Merchandising intelligence for independent cannabis retailers

Know What to Buy. Know Why.

Canny Buyer turns your sales, inventory, purchasing, customer, and vendor information into one clear weekly plan.

See which products bring customers in, keep them coming back, grow their baskets, and earn their place on the shelf — with the evidence and economics behind every recommendation.

No credit card. No POS migration. Start with a fully populated sample store before uploading a single file. Already have an account? Log in

Start with the decisions that matter most.

See what needs your attention, why it matters, and what it could mean for the store.

23

decisions requiring attention

3

products bringing new customers in

7

products driving repeat visits

5

products increasing AOV or UPT

$796

in recoverable cash

6

decisions blocked by data issues

Example from a Canny Buyer weekly merchandising plan.

Why Canny Buyer

Good buyers become Canny Buyers.

Good buyers know their customers, their market, and their shelves. They build judgment through experience.

Canny Buyers add connected data, visible economics, and clear evidence to that judgment. They know which products create demand, which ones build loyalty, which ones grow the basket, and which ones are costing the store more than they contribute.

Canny Buyer helps you see more, decide faster, and learn from what happens next.

You make the calls. Canny Buyer makes the whole picture easier to see.

What better buying does

Build an assortment that works harder for your store.

The right product has more than one job. Canny Buyer shows you how each SKU contributes to customer demand, loyalty, basket growth, inventory productivity, margin, and cash flow.

Bring them in

Find the products that attract new customers and give people a reason to choose your store.

Bring them back

Protect the products your regulars rely on and identify which purchases are most closely connected to repeat visits.

Grow the basket

See which products increase average order value, add units to the basket, and sell well alongside other items.

Improve the shelf

Recognize what is earning its space, what needs support, and what is tying up attention or inventory without contributing enough.

Protect the economics

Make smarter decisions about cost, price, margin, purchasing quantities, promotions, and the cash committed to inventory.

Well bought is half sold.

What you choose, what you pay, and how you price it shape everything that follows: who walks through the door, what lands in the basket, whether the customer returns, and how profitably the inventory sells through.

Canny Buyer helps you buy well every week.

Meet Porter

Porter handles the paperwork. You make the calls.

Porter is your Canny Buyer coordinator.

Copy porter@cannybuyer.com on purchase orders, invoices, credit memos, vendor menus, and other relevant buying correspondence. Porter captures the documents and details, organizes them, and adds them to your Canny Buyer dashboard automatically.

There is nothing new for your vendors to learn. Keep working through email and keep Porter copied.

Every document helps Canny Buyer build a more complete picture of your purchasing, costs, vendor relationships, and inventory.

Keep Porter copied. Keep your attention on the shelf.

One plan. Six kinds of decisions.

Canny Buyer connects the information across your store and turns it into one prioritized, editable plan for the week. Every recommendation includes the evidence, economics, expected impact, and known limitations behind it.

Buy

Know what to buy.

Reorder proven products, evaluate new opportunities, adjust purchasing quantities, reduce overstock, and put inventory dollars where they can work hardest.

Price

Know what to charge.

Find products priced below margin targets, out of step with the market, or based on incomplete or questionable cost information.

Promote

Know what deserves attention.

Identify products worth featuring, bundling, marking down, sampling, or removing from promotion.

Protect

Know what customers count on.

Keep retention-critical products available and protect the visits, revenue, and baskets connected to them.

Vendor

Know where to follow up.

Track samples, discounts, order terms, promised support, purchasing agreements, and unresolved vendor commitments.

Resolve

Know what needs fixing.

Surface missing credits, cost discrepancies, product-matching problems, incomplete records, and other issues affecting the quality of a decision.

How your information gets in

However your information arrives, Canny Buyer can use it.

Start with the systems, files, and workflows you already have. Each additional source gives Canny Buyer a more complete understanding of your store.

Keep Porter copied.

Copy Porter on relevant correspondence, and he will capture purchasing documents and vendor information automatically.

Upload what you already have.

Bring in sales and inventory exports, invoices, purchase orders, credits, vendor menus, spreadsheets, PDFs, documents, and images.

Connect directly.

Native API integrations with major cannabis POS platforms are coming, allowing sales, inventory, customer, and purchasing data to flow into Canny Buyer automatically.

No migration. No lengthy implementation. Start with what you have and add more as you go.

How it works

From scattered information to clear decisions.

Bring the information together

Copy Porter, upload your existing files, and — when available — connect your POS directly.

See what matters

Canny Buyer connects the records, checks the economics, identifies missing information, and prioritizes the decisions that deserve your attention.

Make the call

Review the recommendation, inspect the evidence, adjust the quantity or action, and approve or reject it.

Canny Buyer records what was recommended, what you decided, and what happened next — giving every future plan more context.

Less administrative drag

Get to the decision faster.

Buying information is usually scattered across email threads, attachments, exports, invoices, vendor menus, spreadsheets, and someone’s memory.

Canny Buyer brings that information together. Porter keeps the purchasing side current without making you download, rename, organize, and upload every document yourself.

Spend less time assembling the picture and more time acting on what it shows you.

One place to review the week’s priorities

Less manual document handling

Fewer spreadsheets to reconcile

Faster access to supporting evidence

Clearer follow-up across vendors and store teams

Evidence and explainability

Every recommendation earns its place.

Canny Buyer clearly distinguishes what is known, what was calculated, what is forecast, and what is being recommended. Open any decision to see the source evidence, expected impact, confidence, assumptions, data limitations, and calculation behind it.

Facts remain distinct from recommendations.

Every recommendation links back to its evidence.

Expected impact includes an amount and time horizon.

Quantities, prices, and proposed actions remain editable.

Missing or questionable information is surfaced for review.

New information creates a new plan without erasing the old one.

Your decisions remain yours.

Who Canny Buyer is for

For the person who has to get the buy right.

Canny Buyer is built for dedicated buyers, owners, operators, and store managers responsible for creating an assortment customers want and a store they want to return to.

It gives the person carrying the buying function one place to coordinate decisions across purchasing, store operations, ownership, finance, marketing, and vendors.

Start with your store

See what Canny Buyer finds.

Begin with a fully populated sample plan. Then upload your own sales, inventory, customer, and purchasing information to uncover:

Products bringing new customers in

Products associated with repeat visits

Products growing AOV or UPT

Reorder and new-buy opportunities

Pricing and margin improvements

Inventory dollars that could be recovered or redirected

Vendor and data issues requiring follow-up

Free for 14 days. No credit card. No POS migration.

Questions before your first upload

Your next weekly plan

Make your next buy a canny one.

Bring your store information together and get one clear plan for building demand, earning loyalty, growing baskets, and improving the economics of your inventory.

See a sample plan

No credit card. No POS migration. Your first plan is waiting.

Know What to Buy. Know Why.

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