Dispensary Menu Boards: Dispensary Menu Software $30 to $250

The short answer

Dispensary menu boards are priced two ways, and the way you are quoted decides what you pay far more than the vendor's name does. Per-screen software runs about $30 a screen a month. Per-location software runs about $150 to $250 a location a month with unlimited screens. Divide one by the other and you get the crossover: five screens at the lower tier, about eight at the higher one. Fewer screens than that and per-screen billing is cheaper. More, and the flat location fee wins. Hardware on top is roughly $1,000 for a single commercial screen and $10,000 or more for a full multi-screen wall, though a streaming stick on a television you already own gets a menu live for the cost of the stick.

The feature that matters more than price is the POS sync. A board that pulls products, prices and stock from your point of sale never shows a sold-out strain or last week's price, and a board that does not costs you a budtender's time every single day. That same live feed is what should be powering your online menu, which is why the buying decision reaches further than the sales floor.

How much do dispensary menu boards cost?

Split the bill into software, screens and the boxes that drive them, because each line is quoted by a different kind of company and each has a different published price.

Software. Two vendors in this category publish a rate card, which is rare enough in cannabis retail to be worth noting on its own. DopeCast lists a flat $30 per screen per month, and says that includes the streaming device, the software, its POS integrations and support, with no setup fee. GreenScreens lists $150 a month for its Dispensary Starter tier and $250 for Dispensary+, priced per location with unlimited screens, plus a one-time $200 setup per location and 5 percent off for annual billing. Everyone else we looked at, including WM Screens, the Weedmaps product built from its Enlighten acquisition, routes pricing to a sales conversation.

Screens. The Howard Company, a menu board and signage manufacturer, puts a basic single-screen digital system at about $1,000 and comprehensive multi-screen installations at $10,000 and up, with a 43-inch commercial display starting near $1,000, premium three-year warranty coverage around $200 a screen, and $100 to $300 in mounting and installation materials. Those are hardware-vendor figures, and they describe commercial displays rated for all-day duty rather than the television in your living room.

Players. The same source prices external media players at $600 to $1,400 depending on how many outputs they drive, and system-on-chip displays with the player built in at about $100 a screen extra. The per-screen software vendors have largely made this line disappear: both DopeCast and GreenScreens run on off-the-shelf Fire TV, Google TV or Android TV sticks, which GreenScreens describes as a roughly $20 device.

Every figure above comes from a company that sells the thing being priced, which is the normal condition in this category. The vendor rate cards are first-party and current as of September 2026; the hardware ranges are one manufacturer's published guide. Get a written quote for your own screen count before you budget against any of them.

Per screen or per location: the arithmetic nobody publishes

Take the two published software prices and divide. $150 a location against $30 a screen crosses at exactly five screens. The $250 tier crosses at a little over eight. That single calculation answers the pricing question for most shops, and it is the calculation neither vendor puts on its own page, because it flatters the other one on half the market.

A single-location shop with two menu screens and one promo screen pays $90 a month on the per-screen meter and $150 on the flat one. A shop with a six-screen menu wall pays $180 on the per-screen meter and $150 flat. A three-store operator with three screens each pays $270 per screen or $450 per location. The per-location model gets cheaper the more screens you hang per store and more expensive the more stores you open, and multi-location operators should run the numbers per site rather than assuming the enterprise tier is the enterprise choice.

Then add what you actually save. A synced board removes a daily task, and the value of that task is set by what your staff cost. If a budtender spends fifteen minutes a day reconciling a static menu to the register, that is roughly 90 hours a year, and at a fully loaded rate near $23 an hour it is about $2,000 of payroll spent typing prices, more than the annual software cost of either model. We worked that hourly figure through in our dispensary kiosk ROI breakdown, and it applies here unchanged.

Do dispensary menu boards sync with the POS?

The good ones do, and it is the only feature worth paying for. GreenScreens lists integrations with more than twenty cannabis POS platforms, naming Dutchie, Flowhub, Alleaves, Jane, Treez, Cova, Blaze, BioTrack, GrowFlow, Meadow and Square among them. DopeCast lists direct API integrations with five: Dutchie, Treez, Flowhub, Cova and Dispense. Budvue lists Cova, Dutchie and Greenline. If your register is not on a vendor's list, the board is a slideshow you maintain by hand, and you should price it as one.

Sync solves the problem every static menu has, which is that the menu and the register disagree by mid-afternoon. A strain sells out, a price changes for a deal, a new drop hits the shelf, and the printed board or the manually edited slide is wrong until someone notices. A synced board shows what the POS shows, with the stock level, the price and the deal pulled from the same record the budtender rings up. That is worth more than any design template.

It also changes which POS you should be running. If you are choosing a register now, the menu board integrations available for it are a selection criterion, not an afterthought, and the same applies to kiosks: as we found when mapping which dispensary kiosks work with which POS, the platform you pick decides most of your in-store hardware options for you. Our comparison of dispensary POS systems is the place to check that before you buy screens for a register you might replace.

What is the best menu board software for a dispensary?

For a single location with one to four screens, a per-screen product on streaming sticks is the cheapest way to get a synced menu live, and DopeCast is the one that publishes that model. For a shop hanging a five-screen wall or more, the flat per-location model is cheaper from the fifth screen and GreenScreens publishes it. For an operator already paying for Weedmaps listings and ads, WM Screens is worth pricing inside that bundle, on the understanding that the price is not published and the menu content ties you more tightly to that platform.

What none of them replaces is a decision about content. A menu board is a display surface, and most platforms let you rotate promo slides between menu pages. That is where design time goes. If you do not have a designer on staff, you can turn a product page into on-brand promo creative in a few minutes and drop the export into the playlist, which is a better use of an afternoon than rebuilding the same slide in a presentation tool every time a deal changes.

Treat in-store screens as advertising for compliance purposes, because most state rules do. No health or medical claims, nothing that appeals to minors, and pricing displayed the way your state's regulator expects it. The rules are state by state, and our summary of cannabis advertising laws by state is the starting point; a menu board vendor will not check this for you.

Can I use a regular TV for a dispensary menu board?

Yes, and the per-screen software vendors are built around it. A consumer television with a $20 streaming stick shows the same synced menu as a commercial display at a fraction of the hardware cost. The trade is duty rating and warranty: commercial displays are built for sixteen-hour days, seven days a week, and consumer panels are not, so a television that runs from open to close every day may fail sooner and its warranty may not cover commercial use. For one or two screens the saving is real and the risk is small. For a six-screen wall that is the main visual feature of the store, buy commercial panels and the three-year warranty.

Mounting is the other place shops overspend or underspend. Portrait orientation suits long menus, landscape suits category grids, and either needs a mount rated for the panel weight and installed on a wall that can carry it. Budget the $100 to $300 in materials the hardware guide quotes and have an installer do a wall of more than three screens.

How many menu boards does a dispensary need?

Enough that every customer in the queue can read a category without craning, and no more. A small shop is usually well served by two menu screens and one promo screen; a wide sales floor with multiple registers needs a screen per queue line so the person waiting at register three is not reading the flower menu over the shoulder of someone at register one. Count queue positions, not square feet.

The screen count decides the pricing model, so settle it first. Under five, per-screen billing. Five or more, per-location. If you are between the two and expect to grow into a wall, the flat model stops the bill rising as you add panels, and it is the one to pick for a shop that intends to redesign the floor within a year.

The same feed should run your online menu

The reason to insist on POS sync in the store is the same reason to insist on it everywhere else: one record, shown in many places. The menu on your wall, the menu on your website, and the menu on every directory listing you pay for should all be reading from the register, so that the price a shopper sees at home is the price on the wall when they arrive. Where that chain breaks is usually the directory listing, updated by hand months ago, promising a deal that ended.

That is a solvable problem and it is part of what a claimed listing is for. If you list your dispensary with your real menu, deals and hours, the listing shows shoppers what the board shows, and the screen you just bought is doing its job before the customer walks in. Screens on the wall are the visible half of a menu system. The half that brings people to the door is the same data, published where they are looking.

Before you buy

• Count queue positions and decide the screen count before you compare software, because the count picks the pricing model.
• Confirm your POS is on the vendor's integration list in writing, with the specific product version you run.
• Get the per-location and per-screen quotes side by side for your count, including setup and any annual discount.
• Decide consumer or commercial panels by screen count and hours of operation, and price the warranty on a wall.
• Check your state's rules on in-store advertising before the first promo slide goes up.
• Check the online menu on your site and your listings reads from the same feed, or you have bought consistency for the sales floor and left it out of the channel that brings people in.

Prices in this category move, and the vendors that publish today may not tomorrow. The two rate cards quoted above were live in September 2026; confirm them before you sign.