Macworld 2009: Xsilva Lightspeed

With the Mac platform reaching 10% market share, there's a lot of interest in more vertical applications. For owners of retail businesses, point-of-sale systems are one area where the Mac is making impressive inroads. While there have been other Mac-based point-of-sale systems, the most impressive is Xsilva's Lightspeed.

Lightspeed is a powerful POS system with a beautiful interface, compatibility with a plethora of devices (cash drawers, touch screens, receipt printers, card authorization units, etc...), and ties to other Mac heavyweights such as Marketcircle Daylite and QuickBooks.

I spoke with Xsilva founder, CEO, and vice-president Dax Dasilva on January 7th about the product, and we have some video for you showing some of the features of both Lightspeed and its companion Web Store application. The video is after the break!

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Richard.

Personally, I love http://checkoutapp.com/

January 10 2009 at 1:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Tim

Checkoutapp?

Slow development, lacking features, poor support, weak interface.

What's to like?

January 10 2009 at 12:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

now4real954

now that i have watched the video

i love it more...great program...great idea...

and he says in the video about the company that makes overlays for the imac to make them touch screens...

its amazing how people dont pay attention but always want to criticize others...

it just amazes me...later

January 09 2009 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bjojade

SMB's can't afford expensive POS systems?? Lightspeed is CHEAPER than many of the alternatives out there.

Having used Lightspeed for almost 3 years now, I can say that my business wouldn't have grown as much as it had without this piece of software.

January 09 2009 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tillman

This is destined to fail. SMBs can't afford such expensive POS system (Mac + xsilva). Also, there is no touch screen. Anyone who has worked on POS system knows how handy it is to have touch screen instead of searching for mouse or use keyboard. The product looks promising but, Mac is not yet ready for POS systems. At least, not till touch screen version is released.

January 09 2009 at 5:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jash Sayani

Light Speed is truly an amazing piece of software!!

BTW, Steve should seriously think about the iMac with a touch-screen!

January 09 2009 at 4:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply