METRC integrated POS systems, prices reviews etc.?

Hey everyone, I don’t see much or any discussion about point of sale vendors here. Prices and quality of service vary a lot, or so I hear. I have heard good things about Greenbits, but the prices mentioned were high.

Any opinions or experience out there? I will be purchasing in the next 4-8 weeks.

Thanks!!
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Its the third link down on a “metric pos” search

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METRC is already a POS :wink:

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POS = piece of shit?

To be fair, I never used METRC. They won a no bid contract in Maine, so I thought I was going to be forced to pay $40 a month, plus buy tags. I wasn’t happy about that. I rolled my own seed to sale tracking solution, so I don’t want to pay for something that does less.

The state pulled the contract and issued an RFP. The contract was awarded to BioTrackTHC.

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biotrack is probably worse.

MEtric at least has an html based API.

Biotrack is a huge ball of mud build on top some other atrociously non-normalized database.

While trying to interact with it I did a full schema dump and it has amongst other things a fully populated zipcode lookup databased in there. Sure that might be useful in just a little bit, but there was just soooo much junk in there.

last I looked, Metric didn’t have a location field. How can you be in charge of state mandated cannabis tracking, and not have a field for “where tf is the cannabis”?

Biotrack has one. but last I checked they still hadn’t placed the location field in the “details” page. so you could scan a barcode, and learn what you were looking at, but not where the computer thought (was last told) the item was supposed to be. the only way you got that information was by navigating to the correct location, then scanning, you’d see the displayed item light up in the list view.

so yeah. they are both POS in my books.

Edit: with two computational biology postdocs, I have strong opinions on database design. :wink:

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I believe you.

I talked Biotrack a few years ago at a Cannabis trade show, and was unimpressed.

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they took different approaches to the problem.

Biotrack is highly constrained. They interpret the rules and work really hard not to let you do anything you’re not supposed to. Which often means they won’t allow you to do perfectly reasonable things, because they just hadn’t conceived of it.

Metric is almost unconstrained. They’ll let your operator (actually metric specialist, it’s that bad!) input almost anything. Which can be really problematic if you’re not on top of things.

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thanks for the replies. METRC specialists! :roll_eyes:

METRC is even worse when you don’t have a point of sale system…

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@cyclopath hit the nail on the head. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: