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Introducing Email Automations
Automate cannabis email marketing with targeted campaigns that drive engagement, repeat purchases, and customer retention.
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September 2026 Release
The September 2026 Carrot release: customer segmentation, placeholder product art, storefront upgrades, delivery improvements, and more.
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Metrc Manifest Integration Now Live for NY Dispensaries
Cova POS and Carrot now create Metrc delivery manifests automatically for New York dispensaries, with real-time status updates and no manual data entry.
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Your Dispensary in Your Pocket: Carrot Admin App Launches on iOS
The Carrot Admin app is now on iOS: manage orders, support customers, and coordinate deliveries from your iPhone, wherever you are.
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Custom Store Theming Is Here
Custom Store Theming lets you restyle your Carrot storefront to match your brand, with colors, fonts, and layout under your control and compliance handled.
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Carrot Updates: Order Missions, Deep Linking & More
Carrot's latest release adds Order Missions, deep links into your app and store, delivery heatmaps, and a set of admin improvements for dispensary teams.
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Carrot Marketing Blasts Highlight
Carrot Blasts sends text, push, and in-store messages from one place, with win-back campaigns that bring lapsed dispensary customers back.
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Carrot Product Updates: Brand Pages, Subcategory Filters, Category Connector, and more...
New in Carrot: brand pages in the store with a public brands API, subcategory filters, the category connector, and more storefront improvements.
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Carrot Product Updates - Sept 2024
September 2024 Carrot updates: auto-generated rewards program explainer pages, multiple product images, and separate effect and property tags on the menu.
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Gamify Your Way to Greater Revenue
Missions turn your dispensary rewards program into a game: set challenges like trying new brands or ordering on slow days, and pay bonus points on completion.
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Budtender Bot is Here!
Carrot's Budtender Bot answers product questions, recommends items, and closes sales on your storefront around the clock, at no extra cost.
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August Feature Drop: Budtender Bot, Gamified Missions and More Coming Soon 🚀
A look at what's landing in Carrot this August: Budtender Bot, Missions, Surfside ad placements, a GPS delivery app, store theming, and Admin mobile apps.
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Carrot Product Updates - June 2025
June 2025 Carrot updates: a minimum-spend deal type, bestselling products, order management improvements, and POS integration fixes.
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The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Dispensary Ecommerce: Driving Online Sales in 2025
Carrot stores average 22% of revenue online and top stores pass 50%. What it takes to get there: menu, loyalty, payments, local SEO, and a fast launch.
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Carrot Product Updates December
December 2024 Carrot updates: strike-through promo pricing on products and weight buttons, order logs, enhanced menu displays, and more.
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How Carrot Mobile Apps Drive Cannabis Dispensary Growth and Customer Loyalty: The Numbers Don't Lie
Carrot app users spend 1.8x more over their lifetime than web-only customers. What a branded dispensary app changes, and what it takes to launch one.
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Cannabis Delivery Done Right: A Guide to Growing Your Delivery Business
Practical advice for dispensary delivery: sizing your zone by drive time, keeping customers updated, equipping drivers, and the metrics that show it's working.
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Dominate Your Local Cannabis Market with Carrot's Hyperlocal SEO Service
Carrot's Hyperlocal SEO service gets your dispensary into Google's local map results for the neighborhoods you actually serve, without relying on ads.
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Carrot and Cova Join Forces to Deliver Comprehensive Cannabis Retail Solution
Cova POS customers can now connect Carrot for ecommerce, rewards, marketing, mobile apps, and delivery, with orders and customer data syncing both ways.
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Mastering Cannabis B2C: Innovative Strategies for Market Dominance
How dispensaries win retail customers: who your shoppers are, which store model fits your market, and the marketing channels that work under cannabis ad rules.
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Alleaves and Carrot Unite to Provide Best-in-Class Cannabis Retail Solution
Alleaves POS now connects to Carrot's ecommerce, rewards, marketing, mobile apps and delivery tools, so dispensaries run the whole stack through two vendors.
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Aeropay Partners with Carrot to Offer Integrated ACH Payments to the Cannabis Industry.
Aeropay pay-by-bank ACH is now built into Carrot checkout. Stores using it see larger orders and over 30% more completed online purchases.
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Designing a successful dispensary rewards program
How to design a dispensary rewards program regulars actually use: points per dollar, loyalty tiers, and redemption structures that bring customers back.
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Opening a Dispensary: A Comprehensive Guide
An overview of opening a cannabis dispensary: licensing, choosing a location and layout, picking an operational model, and the software you'll need.
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