Saved card on file


Lightspeed merchants rely heavily on loyal, repeat customers. However, the platform lacked a native way to store payment details. This forced merchants into a dangerous trade-off: convenience vs. security. Through data we found that 33% of R-Series merchants (9,531 users) were storing their customer’s data in a non-compliment way.
Without a secure way to store customer payment information, merchants resorted to risky workarounds:
Manual Card Notes for Phone Orders
Writing card details on notepads and manually entering them for phone orders
Third-Party Payment Workarounds
Subscribing to third-party payment systems with card-on-file capabilities, creating accounting discrepancies when reconciling transactions
Spreadsheet-Based Card Management
Maintaining customer card information in Excel spreadsheets for repeat order