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Lightspeed Restaurant cost 2026

Lightspeed Restaurant (which absorbed Upserve) publishes Starter $69, Essential $189 and Premium $399 per month, annual billing, without Lightspeed Payments. Watch the tier names: $69 is Starter now, not Essential.

Lightspeed RestaurantLightspeed Restaurant pricing · 2026-09-22

Cheapest published: Starter $69/mo, annual billing, without Lightspeed Payments

Pricing model: Tiered SaaS (Starter / Essential / Premium / Enterprise), annual billing

Processing: No card-present rate published. Starter shows integrated payments as Default; Essential and Premium show Custom.

Hardware: iPad-based. Lightspeed sells stands, printers, payment terminals and a KDS; its own iPad hardware kit page states the iPad and payment terminal are not included. Kitchen Display System is $30/screen per month.

Contract: The only figure published is the annual-billing, no-Lightspeed-Payments price. The page's own price object carries empty values for the monthly and with-Payments variants, so neither is published. Enterprise is quote-only.

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Lightspeed renamed the ladder and kept the old slugs. The $69 tier is now called Starter; the tier now called Essential is $189. The page source still tags the $69 block data-pricing-plan-slug="essentials", so any comparison that matches on the tier name rather than the price lands on a 2.7x error.

What it actually costs in 2026

Starter $69/mo, Essential $189/mo, Premium $399/mo, plus a quote-only Enterprise tier Lightspeed pricing · 2026-09-22. Those are the only figures Lightspeed publishes: the price object behind each tier on that page carries a value for the annual, no-Lightspeed-Payments variant and empty values for the monthly and with-Payments variants.

The tier ladder was renamed and the old slugs were left in place. The block that now displays Starter is still tagged essentials in the page source, and the tier now called Essential costs $189. If you are comparing against a directory, a review site or an older quote that says Lightspeed Essential is $69, you are 2.7x under the current Essential price. Match on the number, not the name.

The page also no longer states a per-location basis anywhere. We previously published these rates as per location; that qualifier is not on the rate card, so confirm the billing unit on your quote call before you model a multi-site rollout.

Hardware is iPad-based. Lightspeed sells stands, printers, payment terminals and a Kitchen Display System at $30/screen per month; its own iPad hardware kit page states the iPad and payment terminal are not included Lightspeed hardware · 2026-09-22.

Lightspeed publishes no card-present processing rate for the restaurant product. The rate card lists integrated payments as Default on Starter and Custom on Essential and Premium, and the processing-rate cell on the comparison grid is empty. Any percentage you see quoted for Lightspeed Payments in 2026 is either from a quote or from a third party, not from Lightspeed.

Owner questions

What does Lightspeed Restaurant cost?

Starter $69/mo, Essential $189/mo, Premium $399/mo, annual billing and without Lightspeed Payments. Enterprise is quote-only.

Is the $69 tier still called Essential?

No. $69 is now Starter. Essential is now $189, which is 2.7x the figure most comparison pages still carry. The page source still tags the $69 block essentials, which is how the stale figure keeps propagating.

Is Lightspeed Payments required for the published price?

The published price is the variant without Lightspeed Payments. Lightspeed does not publish a with-Payments price; that field is empty in its own rate card. Ask for both on the quote call.

Is the price per location?

The rate card does not say. It states a figure and USD, with no per-location, per-terminal or per-register qualifier anywhere on the page. Get the billing unit in writing before modelling more than one site.

What did the Upserve acquisition retain?

Upserve analytics ships in the top paid tier. Upserve-branded SKUs are deprecated.

How does it compare on multi-location?

Premium is the multi-site tier at $399/mo. Above 10 locations the conversation moves to the quote-only Enterprise tier and to enterprise vendors.

Best fit

Multi-location chain · Bar · Full-service with analytics needs

Recent changes (2026-09-22)

Tier ladder renamed to Starter $69 / Essential $189 / Premium $399 plus a quote-only Enterprise tier, verified 22 September 2026. The published figure is the annual-billing price without Lightspeed Payments; the page no longer states a per-location basis and no longer publishes a card-present processing rate. Upserve analytics survived the acquisition and ships in the top paid tier; Upserve-branded SKUs deprecated.

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