What is Metrc?

What it is

Each plant and each package gets a tag with a unique identifier. As staff plant, harvest, package, transfer and sell product, they record those events against the tags. Those entries form a chain of records showing where every item came from and where it went.

The state regulator can see this data. Many business systems also connect to Metrc through its API, so the same sale or package entry does not have to be typed twice. Seed-to-sale platforms such as MJ Platform work this way.

Why it matters to a business

• Accurate entry: Metrc holds only what staff record, so a missed scan or a wrong tag becomes an error the regulator can see.
• Working equipment: scanners, label printers and registers need to be online when product moves.
• Controlled access: user accounts and API keys decide who can record or change data.
• Rules come from the license: ask your regulator what you must record. Your IT provider cannot answer that.

How KawaConnect works with Metrc

KawaConnect is a licensed Metrc integrator. We support licensed cannabis cultivators, processors and dispensaries, and our cannabis IT service covers the IT side of Metrc. That means user accounts, access and API keys, integrations with your other systems, the computers, scanners, label printers and registers staff record on, the site network, and reports built from your data.

We are not a compliance consultancy and do not decide what a license requires. Our own product Tagestry, part of our software work, prints Metrc-compliant labels and tags.

Learn more

• Metrc websiteThe vendor's own site, useful for operators who want to read how the system is described by its maker.
• What is an API?A plain explanation of how software systems share data, useful for owners connecting their records to Metrc.