As we close out another year of innovation and growth at Meadow, we’re excited to share the latest updates to our all-in-one dispensary software. From powerful tools like SEO+ to small quality-of-life improvements, every update is built with the same goal: empowering cannabis businesses to operate smarter, faster, and more efficiently.
Whether you're optimizing daily operations or enhancing the customer experience, Meadow’s newest features are designed to help your dispensary stay competitive and thrive.
Here’s what we built in 2024 to help your dispensary grow in 2025:
1. SEO+: Drive More Customers to Your Menu
SEO+ is a suite of search engine optimization tools built into Meadow Menu Pro to help your dispensary rank higher on Google and other search engines. It works by automatically improving how your online menu is structured, presented, and indexed, ensuring search engines can easily find and display your products when potential customers search for cannabis. By increasing your menu’s visibility in search results, SEO+ helps drive organic traffic to your site, making it easier for customers to discover and shop your products.
How SEO+ Works:
- Sitemap Generation: SEO+ automatically creates a sitemap that lists every product and category on your menu. This makes it easier for search engines to find and index your entire product catalog so customers can discover your offerings more easily.
- Product Information Optimization: Key details like product names, brands, pricing, and descriptions are automatically formatted to show up clearly in search results, improving visibility and accuracy.
- Unique URLs for Each Product and Category: Every product and category on your menu gets its own link, making it easier to share, promote, and appear in search results for specific items.
- Faster Load Times: SEO+ improves how your menu loads, making it faster for both search engines and customers—boosting search rankings and providing a smoother shopping experience.
- Google-Optimized: SEO+ follows all best practices for search optimization, ensuring your menu is easy for search engines like Google to crawl and index without the risk of ranking penalties.
To start using SEO+ now, Meadow Clients can go to the SEO+ Page in their Meadow Account for instant set-up instructions and support.
Learn more: SEO+ & I-frame VS Native- Menu Pro Benefits (New blog post coming soon!)
2. Team Permissions: Tight Margins Demand Tight Controls
Want to control who can change product prices or inventory quantities? Our updated admin permissions offer precise team controls like never before. Assign or limit access to specific features and abilities, ensuring that sensitive actions are reserved for authorized staff. With every admin granted permissions tailored to their role, you can maintain tight operations while safeguarding key functions.
New Permissions in Meadow's Dispensary Software:
Meadow empowers cannabis retailers to manage their operations with enhanced control and flexibility through updated permissions:
- Products and Inventory Management: Customize who can edit products, prices, and inventory details, including viewing inventory value, ensuring your team handles sensitive data responsibly.
- Order and Customer Interactions: Assign permissions for editing or canceling orders and managing customer loyalty points, streamlining customer interactions with precision.
- Operational Insights and Reporting: With individual report permissions, you can control access to specific reports and dashboards, safeguarding data security while providing team members with relevant insights.
Learn more: Team Permissions: Take Full Control of Your Dispensary Operations
3. Abandoned Cart Emails: Instant, Free Cannabis Marketing
Customers can get distracted—but Meadow makes sure you don’t lose the sale. With abandoned cart emails in Menu Pro, you can automatically remind customers to complete their purchase, helping you recover lost revenue with minimal effort.
These branded emails feature your shop’s name and logo, linking customers directly back to their cart for a seamless checkout experience. A real-time dashboard lets you track abandoned carts, email performance, and completed orders, so you can measure impact and optimize results.
Activate with just one click — then emails send automatically to re-engage customers and boost sales.
4. Marketing Audiences Tool: Smarter Customer Insights
No Excel expertise? No problem. With our new Marketing Audiences tool, you can generate exportable lists of high-value customer data based on criteria like average order value, number of visits, products purchased, and more. These insights help you craft targeted campaigns tailored to your unique audience, ensuring your messaging resonates in the competitive cannabis market. Plus, you can export the data to other marketing tools for even greater impact. It’s your database, now more actionable than ever.
5. Deli Style: A Fresh Take on Flower Sales in Michigan and Beyond
Deli-style flower sales are a staple in Michigan, where regulations allow for this classic, interactive approach to cannabis retail. With Meadow’s new deli-style functionality, dispensaries in Michigan and other legal markets can now offer customers the ability to select and purchase fresh, terpy flower by weight, creating a memorable and hands-on shopping experience.
Why Customers Love Deli-Style
Deli-style sales let customers see, smell, and choose their flower, delivering a level of personalization that prepacked products can’t match. In Michigan, it’s an exciting opportunity to engage customers and enhance their connection to your products.
How Meadow Supports Deli-Style Sales
- Integrated Scales: Place the flower on the scale, and the weight and cost instantly populate in our dispensary POS software—fast, accurate, and no manual errors.
- Dynamic Pricing: Automatically calculate prices based on weight and tier.
- Label Printing: Instant compliance-friendly labels for every sale.
- Interactive Experience: Customers enjoy the freshness and transparency of deli-style flower selection.
Meadow’s deli-style integration brings this beloved sales model to life, giving customers more flexibility in how much they purchase and what they spend.
Learn more: Announcing “Deli Style” Pricing for Michigan Dispensaries, The Latest Addition to Meadow’s Cannabis POS
6. Meadow Expands Nationwide
We’re growing beyond California! Meadow is now live in New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and Michigan, with plans to enter Massachusetts and more markets in 2025.
What sets Meadow apart is our meticulous approach to expanding into each new state. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all system, we intentionally design and customize our platform for each market's unique regulatory framework and operational landscape. This tailored approach ensures our clients not only remain compliant but gain a competitive edge in their local markets.
- Built for Compliance: Designed to meet each state’s regulatory requirements from day one.
- Tailored Features: Adapted for state-specific needs like NJ consumption lounges, NY delivery models, and MI Deli Style pricing tiers.
- Streamlined Operations: All-in-one tools for retail, delivery, eCommerce, inventory, reporting, and more.
- Continuous Optimization: Ongoing updates based on feedback from operators in each market.
By thoughtfully designing for each market, Meadow helps dispensaries stay compliant, operate efficiently, and grow confidently.
Learn more: Breaking Ground: Meadow POS System Paves the Way for Seamless Cannabis Retail Experiences in New Jersey
7. Celebrating One Year of Menu Pro!
In our 2023 update, we introduced Menu Pro—and one year later, it’s become a cornerstone of Meadow’s all-in-one dispensary software. Loved by dispensaries for its user friendly interface, seamless integration, and continuous innovation, Menu Pro makes managing e-commerce effortless and effective.
How Menu Pro Keeps Growing in Value
- Constant Updates: From SEO+ enhancements to new marketing tools, we’re always adding features to help you stay ahead.
- Ultimate All-in-One Solution: With your menu fully integrated into Meadow’s POS, you get unparalleled control over inventory, sales, and customer experience. Dispensaries benefit from real-time updates, ensuring their menu is always accurate.
- Coming soon! Accept ACH payments through Menu Pro, streamlining online transactions and offering customers more payment options.
Menu Pro isn’t just a menu—it’s a dynamic tool that evolves with your needs, helping dispensaries connect with customers, drive sales, and optimize operations.
Plus: Dozens of other quality of life upgrades, while maintaining 99.99% uptime, including:
- Purchase Order Enhancements: Meadow remembers previous connections between Metrc items and Meadow products, making purchase orders faster and more efficient.
- Improved Filters on the Back-End: Quickly search inventory by vendor, brand, strain type, and more, saving time and helping you find exactly what you need to manage your inventory efficiently.
- Menu Pro Enhanced Search: Customers can find products faster with fuzzy search and two-character terms, making their shopping experience smoother and more convenient.
- Markdown Support: Add headers and notes in checkout fields on your online menu with ease.
- Hardware Expansion: New tools for the job! We’ve added the Zebra DS2278 Bluetooth Scanner to our hardware lineup, giving you more flexibility in setting up your POS system.
Looking Ahead to 2025: Driven by Your Feedback
Your feedback fuels everything we do. At Meadow, our product roadmap is shaped by the insights and needs of dispensaries like yours. Every feature we develop and every improvement we make is designed to help you operate more efficiently, serve your customers better, and grow your business.
As we step into 2025, we're not slowing down. This year promises even more advancements in dispensary software, expanded market reach, and innovative tools to keep your dispensary ahead of the curve.
What’s Next?
- Payment Type Enhancements: Split payments, adjustable fees, and new payment type specifications (cash, debit, ACH).
- Stronghold Integration: Streamlined ACH payments directly through all aspects of our cannabis software; POS, Menu Pro, and Admin.
- Discounts Optimization: Improved promo codes, stacking prevention, and granular discount controls.
We continue to proactively make Meadow's all-in-one dispensary POS software better, based on feedback from the 200+ cannabis retail operators we support.
Tell us what you want to see next! Email success@getmeadow.com with your ideas and feedback. We love hearing from you!
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