Cannabis POS software pricing: dispensary POS software cost, the cheapest dispensary POS system and what each vendor really charges

For a single licensed retail location in 2026, budget roughly $350 to $600 a month for a mid-market cannabis point of sale, with entry level tiers reported nearer $99 to $150 and enterprise implementations starting around $700 and climbing from there. Those bands come from a 2026 pricing piece published by Meadow, which is itself a POS vendor, so read them as an informed industry estimate rather than a neutral survey.

The two published rate cards land squarely inside that range and are worth knowing as anchors. IndicaOnline Core is $300 a month billed monthly, $270 quarterly and $240 annually. Its Storefront Pro and Delivery Pro tiers are $750, $667 and $600 on the same three terms, and Ultimate is $850, $765 and $680. Cova Boutique is $349 a month with Cova Pay or $389 without, covering up to two POS workstations, and Powerhouse is $499 or $599 for up to four. Both vendors include unlimited user accounts.

What that means practically is that a shop being quoted $1,200 a month for one location and two registers is being quoted well above what two comparable platforms publish for the same shape of business. That is not proof the quote is bad, since features, support and payment terms differ. It is a reason to ask what specifically justifies the gap, which is a much better question than asking for a discount.

If you want the cost broken out as a budget rather than as a vendor comparison, our article on how much a dispensary POS system costs walks through the full first year including hardware and staffing time, and our dispensary POS systems comparison covers fit and features rather than price alone.

Because almost all of them are secondhand, and the secondhand sources are demonstrably unreliable. This is usually impossible to prove, since you cannot check a directory against a rate card that does not exist. But two vendors do publish, which gives us a control group, and the result is not encouraging.

ITQlick lists IndicaOnline Dispensary at $149 per user per month. IndicaOnline's own pricing page, read in August 2026, charges $240 to $300 a month for its Core plan depending on billing term, per location, with unlimited users included and additional registers at $50. The directory figure is wrong about the amount and wrong about the meter, and the meter error is the expensive one: at ten staff logins, a per user reading of $149 implies roughly $1,490 a month against a real price of $300. That is a five-figure annual error on a plan anyone can look up in thirty seconds.

The same directories are where most people get numbers for the vendors nobody can audit. ITQlick reports Flowhub from $399 a month while SelectHub and several 2026 roundups report $499 per location, and at least one source describes the $399 as per user rather than per location. Those are not rounding differences. On a shop with six budtender logins they are the difference between $4,800 and $28,700 a year.

There is a second bias worth naming. A large share of the highest ranking cannabis POS pricing articles are published by cannabis POS vendors: the industry cost bands quoted higher on this page come from Meadow, and Flowhub, Cova and Distru all publish their own best of roundups. Those articles are often genuinely useful on features and consistently flattering in their conclusions. We do not sell point of sale software and take no referral fee from any vendor named here, which is why this page is comfortable saying that the two vendors who publish are the only numbers on it we can actually stand behind.

Three things, and together they routinely exceed the first year of software. Hardware is the largest: register stations are reported at roughly $1,000 to $3,000 each, and vendor bundles pairing a terminal, receipt printer, scanner and cash drawer are reported at $2,500 to $6,000 per register. Buying components separately in a state that only permits pre-packaged sales can land nearer $800 to $1,700, which is covered in detail on our page about dispensary POS hardware requirements.

Onboarding and implementation is the second, commonly reported at $1,000 to $2,000 for a single store, with one directory suggesting enterprise multi-location implementations can approach $50,000. That figure is unverified and comes from a source we have just shown to be unreliable on prices it could have checked, so treat it as an indication that enterprise onboarding is a real line item rather than as a number.

Payment processing is the third and the one that compounds. It is a percentage or a flat fee on every sale rather than a fixed monthly cost, so it scales with your success in a way the subscription does not. Reported rates run around 1 to 1.5 percent for ACH, roughly 2.5 to 4 percent plus about $0.50 for PIN debit, and $3 to $5 per transaction for cashless ATM arrangements. On a shop turning over $150,000 a month, a one point difference in effective processing cost is $18,000 a year, which dwarfs every software comparison on this page.

Add the three together and a realistic first year for one location with two registers lands somewhere between roughly $12,000 and $30,000 before processing, depending on hardware choices and which tier you land on. That is the number to compare between vendors. The monthly subscription is the smallest and least decisive part of it.