Posts by Aria Biswas

Ensure your taxes are properly structured within your cannabis POS system

Are You Prepared for California's New Excise Tax Calculation?

The excise tax calculation changed on January 1, 2023, from 26.25% of the wholesale cost to 15% of the retail sale price. Review these tax calculations to ensure you're set up for accurate tax collection and remittance.
Review how you're calculating your excise tax compounding, prices, and profit margin to take into account California's new excise tax structure.
Cannabis ComplianceCannabis Retail
January 1, 2023 the excise tax liability for California cannabis retailers is shifting

California Cannabis Regulatory Changes: Excise Tax Collection & Payment

On January 1, 2023, cannabis retailers will be responsible for collecting and paying the cannabis excise tax to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA).
Cannabis CPA Patrick Finnegan breaks down what this changing liability means and how to adjust your SOPs to ensure compliance and avoid audits.
Cannabis Compliance
MJBizCon Whitney Beattie Josephine & Billie's with David Hua, CEO and Co-Founder of Meadow

7 takeaways from MJBizCon 2022

Meadow had our first-ever booth at MJBizCon this year. We saw lots of familiar faces and made new friends, helping us gain a clearer picture of the landscape of cannabis and what's to come for the movement.
Read 7 takeaways from our CEO, gleaned from this year's show in Vegas.
Cannabis Events and Culture
In this webinar with Sara Betesh, Founder of Betesh Buying Group, we review dispensary inventory management and cannabis marketing best practices for holiday sales.

Cannabis Retail Best Practices: Seasonal Marketing & Buying Tips

Sara Betesh, Founder of Betesh Buying Group, brings her 25+ years of retail buying expertise to this Meadow webinar to help dispensaries get ready for a successful holiday season.
From assortment planning to strategic markdowns and more, watch this webinar replay to gain actionable tips and tricks to boost sales and delight customers at your dispensary this holiday season.
Dispensary Inventory ManagementCannabis Marketing
Meadow is selected as the best cannabis POS system by Green Market Report

Meadow Awarded Best Retail Tech at the Green Market Report Tech Awards

We are honored to receive the award for Best Retail Tech at the first-ever Green Market Report Tech Summit.
Read more about why our all-in-one cannabis retail technology was selected for this award
Cannabis Retail
Meadow and Cannable speak about using ice cream truck style cannabis delivery software to make deliveries faster in California.

Meadow Memo: Dynamic Delivery

Meadow Memo is a new video interview series charting recent trends in cannabis retail and delivery operations.
Learn more about how this vertically operated business has evolved and made their cannabis delivery workflow more efficient and lucrative
Cannabis Delivery
Cannabis Retail Operations Best Practices from Cookies Head of Retail Crystal Milican with Meadow CEO David Hua. They discuss dispensary best practices and how to approach retail growth in the cannabis industry

Meadow Memo: Building a Successful Multi-Shop Cannabis Retail Operation

With 50 retail locations in 17 markets across 4 countries, Cookies is a globally recognized cannabis company with a family of top-selling cannabis brands including Runtz and Grandiflora. Hear how they're "blitzscaling" their retail footprint worldwide
Read more about the importance of a resilient mindset, embracing the hustle, building partnerships, managing growth, defining the customer journey, working with Berner and more
Cannabis RetailCannabis Industry Leadership
Learn more about the issues with California cannabis industry in this interview with Meadow CEO David Hua and MD Numbers Co-Founder Marie Montmarquet

Meadow Memo: Surviving the Storm of California Cannabis

In this April 2022 episode of Meadow Memo, our CEO David Hua sits down with Marie Montmarquet to get her first-hand perspective on the current crisis that the California cannabis industry is experiencing.
The industry is hanging on by just a thread. Marie walks us through what she's seeing and what changes are needed
Cannabis DeliveryCannabis Compliance
Dispensary Marketing & Building Brand Relationships with Julien Butler, Directer of Retail Sales, Marketing at Delivery at the Original Green Cross of Torrance and David Hua, CEO of Meadow

Meadow Memo: Dispensary Marketing & Building Brand Relationships

In this episode, we hear about how retailers work with brands, what it takes for brands to get on shelves, the importance of industry relationships, and how cannabis retailers should approach omni-channel sales
Learn how a vertically integrated cannabis retailer approaches working with brands, curating a menu, catering to customers, and more
Dispensary Inventory ManagementCannabis Marketing
cannabis retail software analytics and inventory velocity for dispensaries

How Dispensaries Can Turn Data into More Revenue

Meadow Analytics with Premium Inventory Velocity and Insights is a new feature designed to help California dispensaries turn their data into bigger margins and more revenue.
Learn how to forecast inventory demand with precision, maximize inventory and quickly identify which products need to move with discounts and promos
Dispensary Inventory ManagementCannabis Retail