Can I use this with Lightspeed?

Yes. Many shops keep Lightspeed for retail sales and use Music Shop Suite for the back office: inventory, rentals, repairs, lessons, and accounting.

Does this support multi-location?

Not yet. We are focused on single-location independent shops. If you need multi-location inventory sync, Lightspeed may still be the better choice.

Can I import my Lightspeed inventory?

We support CSV import. If you can export your Lightspeed product list, you can bring it into Music Shop Suite and enrich it with serial numbers, condition notes, and photos.

Lightspeed alternative

A Music Store Alternative to Lightspeed — Built for Instruments, Not General Retail

Lightspeed is a strong retail POS for many businesses. It handles sales, basic inventory, and multi-location well. But music stores are different: you sell serialized one-of-a-kind instruments, run school rental programs, track repair jobs, schedule lessons, and need accounting that understands all of it. Music Shop Suite is built for exactly that.

Serialized inventory: every guitar, amp, and violin tracked individually
Rental and loan management built for school programs and customer trials
Repair tickets with status tracking and customer updates
Lesson scheduling with student and teacher dashboards
P&L, inventory value, and turnover reports that reflect a music shop
$49/month, no contracts. No hardware required.

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Serialized inventory, not SKUs

A Fender Telecaster is not a SKU. The 2019 butterscotch blonde with serial MX123456 is a unique asset with its own cost, condition, and history. We track every unit individually — the way music shops actually work.

Per-instrument serial, photos, condition notes
Cost basis, sale price, and margin per unit
Complete history: acquired, loaned, repaired, sold

Rentals that do not get lost

School rental programs are complex: multiple instruments, multiple students, due dates, overdue tracking, and deposit status. We built a dashboard for it — because spreadsheets fail at scale.

Repairs as a real workflow

A repair is not a line item. It is a job with an intake form, parts, labor, status updates, and customer communication. We treat repairs as a first-class workflow, not an afterthought.

Simple setup, no retail complexity

No e-commerce integrations to configure, no multi-location sync to manage. Import your spreadsheet, add your stock, and start tracking. Most shops are running in under an hour.

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Inventory, pricing, lesson bookings, and instrument lending all live in the same back-office dashboard — no separate apps, no re-keying between them.

Music shop inventory dashboard listing instruments with SKU, serial number, condition, cost, price and status — InventoryEvery instrument tracked by SKU and serial with condition, cost, retail price, and live status — for sale, on hold, in repair, or sold.

Pricing and margin report showing revenue, cost of goods, gross profit and per-product markup — Pricing & marginRevenue, cost of goods, gross profit, and markup per product so you price from real numbers instead of gut feel.

Weekly lesson booking calendar with student lessons, teachers, rooms and attendance — Lesson bookingsA weekly teaching calendar with rooms, teachers, and attendance marking — plus the invoice that follows each lesson block.

Instrument lending and rental tracker with borrowers, due dates, overdue badges and deposits — Instrument lendingLoans and rentals by unit: who has it, when it is due, what deposit is held, and which agreements are overdue.

Honest note

Honest note: we are not a general retail POS.

Lightspeed excels at retail checkout, multi-location management, and integrated e-commerce. Music Shop Suite does not replace those. We are the back-office operating system that tracks your instruments, clients, loans, repairs, lessons, and accounting. If your biggest need is a better way to manage serialized stock, rentals, repairs, and shop-level reporting, that is where we fit.

Frequently asked

Can I use this with Lightspeed?: Yes. Many shops keep Lightspeed for retail sales and use Music Shop Suite for the back office: inventory, rentals, repairs, lessons, and accounting.
Does this support multi-location?: Not yet. We are focused on single-location independent shops. If you need multi-location inventory sync, Lightspeed may still be the better choice.
Can I import my Lightspeed inventory?: We support CSV import. If you can export your Lightspeed product list, you can bring it into Music Shop Suite and enrich it with serial numbers, condition notes, and photos.

Keep exploring the workbench

Every part of the shop lives in one system. Follow the workflow closest to what you are trying to fix first.

Run your shop on one workbench — starting today.

$49/month, no contracts, no trial. Import your spreadsheet, invite your team, and have inventory, repairs, rentals, and lessons in one place tonight.