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This Friday 4/16 we will be posting our MENU UPDATE!!!

• Integrated Delivery
• Improved Website Menu Plugin
• New Display Screen Add-on
• Enhanced Leafly Support

Please call (971) 276 - 3371 with questions.

Thanks,
Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

From 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM an outage at Microsoft affected services all across the internet including OMMPOS.

Learn more Microsoft Cloud services are down for some users  

OMMPOS Delivery Support

Today OMMPOS received a new METRC API giving us Delivery Permission. We have posted an update that includes our OMMPOS Delivery BETA. You will find this new feature on the Sales screen.

Change to Wireless Printing

We have changed the way Wireless Printing labels are formatted. Now, you can format wireless labels the way that you like and include any additional required information.

New Reports

We have added new multi-store reports, new budtender reports and restored the Adjustments report. We plan to add a few more reports in coming days. 

Please give me a call with any questions and have a great weekend!

Thank you,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

Yesterday Metrc performed an update that broke the API functionality of OMMPOS, causing issues with retrieving package information and updating METRC admin information. We were able to provide a patch for this issue and uploaded our update to regular OMMPOS this morning. We will upload the patch to OMMPOS Private Clouds and State customers this evening and schedule appointments for Stand Alone Backup Server customers. 

We were not provided with advanced notice of yesterday's breaking changes and responded as fast as possible to provide a fix and restore functionality. We worked through the night and were able to restore full functionality to everything except the Metrc Sales Reconciliation Tool. This past METRC update removes access to key sales transaction data that we need to reconcile daily sales. We will be reaching out to Metrc asking them to restore the sales transaction data that we need for daily sales reconciliation and we encourage you to do the same. 

Please call me with any questions.

Thank you,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC

(971) 276 - 3371

update 3/16/21 3:16 AM: We updated regular OMMPOS this morning. Yesterday Metrc posted an update that caused breaking changes. We updated OMMPOS to account for these changes. We will be updating Private Clouds end of day Tuesday 3/16/21. Backup server customers please contact me to schedule an upgrade appointment. - Raja

METRC launched it's scheduled update this morning mentioned in metrc memo #90.  This update appears to be interrupting people's ability to import new packages. If you encounter this issue please give METRC a call and let them know. 

We are postponing our planned update until this Friday 3/19/21 to avoid any conflict with this METRC update. Please give me a call with any questions.

Thank you,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

When Cannabis was legalized in our state we saw an opportunity, not just to pay the bills, but to help an under-served community that we love.

We have been through the ups and downs that come with starting your own business, we understand the stresses and struggles of being an entrepreneur. We built our business and our software to suit the needs of the people.

We are grateful for each of our customers from the first who helped us get started to the one who signed up yesterday. The future of the cannabis industry is green and bright, and we look forward to providing the best software for the coolest industry.

Thank you,

Kathleen Afrika
CEO Marijuana Software, LLC

UPDATE: 2/25/2021 11:52 AM : The update created a problem importing packages this morning. This issue has been fixed.

We posted an update to increase the speed of handling package informarion in OMMPOS. This should improve functionality on the Products and Metrc Intake pages. We will be updating Private Clouds at close of business Thursday and scheduling appointments to update Backup Servers. Please let us know if you have any questions or encounter any issues.

Thank you,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

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We posted an update at 4:20 this morning to fix the ongoing system slowness issue. Please let us know if you encounter any issues. 

Thank you,

Raja Afrika
(971) 276 - 3371

Today OMMPOS experienced a service slow down from approx. 4 to 9pm PST. We traced the cause to an outage in Microsoft's west coast datacenter. We were able to work around this issue by creating and re-routing to a redundant data store in Microsoft's east coast datacenter. Please contact me with any questions. Thank you, Raja Afrika Marijuana Software, LLC (971) 276 - 3371

We fixed a number of bugs related to packages, Leafly menus and Web Menus.

• Packages that have been shipped out of the facility would not archive on the Metrc Package Intake page. FIXED
• Leafly menus were displaying concentrates as cartridges. FIXED
• Online Orders were not showing Metrc Tag #'s. FIXED

Please let us know if you encounter any issues.

Thank you!
Raja Afrika
(971) 276 - 3371

We corrected 2 bugs to wireless label and receipt printing.

• Wireless labels printed blank instead of <LOQ when THC or CBD values are empty in test results. Fixed.
• Wireles receipts did not print applied discounts on the receipt total. Fixed. 

Please contact me with any questions.

Thanks,

Raja (971) 276 - 3371

6 years ago my wife Kathleen and I started building the company that became Marijuana Software, LLC. Together we have been able to grow from 2 dispensaries in Oregon in 2015 to over 150 dispensaries and farms in 5 states today. 

To say THANK YOU to the Marijuana Industry, to the Mom and Pop shops and the multi-store chains that allowed us to grow, we are offering free use of our instant dispensary website to all OMMPOS customers through February 2021.

Raja Afrika
Co-Founder Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371 - raja@ommpos.com   

After lastnight's website update, you might need to reboot your website. Try this one simple trick to reboot your OMMPOS website

• Go to OMMPOS Main Menu
• Click SUPPORT
• Click Web Menus
• Click your web menu
• Click the Refresh Web Menu Products API Data button

This video shows you how to reboot your website

Our Website Menus Have Been Fixed.

OMMPOS offers websites for $15 per month and $1 per order.

Over the past year our website customers have reported that the product information on their website was not correct, showing out of stock or incorrect product information. We will upload a fix for this problem tonight.

To say sorry, we are going to cancel the $15 monthly fee for our current website customers and waive the $15 website fee for our new website customers between now and February 28th 2021. 

Learn more about Online Ordering, CanPay payments for online orders and Free Reports from Headset.IO. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos.

Please call with questions.

Thank you for your business,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

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The 2020 Q4 Quarterly report is available. Also, an update is available for OMMPOS Backup Server customers. Please call Raja to schedule an update. 

To file your Oregon Department of Revenue quarterly tax report:

• Login to OMMPOS
• Go to REPORTS
• Click Q4 2020 DOR REVENUE ONLINE E-FILE (file downloads to your windows downloads folder)
• Click the OPEN DOR REVENUE ONLINE button
• Login to Revenue Online
• Click the Marijuana Tax link
• Click the correct quarter
• Click File/Amend Return
• Click import
• Select the file downloaded from OMMPOS
• Click Import
• Click Submit
• Re-enter your password
• Print Voucher Month 1,2 & 3
• You're done (Approx. 10 minutes)

Thank you! Because of you OMMPOS has grown over the years to become the most useable, affordable Seed to Sale tracking system in the Cannabis Industry.

When Kathleen and I started OMMPOS in 2015 it was the Mom and Pop shops and everyday people of the Cannabis industry who gave us a chance and the feedback that we needed to grow. We are here because of you. Thank you!

In 2021 we are excited to offer you more powerful reporting, more seamless compliance, more robust advertising and online ordering features and better support for vertically integrated Cannabis business. 

Wishing you the best that 2021 has to offer,

Kathleen & Raja Afrika
Mom and Pop Co-Founders of
Marijuana Software, LLC

We are pleased to annouce the general availability of OMMPOS Farm Tools. Manage your grow with integrated Metrc tracking and stay compliant!

Contact Raja for details

raja@ommpos.com  - (971) 276 - 3371 

• Metrc Package Import Fixed. We fixed a bug that was making it hard to import some packages using our package import tool.
• OMMPOS California is now live. We are pleased to annouce that we have received our METRC certification for California and launched ca.ommpos.com today!
• Farm Tools is available. Manage your grow with OMMPOS. We are excited to annouce the general availability of Farm Tools for Oregon, California, Montana, Colorado and Maryland. We are releasing Farm Tools for Oklahoma on 12/21.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you!,
Raja Afrika
(971) 276 - 3371

Click on your state to login to OMMPOS. We are pleased to add Colorado, California (2021) and Maryland to our OMMPOS family. Thank you!

The November 2nd update is stable and we will be applying the update to Private Clouds, and MontanaPOS on Monday. If you are a Backup server user please contact us to schedule an update of your server.

Thanks,

Raja Afrika

(971) 276 - 3371

The METRC Package import has been fixed. The import packages page was affected by the November 2nd. update. This bug has been fixed.

Raja

(971) 276 - 3371

A major update is scheduled for tomorrow Monday November 2nd

• Correction to HEMP & CBD Taxation. OMMPOS has been mistakenly including HEMP and CBD only items in tax reports. This may have resulted in an inflated tax report. This error has been corrected as of 10/1/2020. Quarterly returns filed before this date should be refiled. 
• Correction to the Caregiver Sales Limits. Our understanding of the new OLCC rules was not correct. We set OMMPOS up to limit patients and caregivers to a maximum combined 32 ounces per month. Based on updated OLCC guidance, we have updated this limit to 32oz per month for patients and an additional 32oz per month for caregivers. 
• New Farm Tools BETA available. Our first release of Metrc Farm Tools is publicly available. Manage your Metrc grow compliance directly from OMMPOS
• A recent Windows update has broken FireFox’s ability to print labels. To workaround this issue change your Firefox PDF options to download PDFs instead of opening them in Firefox. 
• New Billing System. OMMPOS uses a new automated billing system. Your bill becomes available from the OMMPOS homepage on the 1st of every month. 
• Office Hours. Customer support is included in your OMMPOS plan. Please call us anytime Monday to Saturday 10 AM to 6 PM with questions. We are happy to help.

Thank you for your business!

Raja Afrika

Marijuana Software, LLC

(971) 276 - 3371

We added a new patient type 'CAREGIVER' to comply with the new OLCC guidelines. When entering a new caregiver:

• Go to Sales
• Click New Customer
• Set the customer type to CAREGIVER
• Fill in the Caregiver name as the patient name, then fill in all of the patient and caregiver information
• Ring the sale up with the Caregiver as the patient
• OMMPOS will post the caregiver sale to METRC at reporting time

Please give us a call with any questions.

Thank you for your business!,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

We posted an update yesterday to fix a problem that was making the system perform slowly. After the update we received reports of problems with retrieving Metrc data. These issues have also been fixed.

Please make sure your OMMPOS is up-to-date. Clear your web browser by clicking CTRL-ALT-DELETE on your keyboard and clear your cached files. Please give us a call with any questions.

Thank you,

Raja Afrika,
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

We received a lot of feedback that the API was showing a lot of archived products in your websites. We created a new Web Menu Editor that will allow you to see exactly which products are being displayed through your API and make changes on the fly. To see the new Web Menu Editor

• Go to the OMMPOS main menu
• Click Support
• Click Web Menus
• Click your web menu name
• Click Preview
• Make changs to your API product list

Please give me a call with any questions.

Thank you,

Raja (971) 276 - 3371

Update Postposed until Wednesday 8/5/2020.

We have a planned update for tomorrow Tuesday August 4th. This update will feature easier payment features, faster load times and upgraded reports. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Thank you for your business,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

We received reports of extreme system slowness this morning and afternoon. We traced the problem to our online ordering report notification system and have temporarily taken it offline. We will review the cause of the problem and bring the online order indicator back online once the issue has been fixed. In the meantime you can check for new online orders by going to members.ommpos.com/orders/onlineorders.

Thank you to everyone who gave us a heads-up about the issue. Please keep us informed of any additional system slowness. 

Raja (971) 276 - 3371

Over the past few months, the Metrc system has been experiencing sporadic system

performance issues in some states. We recognize that these issues in some cases have grown

more frequent, causing longer load times and error messages then optimal. We

have determined two primary causes behind these issues:

1) Increasingly frequent API calls by third-party integrators. In certain instances, misuse of

the API can cause a slowdown for other users, effectively clogging Metrc with

unnecessary data requests.

2) Large amount of active data in licensee accounts. Active sales receipt, package and

transfer data sets have grown quite large in some states. As these data sets become

larger, day to day functions can be impacted as the system has to work through large

portions of data that is no longer being used. In some cases, users have several years of

data contained in their respective accounts that is no longer being used, but is part of

their active data sets.

Starting July 20, Metrc will begin a series of system updates and production releases to enhance

our software and make the system faster and easier to use. See below for a summary and brief

timeline of these enhancements.

Production Release (7/20)

The upcoming production release is currently in our final testing stages and is primarily focused

on fixes. We release API Bulletin 69 that details the API impacts in the 7/20 release. If the

bulletin was missed by a vendor, please reach out to api-info@metrc.com.

System Maintenance (7/21)

Metrc will be conducting system maintenance in preparation for the upcoming rate limiting and

data optimization efforts. This required maintenance may impact system performance

between 8 to 11 AM CT in all Metrc instances. We encourage vendors to avoid any type of

synchronization/reconciliation jobs during that window. We do not expect Metrc to be 

Metrc API Bulletin unavailable during that window, and if you experience any issues, please reach out to apiinfo@metrc.com.

Rate Limiting (tentatively scheduled for the last week of July)

We will also be implementing an API best practice known as rate limiting later this month. Rate

limiting caps the number of API calls a third-party integrator can make in a given amount of

time to ensure all integrators are given an equal playing field and no single user or company

being able to overwhelm the system.

Data Optimization (tentatively scheduled for the first week of August)

We will begin moving historical data – data that is finalized or finished – to separate locations to

further optimize system performance. Once the optimization is complete, system users and

vendors will still be able to access that data within the UI and API. Users will still be able to unfinalize or un-finish data if necessary.

In order to maximize the benefits of data optimization, users are encouraged to finalize or finish

sales receipts and packages that are no longer active. Metrc has provided users the ability to

finalize sales, finish both packages and harvests. If you have any questions or need help with

this process, please reach out to api-info@metrc.com.

We will send additional communications about these enhancements and of any impacts they

may have on daily operations over the coming weeks.

If you have questions about this bulletin, please contact Metrc support at api-info@metrc.com.

Get notified instantly to your Star Micronics Printer whenever you receive an online order with our OMMPOS Wireless Printer Configuration.

Update: 7/9/2020 The METRC synch and upload issue has been restored by Metrc. If you continue to experience any issues uploading sales or refreshing packages please let us know. - Raja

We are receiving reports that METRC sales uploads and METRC package refreshing are not working properly. We are receiving reports of duplicate METRC uploads posts and errors when trying to refresh METRC packages. This appears to be due to an issue occurring with METRC. Please give your METRC support rep a call to report this issue. We will post more details as they become available. Please give me a call with any questions.

Thank you,

Raja Afrika (971) 276 - 3371

If you use Star Micronics printers with OMMPOS you can take advantage of our Wireless Printing ability for easire printing and scanning.

Update Monday 6/15/20 11:48 AM

We have posted a fix to correct the issues to last night's update. You made need to press CTRL-ALT-DELETE on your keyboard to clear web web browser's cached files. Please give me a call with any questions. Thank you, Raja. (971) 276 - 3371.

Update Monday 6/15/20 10:30 AM

It looks like last night's update caused a number of issues. We are fixing those issues right now and will post an update by Noon.

We have posted an update to our 6/7/2020 update.

Sales Screen

• Less than 1 gram issue fix
• Smart selection was displaying an incorrect value to the question "How much can I get for $20?" Shout out to the sharp-eyed manager who caught this one. 
• Sales Limits bug affecting milligrams fixed.

• Convert Product feature has been upgraded.

Products

• METRC Packages issue with archiving products fixed.
• Refrech METRC Package button fixed.
• Imported METRC Package going to wrong product type. Fixed.

Reports

• Point in Time Inventory Report Now Works
• Enhanced Sales Report Added a GROSS TOTAL Colum

Updates to OMMPOS Sales Screen.

New Smarter Price Selection
"How much can I buy for $20?"
Entering a custom dollar amount into the quantity selected is now based on price tiers not just the gram price.

New Smarter Discounting
Discounting now subtracts from the after tax price instead of the before tax price. This change makes it easier to discount to an exact dollar amount.

Now discount the total price. Updated Labels

Test results labels now includes Terpenes and Harvest Batch information

Sales Limits Bug Fix

An error was occurring with sales limits for edibles that was preventing the sale of edibles. This bug has been fixed. 

New Cases of Labels in Stock

We have 5 new cases of OLCC compliant Labels in Stock. 
Call Raja at (971) 276 - 3371 to place orders

We have a planned update for close of business Friday June 5th 2020. Between 11pm and 12am PST the system may become unavailable. Please give us a call with any questions.

Thank you,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software 

Please welcome MontanaPOS.COM to the OMMPOS family.
MontanaPOS is the METRC integrated point of sale for Montana.

MontanaPOS Joins

OMMPOS.COM for Oregon 

and OMMAPOS.COM for Oklahoma. 

Thank you all for supporting a small business like ours and thank you for making it possible for us to offer the most affordable METRC integrated Point of Sale system in the industry!

Sincerely,

Raja + Kathleen Afrika
Founders Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

Update 6/2/20 12:30 PM: METRC Service has been restored.

This morning we received reports that METRC reporting is not working. This outage appears to be coming from METRC's end. Please give METRC tech support a call to report this problem. We are doing the same on our end. Please give me a call with any questions at (971) 276 - 3371. We will update this blog whenthe issue has been resolved. 

Thank you,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

If you use our OMMPOS websites your website has been updated. Please check out your newly designed website!

Take money online for online orders with CanPay! Add printer notifications to your Star Printer.

Introducing Online Dispensary Shopping Carts from OMMPOS Get notified in your POS when you receive an order and an order receipt is automatically printed for your Budtenders! Learn more https://xweb.ommpos.com/ Only $15 per month + $1 per order

We updated the Enhanced Sales Report to make it easier to read. We now show Recreational, Medical and Merchandise sales totals inclusive of discounts. We have also broken out a NET total column.

We are working on planned update for Friday which will include upgrades to the sales screen. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you!,

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software, LLC
(971) 276 - 3371

We are excited to annouce the release of the 2nd version of the webmenu plugin. Add a shpping cart to your website. Take debit cards online and instore with CanPay Debit. Receiving an instant notification to your Star Micronics printer when you receive an order. 

OMMPOS produces OLCC compliant generic labels. The following rules can be see at Label Checklist and Generic Label Examples

Introducing Online Dispensary Shopping Carts from OMMPOS Get notified in your POS when you receive an order and an order receipt is automatically printed for your Budtenders! Learn more https://xweb.ommpos.com/ Only $15 per month + $1 per order