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CannAgent vs Cova.

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.

Pricing — operator-reported

What lands on the bill.

CannAgent
  • Monthly$240–600 / store / mo
  • Setup$4k–16k cutover (fixed scope, quoted from your workflow)
  • Per-transactionNone
  • ContractMonth-to-month. No multi-year.
Cova
  • Monthly$349–649 / location / mo (Boutique up to 2 workstations · Powerhouse unlimited)
  • Setup$500–3k onboarding
  • Per-transactionNone reported
  • ContractAnnual minimum, month-to-month available with markup
Honest read

What Cova is genuinely good at — and where operators feel pain.

Strengths
  • ✓Entry-tier pricing — accessible for single-location operators on a margin-thin budget
  • ✓Multi-state footprint with broad state-reporting integrations
  • ✓Published, predictable tier pricing (Boutique / Powerhouse) — easy to budget against
Where operators feel pain
  • •Back-office breadth is thin — payroll, hiring, write-ups all live in separate systems the operator reconciles by hand
  • •Compliance posture is documented, not enforced — WAC-level rule gating sits on the operator
  • •Limited AI / automation — reorder is manual, write-ups out of scope
  • •Customer-facing menu / e-commerce is a priced add-on, not the core strength

Sources triangulated: Cova.com published pricing references (Boutique / Powerhouse tiers) · r/Dispensary operator threads · Cannabis Business Times Cova coverage.

Side by side

Five rows that decide it.

Feature
CannAgent
Cova
Vertical-ID workflow at the register
Compliance (US-cannabis)
Stops the cart
Documented
Federal payroll — 941, W-2, W-3, 940 FUTA
Payroll + Cash
Native, in the platform
✗
Self-learning POs (velocity + reliability + fill-rate)
AI + Automation
PROPRIETARYproprietary
✗
Per-transaction fee on payments
Pricing + Contract
None
None
Contract length
Pricing + Contract
Month-to-month
Annual
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Honest recommendation

Who should stay on Cova. Who should switch.

Stay on Cova if

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.

If you’re stuck on Cova and want to switch

Migration from Covais a fixed-scope cutover quoted from your shop’s actual workflow. Two to four weeks for a single location. Three days of on-floor support during the first week. 90-day satisfaction window — if it doesn’t land, we refund the setup fee and you keep your data exports.

  1. 01Data extract from Cova — products, customers, transactions, employees, vendor records.
  2. 02Per-location Postgres provisioned. Schema mapped. Pilot register stood up in parallel.
  3. 03Cutover overnight — last close on Cova Sunday, first open on CannAgent Monday. Three days of on-floor support.
  4. 04Training your closer, inventory lead, and bookkeeper — included in the setup, not billed separately.
See it on your data

30 minutes. Three real surfaces. A fixed-scope quote.

We walk a register transaction with a vertical-ID gate, a manager write-up against the WA labor rubric, and a Form 941 from the back office. We end by quoting your cutover from Cova.

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