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Partake vs Lightspeed Golf
Lightspeed Golf, formerly Chronogolf, pairs a cloud tee sheet with Lightspeed’s retail and restaurant POS and its own payments. Partake fits courses that want golfers to order to their tee time and split group checks online, with food cost and an AI manager in the same system.
Partake and Lightspeed Golf, item by item
The rows follow our buyer checklist. Partake answers come from our product facts. Lightspeed Golf answers cite public pages from Lightspeed Golf, or say “Ask the vendor” where we couldn’t confirm it.
| What to compare | Partake | Lightspeed Golf |
|---|---|---|
| Tee sheet and online booking | Staff tee sheet with online booking on the course site, a waitlist, standing times, and rates by season and player type. | Cloud tee sheet with online booking for tee times, lessons, and simulators, plus a waitlist.[1] |
| Food and beverage POS | POS on an iPad or in the browser for pickup, delivery, tabs, tables, and events, with comps, voids, and split checks by seat. | Food and beverage POS for the restaurant, bar, halfway house, and beverage cart, on iPad.[2] |
| Kitchen display | Kitchen display mode routed by station, with meal courses that fire automatically or manually. | A Kitchen Display System that shows all orders on one screen.[2] |
| On-course ordering to the tee time | Golfers order from the golfer site for pickup, to a table, or to their tee time. The order lands on the same POS board. | Lightspeed Order Anywhere: golfers scan QR codes on carts, signs, and scorecards to order ahead.[2] |
| Group ordering and split checks online | Group orders from a share link or a table QR code, split by Pay my items, Split evenly, or Host covers. | Split or group bills at the POS. Ask the vendor about group ordering online.[2] |
| Member charges | Charge the member account from the POS with member lookup and reciprocal clubs, through Golf365. | House accounts, with a Put on Tab/Member Charge tender and consolidated monthly statements.[4] |
| Food cost and purchasing | Partake Costs: vendors, purchase orders, AP invoices, inventory counts, and a food-cost dashboard from recipes and sales. | Inventory tools that show food used, on hand, and needed. Ask the vendor about recipe food cost.[2] |
| Guest CRM and email/text | Guest profiles with booking and order history, plus email campaigns and text messages. | Built-in email and SMS marketing tools.[1] |
| AI assistant | AI manager answers questions from live data and asks before it changes anything. A remote MCP server connects your own AI tool. | AI features, from an AI booking concierge to page builders.[1] |
| Payments | Stripe: cards online, Apple Pay and Google Pay, cards on file, and Stripe Terminal readers in person. | Lightspeed’s unified payments, processed directly from the POS at the course and online.[3] |
| Accounting integration | QuickBooks: map GL accounts and sync sales, orders, payouts, and member charges. | Lightspeed Accounting posts Lightspeed Retail (R-Series) sales to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, and Exact. Ask the vendor whether it covers Golf POS sales.[5] |
| Course-branded golfer site | Course-branded site on your own domain for booking and ordering. There is no app to download. | A custom website and app with in-app booking and payments.[1] |
Where Partake is different
Group orders that split themselves
One golfer shares a link or the table scans a QR code, everyone adds their own items, and the group pays by Pay my items, Split evenly, or Host covers.
Orders out to the golfer’s tee time
From the golfer site, an order can go to the golfer’s tee time on the course. Staff see where it goes on the same POS board.
Food cost from recipes and sales
Partake Costs covers vendors, purchase orders, AP invoices, and counts, and works out food cost from recipes against POS sales.
When Lightspeed Golf may be a better fit
Lightspeed says its golf platform is ideal for high-volume public and semi-private courses and multi-course operators, with dynamic pricing, Reserve with Google, pro shop retail with Lightspeed eCom, and an open API and partner ecosystem. A course with a large pro shop and online retail business, or a group already running Lightspeed Retail or Restaurant, may find Lightspeed Golf a better fit.[1][3]
Switching to Partake
The plan and timing are set with each course on the first call.
Step 1
Talk to us
Tell us how the course runs today, which outlets you have, and which Partake products you want.
Step 2
Map your setup
Work through menus and modifiers, your tee sheet schedule, player types, and rates with our team.
Step 3
Set up hardware
Plan the iPads, card readers, printers, and kitchen screens each outlet needs.
Step 4
Train staff
Walk the shop, servers, and kitchen through the screens they will use every day.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Partake an alternative to Lightspeed Golf?
- Yes. Partake replaces the tee sheet, the food and beverage POS, the kitchen display, and the golfer site in one system. Compare the checklist on this page and ask both vendors to walk you through a normal day.
- Does Partake integrate with Lightspeed or Chronogolf?
- No. Partake is not an integration with Lightspeed or Chronogolf. Partake’s integrations are Stripe for payments, QuickBooks for accounting, and Golf365 (EZ Links) for member charges.
- Can a group order together and split the check online with Partake?
- Yes. One golfer starts a group order and shares a link, or the table scans a QR code. Each person adds their own items, and the group picks Pay my items, Split evenly, or Host covers.
Sources
- Lightspeed: Golf course management software and POS (accessed 2026-09-23)
- Lightspeed: Golf cart POS and food and beverage software (accessed 2026-09-23)
- Lightspeed: Golf course POS system (accessed 2026-09-23)
- Lightspeed Golf support: Managing house accounts (accessed 2026-09-23)
- Lightspeed Golf support: Contacting accounting integration support (accessed 2026-09-23)
Related
- How to compare golf course softwareThe buyer checklist, and every comparison in one place.
- Golfer siteA course-branded site on the course’s own domain where golfers book tee times and order food, including to their tee time.
- Point of saleFood and beverage POS for the clubhouse, the turn, the beverage cart, and events, on an iPad or in the browser.
- Partake CostsVendors, purchase orders, AP invoices, waste, transfers, counts, and food cost from recipes against POS sales.
- PricingWhat drives a Partake quote.