This article provides an overview of the different payment types used in Lightspeed Retail (R-Series) and Lightspeed Restaurant (L-Series) for reconciling and balancing reports and house accounts. It explains the specific uses of each payment type in both systems, including those for house account payments originating from Lightspeed Golf. 

Payment types are managed with different settings between Lightspeed Retail (R-Series) and Lightspeed Restaurant (L-Series). Retail payment types only have settings for a name, while Restaurant payment types have a name and an underlying type. More information about this can be found in the Lightspeed Restaurant (L-Series) help center.

Lightspeed Retail (R-Series) payment types

There are 2 payment types that are important to note in Lightspeed Retail (R-Series) when reconciling or balance reports and house accounts.

• Credit Account: Used for house account payments originating from both Lightspeed Golf and Lightspeed Retail (R-Series).
• Golf - CNP: Represents payments that are processed online through Lightspeed Golf. This includes payments from house accounts, subscriptions, tee sheets, etc. 

Additionally, it may help with reconciliation practices if the payment types below are created in Lightspeed Retail (R-Series). They can be used to ensure payment type reporting matches between Lightspeed Retail (R-Series) and Lightspeed Restaurant (L-Series). However, they must be applied manually to transactions either at the time of closing the sale or when editing payment types after the sale has been finalized. 

• House Account - Cash: Represents house account payments processed through cash from Lightspeed Golf.
• House Account - Check: Represents house account payments processed through check from Lightspeed Golf.

It is recommended to archive the Golf - CNP payment type in Lightspeed Retail (R-Series). This can help keep a consistent and accurate record of transactions as it should only be unarchived for manually reconciling reports or house account balances.

Lightspeed Restaurant (L-Series) payment types

There are four different payment types to be used depending on the house account balance. You can use them to balance or reconcile house accounts accordingly, as they represent house account payments charged from Lightspeed Golf. It may be necessary to create these payment types if they do not already exist in your Lightspeed Restaurant (L-Series) setting:

• Use Credits: Used when the customer has a credit on their restaurant house account or wants to add credit to pay for the bill using the deposit.
• Add Credits: Used to add a deposit to the account.
• Put on Tab: Used when the customer owes a house account balance or has a $0 balance and wants to pay it off or wants to put the bill on the house account and they don’t have a credit.
• Pay Tab: Used to pay off an owing house account balance.

Alternatively, payment types named Account Payment - Chronogolf Only will be paired with each of the payment types below. Each will appear in reports through auto-billing and when using the Make Payment button to process payments manually.

• Golf - CNP: Represents card not present house account payments processed from Lightspeed Golf such as auto-billing.
• House Account - Cash: Represents house account payments processed through cash from Lightspeed Golf.
• House Account - Check: Represents house account payments processed through check from Lightspeed Golf.