Free is Rarely Ever Free
January 26, 2012
Recently, the largest social network and strain-finder in the medical marijuana business acquired a Point-Of-Sale system (POS) for marijuana dispensaries that they are now offering for free.
The availability of this free service will allow those dispensaries that don’t feel they can afford $5 to $10 per day for a professional system the ability to start tracking their sales and patients. It’s a start, and an important evolutionary step towards legitimacy.
MJ Freeway’s stated mission is: “...to bring legitimacy to this industry and Cannabis in all of its forms.” We believe the best way to do this is by providing a professionally-built, safe and reliable system to track harvests, sales and patients; and by offering a wide variety of quality choices of integration partners. Our software is geared to help Medical Marijuana businesses stay open and succeed, while also being a part of a community dedicated to this industry’s growth.
We know that states and municipalities are looking to all of us to work together in defining best practices and utilizing tools that prove successful diversion control and a transparent way to show that licensed businesses are acting within compliance regulation. Our software is built on that premise and this means our development team must have the resources and be flexible enough to meet each state’s standards as they change.
This kind of commitment to legitimacy is not free and it never will be, not if it’s done right.
It remains to be seen whether WeedMaps will invest in their software to bring it up to a professional standard that this industry should demand. It also pushes MJ Freeway to deliver even more value to our growers, sellers and over 500,000 patients who trust our system for their record keeping with emphasis on compliance and patient privacy.
Some of the additional value that MJ Freeway delivers for a few dollars a day includes:
We trust that serious businesses in the industry will recognize a clear distinction between a free POS and the professionally-built MMJ management system that MJ Freeway customers rely on for their compliance, financial tracking, and profitability.
A few short years ago, WeedMaps entered the strain-locator service market, offering WeedMaps for free for a while until they had the market traction to require the hefty premiums they are charging now for WeedMaps advertising. Obviously, those premiums have afforded them the ability to make this acquisition (and hopefully to bring this POS up to standard). As a public company, I am certain that their commitment to their shareholders is to maximize their return on this strategy, as it should be.
At MJ Freeway, we strive for a more professional and reliable relationship. As the industry leader, we have the customer base and resources necessary to continue the evolution and support our product. A significant portion of our current customer base has upgraded to MJ Freeway from their previous POS system; including the system recently acquired by WeedMaps. We welcome every dispensary that can afford to professionally protect patent data, track grow information, integrate marketing information, and reconcile financial information.
Watch this testimonial from one of our customers who came to MJ Freeway after finding that other discount systems just weren't worth the risk.
This kind of commitment to legitimacy is not free and it never will be, not if it’s done right.
It remains to be seen whether WeedMaps will invest in their software to bring it up to a professional standard that this industry should demand. It also pushes MJ Freeway to deliver even more value to our growers, sellers and over 500,000 patients who trust our system for their record keeping with emphasis on compliance and patient privacy.
Some of the additional value that MJ Freeway delivers for a few dollars a day includes:
- HIPAA level security standards so you know your patient information is not in jeopardy and your links are secured.
- HIPAA standards for patient information sharing, so you know your patient secured information won’t automatically end up with any social network.
- 20+ line item integration into QuickBooks for professional financial tracking
- Unparalleled technical support
- Professional and legitimate text and email marketing
- Online ordering that pulls from real time inventory
- Real-time data integration with not only WeedMaps but over 20 other companies that provide strainfinding, testing, or other product related data.
- A professionally built and secured system that reconciles to the gram and to the dollar
We trust that serious businesses in the industry will recognize a clear distinction between a free POS and the professionally-built MMJ management system that MJ Freeway customers rely on for their compliance, financial tracking, and profitability.
A few short years ago, WeedMaps entered the strain-locator service market, offering WeedMaps for free for a while until they had the market traction to require the hefty premiums they are charging now for WeedMaps advertising. Obviously, those premiums have afforded them the ability to make this acquisition (and hopefully to bring this POS up to standard). As a public company, I am certain that their commitment to their shareholders is to maximize their return on this strategy, as it should be.
At MJ Freeway, we strive for a more professional and reliable relationship. As the industry leader, we have the customer base and resources necessary to continue the evolution and support our product. A significant portion of our current customer base has upgraded to MJ Freeway from their previous POS system; including the system recently acquired by WeedMaps. We welcome every dispensary that can afford to professionally protect patent data, track grow information, integrate marketing information, and reconcile financial information.
Watch this testimonial from one of our customers who came to MJ Freeway after finding that other discount systems just weren't worth the risk.