Connecting Lightspeed to Exact Online
For most shops an off-the-shelf connector of €11.50 per ledger per month (Boekhoudkoppelingen.nl, 2026) is enough, posting your till receipts automatically into Exact Online. The key choice is not which connector, but how you post: all receipts from a day as one daily summary, every receipt separately, or a mix per payment method.
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How do your Lightspeed receipts get into Exact Online?
An off-the-shelf connector puts your till revenue into Exact Online automatically and costs €11.50 per ledger per month after a trial month (Boekhoudkoppelingen.nl, 2026); Lightspeed points to it on its own integrations page (Lightspeed, 2026). The question that is handled well almost nowhere is the posting form. Posting per receipt gives maximum traceability — every transaction can be traced back in Exact — but produces thousands of entries a month at a busy shop. Collected daily, all receipts from a single working day go into the administration as one cash posting, and a hybrid form lets you choose per payment method (Winkelboekhouding.nl, 2026). That choice determines how workable your administration still is a year from now. You can see what such an automated flow looks like in the Flow Lab; what the custom route costs is covered in What does an API integration cost?
If you use Moneybird instead of Exact Online: the same till integration exists for Moneybird too, for the same €11.50 per month and likewise per receipt or as a daily summary (Boekhoudkoppelingen.nl, 2026). For the webshop side of your administration: see connecting Shopify to e-Boekhouden.nl or connecting Shopify to SnelStart; all combinations are in the integrations overview.
From a lightweight connector to an ERP integration.
| Option | Type | Indicative cost | Suitable for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winkelboekhouding.nl connector | Off-the-shelf connector | €11.50 per ledger p/m, 30-day trial (Boekhoudkoppelingen.nl, 2026) | Shops that want to post per receipt, per day or hybrid |
| Conneqt | ERP integration | €149 p/m (Conneqt.io, 2026) | Larger retailers bringing till, webshop and ERP flows together in one platform |
| Make / Zapier / Power Automate | iPaaS workflow | from $9 p/m in licences (Make, 2026) | Custom rules, for example splitting revenue across cost centres or labels |
| Custom build on the API | Custom | indicative €1,500–€15,000 one-off (see What does an API integration cost?) | Multiple locations, margin per product group, or bringing stock and purchasing across too |
Watch which Lightspeed you have: Retail (X-Series), eCom and Restaurant are different products, each with its own integration variant (Winkelboekhouding.nl, 2026). Check before the trial period that you are testing the right variant — the prices above are the amounts listed in June 2026.
What does and doesn't sync with Exact Online?
Till revenue, VAT and payment methods go across automatically with an off-the-shelf connector into Exact Online; margin per product group and stock do not. What's decisive is the posting form you choose: per receipt you see every transaction back in your administration, as a daily summary only the day total.
| Data | Off-the-shelf connector | Custom integration |
|---|---|---|
| Till revenue with VAT | Yes | Yes |
| Posting form: per receipt, per day or hybrid | Yes — three posting methods, configurable per payment method | Yes |
| Breakdown per payment method (card, cash, gift card) | Limited — configurable per payment method in the hybrid variant | Yes |
| Returns and correction receipts | Limited — check during the trial period how return receipts are posted | Yes |
| Margin per product group | No — purchasing and stock have to come across for that | Optional |
| Stock and purchasing | No | Optional |
| History from before the start date | No | Optional |
Three questions that settle the choice.
Is the day total enough in your administration?
Yes → post collected daily: all receipts from a single working day as one cash posting. Your administration stays light and the VAT return is correct. No, you want to be able to trace transactions → post per receipt, or hybrid: card revenue collected, on-account sales per receipt.
Does an off-the-shelf connector cover your situation?
One shop, one ledger, standard VAT → yes, the €11.50 per month connector is enough. Multiple locations, cost centres or a webshop that has to land in the same ledger → go to question three.
Is it a settings issue or a logic issue?
Settings issue — which ledger account, which journal, which posting form → standard is enough, possibly with help on the setup. Custom logic — margin per product group, bringing stock and purchasing across, merging multiple systems → a custom build on the APIs.
The rule of thumb: for a single shop, the daily summary via an off-the-shelf connector is almost always the right route; a custom build only starts to pay off once you want to bring multiple flows — till, webshop, stock — together in one ledger.
Where this integration goes wrong in practice.
Posting per receipt at a high receipt volume
A busy shop produces thousands of receipts a month; pushing those through as separate entries makes your administration slow and cluttered, while the day total is enough for the return. Choose the posting form deliberately — not by default for maximum detail.
A daily summary without a breakdown per payment method
If card, cash and gift cards land on one pile, your till never reconciles with the bank. The hybrid posting method addresses this: per payment method you decide how it is posted (Winkelboekhouding.nl, 2026).
Choosing the wrong Lightspeed variant
Retail (X-Series), eCom and Restaurant are separate products with separate integrations. Set up the eCom integration for a till administration and you miss the till receipts — check before the trial period which variant matches your Lightspeed.
Nobody notices the integration has stalled
A till integration that fails silently for a week means a week of revenue to re-post by hand. Agree who checks the reconciliation between till report and accounting, or have the integration monitored as part of the management.
What shop owners ask us up front.
What does a Lightspeed–Exact Online integration cost?
An off-the-shelf connector costs €11.50 per ledger per month after a free trial month, or €138 per year (Boekhoudkoppelingen.nl, 2026); the ERP integration from Conneqt costs €149 per month (Conneqt.io, 2026). If you have the setup and testing done, that typically falls in the band of an indicative €500 to €2,000; a custom build on the API costs an indicative €1,500 to €15,000 one-off.
Do I post my till receipts per receipt or as a daily summary?
For most shops the daily summary is the right choice: all receipts from a single working day go to Exact Online as one cash posting, so your administration stays light and the VAT return is correct. Posting per receipt gives maximum traceability, but produces thousands of entries a month at a busy shop. The off-the-shelf connector supports both, plus a hybrid form per payment method (Winkelboekhouding.nl, 2026).
How quickly is the integration live?
An off-the-shelf connector is technically up within a day, but allow a few days to a week for the configuration and testing: ledger accounts, journals, VAT rates and the breakdown per payment method. A custom build takes rather more like several weeks, mainly due to testing edge cases such as return receipts and till differences.
What if the connector stops, or can't handle my receipt volume?
Your administration stays put: you don't lose the entries in Exact Online. At high volumes the daily summary is precisely the solution — the number of entries stays the same, however many receipts pass through. If a vendor stops, you switch to another connector or to a custom build; that means reconfiguring and testing, not a migration.
Who keeps an eye on whether the integration keeps running?
By default, nobody — and a till integration that fails silently for a week means a week of revenue to re-post by hand. Agree internally who periodically checks whether the daily postings come in and reconcile with the till report, or have the integration managed and monitored externally, for example as part of a management agreement.
Does this also work with Moneybird instead of Exact Online?
Yes. For Lightspeed and Moneybird there is a comparable till integration for the same €11.50 per ledger per month, likewise per receipt or as a daily summary (Boekhoudkoppelingen.nl, 2026). So you don't need to switch accounting package for the integration — choose the package on your broader administration needs.
Want to know first which posting form fits your shop?
We look at your receipt volume, payment methods and administration together, set the connector up properly — or build a custom integration when till, webshop and stock have to come together in one ledger.