Content enrichment for Lightspeed Retail: items that sell just as well online.
Lightspeed Retail contains your items, sizes, and inventory, but little of what a webshop needs. Photopilot fills in target audience, color, and material as a custom field or tag, and writes product copy, SEO, and translations.
Photopilot connects Lightspeed Retail during intake; we’ll agree on fields and permissions together.
How Photopilot reads Lightspeed Retail With the items in Lightspeed Retail X-Series and R-Series.| Photopilot | Lightspeed Retail |
|---|---|
| Article | R-Series: item · matrix X-Series: product |
| Color and size | matrix attributes or variants |
| EAN | UPC · EAN |
| Article group | category or product type |
| Target audience | custom field or tag fixed value |
| Color family and material | custom fields or tags |
| Web only | Web only tag |
| Product copy and SEO | product description and web store fields |
Sparse data from Lightspeed Retail, complete product pages in your online store.
Lightspeed Retail remains the source for item, color, size, and inventory data. Photopilot fills in anything that is missing or too limited there, and the result is sent to the webshop.
- Source Lightspeed Retail Items, colors, sizes, EANs, and inventory
- Photopilot Complete, decide, write
- 1 Your own data What your ERP, feed, or team already knows comes first.
- 2 Rules Codes, sizes, and paths that already provide a clear answer.
- 3 Photo Color measured from the packshot, never from a model photo.
- 4 AI One short AI question, only where something is still unresolved.
- Destination Your online store Shopware · Magento · Shopify · WooCommerce · Scayle
Attributes and copy for Lightspeed Retail.
Every attribute comes from a closed picklist with fixed codes, never from free text. Anything you have already filled in takes priority.
- You choose who wins for each feature: the source or Photopilot
- If Photopilot differs from the source, you’ll see a warning
- Enrich older items with pricing agreed in advance
- Target group, even where Lightspeed Retail is missing it or has it wrong
- Color family for the color filter
- Material by fiber and care instruction as a filter
- Product title and product copy in your brand voice
- SEO title and meta description
- Translations in all webshop languages, in the same run
- Tag Web only for items sold online only
- Enrich older items, with the price agreed in advance
Where things often go wrong in Lightspeed Retail.
Tags as free text
Kleding, kleding and Kleding/dames are three tags. Photopilot uses fixed values so filters and reports are accurate.
Matrix without a readable color
In addition to the matrix color, Photopilot adds a color family for the color filter.
Empty descriptions
Photopilot writes the product text for each language, incorporating material and fit.
How we connect Lightspeed Retail.
- 1
API access to Lightspeed Retail
You give Photopilot access to your Lightspeed Retail account. We connect this during onboarding.
- 2
Map fields and picklists
We define which fields in Lightspeed Retail are leading, which ones Photopilot fills, and which values belong to your option lists.
- 3
Trial run on your items
Photopilot enriches a selection of real items. You can review the changes field by field before anything goes live.
- 4
Enable by attribute and by field
After that, it runs automatically for every new item. We always enable publishing to the live shop together.
Frequently asked questions about content enrichment in Lightspeed Retail
Which data does Photopilot enrich in Lightspeed Retail?
Target group, color family and material as custom fields or tags, plus product copy, SEO title, meta description and translations.
Does this work with X-Series and R-Series?
Yes. With R-Series, Photopilot works with items, matrices, and custom fields. With X-Series, it works with products, variants, product types, and tags.
How does Photopilot handle matrices and variants?
Each color becomes an item with its sizes and EANs, so the text and color are correct for each color variant.
How do we connect Lightspeed Retail?
Via the Lightspeed Retail API. We set it up during onboarding and test it on your own products.
Which webshops receive the enriched data?
To Lightspeed eCom, Shopify, Shopware, WooCommerce and other online stores, with texts by language and attributes as filters.
Can we enrich older Lightspeed Retail items too?
Yes. Choose specific items or your full assortment, and you will see the enrichment cost upfront. After that, it runs for every new item.
What does content enrichment for Lightspeed Retail cost?
Product copy, SEO and translations in a single run start at €0.01 per product. For enriching older items, you see the price in advance, and attributes are billed at cost.
