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Migrate your Lightspeed gift cards to Shopify

Move your Lightspeed gift cards to Shopify with their balances and codes. Which export you use depends on your product: X-Series has a clean self-serve gift card report; R-Series is more manual.

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Do your numbers carry over?

Balances

Import each card’s current remaining balance, not its original value. The X-Series gift card report includes a balance column; delete any rows with a 0.00 balance before importing so you do not carry dead cards.

Codes

Lightspeed gift card codes carry over when they fit Shopify's 8 to 20 letters and numbers format. The X-Series export includes the codes directly.

Good to know

Lightspeed Retail comes in two products with different export maturity. X-Series (formerly Vend) has a clean gift card report export. R-Series (the legacy product) is more manual, and Lightspeed's own guidance routes R-Series merchants to X-Series first. Check which product you are on.

How the migration works

  1. 1Deactivate your gift cards in Lightspeed so they cannot be redeemed on both platforms.
  2. 2X-Series: go to Reporting, then Gift card reports, and choose Export report. The file includes codes, balances, statuses, and recipient emails.
  3. 3R-Series: view your cards under Customers, then Gift Cards. Export is more manual; see Lightspeed’s R-Series to X-Series material for the fallback path.
  4. 4Delete any rows with a 0.00 balance so you do not import dead cards.
  5. 5Import the file into BatchCard, mapping the code column and the balance column.

Want the click-by-click version with screenshots of every menu? Read the full Lightspeed migration guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on your product. X-Series (formerly Vend) has a self-serve gift card report under Reporting, then Gift card reports. R-Series is the legacy product with a more manual export; Lightspeed's own guidance routes R-Series merchants to X-Series first.

The current remaining balance from the export, not the original load value. Delete any rows with a 0.00 balance before importing so you do not carry dead cards into Shopify.

Yes, when they fit Shopify's 8 to 20 letters and numbers format. The X-Series export includes the codes directly. Any code that falls outside the format gets a fresh code, and you notify that customer.

Deactivate your Lightspeed gift cards before you export, then import into BatchCard at cutover. See the full Lightspeed migration guide at /docs/migrating/lightspeed for X-Series and R-Series steps.

Bring your Lightspeed gift cards to Shopify

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