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Shift4

FINANCE
Velocity6.3

Shift4 absorbs the SkyTab and Lighthouse sub-brands — one parent brand across POS, venue, and merchant hub.

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◆Current state
Shift4 is mid-rebrand consolidation. SkyTab POS has become Shift4 Dine, SkyTab Venue has become Shift4 Venue, and Lighthouse Business Manager has become the Shift4 Customer Hub. Recent communications are dominated by the rollout: update notices, required version bumps, and post-rebrand feature drops in the Customer Hub for both Dine and Venue.
◆Where it's heading
The product strategy is moving from a portfolio of acquired sub-brands toward a single Shift4-branded merchant stack covering payments, POS, venue, and the merchant back office. The merged Customer Hub is the connective tissue — once everything carries the Shift4 name, cross-sell across payments, POS, and back-office tooling becomes a much shorter conversation.
◆Prediction
Expect the immediate post-rebrand period to bring feature parity passes across Customer Hub for Dine and Venue, plus a v1.124-equivalent required update for Venue. Net-new functionality is likely to be paused until the rename and required-update cycle completes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    New Features Now Available in Your Shift4 Customer Hub

    First wave of post-rebrand features in the Shift4 Customer Hub (formerly Lighthouse Business Manager). Signals that the rebrand is being paired with active feature work, not just a name change.

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  2. 1d ago

    New Features Now Available in Your Shift4 Dine Customer Hub

    Same Customer Hub feature drop arriving in the Shift4 Dine cohort. Reinforces that Dine and the broader merchant base get the same Hub roadmap.

  3. 2d ago

    Reminder of Action Needed: Shift4 Dine v1.124 Required Update

    Reminder communication about the required Shift4 Dine v1.124 update — administrative follow-up on the rebrand rollout, not a new release.

  4. 5d ago

    Upcoming Required Update: Shift4 Dine v1.124

    Notice of the upcoming v1.124 required update that carries the SkyTab POS to Shift4 Dine rebrand into the running software.

  5. 9d ago

    Welcome to Shift4 Dine

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    SkyTab POS officially becomes Shift4 Dine. The most-used Shift4 acquisition brand is being folded into the parent name, completing a multi-year identity shift toward a single Shift4 merchant stack.

  6. 9d ago

    Welcome to Shift4 Venue

    Parallel rebrand of SkyTab Venue to Shift4 Venue, on the same day as the Dine rename. Completes the sub-brand sweep on the POS side of the portfolio.