DMS · Lightspeed → ScoutRV
ScoutRV and Lightspeed DMS
Scout pulls your inventory from Lightspeed automatically. You keep Lightspeed exactly as it is — Scout reads from it, it does not replace it.
How it works
- Inventory flows from your DMS into Scout automatically on a schedule — no exports, no spreadsheets, no re-keying.
- Units arrive with pricing, status, photos and specifications, and changes made in the DMS appear on the site without anyone touching the website.
- Feed health is monitored. If your DMS stops sending, an automated check catches it within hours rather than when a customer calls about a unit you sold last week — a failure mode most RV dealers have experienced at least once.
- Lightspeed API keys are issued per dealer, so a group running several Lightspeed accounts gets each store wired separately rather than blended into one feed.
- Status changes — sold, on hold, pending — carry through, so a sold unit comes off the site promptly instead of generating leads you cannot fill.
- Leads can also travel the other way, into Lightspeed CRM over its lead import API. That is configured separately from the inventory sync and is covered on its own page.
- Staleness is judged on the date of the feed file itself, not on whether the nightly sync ran. A provider that keeps re-serving the same file makes the sync look healthy while your inventory quietly freezes; that is the case the check is built to catch, and anything over 48 hours raises an alert.
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Questions
Lightspeed DMS questions
Do we need to change anything in Lightspeed?+
No. Scout reads from Lightspeed; nothing about your DMS workflow changes.
We run multiple Lightspeed accounts across stores. Does that work?+
Yes. Keys are per dealer, and each store is configured as its own feed with its own location mapping.
Does the inventory sync send leads back to Lightspeed?+
Not on its own. Inventory sync and CRM lead delivery are two separate integrations, and you can run either without the other.