The compliance layer

Stay compliant. Stay open.

Cannabis retail operates under pharmaceutical-grade regulation. CNBS wires compliance into the transaction path itself — automatic, audit-ready, and never an afterthought.

$10K+Per violation

Average fine for a single compliance violation — before license risk.

24/7Tracking obligation

Seed-to-sale tracking required in most states, with no off hours.

30+Regulatory regimes

States with different rules, formats, and filing requirements.

Built into the platform

Not separate software. Not an add-on.

Compliance is wired into every part of CNBS — the same system that runs the register runs the state record, so posture is enforced at the point of transaction.

METRC sync & seed-to-sale

Complete lifecycle tracking from cultivation through final sale, reconciled against state track-and-trace on every movement — not at close.

  • Automatic METRC integration
  • Real-time inventory sync
  • Package and plant tagging with batch, lot, and product genealogy

Exception monitoring

AI-powered monitoring catches compliance issues at the transaction level, before they become violations on the state record.

  • Purchase limit enforcement at the register
  • Age verification workflows
  • Suspicious pattern detection

Automated reporting

Regulatory reports generated and submitted on schedule, validated against jurisdiction templates before they reach the regulator.

  • Scheduled submissions per jurisdiction
  • Multi-format export (CSV, XML, PDF)
  • Status tracking and submission confirmations

Audit trail

Every action logged, timestamped, and preserved. Tamper-proof records mean an audit is a report export, not a quarter-end scramble.

  • Immutable transaction logs
  • Per-user activity tracking
  • Instant report generation for regulatory review
Failure mode, handled

What happens when METRC goes down.

The question every diligence process asks. The answer: sales continue, nothing is lost, and the gap itself is documented.

1

Detect

If METRC becomes unreachable, the platform flags the outage immediately — no silent gaps in the state record.

2

Queue

Sales continue uninterrupted. Every transaction is queued locally with its full compliance payload intact.

3

Reconcile

When connectivity returns, sync resumes automatically and every queued movement is reconciled against state track-and-trace.

4

Document

The gap itself is audit-trailed — what happened, when, and how it was resolved — and surfaces in the compliance view, not at audit time.

Multi-state by design

State rules as configuration.

Every state writes its own rulebook. CNBS ships each jurisdiction's rule set as configuration — applied automatically by location, not built as a custom project.

California
Colorado
Washington
Oregon
Nevada
Massachusetts
Michigan
Illinois
Arizona
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut

Plus all other legal cannabis states. New jurisdictions are added as configuration — automatically, at no additional cost.

Security posture

Security that matches the stakes.

Compliance requires security. Controls and infrastructure built for the diligence process, documented and independently audited.

SOC 2 Type II certified

Independently audited security controls meeting industry standards for data protection and privacy.

256-bit encryption

Encryption for all data at rest and in transit. Customer and business data stays protected.

Real-time backups

Continuous backup with point-in-time recovery. No transaction is lost, even in disaster scenarios.

99.9% uptime SLA

Enterprise-grade infrastructure with contractually guaranteed availability. When you are open, it is running.

See the compliance layer in action.

A walkthrough of your compliance posture on CNBS — your states, your reporting obligations, and the exceptions you'd catch before the regulator does.