Recommended seed-to-sale compliant POS for Missouri dispensaries

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When it comes to running a successful dispensary, your point of sale (POS) system is one of the most critical tools at your disposal. But not all POS platforms are created equal, and not all meet the specific demands of the medical marijuana market while keeping your dispensary compliant with Missouri’s seed-to-sale regulations. 

Cova POS, on the other hand, meets both those criteria — and then some.

A recognized leader in the cannabis technology space, Cova works exclusively with medical marijuana dispensaries and cannabis retailers throughout the U.S. and Canada, helping them optimize and streamline operations. More importantly, though, Cova keeps its clients compliant with their markets’ unique seed-to-sale tracking and reporting requirements. 

Read on to discover the key ways in which Cova POS meets Missouri dispensary compliance needs, makes dispensary staff members’ lives easier, and elevates the customer experience!

How Cova Streamlines Dispensary Operations and Keeps You Compliant

Because it’s built specifically to support cannabis retailers and dispensary operations, Cova comes loaded with a suite of compliant capabilities that automate and streamline every aspect of your business. For example, in Missouri, state law requires rigorous seed-to-sale tracking, including reporting to Metrc of all medical marijuana sales, acquisitions, disposals, and transfers, plus each day’s beginning and ending inventory. 

Automated, Human-Proof Compliance

With Cova’s seamless two-way Metrc integration, all required reports are automatically generated and submitted to the state for you — which means you save a significant amount of time in manual reporting while eliminating the chance of human error, which could lead to a costly compliance infraction.

Cova also streamlines and safeguards the check-in and check-out processes with ID barcode scanners and automated purchase limit alerts. By scanning customer IDs at the front desk, you’ll be able to quickly and easily verify qualified patient status, making the check-in process a breeze. And when patients are ready to check out, Cova communicates directly with Metrc to verify and update their monthly purchase amounts to ensure that your budtenders don’t unintentionally sell more than the monthly limit to any customer. 

Simple, Accurate Inventory Tracking and Adjusting

Another major aspect of seed-to-sale compliance is inventory tracking and adjusting. Under Missouri law, dispensaries must use proper measures and controls “for the prevention of diversion, inversion, theft, or loss of marijuana.” Here again, Cova simplifies the process and makes inventory reconciliation a snap. 

Along with tracking all sales in real-time, Cova allows you to easily make needed inventory adjustments that are automatically reported to Metrc. Additionally, Cova provides you in-depth sales and inventory reports that will help you maximize your sales floor strategy and boost the bottom line.

Ease of Use and Intuitiveness

As sophisticated as Cova POS is, it’s also extremely intuitive and user-friendly — which means you and your new budtenders will be transacting with confidence in no time. What’s more, Cova’s all-star launch team will walk you step-by-step through the setup process to get you up and running, and our support staff is always on call to help you resolve any issues and answer any questions that come up along the way. 

Industry-Leading Integrations

A lot of software manufacturers fall short by focusing on too many areas at once, which often leads to the “jack of all trades, master of none” syndrome. Cova, on the other hand, takes the approach of being the best-in-class at its core competency and partnering with other industry-leading companies through robust software integrations. This way, Cova can provide the most well-rounded and supportive cannabis retail ecosystem possible. 

   

For instance, Cova’s partnerships with Leafly and Weedmaps mean dispensary owners can forget about manually updating online menus — and that consumers can always find accurate inventory information in real-time. From a customer satisfaction standpoint, this is a major victory; nothing turns customers off more than traveling to a dispensary only to find the product they saw online is actually out of stock. 

Cova’s best-of-breed partners also include security solutions provider March Networks, video wall, and menu board designer Enlighten, online ordering and delivery platform Dutchie.

Battle-Tested Reliability

Of course, all the capabilities and integrations in the world mean nothing if the platform is constantly crashing or compromising you and your customers’ data. Cova boasts a proven track record of reliability with virtually zero downtime, even on the busiest days of the year like 4/20. That’s especially important for Missouri dispensary owners; state law says that if a network is down, dispensaries may not process sales — which leads to lost revenue as well as unhappy customers. 

Even in the event of a network disruption due to spotty or weak Wi-Fi, you can continue to use the system in offline mode. Cova will automatically update its database as soon as the network connection is restored.

Rock-Solid Security

When it comes to security, Cova truly is second to none. As a subsidiary of iQmetrix, a leading provider of retail management in the cellular industry, Cova offers the most advanced and powerful data protection solution in the cannabis market. The infrastructure and software that power Cova are extremely sophisticated, securely handling more than $16 billion across 200 million transactions every year from Canadian and American companies. 

By sharing its infrastructure with iQmetrix, Cova leverages this robust system at a much lower cost, taking full advantage of the economies of scale that iQmetrix offers. Currently, Cova hosts its data in Microsoft Azure, which provides the highest security standard for consumer data. This is especially important in light of recent news of a major medical marijuana security breach that exposed the personal data of tens of thousands of cannabis patients. 

With Cova, you’ll rest easy knowing that your sensitive company information, as well as your patients’ personal data, are safe and secure — 24/7, 365. 

See Cova POS In Action

Want to get a glimpse of Cova POS in action and see exactly what it can do for you and your dispensary? Check out this 60-second video demo and see for yourself!

Faai Steuer is VP of marketing at Cova Software, the fastest-growing cannabis retail POS in North America. An entrepreneur at heart, she has a passion for growing startups and building brands. With 20 years of marketing experience in CPG and retail tech, she lends her knowledge and best practices to help cannabis entrepreneurs in the US and Canada open their first store and grow their business through vital thought leader content. Faai oversees the strategies and executions of Cova public relations, content marketing, social media, events, and campaigns.

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