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 are logged, and larger ones are routed to admin review, and one not offset within two days goes to camera review. Nothing is blocked; each step puts the gap in front of a person. Drops to safe and ATM-bank set-asides track separately, and armored pickups are recorded with amount and bag number, on the carrier’s schedule. A nightly check pushes managers when a till is still open.
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 walked live by our team, on the working product.