Every drawer tied to the budtender who rang it — variances escalated, not buried.
You came in because cannabis is cash-heavy, shrink hides in the drawer, and you find a variance three weeks later with no idea which shift it came from.
Cannabis is cash-heavy and cash is where shrink hides. Every till session ties to the budtender who rang it: open, ring, drop, payout, close, count. Variances climb a defined ladder — small ones log and move on, mid-size get manager review, a large unoffset one pulls camera footage. Drops to safe and ATM-bank set-asides track separately so your armored-pickup day reconciles clean. Stale-open drawers surface on the health board the next morning, not three weeks later.
The response scales with the number.
Every session tied to a person
Open, ring, drop, payout, close, count — each till session attached to the budtender who rang it, not a shift total nobody can trace.
A variance ladder, not a shrug
Small variances log and move on; mid-size get manager review; a large unoffset variance pulls camera footage. The response scales with the number.
Cash trail, kept separate
Drops to safe and ATM-bank set-asides track separately, so the armored-pickup day reconciles cleanly. Every cash movement writes to audit.
Stale-opens surface next morning
A drawer left open across days shows on the health board the next morning — not three weeks later in a quarterly review.
Let the rows do the work.
Most shops reconcile cash in a spreadsheet after the fact. When it’s short, there’s no clean way to say which shift, which drawer, which person.
Who rang the variance
A spreadsheet total, no shift attribution.
Who rang the variance
Every till session tied to the budtender who rang it.
When a variance escalates
When someone happens to notice the total is off.
When a variance escalates
On a defined ladder — log, manager review, camera footage.
ATM + safe set-asides
Mixed into one number.
ATM + safe set-asides
Tracked separately so the armored pickup ties out.
A stale-open drawer
Found weeks later.
A stale-open drawer
On the health board the next morning.
This is where the cash lives. The variance ladder exists because ‘the drawer’s short again,’ with no attribution, is how shrink becomes a habit instead of an incident.
See the cash trail.
The demo walks a till session, the variance ladder, and the safe/ATM set-aside tracking on a test run set up for your shop.