GrowFlow Really Saves Time With i502 Traceability

In the i502 recreational cannabis industry, business is booming. Alongside retail shops, cannabis growers, and concentrate processors, “support” businesses are growing as well. Businesses are popping up in various industries but the most interesting projects we’ve seen are in the tech sector.

An industry all about an illegal substance and previously lacking almost all infrastructure is being catapulted into 2017’s business environment at incredible speeds. In a sea of get-rich-quick businesses, GrowFlow is one of the few companies aimed at focusing on value first as an i502 traceability company.

Our work within the cannabis industry has consistently led us to the conclusion that most software folks just want the money. The chase for quick bucks is beginning to clear the way for solutions that are hyper focused on making a business run better. The law requires a huge emphasis on seed to sale traceability creating countless new tasks for a business along the process. GrowFlow, the small Seattle based start up, has set out to create an easy to use software that caters to the producer/processor.

The i502 producer/processor (grower), has to tag all plants 8 inches or taller through its entire life cycle. That includes keeping the same serial number to each individual product sent off to retail all the way to the dead trim waste. GrowFlow has aimed at this specific time-based issue and aiming to cut time and create a better flow to the business of growing cannabis. Sean Weas, Cheif Marketing Officer at GrowFlow, said to us, “Our solution most closely matches the real-life workflows of i502 producers and processors.”

The CEO of the company comes from the recreational cannabis production process. Early on, he noticed a severe need for alternative options to i502 traceability. Creating a dashboard that is extremely user-friendly was the result. Showcasing tools and reports that assist every part of the process from regulation traceability to sales force beating the pavement. I felt at home playing with the software, it felt like I was maneuvering through the basics of Google Analytics. It seems like an unlimited amount of reports can be made and the user interface is simple and clean.

Talking with Holly Stanfield, Packaging Director at GreenRush Cannabis, we found that the software has improved the post-harvest end of traceability immensely for her company. While Holly mentioned the seed to harvest portion was helpful she couldn’t stop mentioning how helpful the interface was once the product was ready for packaging. “Prior to using GrowFlow, building orders was a nightmare!”

GrowFlow allows us to create pull sheets for the packaging team, reserving product in our inventory, create product labels, correct the pull sheets if adjustments need to be made, and then manifest when ready to enter quarantine, vs. the archaic system we used prior to GrowFlow did not have the ability to reserve product or make simple corrections.  This allows us to keep track of our inventory to the gram in one application.”

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