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Stayntouch PMS Announces Integration with Lightspeed Restaurant

Stayntouch | February 23, 2023 | Read time : 02:14 min

Stayntouch PMS Announces Integration with Lightspeed

On February 22, 2023, Stayntouch, an industry leader in cloud-based hotel management solutions and customer-focused technology, announced expanding its partnership with Lightspeed, a feature-rich commerce platform. Stayntouch PMS integrates with Lightspeed Restaurant, Lightspeed’s new flagship hospitality platform.

Lightspeed provides hotels with a versatile mobile POS that can improve guest satisfaction with their mobile dining experience and streamline restaurant operations. It allows Stayntouch clients to manage several hotel restaurant locations from any site with an internet connection while providing them the flexibility to personalize everything from restaurant floor layouts to menu management.

Lightspeed also provides Stayntouch clients with the ability to provide an enhanced and customized guest dining experience by allowing them to accept contactless payments, charge-to-room features, and seamless ordering and invoicing from the restaurant table to the bar-to-room service.

The integration of Stayntouch PMS with Lightspeed Restaurant provides numerous advantages, including:

• Centralized sales data, understanding the overall revenue generated by all sales with complete revenue posts from Lightspeed to Stayntouch.
• Streamlined hotel restaurant operations, with fully personalized floor layouts and menus, mobile flexibility to operate restaurants from any location with an internet connection, and an intuitive and easy-to-learn POS user interface.
• Easy multi-property restaurant management, with customizable menu templates for additional properties and shared data across venues.
• A streamlined and personalized dining experience, enabling customers to order from their rooms, a tableside terminal, or from a helpful server assisted by a smart tablet.
• A unified and frictionless guest payment experience that tracks charges from restaurant to bar to room service and accepts both contactless and terminal-based payments.

About Stayntouch

Founded in 2012, Stayntouch is a provider of cloud-native and guest-centric hotel property management systems (PMS), empowering hotel groups, independent hotels, and management companies to reduce costs, drive revenue, enhance service, and captivate their guests. The company serves many of the most forward-thinking restaurants, hotels, casinos, and resorts in the industry, including Valencia Hotels, First Hotels, Yotel, Conscious Hotels, Zoku Amsterdam, Modus Hotels, and Village Hotels.

About Lightspeed

Founded in Montréal, Canada, in 2005, Lightspeed is a provider of one-stop commerce platforms, helping merchants innovate to streamline, scale, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. The company’s cloud commerce solutions unify and transform online and physical operations, expand to new locations, multichannel sales, financial solutions, global payments, and connection to supplier networks.

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