We pulled feature data from public docs, operator forums, and our own due diligence. Where we couldn’t verify, we say so. Where we don’t have something, we say so too. 54 features, 8 categories, 8 vendors.
Each tile carries the platform’s positioning, who serves them well in operator practice, and a one-line “best for” recommendation. Sometimes the right answer isn’t us — we say so.
The dispensary OS that runs the dispensary, not just the register. Built by operators on it.
$240–600 / store / mo
Month-to-month. No multi-year. · No per-transaction fee
1–15 store owner-operators in WA today (other states during onboarding) who’d rather own the system than rent it, and who want WSLCB-fluent compliance + payroll + self-learning ordering in one login.
The largest cannabis-vertical POS + e-commerce platform — multi-state, marketplace-rooted.
$500–1,500 / location / mo
Annual minimum, multi-year common · ~2.0–2.9% of card volume on Dutchie Pay / payments add-on (operator-reported)
Multi-state chains who already lean on the Dutchie consumer marketplace for distribution and accept the per-transaction-fee math as a marketing-cost line item.
Vertically integrated cannabis ERP — POS, inventory, e-commerce, and compliance for mid-market chains.
$600–1,800 / location / mo
Annual minimum, often multi-year · No per-transaction fee
Multi-license California chains running cultivation + retail under one roof who need the ERP-grade reporting and aren’t price-sensitive.
Cannabis retail POS with mobile checkout, inventory, and METRC integration.
$400–900 / location / mo
Annual minimum · No per-transaction fee
1–3 store operators in Colorado or Michigan who want the Maui mobile checkout, accept a dated UI as the trade, and don’t need a unified back office.
Budget-tier cannabis POS — a single- and small-chain register with broad multi-state reporting, positioned on entry-tier pricing rather than back-office breadth.
$349–649 / location / mo (Boutique up to 2 workstations · Powerhouse unlimited)
Annual minimum, month-to-month available with markup · No per-transaction fee
Single-location operators on a budget who need a POS that takes the cash and reports to the state, and who accept manual back-office workflows as the trade for entry-tier pricing.
Cannabis ERP across cultivation, distribution, and retail — California-rooted, multi-state present.
$500–1,500 / location / mo
Annual minimum · No per-transaction fee
Vertically integrated California operators (cultivation + distro + retail) who want one ERP across the supply chain and have the ops maturity to run it.
California-native cannabis POS + delivery dispatch + e-commerce in one platform.
$400–1,000 / location / mo
Annual minimum, month-to-month available · Variable on payments / delivery routing add-ons (operator-reported)
California single-shop and small-chain operators where delivery is 30%+ of revenue and a native dispatch surface is the wedge.
Generic retail POS with a cannabis-certification vertical — POS-first, cannabis-overlay second.
$50–300 / location / mo (POS license)
Month-to-month · Payment-processing fees pass through (varies by processor)
Single-shop operators in low-compliance-load markets on a tight budget who accept manual state reporting + manual compliance gating as the trade for lowest TCO.
Payments-first cannabis platform that grew into a POS — the dominant cashless-payments processor in Washington, now bundling its own register. Operators come for the debit rail; the POS is the bundled trade. CannAgent runs the opposite play: the POS is the wedge, and Blaze + Perfect Menu + cadence engine do the work after the cart closes.
$199–299 / terminal / mo standard tier (multi-terminal stores pay 2–5× the per-location ‘sticker price’ when measured per terminal); $99 / terminal / mo when the operator commits to 15% debit-transaction share through POSaBIT Pay
Month-to-month standard, but the $99/terminal tier requires the 15% debit-share threshold — fail it and the SaaS rate defaults back to $199/terminal for that month. The lock-in is behavioral (your transaction mix), not contractual. · ACH / Pay-by-Bank rail (POSaBIT migrated away from PIN-debit in 2023 after NCR pulled cashless-ATM rails). ACH fees run 1–1.5% of ticket — roughly $800–$1,600/mo at $80k revenue. ‘Ecomm menu’ priced separately at $299–399 / store / mo (online-ordering surface; analog of CannAgent’s native menu).
Single-shop or small-chain WA operators whose primary procurement decision is the cashless-payments rail (ACH / Pay-by-Bank) and who accept the bundled POS as the trade. NOT the right fit for operators whose pain is operational (vendor email backlog, ordering decisions, §280E reconciliation, customer touchpoint cadence) — that's where CannAgent's Blaze + Perfect Menu + cadence engine + §280E QBO push outshine a payments-first stack.
Track-and-trace platform that grew into a cannabis POS — the underlying state-reporting engine for several state regulator programs (OK, WA early days, NM) with a register layered on top.
$200–500 / location / mo (POS license)
Annual common; month-to-month available with setup-fee premium · Payment-processing fees pass through (operator-side acquirer); no per-cart take on the BioTrack side
Single-shop or small-chain operators in BioTrack-native state programs (OK OMMA, NM CCD) who weight state-reporting fluency over best-in-class cart UX, and who already have a separate customer-facing menu provider in their stack.
Greenbits is now Dutchie — Dutchie acquired it in 2021 and migrates operators onto the Dutchie POS at contract renewal, so the legacy Greenbits register is in wind-down. For operators who would rather not auto-route onto Dutchie, the forced cutover is the natural moment to compare the alternative.
$300–650 / location / mo (legacy Greenbits SKU, in wind-down)
Annual on legacy contracts; renewals route operators onto Dutchie terms · No per-transaction fee
Greenbits operators comfortable with the Dutchie roadmap and price point can ride the migration — see /vs/dutchie for the destination stack. Operators looking to use the forced cutover as the moment to re-evaluate the whole stack should weigh the Dutchie migration timeline (re-train + re-map + re-verify) against a same-quarter switch to a vendor with native compliance + back-office.
Standalone cannabis loyalty + SMS/email marketing platform that bolts onto a separate POS. Public-company since 2022 (SBIG on Nasdaq), hit non-compliance + financial-distress flags in 2024–2025.
$300–1,200 / location / mo (depends on contact list size + SMS volume — operator-reported)
Annual minimum, multi-year discount common · SMS volume is metered separately (per-message cost on top of the base subscription) — the bill grows with the list
Operators locked into a POS contract for 1+ years that has no native loyalty or marketing surface, and who need cannabis-compliant SMS at scale right now. Operators evaluating new stacks should compare the total cost (POS + SpringBig + SMS metering + reconciliation hours) against a system that bundles loyalty + marketing into the POS itself.
Where we’re strongest: WSLCB-coded compliance, payroll, AI reorder + write-up, cash discipline. Where we’re honest: no native delivery dispatch (Meadow has it). The honesty is the conversion driver.
Native age verification
Industry-discount 90d re-verify (WAC 314-55-095)
Manager-PIN gates on void / return / discount override
Customer display (2nd-screen)
Cash-first checkout flow
Soft-confirm on $200+ / 7+ item carts
Mobile / handheld checkout
Returns + voids with cannabis-quarantine routing
Pricing ranges are operator-reported, triangulated from r/Dispensary threads (2023–2026), MJBiz Daily coverage, Cannabis Business Times implementation-timeline threads, Ganjapreneur vendor-comparison articles, and vendor public marketing pages. We deliberately publish ranges rather than point figures — vendor pricing varies by location count, contract length, and discount cycle.
Feature ratings cite the platform’s public documentation where available and operator-reported behavior where it isn’t. “Partial” means the capability is present but limited or operator- managed; “Add-on” means it’s a separately-billed module; “Manual” means it’s possible by hand but not enforced.
For CannAgent, every ✓ ships in production today on real WA dispensary floors. Every ✕ is a feature we don’t have — said directly because the honesty is the credibility move.
Found something wrong, missing, or out of date? Email doug@cannagent.ai — we update the page.
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Every claim above is checkable on a public surface. Don’t take our word for it.
The matrix is the briefing. The demo is the test. We walk three real surfaces — the register, the manager write-up, the Form 941 from the back office — and end by quoting your cutover.