Customer Facing Display (CFD) allows your customers to preview sales in real time on a secondary iPad. This helps reduce errors and increase customer satisfaction in your shop. To make sure that you and your customers are on the same page, your secondary iPad shows the following sale details in either the landscape or portrait orientation:
- Customer
- Quantity
- Item
- Price
- Discount name
- Subtotal
- Discounts
- Tax
- Total
Sharing the checkout experience with Customer Facing Display is made possible with the Lightspeed CFD iOS app. To get started, simply install it on your secondary iPad. Then, open the Retail POS app on your primary iPad and connect it to your secondary iPad. Once the two are connected, you can customize the branding of your secondary display in the Retail POS app. Lastly, it's important to know the iOS settings that can both secure and boost the performance of your secondary iPad.
For in-depth instructions on how to connect Customer Facing Display, please follow the articles in this section:
- Installing Lightspeed CFD on your iPad
- Connecting Customer Facing Display on your iPad
- Branding Customer Facing Display on your iPad
Supported hardware for Customer Facing Display
The Lightspeed CFD iOS app is designed for Retail POS merchants who have an iPad setup. In other words, it's designed for merchants who use Retail POS on an iPad. With an iPad setup, the only recommended and supported setup is to connect to a secondary iPad.
To help you understand which hardware is recommended or supported for Customer Facing Display, please see the following table:
Retail POS setup | Secondary display | Lightspeed Hub compatibility | Setup instructions | |
Recommended | iPad |
iPad |
Compatible with Lightspeed CFD iOS app | Connecting Customer Facing Display on your iPad |
Recommended | Computer |
Monitor connected via wire (e.g. HDMI, VGA, etc.) |
Compatible with Lightspeed Hub desktop apps | Connecting Customer Facing Display |
Supported | Computer |
Monitor connected via wire (e.g. HDMI, VGA, etc.) Secondary device (iPad, tablet, etc.) |
Not compatible (connect without app) | Connecting Customer Facing Display without Lightspeed Hub |