Connector: Lightspeed

The Lightspeed Plugin allows you to link the Lightspeed Store to Spotler Activate. By installing the Plugin, Event Tracking and Product Feed are automatically implemented in Spotler Activate.

Activate the Lightspeed connector

In Spotler Activate, to go the Apps page and click on the Lightspeed connector.

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Enter the following settings:

  • API key : the API key of Lightspeed store
  • API secret : the API secret of Lightspeed store
  • Server : the server of Lightspeed store
  • Language : the language of Lightspeed store

Login to your Lightspeed store. Go to Settings → Web Extras. Find 'Custom head code'. Click on edit and then on save. The Lightspeed Store is now connected. After a few moments the data will come in to Spotler Activate.

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View incoming Lightspeed data

  • Events to check the incoming events, go to the Data page and scroll down. You should see that the tracked events have the active status.
  • Products to check the product sync, go the to Products page. You should see your product here. Click on a product to view the product fields. On the Products page, click on the tab Sources to view the product sources, there you see the last and the next import date.
  • Profiles to check a profile, look up your own cookie. Copy this and past this in the search bar on the 360 profile page.

Tracked events

Through the Lightspeed Plugin, the following events are automatically received in Spotler Activate:

  • SessionStart
  • PersonalizationView
  • PersonalizationClick
  • PersonalizationClosed
  • PageView 
  • ViewContent
  • ViewCategory
  • Search
  • AddToCart
  • PrePurchase
  • Purchase

With the Lightspeed Plugin the following fields are sent per event:

Event Fields
ViewContent Product array with id, name, price and language
ViewCategory Category_id and objectname
AddToCart Product array with id, name, price, language and quantity
PrePurchase Email, totalvalue, currency, firstname, lastname, zipcode, city, country and phone
Purchase Email, orderid, firstname, lastname, userid, product array with id, name, price and quantity

When you want to include more fields in events, you can use custom tracking via Google Tag Manager.

Product fields

Through the Lightspeed Plugin the following product fields are automatically updated in Spotler Activate:

  • SKU/Product ID
  • URL
  • Image (primary) + Image (additional)
  • Price + Currency
  • Availability
  • Inventory
  • Parent ID
  • Categories
  • Brand
  • Description
  • Sale price
  • Condition

For updating more product fields you can use a XML Feed.