data formats between the two platforms

No single source of truth when orders live in two disconnected tools, so staff second-guess which system has the correct information

Manually copying data between Lightspeed Restaurant and Make wastes hours every week that could be spent on revenue-generating work

Reporting across Lightspeed Restaurant and Make requires painful manual exports and spreadsheet merges

Client engagement details in Lightspeed Restaurant and time-tracking data in Make do not align, making billing inaccurate

Make adds complexity: steeper learning curve than Zapier, particularly for non-technical users unfamiliar with the concepts of routers, iterators, and data mapping

New team members take longer to onboard because they must learn manual workarounds to keep Lightspeed Restaurant and Make aligned

Guest booking data in Lightspeed Restaurant and operations scheduling in Make require manual coordination

How We Help

Connecting Lightspeed Restaurant (industry tools) with Make (automation) is one of the most requested integrations among Australian Hospitality & Tourism and Professional Services businesses. This integration eliminates the manual transfer of orders and menu-items data, reducing errors and freeing up your team to focus on growth. On the technical side, Lightspeed Restaurant uses a REST API with OAuth authentication, which our team handles as part of the build.

Real-Time Visibility Across Teams

When a record updates in Lightspeed Restaurant, every team member working in Make sees the change instantly. No lag, no stale dashboards, no conflicting reports.

Amplify Lightspeed Restaurant Strengths

Lightspeed Restaurant excels because comprehensive restaurant POS with floor plan management, course timing, and kitchen display system designed for food service operations. Connecting it to Make ensures that advantage flows through your entire workflow rather than staying siloed in one tool.

Custom-Built for Your Workflow

Unlike generic connectors, we build integrations tailored to how your business actually uses Lightspeed Restaurant and Make. Custom field mappings, business rules, and error handling included.

Eliminate Manual Data Entry

Stop copying data between Lightspeed Restaurant and Make by hand. Our integration syncs data automatically, saving your team 8+ hours/week.

Lightspeed Restaurant to Make Use Cases

Automated error handling and retry for Lightspeed Restaurant/Make sync

When a sync between Lightspeed Restaurant and Make fails due to a rate limit, network issue, or validation error, the integration retries automatically with exponential backoff. Your team is alerted only when intervention is genuinely needed.

Data Mapping

How data flows between Lightspeed Restaurant and Make

Lightspeed Restaurant	→	Make	Notes
Lightspeed Restaurant Timestamps	→	Make Audit Log	Created and modified timestamps preserved for sync conflict resolution and compliance
Lightspeed Restaurant Owner/Assignee	→	Make Owner/Assignee	Record ownership mapped between platforms using email address as the matching key
Lightspeed Restaurant Record IDs	→	Make External References	Cross-reference identifiers stored on both records for bidirectional lookups and deduplication
Lightspeed Restaurant Tables	→	Make Custom Fields	Tables data from Lightspeed Restaurant stored in Make custom fields for reference
Lightspeed Restaurant Menu-items	→	Make Custom Fields	Menu-items data from Lightspeed Restaurant stored in Make custom fields for reference
Lightspeed Restaurant Orders	→	Make Custom Fields	Orders data from Lightspeed Restaurant stored in Make custom fields for reference
Lightspeed Restaurant Staff	→	Make Custom Fields	Staff data from Lightspeed Restaurant stored in Make custom fields for reference
Lightspeed Restaurant Payments	→	Make Custom Fields	Payments data from Lightspeed Restaurant stored in Make custom fields for reference

Lightspeed Restaurant + Make Integration FAQ

Absolutely. We design integrations with growth in mind, whether you are syncing 100 records or 100,000. Our architecture handles rate limiting, pagination, and queuing to ensure reliable performance at any scale.

Absolutely. Custom field mapping is a core part of every integration we build. Whether it is custom properties in Lightspeed Restaurant or user-defined fields in Make, we map them precisely to your requirements. We can also transform data formats, apply business rules, and handle conditional mappings.

The most common data objects synced between Lightspeed Restaurant and Make include orders, menu-items, tables. We map each data type to its counterpart in the target system, including custom fields, metadata, and relationship data. The exact scope is tailored to your workflow during the discovery session.

Yes, every integration includes 3 months of post-launch support. We monitor sync health, troubleshoot issues, and make adjustments as your workflow evolves. Ongoing maintenance plans are available for businesses that want continuous optimisation.

We map industry tools data like orders and menu-items from Lightspeed Restaurant to the corresponding automation structures in Make. Our team handles data transformation, validation, and conflict resolution between the two system types.

Our integrations include retry logic and error queuing. If Make is temporarily down, changes are queued and replayed once the system recovers. You will receive alerts for any sync failures that need attention. No data is lost during outages.

Yes, we handle one-time historical data migrations alongside ongoing sync. We map your existing orders, validate data quality, and run test migrations before the final cutover. Most migrations complete within 4-8 weeks depending on volume.