Setup Custom Button Using Employee Pins | Lightspeed | Partial Integration

Setup Custom Button Using Employee Pins | Lightspeed | Partial Integration

Employee Pin Custom Button Setup:

If you have set up pins for your employees the URL format for the Custom Astro button is different. 

"With Lightspeed, each employee has their own pin that they put in when doing a transaction, so when another employee goes to do a transaction they are being required to log into Astro again, even though the first employee already logged in. Is there any way to fix this?"

The Astro login is stored in a session variable (ie a cookie). When you switch users in LightSpeed, that is lost which causes you to have to login to Astro again. However, if you create one username/login for all of your cashiers,  How to Create a Cashier User , their login information can actually be added in the custom button URL.

1. Go to Settings in Lightspeed. 
If you are using an iPad, make sure to be in Manager mode. 



2. Scroll down and select Custom Menus. 


3.  You will need to create this button on both the Sale Tab and the Refund Tab. The button setup will be exactly the same on both tabs.
The Sale button will add Frequent Buyer purchases to your customers' cards and it will reward them the appropriate amount of points based on their purchase if you are running Astro Points. The Refund button will remove the appropriate amount of points based on their return if you are running an Astro Points program, but it will not remove items from the customer's cards - the cashier will need to do this manually to ensure that the correct item they are returning is removed.



4. Under Add New Button:
  1. Change Title: Astro Loyalty
  2. Change Type: Open Web Page 
  3. You can select any color for your button
  4. Then click on "Add Button to Menu"


5.  Edit the Astro Loyalty button. 


6.  Enter in the URL field.  Here is the format: 
https://secure.astroloyalty.com/api/lightspeed/?lsastrouser=myemail@mydomain.com~myastropassword 

Replace these fields " myemail@mydomain.com~myastropassword"  with the cashier user's Astro username and password. Keep the ~ in between the username and password. Now when your cashiers click the button they will be automatically logged into Astro.
Again, this ONLY works if they share a single Cashier User login for Astro.

^ In this example, we replaced " myemail@mydomain.com ~myastropassword" to " demo@astroloyalty.com ~astro123" since that would be the cashier user's login information. Yours should look similar based on your cashier users Astro username and password. 

7.  Save Changes. *You do not need to change or select anything else on this page. 


8. Now you will see an Astro Loyalty button on your Sales screen.  Repeat these steps to create a button on your Refund tab .