Connect lightspeed and IBM AS/400

Connecting Lightspeed and IBM AS/400 for a company using both could enable the transfer of sales, inventory, or customer data between the two platforms. This could support coordinated reporting, centralized management of business processes, and improved data consistency across retail and enterprise resource planning operations.

You can build this integration on the System2System platform. We design the connection between lightspeed and IBM AS/400 around the way you work — not as an off-the-shelf connector, but to fit your systems.

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Why connect lightspeed and IBM AS/400?

A company operating both Lightspeed and IBM AS/400 systems could benefit from enabling data exchange between the two platforms. Such a connection could help ensure that critical business information is consistent and up to date in both systems, reducing the need for manual data entry. Without this link, staff may need to enter the same data twice, increasing the risk of errors and consuming valuable time. Over time, records could diverge between systems, causing discrepancies that undermine business reporting and decision-making. For example, inventory levels, sales transactions, or customer details could become outdated in one system, leading to decisions based on inaccurate or incomplete information. If a company were to connect these systems, the types of data that could be exchanged would depend on what each system manages and exposes. In general, systems like Lightspeed, which is widely known as a retail point of sale platform, and IBM AS/400, a well-established midrange business server, could exchange information such as sales transactions, inventory updates, customer records, and possibly financial data. This exchange could support more accurate reporting, streamlined operations, and better customer service. Ultimately, the specific data that can be exchanged depends on the interfaces and APIs made available by each system, and must be defined for each company's requirements and technical environment.

How System2System builds an integration

Connectors

We connect to each system through the interface it offers — an API, a database, a file exchange or a webhook — and handle authentication, rate limits and retries.

Mapping

Fields rarely line up one to one. We map and transform the data so both systems receive it in the shape they expect.

Workflow

We define what triggers an exchange, in which direction data flows and which system takes precedence when the two disagree.

Monitoring

Every exchange is logged. Failures are flagged and can be replayed, so nothing disappears without anyone noticing.

What can actually be exchanged?

That depends on what lightspeed and IBM AS/400 make available through their APIs, on the licences and modules in use, and on the version each system runs. Which records are synchronised, in which direction and how often, is something we determine together before any work starts.

We are happy to look at your specific situation and tell you what is feasible — including when the answer is that it is not.