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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

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 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