Lightspeed eCom brings advanced online commerce platform to merchants, building the future of omnichannel retail

MONTREAL, Nov. 19, 2015 — Lightspeed POS, the most powerful point-of-sale (POS) platform for retailers and restaurateurs, today announced the acquisition of Amsterdam-based eCommerce software company SEOshop. As part of the acquisition, Lightspeed is launching Lightspeed eCom, its new eCommerce platform.

For retailers who need to compete in an increasingly competitive, global retail environment, Lightspeed eCom offers a localized, multi-lingual, multi-currency eCommerce platform. Lightspeed’s first offering for online-only merchants also features predictive analytics, full design customization and the ability to manage complex inventory needs. In the coming months, Lightspeed will integrate Lightspeed eCom with its Lightspeed Retail cloud-based POS solution, bringing multi-channel retailers an even more robust set of tools to run their entire business from one place.

“This is an enormous step in the evolution of our company. We set out to help independent retailers grow and thrive by giving them a POS with the same back-office tools used by big retail in a user-friendly, mobile package, ” said Dax Dasilva, CEO, Lightspeed POS. “With the industry rapidly digitizing, online-only merchant demand has grown exponentially. Bringing SEOshop into the Lightspeed family gives us additional scale, and allows us to help store owners create a global shopping experience and sell smarter- all from an iPad- no matter how their customers choose to shop.”

SEOshop is the fastest growing eCommerce platform in Europe, doubling revenue every year and growing more than 1000% since receiving VC investment from henQ in 2011. SEOshop currently serves more than 8, 000 leading online merchants including Heineken, Philips Lighting, National Geographic Netherlands and the Van Gogh Museum, all of whom will become Lightspeed eCom customers. As part of the deal, SEOshop CEO Ruud Stelder will join the Lightspeed leadership team as director of global eCommerce revenue, and CTO Dennis Cuijpers will become Lightspeed’s director of eCommerce development and architecture.