Top Retail Technology Providers for the Cannabis Industry

What’s your ideal tech stack? 
In the increasingly competitive cannabis retail sector, constructing the right dispensary tech stack is mission-critical. Your dispensary’s technical infrastructure, along with data management and use, can create a significant competitive advantage when carefully selected and strategically integrated. On the other hand, a haphazardly assembled tech stack without proper attention to integrating multiple systems can severely hamper operations, stemming the flow of revenue and needlessly limiting opportunities for growth.

We looked at five essential components of any retail tech stack: point-of-sale systems, cashless payments, ecommerce solutions, data and analytics, and customer engagement mechanisms. Point-of-sale systems track products for seed-to-sale compliance, offering detailed inventory management, enabling efficient order fulfillment and ensuring items are removed from available stock promptly. Cashless payment mechanisms can increase revenue by offering customers convenience and security similar to what they’re accustomed to in traditional retail settings. Ecommerce solutions provide online shopping capabilities. Data and analytics services help dispensary owners understand and use industry-wide data for inventory management and marketing. Customer engagement systems assist in creating customer loyalty and increasing spend.

For more information about each component and how to design a tech stack that meets your business’s unique needs, see “What’s Your Ideal Retail Tech Stack?”

Below are the top-rated tech-stack providers serving the cannabis industry retail sector.

Cannabis Industry Retail Technology Providers

COMPANY/PROVIDER		SOLUTIONS & OFFERINGS
	Cova	Point of sale, payments, ecommerce, customer engagement
Cova’s POS system incorporates not only typical point-of-sale functions but also a built-in ID scanner and age-verfication system, customer queue management, and on-demand deep-dive product information. Cashless payment tools offer customers options, and an offline mode ensures all purchase information is collected and retained even when Wi-Fi connections hiccup. Inventory tools help automate time-consuming manual tasks. An onboard loyalty program can help turn first-time shoppers into frequent customers by allowing instant points redemption and automatic member-specific discounts, and an integrated data analytics package helps owners and managers visualize performance across the business as a whole. Optional ecommerce integration. Cova
	365 Cannabis	Point of sale, customer engagement
	AeroPay	Payments
	Alpine IQ	Data, customer engagement
	BDSA	Data
	BLAZE	Point of sale, ecommerce, payments
	BioTrack	Point of sale, payments
	Brightfield Group	Data
	CanPay	Payments
	Dispense	Ecommerce
	Dutchie	Point of sale, payments, ecommerce, customer engagement
	Flourish	Point of sale
	Flowhub	Point of sale, payments, customer engagement
	Happy Cabbage Analytics	Data
	Headset	Data
	High Yield Insights	Data
	Hoodie Analytics	Data
	ISA	Data
	Jane Technologies	Point of sale, ecommerce, payments
	Leafly	Ecommerce
	Mariner Business Solutions	Point of sale, customer engagement
	Meadow	Point of sale, customer engagement
	MJ Platform	Point of sale
	New Frontier Data	Data, customer engagement
	Paybotic	Payments
	Pistil Data	Data
	POSaBIT	Point of sale, payments
	Proteus420	Point of sale
	springbig	Customer engagement
	Sprout	Customer engagement
	Treez	Point of sale, payments
	Vende	Point of sale, ecommerce
	Weedmaps	Ecommerce, customer engagement
	Zenco	Payments