Sweed POS pricing, Meadow POS pricing, Treez and LeafLink pricing: what the quote-only cannabis POS vendors actually cost

Sweed does not publish a price. We checked its product pages in August 2026 and found a full description of four modules, point of sale, ecommerce, marketing and loyalty, and business intelligence, sold as a single integrated platform, with every pricing path ending at a demo booking form. There is no rate card, no starting-from figure and no tier list. Unlike Dutchie or Flowhub, where at least the software directories have published estimates you can argue with, there is no credible third-party number for Sweed either.

That is not evasion so much as a deliberate sales model. Sweed positions itself at regional chains and multi-location operators who want to replace a stack of separate tools with one platform, and deals of that shape genuinely are priced per customer. The practical problem is that it leaves a single-location owner with no way to know whether Sweed is even in their budget range before spending an hour on a sales call.

The useful move is to price the category rather than the vendor. The two cannabis POS companies that do publish, Cova and IndicaOnline, put software between $240 and $850 a month per location depending on tier and billing cycle. A separate cost breakdown published in August 2026 by Meadow, itself a POS vendor, puts starter systems at $99 to $150 a month per location, mid-tier at $350 to $600, and enterprise at $700 and up, with a full stack often totaling $500 to $1,500 a month per location. An all-in-one platform aimed at multi-location operators sits at the upper end of that by definition. Walk into the demo expecting the upper half of the band, and ask them to justify anything above it.

Three reasons, and only one of them is really about you. The first is genuine: cannabis point of sale is metered on wildly different units across the category, per workstation, per user, per location, per transaction, or by revenue share, and a single published number would be wrong for most buyers. Meadow makes exactly this argument, that most vendors price by store count, sales channels and volume, so a published sticker would misinform more people than it helps.

The second is competitive. In a category where the leading vendors are within a few hundred dollars a month of each other, the first one to publish hands every rival a target to undercut. Cova and IndicaOnline publishing anyway is a genuine differentiator and, in our reading of this market, a mark in their favor on transparency regardless of whether their number is the lowest.

The third is the one that costs you money. A quote-only model lets the vendor price each buyer individually, based on what that buyer appears able to pay, and an owner with no reference point tends to reveal their budget in the first ten minutes of the call. This is why the published cards matter even if you never intend to buy Cova or IndicaOnline. They convert an open-ended negotiation into a comparison, and comparisons are much harder to inflate. Before your first demo, read our roundup of cannabis dispensary POS systems and reported costs and the detailed Cova pricing rate card, and bring both to the table.

Software is the number vendors quote and it is usually the smaller half of year one. Using the published cards and the reported category bands together, a realistic single-location budget looks like this: software between $300 and $850 a month, so roughly $3,600 to $10,200 for the year. Hardware at roughly $1,000 to $3,000 per register station, which for a two-register shop is $2,000 to $6,000 as a one-time cost. Implementation and data migration, frequently quoted around $349 at the low end and materially more where catalog and historical data have to be moved.

Then payment processing, which is where the money actually goes and where the published figures are most reliable because they are structural rather than negotiated. ACH or pay-by-bank runs roughly 1% to 1.5% of the transaction. PIN debit runs roughly 2.5% to 4% plus about $0.50. Cashless ATM adds roughly $3 to $5 per transaction, typically passed to the customer and rounded up to the nearest $5 withdrawal. On a shop doing $150,000 a month, the spread between those rails is larger than the entire software subscription, which is the single most important arithmetic on this page.

Two more line items get forgotten. Integration fees, where some vendors charge to connect the tools you already run, and Cova is worth noting for stating that its integrations are plug-and-play at no additional fee. And the cost of getting out, which nobody quotes: contract term, notice period, whether your historical sales data is exportable in a usable format, and what your state track and trace reconciliation looks like during a switch. Our guide to switching dispensary POS systems covers what that migration actually involves.