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An open-source alternative to Lightspeed Retail

Open Source Point of Sale is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Lightspeed Retail. It is sales software with 4.5K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Ring up sales, track stock and print receipts from any browser.

Open Source Point of Sale gives a small retailer or restaurant a full register and back office that runs in a web browser. It covers checkout, stock, customers, suppliers, taxes and reporting, and it can be installed on your own server, a cloud machine or even a Raspberry Pi.

  • Sell from a browser-based register and print or email receipts, invoices and quotations.
  • Track stock, item kits and supplier receivings, with barcodes generated and printed in the app.
  • Report on sales, expenses and inventory, with per-user permissions and a daily cash-up.

What people use it for

Run the till in a small shop

Add items with prices, taxes and barcodes, print the labels, then scan them into the sales register at checkout. Print or email the receipt, and close the day with the cash-up function.

Keep stock levels right

Record deliveries from suppliers as receivings so stock goes up, and group items into kits for bundles. Use the inventory reports to see what is running low before it sells out.

Quote, invoice and reward regular customers

Keep a customer database, raise a quotation and turn the sale into an invoice when the customer agrees. Issue gift cards and reward points, and send updates by SMS or through the MailChimp integration.

4.5K starsMITPHPLatest release 10 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Open Source Point of Sale.

  • Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 22, 2026 (10 days ago)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in PHPMain language on GitHub
  • Does not meet: Recommended in a stackNot in any of our stacks yet

Data from GitHub and our catalog. Every listing is hand-approved. List prices are what the vendor publishes, not a quote, and self-hosting has its own running costs.