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CannAgent vs Korona POS.

Generic retail POS with a cannabis-certification vertical — POS-first, cannabis-overlay second.

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.
Korona POS
  • Monthly$50–300 / location / mo (POS license)
  • Setup$500–2k onboarding
  • Per-transactionPayment-processing fees pass through (varies by processor)
  • ContractMonth-to-month
Honest read

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

Strengths
  • ✓Lowest entry-tier pricing of any option on this page — meaningful for single-shop operators with margin pressure
  • ✓Hardware-flexible — runs on most POS hardware
  • ✓Month-to-month contract terms
Where operators feel pain
  • •Generic retail POS underneath — cannabis-specific compliance (WAC re-verifies, waste-log triple-witness, vendor-license gating) is documented at best, not enforced
  • •METRC / state reporting requires manual export-import in many states
  • •No native back-office (payroll, hiring, write-ups, performance) — the platform is POS-only
  • •Limited customer-facing menu / e-commerce — usually paired with a 3rd-party menu provider
  • •Customer support is generic-retail-tier, not cannabis-vertical-tier — questions about WAC 314-55-079 don’t land on someone fluent

Sources triangulated: Korona POS public pricing references · cannabis-cert vertical documentation · r/Dispensary budget-tier operator threads.

Side by side

Five rows that decide it.

Feature
CannAgent
Korona POS
Vertical-ID workflow at the register
Compliance (US-cannabis)
Stops the cart
✕
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
Processor pass-through
Contract length
Pricing + Contract
Month-to-month
Month-to-month
See the full 50-feature matrix →
Honest recommendation

Who should stay on Korona POS. Who should switch.

Stay on Korona POS if

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.

If you’re stuck on Korona POS and want to switch

Migration from Korona POSis 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 Korona POS — 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 Korona POS 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 Korona POS.

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