CannAgent vs Korona POS — side by side comparison

vs Korona POS

CannAgent
vs
Korona POS

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

Honest read

Who Korona POS actually serves well.

Market segment: Single-location dispensaries on a tight budget willing to trade cannabis-native depth for a lower entry price.

Best for: 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 that’s your shape, Korona POS probably fits. If not, the rest of this page lays out where CannAgent diverges.

The bill

What you’d pay.

CannAgent

Monthly per store
$240 – $600 / store / mo
Setup fee
$4k – $16k cutover (fixed scope)
Per-transaction
None
Contract length
Month-to-month

Korona POS

Monthly per store
$50–300 / location / mo (POS license)
Setup fee
$500–2k onboarding
Per-transaction
Payment-processing fees pass through (varies by processor)
Contract length
Month-to-month
What operators report

Korona POS — the trade-off.

Korona POS — 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

Korona POS — what operators flag

  • Generic retail POS underneath — cannabis-specific compliance (WAC re-verifies, waste-log witness sign-off, 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
Restraint

What we won’t say about Korona POS.

  • We won’t say Korona POS is a bad product. 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. That’s a real fit for the operators who match the shape.
  • We won’t pretend the trade-offs are universal. The flagged weaknesses above are operator-reported patterns, not guarantees about your shop.
  • We won’t hide our own gaps. See the ”What we won’t claim” section on /trust for the open weaknesses on our own side.

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

Worth doing the math

For a typical 1-store operator, the math looks like this.

$200k/month revenue, occasional stockouts (5% of SKU-days). What better shelf-fill discipline could recover — not what Korona POSis costing you, that’s a story for the operator to tell. This is what CannAgent could put back on the table.

Annual recoverable

$43,200

Net annual benefit

$36,024

After $598/mo CannAgent

Payback in

1 month

Math, made plain

  • Lost-revenue uses Nielsen’s 40% substitution-rate floor — most stockouts produce a substitution buy (not a walked sale). We only count the walked share.
  • Recovery is bounded at 60% (industry-typical inventory-tooling ROI midpoint, MJBiz Daily + IHL Group). We don’t claim ‘eliminate stockouts.’
  • Cost basis is the published solo-tier midpoint ($450/store/mo). Multi-store operators see a lower per-store rate; the math gets better with scale.
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Run the math

Three-year savings, on your numbers.

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$80,000

Typical small dispensary: $80k/mo. Mid-volume single store: $150k/mo. High-volume: $300k+/mo.

Plus what else do you pay for separately?

Your current monthly POS + inventory cost

$59–$250

Korona POS subscription + volume fees, across 1 location

CannAgent monthly cost

$399–$699

Per location, no per-transaction fees, no annual hike

Annual savings

~$0–$0

3-year savings projection

~$0–$0

Includes a 4%/yr incumbent price hike. CannAgent is fixed-fee.

Operators switching from incumbent POS typically project 20–45% lower TCO over 3 years, depending on contract tier and whether they were paying per-transaction fees on the payments rail1. Your number depends on your contract. The demo ends with the cutover quote — fixed scope, no hourly games.

Get your custom number at the demo →

1Comparative ranges are derived from publicly disclosed vendor pricing (Dutchie POS list pricing per third-party analyses; Cova published rates; Korona published rates; published earnings filings where available), trade-press reporting on cannabis-payments fees (Reforming Retail 2023 analysis of Dutchie PIN-debit), and operator self-report ranges (2024–2026) from public review platforms (Trustpilot, G2, Capterra) and operator forums (r/Dispensary, MJBiz Daily). Per-transaction fee bands reflect published rates for ACH / PIN-debit / Pay-by-Bank rails; actual fees depend on the rail operated, contract tier, and average ticket size. CannAgent makes no representation about any individual operator’s actual savings; ranges are illustrative and modeled, not surveyed. Final pricing is locked at the demo.

Next step

Walk the cutover from Korona POS.

30 minutes. We’ll show you a real register transaction, the ID-compliance gate, and quote your cutover from your shop’s actual workflow.

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Pricing as of 2026-05-08, per each vendor’s published page or Capterra/G2 listings. Vendor names + wordmarks used under nominative fair use; no endorsement implied. See /trust for our published methodology + the open weaknesses on our own side.