COVA POS
Cannabis
POS System
Fast, easy, reliable dispensary POS software—backed by real expert support you can count on.
Beyond Point of Sale. Cannabis POS
software built for better experiences.
The best cannabis POS delivers better experiences from front to back—for dispensary customers, budtenders, and managers. Cova is an award-winning retail system built to keep up with the most ambitious cannabis retailers—easy to learn, fast to onboard, and backed by support you can count on.
Our tablet-based POS empowers staff to deliver fast, seamless, and personalized shopping experiences anywhere in the store—while behind-the-scenes, Cova is a robust command center handling compliance, inventory, and back-office workflows.
“Before launching, we visited more than 150 stores across the U.S., and Cova was the system retailers trusted. If you want reliability, great support, efficiency, and the data you need to grow, go with Cova.”
Randy Tingskou
A Little Bud - Owner
Empower your budtenders to sell smarter—from anywhere on the floor.
Tablet-based dispensary POS tools, built to help you work fast, stay compliant, and make every interaction a great customer experience.
📷 ID Scanning: Verify age and create instant customer profiles.
👥 Queue Management: Customers browse & keep their turn.
🚦 Purchase Limit Gauge: Upsell, without overselling.
💡 Product Info On Demand: Every budtender is an expert.
🖥️ Scan to Order: Customers use their own device to build orders.
📶 Offline Mode: Keep selling—even if your Wi-Fi drops.
🎁 Smart Promotions: BOGO, member pricing & auto-redemption.
💵 Cash Management: Control tills/safes with reconciliation tools.
🧮 Auto Tax Calculation: Apply excise, local, and sales taxes.
🚫 Anti-Looping Protection: Enforce purchase limits across stores.
💳 Gift Card & Loyalty: Earn new customers and repeat business.
Take control and run your store—or whole operation—from the Cova Hub.
Included with every POS plan. A web-based command center to manage inventory, compliance, reporting, pricing, and permissions across all locations—from any device.
- 📋 State Traceability Integrations: Auto Metrc or BioTrack reporting.
- 🔄 Reconciliation Reports: Catch discrepancies before audits.
- 🛒 Product Catalog: Keep data, pricing, and availability up to date.
- 📦 Inventory Management: Receiving, rooms, PO imports, edits.
- 📊 Reporting & Analytics: Mobile dashboards & scheduled reports.
- 🔒 Location Permissions: Granular roles and access by store.
- 🏷️ Pricing: Medical, rec, VIP, and tax inclusive pricing.
- 🏥 Medical + Rec in One: Automatic dual-license rule handling.
- 📈 Reorder Forecasting: Predict stock with days-on-hand insights.
- 🍁 AGCO Integration: Automated API submissions to OCS.
- 👥 Employee Management: Manage staff, roles, access, activity.
- 🧾 Compliance Dashboard: Monitor traceability, audit readiness.
Why Cova POS?
Customer Experience
Make every interaction more personal—and more profitable.
Give customers the freedom to shop how they want and equip your team to manage every order—online or in-store—from one streamlined dispensary POS system. With fast checkout, product insights, and budtender-friendly tools, Cova helps staff move quicker, sell smarter, and personalize every interaction to build loyalty, boost baskets, and increase tips.
Compliance
Built for cannabis. Compliance at the core.
Designed by industry experts who understand the complexity of cannabis retail, Cova POS helps you stay audit-ready and effortlessly compliant with built-in guardrails, automated workflows, and real-time integrations—so every transaction is accurate by default.
Reporting and Analytics
Turn a wealth of data into your competitive advantage.
Get deep insights into the metrics that matter—so you can maximize profit, improve inventory turnover, and optimize budtender performance. Cova’s built-in reporting is fast, customizable, and easy to access and share from anywhere. Our mobile dashboards give you a complete view of your business at a glance—so you can tack action with confidence.
System Reliability
The cannabis POS with 100% uptime on 420.
Your POS is the command center of your entire operation—front and back. If it fails, everything does. Cova runs on enterprise-grade infrastructure powered by Microsoft Azure and keeps you selling even if the internet goes down with Offline Mode. Because reliability isn’t optional, it can make or break your business.
No downtime. No lost sales. No compliance gaps. No lost customers.
Inventory Management
Run a tighter, more profitable operation—with less effort.
Gain full inventory control—from receiving to sale—with real-time tracking and automated reconciliation. Cova is built for efficiency, helping you maximize inventory turnover, reduce shrinkage, speed up counts, and stay audit-ready with less manual work.
Meet customers wherever they are.
Whether you’re behind the counter, on the sales floor, at a local event, or running a pop-up shop, Cova POS goes with you. Our tablet-based system works seamlessly on Wi-Fi or 5G, giving your team the flexibility to sell from anywhere.
Even when connectivity is unreliable, Cova’s Offline Mode keeps you running to process and track every sale without interruption, then sync everything once you’re back online.
Delight customers at every interaction with the full Cova platform.
Your POS is the center of your retail ecosystem. Cova is built to scale with you—so you can add payments, eCommerce, and enterprise tools as you grow, without switching systems.
Fast, reliable, POS-integrated payments
Accept ACH, debit, and credit (Canada & CBD only) card payments directly from Cova POS. Customers who pay digitally spend 25% more on average. Reduce errors, simplify reconciliation, and benefit from transparent, competitive rates.
A simple, powerful online store
Launch a low-cost, SEO-friendly storefront that automatically syncs inventory, pricing, promotions, and product data with your POS in real time—no web team required. Manage in-store, pickup, and delivery orders from one place, with built-in menu sync to Leafly and Weedmaps.
Multi-Location Inventory Management & Analytics
Multi-Location
Give every role the right access.
Keep control centralized while giving each location the flexibility it needs to operate. With location-based permissions and roles, corporate teams can protect sensitive data, standardize key workflows, and ensure staff only access the tools and information relevant to their store, role, or responsibility.
Multi-Location
Keep product data consistent across every location.
Maintain a master product catalog across your retail network to keep product names, categories, SKUs, and key details consistent from store to store. Cova helps corporate teams reduce duplicate work, improve reporting accuracy, and simplify product management while still supporting location-level flexibility where it matters.
Multi-Location
Price strategically by store, market, or region
Not every location operates in the same market—and your pricing should reflect that. Cova supports location-based pricing, giving retailers the flexibility to adjust prices by store or region while maintaining centralized oversight across the business.
Multi-Location
Compare performance across your entire portfolio
Get consolidated cross-location reporting that helps you understand what’s working, where, and why. Compare sales, inventory, product, brand, and store performance across locations to spot trends, identify opportunities, and make smarter decisions at the company, regional, or store level.
Multi-Location
Make network-wide updates faster.
When you’re managing multiple locations, small changes can create a lot of work. Cova’s bulk operations help teams make updates more efficiently across stores, reducing repetitive tasks and keeping operations moving faster as your retail footprint grows.
Multi-Location
Connect Cova to the systems that power your business
Cova’s open API makes it easier to connect your POS with ERP systems, reporting tools, and other third-party platforms that support your operations. Build a more connected tech stack without forcing teams to work across disconnected systems or duplicate data manually.
Connect the tools you already use. One single source of truth.
Your dispensary POS sits at the centre of your technology stack, connecting 30+ cannabis tech partners. Pricing, inventory, and customer data stay in sync
across every connected platform automatically.
Real retailers. Real results.
Cova supports 2,200+ dispensaries across North America—and the best proof comes from the retailers using it every day. Explore their stories to see how Cova helps cannabis businesses simplify operations, improve performance, and grow with confidence.
The cannabis POS operators recommend most
Darren Saunders - Owner
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"After briefly switching to a competitor, we returned to Cova POS within two days. Ecommerce and POS processing issues were immediate, and the reliability and support simply did not compare. Having a fast dependable POS is critical. Switching back was an easy decision."
Nicole Wharton - Inventory METRC Compliance Manager
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"We're relieved to have replaced our previous in-house process with Cova's inventory management tools that update our stock in real time. The METRC compliance integration gives our team confidence during audits that we simply did not have before."
Nikii and Owen Allerton - Co-Owners
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"With Cova POS, we can relac and run our business. The peace of mind that comes from knowing our compliance, inventory, and reporting are all handled in one system has been a real game-changer for our operation."
FAQ
A Cannabis Retail Point of Sale (POS) system is a software solution purpose-built to enable the sale of legal cannabis products in medial or recreational cannabis dispensaries (or Cannabis Stores in Canada). A cannabis POS manages and tracks sales, usually includes or integrates with an inventory management system, and is typically designed to meet the strict regulatory requirements of the cannabis industry.
It is often required and always advised to use a built-for-cannabis POS. A generic POS system often lacks functions that make cannabis sales compliant and profitable. A specialized cannabis POS helps you manage your dispensary inventory, streamline compliance reports, and deliver a superior customer experience. Only a dedicated cannabis dispensary POS will offer seamless integration with the tech you need to build a complete cannabis retail ecosystem, expand your business, and establish yourself as an authority in the cannabis marketplace.
Yes, we integrate with multiple eCommerce solutions and cannabis marketplace platforms to help you streamline your cannabis retail operations. We offer seamless integration with the best online menu, delivery, and cannabis marketplace platforms like Dispense, Leafly, and Weedmaps, to sync up your pricing and inventory in real-time. We also partner with various cannabis tech solution companies like Headset, KayaPush, and Springbig, to ensure that you are connected to the best cannabis ecosystem in the industry.
- ID scanning verifies the cannabis customer age and validity of the ID
- Purchase limit monitoring prevents overselling
- Product equivalency calculation for edibles and concentrates
- Tax calculator auto-applies taxes at the point of sale
- Discount engine applies discounts based on membership status at checkout
- Offline mode backs up sales in the event of Wi-Fi failure
- Fast processing ensures speedy transactions even on the busiest of days like 420
- With inventory management and reporting tools, you will always stay ahead of compliance.
- Expansive partner ecosystem - Cova integrates seamlessly with best-in-class partner solutions including eCommerce and delivery, loyalty, gift cards, HR software, and more
Yes, our dispensary POS system is fully-compliant with all cannabis laws in every market we operate and will prevent your staff from breaking rules or making operational missteps that could cost you your retail license. Cova POS allows Canadian cannabis retailers to easily submit one-click monthly compliance reports to their respective provincial governments. Cova's dispensary software is also fully compliant and ready for cannabis farm gate sales in Canada. In the US, Cova is a seed-to-sale compliant POS that is seamlessly integrated with statewide traceability systems like BioTrackTHC, Leaf Data Systems, and Metrc.
The most trusted cannabis POS system.
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Unrivalled Support
Get a real expert on the phone in under 30 seconds.
Cova doesn't charge for support or route you through chatbots. Our cannabis-industry-trained team resolves 80% of issues on the first call and understands exactly what a compliance infraction could cost your business.