IndicaOnline’s Metrc-Integrated Retail ID

IndicaOnline is thrilled to announce our integration with Metrc as we release Retail ID, bringing this innovative solution to market. Our integration with the Metrc system reflects our ongoing commitment to compliance and innovation. Retail ID is a game-changer for cannabis retail operations, offering enhanced security, streamlined processes, and full traceability. This solution is poised to revolutionize industry practices.

Automating QR code generation, Retail ID replaces the manual application of barcodes, significantly boosting operational efficiency. Metrc has enabled new features within the system in Nevada, Maryland, and Montana, setting a new industry standard.

How Retail ID Works

Retail ID employs serialized QR codes for item-level identification, offering unprecedented supply chain visibility, bolstering compliance, and reducing labor costs for retailers while enabling real-time access to detailed product information, including origin, potency, test results, and Certificates of Analysis (COA), through a single scan. This innovation aligns with increasing consumer demands for transparency and traceability in their purchases, enhancing public safety and market confidence.

Retail ID simplifies the entire process from production to consumer purchase:

1. Brands & Manufacturers:

• Setup products in Metrc as usual.
• Generate unique QR codes for each individual retail item with one click.
• Print and affix codes to each item.

2. Distributors:

• Seamlessly move products through the supply chain without additional scanning.

3. Dispensaries:

• Quickly scan each retail item to complete the transfer and check out.

4. Consumers:

• Scan QR codes for product info, Certificates of Analysis (COA), ingredients, and more.

Key Features of Retail ID

Metrc, renowned for its cannabis regulatory technology systems in the U.S., has launched Retail ID to set new standards in the cannabis supply chain. Retail ID employs serialized QR codes for item-level identification, offering unprecedented supply chain visibility, bolstering compliance, and reducing labor costs for retailers and brands.

• Streamlined QR Code Scanning: Retail ID utilizes unique QR codes for each item within the package, simplifying the scanning process and eliminating the need for manual data entry. 
• Improved Operational Efficiency: Integrating Retail ID with IndicaOnline’s POS system streamlines operations. The automated scanning process enhances transaction speed and accuracy, allowing staff to focus on customer service and other critical tasks. QR codes can be scanned to process sale, fullfill the orders, and process refunds. 
• Product Recall Data: Enhances communication capabilities to further facilitate recalls and expands visibility into recalled products in a single QR code scan.
• COA Visibility: This feature allows real-time access to item-level product data in a single scan, building consumer confidence with lab testing validation.

Seamless Integration with IndicaOnline

IndicaOnline’s integration with Metrc and Retail ID is powered by our robust API that seamlessly synchronizes data between platforms. This streamlined connection automatically updates inventory and sales information with Metrc, eliminating manual data entry and minimizing errors. Dispensaries benefit from real-time data accuracy, ensuring compliance and efficiency. Once synchronized, IndicaOnline clearly indicates products with generated QR codes. The integration of Retail ID into IndicaOnline’s POS system brings numerous advantages:

1. Operational Efficiency: Retail ID eliminates the need for relabeling and secondary labeling, using external barcodes, saving an average of 60 seconds per item, which translates to approximately 2,000 hours of labor savings annually per retailer.
2. Improved Inventory Management: Direct cycle counting and robust inventory practices optimize operational efficiency and minimize human error. These practices streamline processes from receiving items, fulfilling in-store and delivery orders, performing audits, sales, returns and exchange.

Revolutionizing Cannabis Retail with IndicaOnline and Metrc

The integration of IndicaOnline with the Metrc system and the introduction of Retail ID represents a major leap forward for cannabis retail operations. IndicaOnline continues to lead the way in delivering advanced, compliant, and user-friendly solutions that set new industry standards. Dispensaries can now look forward to more efficient operations and greater peace of mind, knowing they are supported by the latest compliance technology. 

Metrc has enabled new features within its system in Maryland, Montana, and Nevada at no additional cost. Operators can now generate QR codes through simple workflows that can be quickly implemented. Upcoming expansions will include Michigan, New Jersey, Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana.