If you’ve been to more than a few dispensaries in any metropolitan area then you’ve probably already seen a budtender using a digital Point-of-Sale (PoS) system to take orders, calculate costs, and print labels. Aside from these basic functions that the customer sees on the surface, a cannabis PoS also serves a number of important purposes that are crucial to both the front-end and back-end management of a dispensary. With that said, here are a few reasons why any dispensary that fails to use a PoS is seriously doing itself a disservice:

Slower Service and More Hassle

When you’ve got 7 customers lined up in your waiting room and a few browsing through the shelf catalogue in the dispensing area, you don’t want to leave people hanging while you fidget with an archaic cash register or a spreadsheet on a laptop. A specialized cannabis PoS makes it easy to accommodate a large volume of hourly sales while still keeping everything organized.

Inability to Handle Custom Orders and Labeling

A dispensary without a PoS is left up to the computing ability of the budtender and whatever basic tools they may have. While a tablet and a calculator can get the job done in a makeshift manner, manually tallying up and itemizing each order is certainly not the most efficient approach. Plus, with a PoS every order can instantly be converted into a printable label that can be attached to the cannabis container to inform and impress the customer. For example, stats like potency, weight, strain name, type, genetics, effects, and other basic descriptive qualities can be listed on the product itself and customized for each individual order. Adversely, not using a PoS undoubtedly slows down your budtenders and is therefore bad for business.

Lack of Streamlined Accounting and Record Keeping

Keeping up with the accounting needs of a dispensary can be demanding, especially if you’re trying to use typical templates within a conventional accounting software. Cannabis PoS systems make it possible to keep track of every aspect of sales without any additional effort beyond inputting the order. Without this direct path to record keeping your budtenders and management will be burdened by unnecessary accounting processes.

Now that you’re aware of the importance of using a good PoS for your dispensary, you can take the first steps in developing a custom solution by contacting us for a free consultation with Colorado’s leading PoS consultants.