Operators in states such as Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, New York, and Massachusetts may be required (depending on license type) to assign Item Brands to products in Metrc. This article shows how to comply with these requirements in Dutchie. Consult your local regulatory body to determine if this workflow applies to your operations.
Notice
Dutchie does not provide compliance advice. Merchants are responsible for their own compliance. Internal and external Dutchie compliance documentation has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or compliance advice. Dutchie provides tools that assist in compliance in many optional configurations. Merchants should consult their own tax, legal and compliance advisors to determine how best to configure Dutchie compliance settings and, in general, how best to operate within the cannabis industry.
Overview
Create Item Brands in Metrc
To automatically push all existing Brands in your Dutchie Catalog to Metrc, go to Products > Brands and click Push all.
If you don't see this option, enable Metrc Item Brands as shown below.
To add brands to Metrc individually:
- In Metrc, go to Admin > Item Brands.
- Click Add Item Brands.
- Click the + button to add more fields to add multiple brands. Enter the names of all brands you carry and then Create Item Brands.
Enable Metrc Item Brands in Dutchie
- In the Dutchie Backoffice, go to Settings > Integrations > Metrc.
- On the Settings tab, scroll to the Use Metrc Brands setting and make sure it's set to Yes.
- Click Update.
Assign Item Brands to products in your Catalog
- Go to Products > Catalog.
- Click the More filters button and filter your Catalog for Quantity-based items.
- Use the checkboxes to select final-form/finished-good products belonging to the same Metrc Item Brand, then select Bulk actions > Bulk edit product details.
- From the left dropdown, select Metrc Brand.
- From the right dropdown, select the Metrc brand you want to assign the selected products to. If you don't see brands you recently created in Metrc, click Refresh within the dropdown.
- Click Save.
- Repeat until you've assigned Metrc Brands to all final-form, quantity-based products in your Catalog.
You can also edit the Metrc Brand assignment of a individual product from the product detail page.