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Lightspeed integration - configuration

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Bike Rental Manager and Lightspeed are able to integrate with each other to give a seamless rental and retail user experience.


The overall process involves adding a custom button to Lightspeed on the Register:Sale tab. Clicking on this button during a sale launches BRM where the rental details and price information is captured. On returning to Lightspeed, the current sale now has a new sale item representing the rental.


Similarly you can start in BRM and start a Lightspeed transaction which will send you back into LS to complete the transaction.


Lightspeed Configuration


Firstly, the inventory needs to be setup for Bike Rental. The name can be anything as it is the EAN that BRM uses to create the Sale Item. Also ensure that the type is “Non Inventory”. You can see here that we have set the EAN to be eleven 1s, (11111111111) but it can be any number you like. Just make a note of it, as you will need to tell BRM the hire EAN later on in the setup process.

Sales Tax or Tax Exclusive Pricing
Even if your sales tax on rental is zero, BRM needs the 'Taxable' checkbox to be selected and to reference a 'Tax Class' like the 'BikeRental' one configured about. In the tax configuration screen below, you select the actual tax rate which can be zero, although in this example is 8%. Configure BRM Button Next configure the button. Go to Settings -> Custom Menus




and select Register:Sale Tab.

Then you're going to add Button to Menu, first of all:
  1. choose Title : "BRM"  (you can choose name actually)
  2. chhoose Type: "open web page"
  3. then press the button "+ Add Button to Menu"


THEN you need to select your button and edit it, so you can put in the BRM URL to link to:

when selected you paste in the URL:

Here are your URL's for easy copying and pasting:
US-hosted stores: https://us.bikerentalmanager.com/
EU-hosted stores : https://app.bikerentalmanager.com/


Finally, we need to connect to Lightspeed. You request this from within BRM...


BRM Configuration - connect BRM and lightspeed


Go to System->View Configuration->Lightspeed.


First, make sure you've filled in your Hire EAN number to match what you put in Lightspeed, e.g. 11111111111

  1. Press the Connect Lightspeed button
  2. It will automatically fill in your Account Id & Shop URL from Lightspeed after you connect.




Please note - each user needs to connect to allow it access to this integration


BUT !!!

your browser might well block the popup to LIGHTSPEED!!!

something like this (depending on the browser you use)


so you must allow it.


you will then be asked to login to Lightspeed, and agree to the connection.



BRM will automatically fill in your Shop URL and AccountId

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