At Cultivera, we know that good software helps businesses shine, not fall behind! In this article we break down the top ten ways Cultivera POS helps Dispensaries stand out and grow strong. 🌱
Empowering Dispensaries with All-In-One Solutions
The Importance Of Software That Fits Your Needs
Some people think you need every tool under the sun to be successful… And some businesses do. To be sure, having the right tools for your licensed business is critical for success! But not all dispensary operations need bloated user-interfaces with complicated bells and whistles in their point-of-sale software…
For example, if you operate a small business with only one terminal, a limited team, and just a single location or two, you need dispensary software that fits your needs, not someone else’s.
Because in the end, small businesses keep the industry running. So while our solutions were built to help operations at any size, large or small, at Cultivera we’re especially proud of how we can show up for “the little guys” in the legal cannabis industry.
Introduction To Cultivera Point-Of-Sale
Cultivera Point-of-Sale is an all-in-one Dispensary retail system that offers ease-of-use with intuitive automated workflows.
As operations grow, Cultivera software continues to help boost sales and scalability, at any size. This allows businesses to scale with ease, whether they’re just starting out, or have been in the business for decades.
With Cultivera POS, retailers can spend less time on compliance and inventory, so they can spend more time with customers!
Promoting Small Business Success
10 Ways Cultivera POS Helps Dispensaries Stand Out
Dispensary software needs to be functional, reliable, and easy to use. Cultivera POS was built to be just that.
From all-in-one workflows and effortless inventory, to staff management and patient check-ins, and beyond, Cultivera Point-of-Sale does it all.
To explain, here are ten of the many ways Cultivera POS helps small businesses shine, broken down by three main categories: Affordability, Efficiency, and Simplicity.
Affordability – Do More, Spend Less
1. Flexible Terms
2. “BYOE” (Bring Your Own Equipment)
3. Free Training & Reliable Human Support
Efficiency – Save Time With Automations
4. Streamlined Inventory, Audits, & Cycle Counts
5. Custom Receipt Configurations
6. Exportable Reports
Simplicity – Streamlined, Custom Workflows
7. Simplified Manifest Generation
8. Loyalty & Rewards + Promotions
9. Popular B2C Menu Integrations
10. Easy-To-Use Order Holds
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Affordability - Do More, Spend Less
For any business, especially cannabis operations, costs and expenses can be a huge challenge. Here are the most valuable ways Cultivera POS helps licensed Dispensaries save money in a notably expensive industry.
1. Flexible Terms
Business software can be so expensive. This is especially true for Dispensaries looking for multiple cannabis-specific solutions. Between the research and demos, meetings and training, and then onboarding, finding the right tools (at the right price) can be exhausting and costly.
With Cultivera POS, flexible payment options and month-to-month plans mean no long contracts, so retailers have more control over their spending. It also means business operators can spend less, while getting more, including more complete peace-of-mind.
Plus, the all-in-one Dispensary management tools offered by Cultivera POS allow managers to also do more with less. Cultivera POS was built to help Dispensaries manage their business across the board. So rather than paying for multiple business solutions, Cultivera’s complete system offers dispensaries a variety of powerful management tools.
Manage teams with time-clocks, team tracking, and budtender performance reports. Streamline inventory processes from intake to sales with tools for customer check-in, product intake and returns, discounts and promotions, retail sales, audits, compliance, and business analytics. All of this, in one easy-to-use point-of-sale.
This combination of features saves users money that would have otherwise been spent on multiple software tools.
Worrying less about software costs means businesses can save money and stress, and focus more on more important issues.
2. "BYOE" (Bring Your Own Equipment!)
We know how frustrating it can be to have to get a whole new set of hardware when you change sales software!
Between the research, the high costs, and the time to train your team on new machines, it can build up to quite the headache for any dispensary. This is especially true when your team is in the middle of a software transition.
With Cultivera POS, most users can “BYOE,” Bring Your Own Equipment, for smoother transitions and less additional costs.
This means many teams can continue to use the hardware they’re already comfortable with, and new users can worry less about additional hardware expenses.
Plus, since you can access Cultivera POS Web on any Desktop or Laptop device with a browser, it’s easy to adapt if one of your machines or tablets goes down. 🧘🏽
3. Free Training & Reliable Support
Getting an entire team onto a new software system can seem like an overwhelming task. This is especially true when it comes to the critical business operations of something like your point-of-sale platform.
At Cultivera POS, we work hard to make learning and onboarding easy for your whole team.
As soon as businesses get started with Cultivera, they are assisted by our in-house experts. To help every group set up for success, users are guided through onboarding, training, and go-live, with continued support, every step of the way.
For a complete learning experience, users are encouraged to utilize our Self Help Library, offering a large variety of support documentation and how-to articles 24/7, and the Cultivera Learning Center, featuring full training courses to help users become workflow experts through engaging, interactive lessons.
From our streamlined onboarding process and free training, to our compassionate, in-house customer support team, and full suite of online learning resources, Team Cultivera has your back.
Efficiency - Time-Saving Automations
Good dispensary software helps save both time and money with automations wherever possible. In this section, we’ll explore some of the most valuable ways Cultivera POS helps Dispensary operators boost efficiency across their business.
4. Streamlined Inventory, Audits, & Cycle Counts
The core of any retail operation, Products and Inventory can take up a lot of your business’s time and resources.
From initial workflows like Inventory intake and data input, to management processes like product returns, cycle counts, audits, and reports, all the way through final sales, traceability, and business intelligence.
Running these workflows can take enough time as it is. For Dispensary teams operating multiple digital tools and platforms, like online menus and local regulatory systems, it can be even more of a challenge.
Cultivera POS works to solve this common retail concern, with streamlined, all-in-one inventory and sales workflows. With Cultivera, Dispensaries can run cycle counts and audit inventory, and more, all in one place. Utilizing the simplified workflows in Cultivera POS, teams can save time and energy on product and inventory management, from intake, to sale, and beyond.
Cultivera’s multiple inventory auditing methods allow retail operators to save time on inventory across their workflows. Whether retailers receive product manually, through Metrc, or with a JSON link, quickly and easily receive and sync products in a snap!
5. Custom Receipt Configurations
With Cultivera POS receipt configurations, retail operators can customize their receipt layouts to make sure customers get the details they need most. This offers full transparency to customers, giving them peace of mind at every stage while building more confidence in your store’s reputation.
Cultivera POS custom receipt configuration offers:
- Placement for Company Name, Address, and Store/Company Logo;
- Line Item Taxes;
- Tax Summaries + Details, such as taxes observed vs. exemptions;
- Total Price Paid, with discounts for loyalty, happy hour, or any promotional;
- Receipt footers can include additional logos or promotional information.
The value in our receipt configurations is that they offer full transparency to customers and patients.
This is ideal for customers who want to ensure they are getting what is advertised, including any taxes being paid, discounts applied, or exemptions observed, such as Medical patient tax exceptions.
With many point-of-sale systems, receipts do not disclose these details in a line-item fashion, leaving customers to guess. This guesswork can lead to customer hesitation, potentially impacting a Dispensary’s credibility and traffic.
The customizable nature of Cultivera POS receipt configuration allows retailers to give customers peace of mind.
6. Exportable Reports
For any business, good data and business intelligence is critical. For Dispensaries in particular, reliable business software can save operators time with data offered at a glance!
In addition, users can run cycle counts and audit inventory all in one place! Having multiple inventory auditing methods allows retail operators to save time on inventory across their workflows!
So whether you’re auditing inventory, comparing sales, or taking a look at budtender performance, it’s important to be able to see your information at a glance, and to take it with you.
With Cultivera POS you can easily generate customizable spreadsheets and reports, and download them for your team, records, or regulatory agency. Plus, Cultivera’s exportable reports allows you to take your data anywhere.
Simplicity - Streamlined, Custom Workflows
With Cultivera POS, Dispensaries can streamline workflows throughout their business with customization and automation, making it easier than ever to get work done. Here are just a few of the most beneficial ways.
7. Simplified Manifest Generation
Sometimes Dispensaries get stuck with defunct items, like bad vape batteries, leaky cartridges, or broken jars, that need to be reconciled within their system. Unfortunately many POS systems don’t allow retailers to manifest back to a processor, causing bottlenecks in basic workflows like product returns.
To overcome this challenge, Cultivera POS offers simplified, automated manifest generation. Our easy, automated manifest workflows help retailers save time, spending less work on both manual entry and manifest-building.
Cultivera POS offers retailers streamlined solutions. Options include offering a discount on the next inbound order, or generating a “return manifest” to the processor to receive the inventory back.
8. Loyalty & Rewards + Promotions
One of the best and most common ways to keep customers interested, and coming back, is offering Loyalty programs, Rewards, Discounts, and Promotions.
Cultivera POS helps Dispensaries boost repeat customers, with competitive loyalty and rewards programs, plus customizable discounts and promotions, all with just a few clicks.
Cultivera POS offers a variety of customizable promotion options across the board. From group-specific discounts like Veterans and Industry Workers, to brand-specific discounts for events or “Vendor Days,” to time-specific discounts for holidays and revolving deals.
For example, many Dispensaries across the US offer “Daily Deals,” with different sales or discounts every day of the week, or “Happy Hours,” with sales set during certain times of day. However, these kinds of promotions are impossible if your POS allows you to create discounts, but not customize them by date and time.
In Cultivera POS, discounts and promotions for customers can be customized down to the day, and even the hour. Together these customization options give Dispensaries more control over their menu as a whole.
9. B2C Menu Integrations
One of the growing trends in legal cannabis over the years has been the use of online B2C menus.
Online B2C menu platforms allow retailers to expand their reach to more potential customers in a way that is streamlined and accessible. Using online menus, individual consumers can shop local Dispensaries and place orders from the convenience of their own devices.
However, when an online menu system doesn’t sync with a store’s point-of-sale or inventory management system, it can lead to missed orders, incorrect menus, and disjointed business data.
Cultivera POS includes online menu integrations for some of the most popular B2C menu platforms, like Leafly, Weedmaps, and more to come, making retail workflows easier than ever.
This direct sync with Cultivera POS means that retailers can continue to boost visibility in their area, while avoiding the stress, and cost, of missed orders and disjointed data.
10. Easy-To-Use Order Holds
We often talk about valuable Cultivera POS features like Offline Mode, which allows retailers to temporarily continue sales on tablet devices during internet service interruptions, offering simplified peace-of-mind. But Cultivera POS comes with a variety of features retailers can use to keep work running smooth. A great example is Order Holds.
Sometimes a customer checking out realizes they aren’t quite ready to complete their purchase. When a Dispensary only has one or two budtenders, or a single terminal, waiting on someone to run and get their wallet, cash, or identification at the last minute can hold up the whole store.
Because with many point-of-sale systems, the budtender’s only options are to wait for the customer to come back, or to clear the entire cart so they can ring up the customers waiting, then input the whole order over again when the customer comes back.
On the other hand, reliable retail software like Cultivera keeps this from being a challenge by offering “Order Holds” to keep operations running smoothly.
With this feature, budtenders can place a filled cart on Hold, saving the cart as-is and allowing them to continue processing other transactions while the customer is gone, without missing a beat. When the customer returns, the order can be easily retrieved and finalized in a snap.
Cultivera POS: An All-In-One Solution For Dispensaries Of All Sizes
With the complete Dispensary management offered by Cultivera Point-Of-Sale, smaller businesses can do more, with so much less!
Ready to see how Cultivera POS can help your Dispensary stand out? Book a demo to see it in action.
