Fairway vs Lightspeed Golf
Probably the best point of sale in golf, wrapped around a strong tee sheet. Excellent at what it does; the economics live in payment processing.
Retail and food-and-beverage matter to your revenue and you want the strongest POS available.
The crew, the schedule and the machines are what you can't see clearly. Run both — they don't conflict.
This section is first on purpose. If one of these is the thing you actually need, buying Lightspeed Golf is the correct decision and we'd rather you made it than churned in four months.
Point of sale — genuinely best-in-category, with real retail depth, inventory and hardware. We don't have a till at all.
Tee sheet, online booking and the golfer-facing booking experience: a stranger can find a time and pay for it without ever speaking to your shop, which is something we simply don't do.
Payment terminals, receipt printers and the physical side of taking money at a counter — none of which we sell or support.
Reporting on rounds, revenue and retail performance, built by people who have watched a lot of pro shops.
Food and beverage service with the till behind it, rather than the kitchen ticket rail we offer.
Almost all of this is the same thing said several ways: the maintenance operation is the product here, not a module inside something else.
The entire maintenance and labor side.
Transparent platform fees with a published cap, rather than economics that mostly live in the processing rate.
A product the maintenance crew opens daily, not just the counter staff.
Fairway and Lightspeed Golf, side by side.
Assessed August 2026 from public product documentation, published reviews and reseller material. Where we couldn't verify a capability we've marked it partial rather than claiming it's absent. Corrections welcome.
This is the screen your crew opens.
Not a marketing render — the real job board, at the real size, on a Tuesday. You can open the same thing in the demo without giving us an email address.
Groundskeeper is $0 for a crew of up to 12, indefinitely, with no card. Whatever you conclude about Lightspeed Golf, evaluating this one costs you a morning and nothing else.
Job board
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