Lightspeed’s API-driven architecture claims to support flexible unified commerce, but brands using Lightspeed reported being burdened using multiple tools, tolerating disjointed workflows, reconciling siloed data, and managing integrations. This impacts productivity across your stores and HQ, and may limit your brand’s growth.

To run an efficient omnichannel business, you need a commerce platform that’s purpose-built to make selling everywhere simple—fewer integrations to manage, channel-agnostic data, and workflows that help you do more, faster.

If your team is experiencing headaches with Lightspeed, migrating to Shopify may be your best bet to turn things around.

We spoke with brands who made the switch and recurring themes kept emerging. In this guide, you’ll learn the six reasons ambitious brands who sell online and in person switch to Shopify’s unified commerce platform to meet their needs today and as they scale.