Lightning Tools

Lightning Tools is a UK headquartered, global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) that specializes in Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams tools and web parts. We formed in 2007, with our initial tool “BDC Meta Man”, and have since grown to offer a range of products to our customers worldwide.

At Lightning Tools, we put our customers needs first. We offer a range of products that fill genuine gaps within Microsoft SharePoint. Our product is not just the software itself however! When you buy from Lightning Tools, we ensure that you get outstanding customer care from our customer success managers and technical support representatives.

Lightning Tools is proud to have achieved the Microsoft Gold Partner status in Application Development, and in Collaboration and Content. We ensure that our in-house developers and technical support staff are Microsoft accredited, so that you benefit from a well developed and supported product.

Our products go through rigorous testing internally through our Quality Assurance staff before testing externally through SPCaf fromRencorefor code quality.

“The Rencore Development Best Practice Certification enables companies that build solutions, product, and add-ins around SharePoint to check if they pass our rigorous tests and audits to sport our program’s seal of quality. With this seal, we approve highest security, sustainability, and effectiveness of the very product. Tested against our ISO 25010-based SharePoint specific metrics, our clients will be constantly reassessing their product quality to ensure they stay up to date with latest best practice once approved by us.”

Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP and Lightning Tools CEO Brett Lonsdale has a strong passion for Microsoft SharePoint and enjoys seeing SharePoint, Teams and in turn the Lightning Tools product range grow year on year.