For hemp retail · CBD · smoke shops · 3+ storefronts

One system runs every store — and works the overnight shift you can’t.

POS, inventory, CRM, storefront, loyalty, email and SMS — every register and every location in one place, with agents preparing the reorders, the reports, and the decisions while you sleep. It replaces the five-tool stack you’re overpaying for. Built by operators who run their own multi-location shops on it, every day.

$797/month. Every store, flat. No per-location fees.

LIMITED ONBOARDING EACH QUARTER

5+

separate tools a multi-store operator stitches together to run one business.

POS · LOYALTY · E-COMM · MENUS · PROCESSING
$2,332

what Alpine IQ and Shopify alone billed our own stores every month — before the POS, the menus, and processing.

ALPINE IQ INV. #41128 · SHOPIFY BILLS
278

dispensaries switched POS software in 2024 alone. Switching is normal.

WEBJOINT INDUSTRY DATA
~90%

of retail shrinkage losses walk out with staff. You can’t watch three stores at once.

LOSS-PREVENTION DATA
01 / THE PATTERN

You already know the story. Maybe you lived it.

You stitched your operation together out of whatever would take a hemp business: a cannabis POS here, a loyalty tool there, an online store that barely talks to the registers, and a spreadsheet holding the stores together on Sunday nights. Every new location multiplies the fees, the transfer errors, and the hours you spend reconciling by hand.

And the specialist tools you leaned on are not the refuge they looked like. The biggest cannabis POS went down on 4/20 itself and owed its retailers compensation — while cutting the support staff you’d call. Others got bought for parts, laid off half their team, or swung to losses. You built a real business; the software running it keeps falling out from under you.

We know this math because we paid it. Our loyalty and marketing vendor billed our stores $1,832.64 a month — line items for the platform, the analytics, the phone numbers, per-store connection fees, and the overage — with “account to be suspended in 5 business days” letters any time a card hiccuped. The online store cost another $499.93 a month. We closed both when we built the replacement.

So you stitched it together. A cannabis POS here, a loyalty tool there, a high-risk processor holding your money in reserve, a spreadsheet gluing the stores together. Every new store multiplies the fees, the transfer errors, and the hours. That is not a software stack. That is a tax on being in this industry.

02 / THE VENDORS

Look at who you’re depending on.

Square
3.5% special-program rate. Three automated warnings and you’re off — no human to call.
SQUAREUP.COM/CBD
Shopify & Stripe
Won’t touch hemp. Restricted category, full stop.
PUBLISHED POLICIES
Dutchie
Down on 4/20 — paid retailers compensation. Founders ousted, suing the board. Layoffs, round after round.
MJBIZDAILY · CBT · GANJAPRENEUR
Weedmaps
Cut 25% of staff in one stroke. $49M profit swung to a $10.5M loss. Still $495 per location.
BENZINGA / WM TECH FILINGS
Akerna
Once the industry’s data darling. Sold for parts.
PUBLIC RECORD
Lightspeed
$556M writedown, two restructurings in one year, shopped itself and stayed public to investor dismay.
BETAKIT · GLOBE AND MAIL
Cova
The survivor — and it’s majority-owned by a telecom POS company. $349–499/mo, per location.
COVA FAQ · ITQLICK
The point
The mainstream won’t have you. The specialists can’t hold you. And every one of these — even the survivors — is a dashboard that waits for you to drive it.
03 / THE MATH

What you pay today, stitched together.

Loyalty + SMS marketing OUR BILLAlpine IQ — invoice, four stores$1,832.64/mo
Online store OUR BILLShopify — monthly charge$499.93/mo
POS (hemp-friendly)Cova Powerhouse$499/mo
Menus / listingsWeedmaps$495/mo per location
High-risk processingCBD merchant account3.0–5.5% + reserve
Cross-store reportingA spreadsheet and your weekendsyour time
Four stores, before processing$2,800+/mo

THE FIRST TWO LINES ARE OUR OWN RECEIPTS (ALPINE IQ INV. #41128, DEC 2025 · SHOPIFY BILLS JUL–NOV 2025). THE REST IS PUBLISHED PRICING. CHECK IT YOURSELF.

TURBINE
$797/mo · all stores, flat
  • POS, inventory, CRM, storefront, email and SMS
  • All stores, one system — no per-location fees
  • Books sync to QuickBooks — reconciled nightly
  • Agents working overnight, on the record
  • Onboarding done for you — we move your data

Texts, calls, and AI usage bill as you use them — metered on top of the flat price, not buried in a stack of per-service and per-store fees.

Our old loyalty vendor alone billed more than twice Turbine’s entire platform price — before the processing spread, the reserve, and the 12 hours a week a six-store group reported spending on compliance reporting.

04 / HEAD TO HEAD

Side by side.

TurbineCovaDutchieSquare (CBD)
Monthly cost$797 flat — all stores$349–499 per location~$500+ per location$89+/location + 3.5% rate
Hemp retail welcomeBuilt for itCannabis-firstCannabis-firstSpecial program — can drop you
Online store on the same inventory✓ includedAdd-on, $149–199/storeAdd-onSeparate product
Loyalty + email + SMS✓ built in · usage-billedThird-party (~$299/mo)Add-onAdd-on
AI that works overnight✓ agents + your approval✗ dashboard✗ dashboard✗ dashboard
Every action on the record✓ built in
Who answers when it breaksThe operators who run their own shops on itTelecom-owned vendorSupport team mid-layoffs, unionizingAutomated warnings, no human

COMPETITOR PRICING AND EVENTS FROM PUBLISHED SOURCES, JULY 2026. TRADEMARKS BELONG TO THEIR OWNERS — NAMED FOR COMPARISON.

05 / THE PLATFORM

One platform, every store on it. And the work you stay up doing? It happens overnight without you.

Sell

Every register, one catalog

Registers at every location, one product catalog, one price book. Change a price once, it changes everywhere.

Track

Inventory synced across stores

Transfers logged, not scribbled. Retail loses 1.3 to 2% of sales to shrinkage, and some 90% of that walks out with staff. You cannot stand in three stores at once. Turbine can.

Know

Every sale builds the profile

Your best customers get the text about the restock they care about, without you writing it. Your storefront runs on the same catalog as your registers.

Wake up ahead

Agents work while you sleep

They catch inventory anomalies, prepare reorders, draft reports, and line up decisions. You walk in, review, approve. It writes down every action it takes.

06 / A NIGHT ON TURBINE

What overnight looks like.

2:14 AM

A count doesn’t match

Store 2’s count on a top SKU doesn’t match the day’s sales. Turbine flags the gap and pulls the register history.

2:20 AM

Reorders drafted

Three products across your stores are about to run dry. Reorders are drafted against your vendors and price history.

6:00 AM

One page, all stores

The overnight report is ready: the anomaly, the reorders, yesterday’s numbers.

8:05 AM

Coffee, two taps

You read it, approve the reorders in two taps, and forward the flag to your store 2 manager. Seven hours of preparation. One human decision. Zero 11pm spreadsheets.

07 / MARKETING

The marketing you keep meaning to do — done, and waiting for your yes.

You know you should text the customers who haven’t come back, post the new drop, run the promo on what’s sitting. But you’re running stores — so it doesn’t happen, or you pay an agency two grand a month to post a few times a week. Every customer, every sale, every campaign already lives in one system — so it does the work and hands you the decision.

Full CRM

Every customer, already sorted

Purchase history, loyalty, and segments built from real sales — your best customers, your lapsed ones, the ones who buy one specific product — grouped without you ever building a list.

Campaigns

They draft themselves

The agent sees what’s selling and what’s sitting, writes the email or text to the right segment, and waits for your approval. You send it in a tap, not an afternoon.

Social

Instagram from the same system

Connect your account and publish posts and reels from the platform your business already runs on — then see how they landed. No separate tool, no agency retainer.

08 / THE BACK OFFICE

The second job nobody sees: the books.

Every sale you ring becomes something you have to account for. So you keep a bookkeeper keying it in, pay an accountant to make sense of it, and lose a week reconciling stores by hand — then do it again, worse, at tax time. And when you just want to know how you did last month, you sit down and build a report.

Books on their own

It posts to QuickBooks for you

Connect QuickBooks once. Sales, orders, and fees flow in and reconcile every night — posted to your books across every store, without a bookkeeper keying it in by hand.

Tax time

Not a fire drill

The numbers are already in QuickBooks, already reconciled, already split by store and entity. Your accountant opens clean books instead of a shoebox. We are not your accountant — we make sure they have nothing to clean up.

Just ask

You ask. It answers.

“How did the Charlotte store do last month?” “Best seller across all locations?” You don’t build a report to find out how you did — you ask in plain English and the answer comes back with the numbers behind it.

We run our own books this way — several companies, six sets of books — on this exact QuickBooks sync. If it couldn’t survive a real month-end close, it would have broken on ours first.

09 / WHY TRUST US

We run what we build.

We are not a software company guessing at retail. Studio713 runs its own multi-location retail operation on Turbine, live, every day, 24/7. Point of sale, storefronts, inventory, payments. Our first customer was ourselves. If it breaks, it breaks on our floors first.

10 / HONEST ANSWERS

The questions owners actually ask.

PROCESSING

Can you guarantee I never lose payment processing?

No, and we would not try — we are not your payment processor. But we do not leave you to solve it alone: our partners bring hemp-friendly processing options you can plug in, and we stay processor-agnostic, so losing or switching a provider is a swap, not a rebuild. Turbine runs the operation on top; processing plugs into it — your catalog, customers, and history never move.

SWITCHING

I just switched POS. I am not doing that again.

278 dispensaries switched POS software in 2024 alone. Switching is normal; painful migration is not. We move your catalog, customers, and history. Your team gets one system that replaces four.

THE AI

What if the AI does something wrong in front of a customer?

It does not get the chance. Agents prepare, people approve. Anything customer-facing or money-moving waits for your sign-off, and the ledger keeps a record of all of it.

You built a legal business in an industry the software world keeps at arm’s length.

You should not need five tools, per-location fees, and a prayer to run it. One platform. Every store. $797 a month, flat.

TURBINE ONBOARDS A LIMITED NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS EACH QUARTER. IF YOU RUN THREE OR MORE STORES, TELL US ABOUT YOUR OPERATION.