Franchises that use Lightspeed

Lightspeed is the point-of-sale system you'll find behind a specific kind of franchise: lodging brands, quick-service restaurants, and retail brands. Brands like Your CBD Stores Franchising, Sheraton, Techy, and Element Hotels disclose Lightspeed as a mandated system in their latest FDD.

Typically 20–49 unitsAUV $500K–$1MConcentrated in FL, MD, NJ

Verified from the filings

Brands that mandate Lightspeed

BrandSegmentUnitsAUV
Your CBD Stores Franchisingretail brands279—
Sheratonlodging brands165—
Techypersonal-services brands155—
Element Hotelslodging brands102—
Poolwerxhome-services brands95$1.24M
Velofixautomotive-services brands74—
Soccer Postyouth-services brands72$638K
Pet Depotpersonal-services brands29—
Bobbles and Laceretail brands26—
Le Meridienlodging brands24—
Natural Life CBDKratomKavaretail brands19$222K
The Luxury Collectionlodging brands19—

The full picture

Selling against Lightspeed? Get every brand that runs it, with the HQ buyer.

These are examples. FranCloud tracks every franchise that mandates Lightspeed, who controls that decision (HQ or operator), and how each brand scores against what you sell.

What franchisors in this category require

How often a franchise agreement binds the point-of-sale system

Share of current filings whose text settles the question and says yes, read from each filing with the franchisor’s own sentence. Filings that leave a question unaddressed are outside the share: silence in an FDD is not a no.

QuestionSay yesFilings settled
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?95% say yes3,214 filings settled

Common questions

Franchises on Lightspeed, answered

Lightspeed is mandated mostly by lodging brands, quick-service restaurants, and retail brands.
Brands like Your CBD Stores Franchising, Sheraton, Techy, Element Hotels, and Poolwerx disclose Lightspeed as a mandated system in their FDD. FranCloud tracks the rest, with the buyer and decision-maker at each.
FranCloud reads Item 11 of every franchise's Franchise Disclosure Document, where brands disclose the systems they require operators to run. Lightspeed mandates come straight from those filings.

Every lodging brands, quick-service restaurants, account, scored to your product.

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