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Connect with Lightspeed POS (K-Series)

How to connect with Lightspeed POS (K-Series) for "Bill to room"

Written by Kevin Soo

Have a restaurant/bar at your property? You can allow guests to bill their charged back to their room and pay at checkout. Preno has integrated with Lightspeed POS (K-Series), a leading cloud-based hospitality POS platform.

Enable the connection to Lightspeed K-Series in Preno

Follow these steps to set up your integration:

  1. Go to Settings > Integration. Find the section Connect with Lightspeed K-Series POS and click on Enable. This will open a window for you to login to your Lightspeed K-Series account and authorise Preno connection.
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  2. Once done, you will need to set up your business location that can send Bill to room charges to Preno. Click on Register a new business location.
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  3. Choose the business location to register, and set the bill to room extra name. Then click on Save. Repeat step 2 & 3 if there are more than 1 business locations to be registered.
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  4. Once the above setup is complete on the Preno side, jump over to your Lightspeed K-Series back office. You will need to enable the payment method for Preno.

    1. Go to Payment > Payment methods

    2. Add a new payment method

      1. Ensure payment method type is Charge to room

      2. PMS Server is set to Other

      3. Select the Enable manual search checkbox

      4. Click on Save
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  5. You'll now need to download the latest configuration to the iPad so that the Bill to room payment method to be available. To do this, click on the 3 dots at the bottom right corner of your iPad (Lightspeed K-Series app) and then click the refresh icon.
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  6. Now that the integration is setup, you can test the integration by sending a test charge to a booking in Preno.
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Read this article on how to send Bill to room charges from K-Series to a booking in Preno.


Xero connected users

You can set up a custom Xero mapping to send Bill to room charges to a different chart of accounts.

If you have also connected Xero to Lightspeed K-Series, ensure you map the Bill to room charges to a clearing account in Xero to prevent revenue from doubling up.


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