Data guides
Lightspeed: see how much data you have, then export it.
Pick a system to see two things: how to check how much data is in it, and how to export a copy. No form, no sign-in.
Lightspeed
Commerce & payments
How to see how much data is in Lightspeed
- Sign in to Retail POS (X-Series) as an admin
- Go to Catalog → Products, clear filters, click Export List and count the rows
- Go to Customers, click Export list and count the rows (over 1,000 customers needs Lightspeed's full-export steps)
- Note how many years of sales history the store holds
Lightspeed shows no storage figure, so the product and customer counts come from the exported lists; record those counts plus the years of sales history.
Lightspeed’s official instructions
How to get a copy of your Lightspeed data
- Sign in as an admin
- Go to Reporting and choose a report
- Set the measure and date range
- Click Export report and choose XLSX
- For receipts, use Sell → Sales history → Export List
In Lightspeed Retail POS (X-Series), go to Sell → Sales history, filter, and click Export List for a CSV. Sales, inventory, payment and tax reports export as XLSX or CSV from the Reporting tab. Other Lightspeed products have similar report exports.
Sales history exports are limited to 1,000 sales, and CSV can alter long SKUs or SKUs with leading zeros, so use XLSX for reports.
These instructions are written by DataFrenzy from each vendor’s public help pages. Menu names can vary by plan and change over time; the official link on each guide is the final word. Screenshots come from each vendor’s own help pages and videos or, where noted, from third-party tutorials credited under the image; dashed outlines are illustrations, not screenshots. Looking up a size or preparing an export never sends anything to DataFrenzy.