Lightspeed MCP connector
Connect Lightspeed to Elaichi and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client can look up sales, customers, products and suppliers, and keep customer and product records current, inside each person's own access with every action logged.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect Lightspeed to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Lightspeed once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Lightspeed.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a Lightspeed API key. One person generates a token in Lightspeed and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Lightspeed MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Lightspeed MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Lightspeed MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect Lightspeed to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with Lightspeed through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Store operations
Check today's sales across every outlet
Ask how each outlet and register did today and get the answer from live Lightspeed sales, without opening the back office.
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Merchandising
Add a new product line in minutes
Describe the new range, its brand and its pricing, and the products are created in Lightspeed ready for the shelf.
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Customer service
Fix a customer record after a visit
Update a phone number, email or address the moment a shopper mentions it at the counter, and pull up their past sales while they wait.
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Purchasing
Raise a consignment for incoming stock
Create the consignment for a supplier delivery before it arrives, then check it against what the supplier actually sent.
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Ecommerce
Keep product details consistent online and in store
Ask which products are missing a brand or a description and correct them in Lightspeed before they go live.
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Finance
Pull a sale when a receipt is questioned
Look up any Lightspeed sale by its number to see what was sold, at which register and for how much.
Try asking
- “Which outlets had the most sales this week?”
- “Create a product called Linen Tote under the Marlow brand.”
- “Find the customer Priya Shah and update her phone number.”
AI tools
Lightspeed tools for your AI agents
45 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Lightspeed, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting Lightspeed gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Lightspeed account.
The agent
Ask about today's sales in plain words.
Questions about Lightspeed customers, products and sales, answered from live records.
- customers
- products
- sales
- consignments
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which outlets had the most sales this week?
Create a product called Linen Tote under the Marlow brand.
Find the customer Priya Shah and update her phone number.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One Lightspeed endpoint for every MCP client.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Lightspeed through one governed endpoint, no SDK, no key handed around.
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Tool catalog
45 Lightspeed tools, ready without writing code.
Customers, products, sales, suppliers, brands, outlets, registers and consignments, covered out of the box.
- Create a Lightspeed customer
- Delete a Lightspeed customer by ID
- Get single Lightspeed customer by ID
- List all Lightspeed customers
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Lightspeed toolbox.
Store staff see customers and sales, merchandising sees products and brands, purchasing sees consignments.
- Store operations
- Merchandising
- Purchasing
- Customer service
Shared connections
Share one Lightspeed connection, never the key.
Connect once, share with teams, and teammates work through it without seeing a credential.
- Flagship store
- Downtown outlet
- Online store
- Merchandising
Audit log
Every Lightspeed change names the person behind it.
When, who, what happened and which product or customer, in an append-only log.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule turns Lightspeed sales into a digest.
Sales are fetched, grouped by outlet, drafted, approved by a person, then posted back.
Lightspeed digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch customers
Lightspeed
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
Lightspeed
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Lightspeed store health, computed on a schedule.
Four metrics, 14 days of sales created and a breakdown by team, with no model involved.
Lightspeed health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the customers collection
Customers
1,284 ↓ 12%
Products
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Customers created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Flagship store 34%
Downtown outlet 27%
Online store 21%
Merchandising 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Lightspeed to Claude?
Connecting Lightspeed to Claude takes two steps. First, in Elaichi, choose Lightspeed and paste in the API key from your Lightspeed account, and you are connected. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp.
Does Lightspeed work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Lightspeed is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Lightspeed once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Lightspeed data?
An agent can look up Lightspeed customers, products, brands, suppliers, outlets, registers, users and sales, and answer questions about them in plain language. It can also create and update customers, products and brands, and create consignments for incoming stock. Because Lightspeed has a large set of tools, short concrete asks like "find the customer Priya Shah" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Lightspeed give the AI my whole store?
No. The Lightspeed API key carries the access of the account that created it, and each person signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so every request runs under that identity. Elaichi can narrow what the AI is allowed to do in Lightspeed, for example read only, but it can never widen access beyond what the connected account already has.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Lightspeed?
Yes. In Elaichi, restrictions on the Lightspeed connection work per action, so you can allow reading sales and customers while blocking deletes, or blocking any change to products. A blocked action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Lightspeed connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Lightspeed at once, across every client they used. If they had shared a Lightspeed connection, it keeps working for everyone else on the team. Disconnecting Lightspeed once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client in one step.
Does the Lightspeed MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Lightspeed is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Put Lightspeed in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
- Works with
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.