We had a Google Meet session with a couple of people from ProCanna and got a demo of their compliance software. They seem to be based in Maine, with a few remote folks. There is some good stuff in there. #
I liked the way they took the content from 935 CMR 500, the Mass. regulations for adult use of cannabis, and broke it up into a bunch of separate blocks that are all searchable. I did a couple of tests with them for stuff I know is kind of hard to find in the regulations, and they did find with it.#
They have a workflow engine in there for managing internal audits that seems pretty heavyweight. Internal audits are important as they basically prepare you for audits from the CCC (Mass Cannabis Control Commission), but I really don't like foisting software on our staff that forces them to live inside a twisty little maze of system of checkboxes and radio buttons. I think we could do 80% of this with the document management and collaboration software we already have, for less than 20% of the effort.#
They have a way to manage your own SOPs, which seems pretty useful, and they also have their own library of canned SOPs that you could just adopt lock stock and barrel if you wanted to. So I think the SOP management would be fine if you did that. They also have a way to create and maintain your own custom SOPs, and I think it would also work fine if you wrote all your own SOPs. They do not seem to be able to handle the use case very well when you want to take some of their SOPs and you also want to write some of your own. They suggested that for this scenario you could copy and paste all their pre-made SOPs into custom ones, but of course I pointed out that we would not be able to pick up any fixes or changes if we did that.#
I think this software would be a great thing to have if you were a MSO (multi-state operator) and you had a big compliance team that was distributed across many stores in many states. I think for a company with one retail store and nothing else, while it's not necessarily overkill, it seems like it's not really a great fit.#
Pricing is $695/month for a company with one retail store, with two users for free. More users after that are $49/month. They also said that adding a second store would not change the price but adding a second license type would.#
This task of evaluating software is probably one of the few things I do at the store that really feels like CTO work. It's a highly leveraged use of time since picking software is so expensive to get wrong.#
We had a Google Meet session with a couple of people from ProCanna and got a demo of their compliance software. They seem to be based in Maine, with a few remote folks. There is some good stuff in there. #
I liked the way they took the content from 935 CMR 500, the Mass. regulations for adult use of cannabis, and broke it up into a bunch of separate blocks that are all searchable. I did a couple of tests with them for stuff I know is kind of hard to find in the regulations, and they did find with it.#
They have a workflow engine in there for managing internal audits that seems pretty heavyweight. Internal audits are important as they basically prepare you for audits from the CCC (Mass Cannabis Control Commission), but I really don't like foisting software on our staff that forces them to live inside a twisty little maze of system of checkboxes and radio buttons. I think we could do 80% of this with the document management and collaboration software we already have, for less than 20% of the effort.#
They have a way to manage your own SOPs, which seems pretty useful, and they also have their own library of canned SOPs that you could just adopt lock stock and barrel if you wanted to. So I think the SOP management would be fine if you did that. They also have a way to create and maintain your own custom SOPs, and I think it would also work fine if you wrote all your own SOPs. They do not seem to be able to handle the use case very well when you want to take some of their SOPs and you also want to write some of your own. They suggested that for this scenario you could copy and paste all their pre-made SOPs into custom ones, but of course I pointed out that we would not be able to pick up any fixes or changes if we did that.#
I think this software would be a great thing to have if you were a MSO (multi-state operator) and you had a big compliance team that was distributed across many stores in many states. I think for a company with one retail store and nothing else, while it's not necessarily overkill, it seems like it's not really a great fit.#
Pricing is $695/month for a company with one retail store, with two users for free. More users after that are $49/month. They also said that adding a second store would not change the price but adding a second license type would.#
This task of evaluating software is probably one of the few things I do at the store that really feels like CTO work. It's a highly leveraged use of time since picking software is so expensive to get wrong.#