Lightspeed
How do you move an order along without re-entering it?
Where it breaksWhen the order is written on a notepad and then retyped at the till
Projexo Caisse
None of the three is better than the others: they do not solve the same problem. What separates them is not a list of functions, it is the trade they answer to.
Three different questions
That is where the choice is decided: not on the number of functions, but on the nature of the problem.
How do you move an order along without re-entering it?
Where it breaksWhen the order is written on a notepad and then retyped at the till
How do you keep stock accurate at the moment of sale?
Where it breaksWhen stock is recalculated in the evening, and no longer at the moment of sale
How do you fill a day before it begins?
Where it breaksWhen the diary, the client record and the till live in three tools
A restaurant that installed retail software would not be badly equipped: it would be equipped for another trade. That is the only comparison that makes sense.
Where to start
The choice is not made on a grid: it is made on what sets the pace of your days.
What costs you most is an order written twice — once on a notepad, once at the till. The issue is not taking payment: it is moving the order through to production without it being retyped.
A hundred items can be kept in your head, ten thousand cannot. As soon as variants appear — sizes, colours, packaging — it is the structure of the catalogue that decides the reliability of everything else, long before the hardware.
The sale begins before the client walks through the door. The diary organises the activity, the till merely closes the treatment — and the next appointment is booked while the client is still there.
A beauty institute that sells a lot of products, a café that also sells items, a salon that does takeaway sales. It is the most frequent case, and the one where the choice cannot be guessed: it is settled at the audit, by looking at what weighs most in your day.
Line by line
Six lines, three columns, nothing to click: they describe three trades, not three levels.
| LightspeedHORECACafés, restaurants and bars | ERPLYRetailShops and stores | SalonizedBeauty and wellnessSalons, institutes and spas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The basic unitwhat the system counts | The order | The item | The appointment |
| The question it answers | How do you move an order along without re-entering it? | How do you keep stock accurate at the moment of sale? | How do you fill a day before it begins? |
| What decides the day | The service mode | The size of the catalogue | The diary |
| The pressure pointthe moment where it is decided | The rush hour | The queue at the counter | The missed appointment |
| What the POS has to do there | Take payment fast, without interrupting service | Link the sale to stock | Close a treatment that is already booked |
| Where an organisation breaksthe recurring symptom | The order retyped at the till | Stock recalculated in the evening | Three tools instead of one |
Scroll the table horizontally to see the three columns.
The detailed functions of each software package, what its subscription includes and what it does not, are on its page — with the official source and the date of verification.
Publisher prices
Three scopes, three units of account: putting them side by side means nothing.
entry-level plan, annual billing, publisher price converted into euros
Basic plan, the one that includes the POS
One is counted per licence, another per store, the third per team member. One is published in dollars by its publisher and converted here into euros, the other two are published in euros. And above all, each one opens a different scope: Salonized's entry-level plan does not include a POS, ERPLY's excludes back-office access, Lightspeed's includes neither stock nor the kitchen display. A table lining up these three figures would be readable, and wrong. The details of each, with its source and date of verification, are on its page.
Publisher prices observed in September 2026, subject to change. Hardware and Projexo services not included.
What does not change
Software installed without setup is useless: it is the work around it that makes it usable.
Your way of working first. That is what points to the software, not the other way round.
Connection to the peripherals, the payment methods and the tools you keep.
Menu or catalogue or treatments, prices, taxes, rights per user.
Whatever the old system agrees to export is taken over; whatever it refuses is re-entered, and that is said in advance.
On the installed terminal, with your data, and written guides left on site.
One contact who knows your installation, whatever device is involved.
An audit of your workflows, then a quote detailing every item and a rollout schedule set with you.