About LightMarket
LightMarket is a South African lighting, electrical, and solar retailer and wholesaler serving both retail and trade customers nationwide. They supply LED lighting, electrical components, solar systems, and smart home products for homes, businesses, and trade projects, alongside their own brands like Bing Light and AfriSolar built for quality and value. As a family run business with decades of experience, LightMarket has grown through trust, technical expertise, and long term customer relationships, with a strong focus on innovation and scalable systems as they expand across South Africa.
The Challenge
With multiple branches and a wide product range, keeping stock accurate, tracking performance, and aligning systems across locations became harder. They needed a solution that could support growth without adding complexity.
How Hike Helps
It gives LightMarket one connected view of the business, making it easier to manage branches, track performance, and stay organised as they grow.
These are the features LightMarket values the most:
- Branch wide visibility: Every location is connected, making it easy to oversee performance across the network.
- Live stock control: Inventory updates instantly, helping teams manage fast moving and technical products with confidence.
- Performance tracking: Clear reports show sales, margins, and growth without complicated data.
- Seamless integrations: Connects with tools like Shopify and Xero so sales, stock, and accounts stay in sync.
- Anywhere access: Being cloud based means managers can check in on the business anytime, from anywhere.
The Result
LightMarket now runs with structure and confidence. Teams work more smoothly, leaders make faster decisions, and customers get reliable service every time. With the right systems in place, LightMarket is set to keep expanding and shaping the future of lighting and energy solutions in South Africa.
About Mondo
Mondo Clothing is one of Nigeria’s most respected fashion brands, known for premium menswear and modern style. With multiple stores across major cities, Mondo serves customers who value quality, confidence, and consistency. Founded as a single store focused on quality and service, the brand has grown into a multi location business trusted by thousands every month. As Mondo expanded, more products, more staff, and more customers meant operations had to become smarter and more connected.
The Challenge
Managing stock across stores, tracking sales accurately, and keeping checkout fast became harder as Mondo expanded. Each location felt disconnected, and getting clear reports took time.
How Hike Helps
It brings all of Mondo’s stores into one system, fixing disconnected operations, slow reporting, and long checkout times. Everything updates in real time, giving the team control, clarity, and speed across every location.
These are the features Mondo values the most:
- Multi store control in real time: All locations run on one system. Sales, stock, and staff activity update instantly, giving managers a clear view of every store at once.
- Live inventory tracking: Stock is always accurate. Mondo sees what’s selling fast, moves items between stores easily, and avoids running out or overstocking.
- Faster checkout: Billing is quick and smooth, even at peak hours. Shorter lines mean better customer experience and more sales.
- Simple for staff: Easy to learn and easy to use, helping staff work faster with fewer mistakes.
- Clear useful reports: Real time insights on sales, products, and staff help Mondo plan better and grow smarter.
The Result
Today, Mondo operates as one strong, connected brand. Customers enjoy faster service, staff work with confidence, and managers make decisions using live data. With the right system behind them, Mondo is set to keep growing, serving more customers, and leading the fashion retail space in Nigeria.
BigCommerce POS
Use Hike as your integrated BigCommerce POS to get a complete in-store & online sales solution.
Sync your BigCommerce Online Store
Hike features a native integration with BigCommerce, the leading eCommerce platform used by more than 50,000+ online stores. By integrating BigCommerce and Hike, you’re getting the most innovative solution to selling both in-store and online.
Why use Hike as your BigCommerce POS
Automate financial reporting, save time and reduce your administrative costs.
Get started in minutes
2-way sync between Hike & BigCommerce allows you to start selling in minutes. If you’re already selling on BigCommerce, simply sync your catalogue and all your products are ready to sell in-store.
Inventory sync
Link your brick and mortar store/warehouse inventory with BigCommerce. All in-store & online sales will automatically update inventory on both platforms.
Central management
Increase efficiency with central management. Update any of your customer, inventory or product details in either system and it will instantly reflect everywhere.
Order sync
Orders placed in your BigCommerce store are instantly sync’d to Hike so you can offer in-store pick-up, exchange and even allow customers to pay in store on pickup.
Always evolving
Hike is a multi-store POS & retail management solution. Add more locations at anytime with a click of a button. It grows with your business.
Realtime analytics
Get all in-store & online sales analytics in one platform and that too in real-time. It makes financial and analytical reporting easier than ever.
Hike POS + BigCommerce features
- Inventory sync: All your sales, inventory count and new inventory updates are automatically sync’d between Hike & BigCommerce. You can specify which store’s inventory you wish to display online on the BigCommerce.
- Auto import/export: Activate your Hike + BigCommerce integration, specify your settings and Hike will instantly sync your products to/from Hike. All future updates and inventory are instantly sync’d to BigCommerce.
- Central product management: Manage a centralized product catalog in Hike. All updates are instantly sync’d with BigCommerce.
Reports & analytics
Use Hike’s reporting dashboard to report on both in-store and online sales. View and understand consolidated and stand alone sales numbers for your in-store and BigCommerce sales channels.
Real-time sync
All inventory updates and changes are instantly sent to BigCommerce. Similarly, updates received from BigCommerce are instantly reflected in Hike.
Select products sync
Choose which products you wish to sync from Hike to BigCommerce. You can sync everything you have or simply uncheck the products that you do not want to sell online.
Order sync
Online orders received in your BigCommerce store are instantly sync’d to Hike. Your entire sales ledger, reports and analytics are centralized.
Central customer profiles
With new orders from BigCommerce, Hike brings all the relevant data including customer profiles. Customer profile changes and updates are streamlined across all outlets and online store.
Log reports
Access comprehensive log reports on data sync’d to and from Hike including details on anything that failed to sync along with its reason. Quickly zero in on the information that you require.
Absolutely free for Hike users
Hike + BigCommerce integration is developed and managed by Hike team and is available to all Hike users at no additional cost.
In the cloud, on any device.
Hike works on any device. Use iPad, PC or Mac to sell in-store and fire up our iPad register app to sell on-the-go and at events.