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Lightspeed Restaurant: K-Series (UK)

Requirements for Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) and linking it to Workforce

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Written by Luis Pinedo
Updated over a week ago

Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) is a cloud based Point of Sale system which you can integrate with your Workforce account to feed in your POS data to track sales, create costed rosters.

Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) Requirements

In order to integrate Workforce with Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) you will need to have an existing Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) account.

Connect your Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) account to Workforce

In order to integrate your Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) account with Workforce go to Settings > Integrations > Demand Data Integrations:

Click on the Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) tab and then click the green Connect to Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) button:

If you're already logged into Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series), you will be prompted to authorise the integration. If you're currently not logged in, you will need to enter your Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) username and password.

You will then go back to Workforce where it'll show that the two systems are connected. Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) will now start sending sales(total net amount without tax) into Workforce where it can be utilised on link to Live Insights, Weekly Planner, Rota Cost

Connecting your Datastreams

Within 24 hours of having your Workforce account integrated with Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series), a DataStream will be created per location. You will want to make sure every Datastream is connected to the right location within Workforce. To do this go to: 

Settings > Integrations > Manage Datastreams > (any Datastream)

A window will open containing a drop-down menu, where you can select your organisation and the location the selected Datastream will be linked to: 

Save these changes and proceed to do the same with all Datastreams currently available. 

You can now compare within Workforce, your projected and generated revenue with the planned and actual attendance of your workforce and schedule your future rotas basing yourself on hard data and recorded experience.

iKentoo Users

Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) was previously 'iKentoo'. For users who have previously integrated with iKentoo, the same log in details can be used to authorise the Workforce integration.

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