Cannabis inventory control & compliance

Your Metrc numbers should match your shelves.

Zero Variance finds where Metrc, your POS and your physical count disagree, traces every gap to its cause, and closes it before an inspector or your P&L finds it.

Discrepancy specialistsMetrc & Dutchie dailyRemote, nationwideNDA before access
Three records. One number.
  • MetrcWhat the state sees
  • Your POSWhat you sold
  • Physical countWhat's actually on hand
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When these three records reconcile, inspections run clean and shrink becomes measurable, then preventable. Our job is to find exactly where they diverge, and why.
Why it matters

What inventory variance costs you

State audit findingsFines and license risk from records that don't reconcile.
Unexplained shrinkProduct leaves the books and no one can say why.
Hours lost reconcilingManagers chase numbers instead of running the store.
Services

Four ways to work together

An audit finds the problems. Remediation fixes them. Oversight keeps them fixed.

After the audit

Cleanup & Remediation

$3,000and up per project
  • Resolve open discrepancies
  • Correct package records
  • Write SOPs for receiving, adjustments and counts
  • Train your staff on them

Scoped from your audit findings. Typically 2–6 weeks.

Ongoing

Monthly Oversight

$1,500and up per month
  • Monthly reconciliation review
  • Root-cause analysis of large adjustments
  • Audit and inspection prep
  • Monthly report to ownership

A direct line when something breaks. Priced by store count.

Our specialty

Discrepancy Investigation

A shortage or overage you can't explain? We trace it package by package through receiving, sales, adjustments and transfers to a documented root cause, with records ready for your files or any required state report.

$500and up per investigation
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What the audit covers

Six places inventory goes wrong

Metrc vs. POS

Mismatched quantities, unmatched packages, and unit or weight errors.

Adjustments

Frequency, reasons, and who made them, with patterns by employee, shift, or product.

Aged inventory

Packages past their sell-through window, dead SKUs, and the cash tied up in them.

Receiving

Manifest vs. received quantities, late acceptances, and intake variances.

Transfers & waste

Open transfers, vendor returns, and waste logging.

Process & controls

Cycle count cadence, written SOPs, and system permissions.

For stores new to Metrc

Just moved to Metrc?

Six common mistakes in a store's first months on Metrc. Each is simple to fix early and costly to untangle later.

Get a Metrc check-up
  1. Accepting manifests without countingOnce you accept a transfer, the shipper's quantities become yours, shortages included.
  2. Unit of measure mismatchesEach in the POS, grams in Metrc. The gap widens daily until nothing reconciles.
  3. Adjustments without a real reasonVague reasons and missing notes are the first thing an inspector questions.
  4. Ghost packagesSold-out packages left open in Metrc show inventory you don't have.
  5. Sales that never reach MetrcWhen POS sales fail to report, Metrc drifts from your shelves one receipt at a time.
  6. Missing the reporting windowNew Jersey requires notice within 3 hours of discovering a discrepancy. New York allows 24 hours once a gap crosses its threshold. Missing the clock is a violation of its own.
How it works

From first call to fix plan in two weeks

1Days 1–3

Kickoff and access

A free call to scope the problem, then a short kickoff and read-only access to your data.

2Days 4–10

Review and analysis

Every variance traced through receiving, sales, adjustments and transfers to its cause.

3Days 11–14

Report and walkthrough

A ranked findings report, walked through with your team. Then you fix it in-house, or we fix it together.

What you get

  • A one-page summary for ownership
  • Every issue ranked by risk and traced to its root cause
  • A 30-day fix plan

What we need from you

  • Read-only Metrc access, or exports
  • POS inventory and adjustment reports
  • A 30-minute kickoff with your GM or compliance lead
About

Jersey-born. Trained out West. Bringing it home.

For independent operators, GMs and compliance managers stretched thin, and teams preparing for a state inspection.

New JerseyArizonaNationwide

Zero Variance was founded by a New Jersey native who went out West to run inventory control for a vertically integrated cannabis operator: a large dispensary network plus extraction, kitchen, packaging, cultivation and distribution.

Zero Variance does this work every day, at scale, and brings that experience to operators nationwide, starting at home in New York and New Jersey.

MetrcDutchieSAPRF scanningRoot-cause analysis
Questions

Common questions

Do you need to be on site?

No. The work is remote and available nationwide. On-site visits are available on request.

Is my data kept private?

Yes. We sign an NDA before accessing anything.

Is this a state audit?

No. It's an independent review that prepares you for one. It isn't legal advice.

Which systems do you work with?

Metrc and Dutchie daily. Other POS systems are reviewed from their exports.

Get started

Book a free inventory check-in

Twenty minutes, no pitch. You'll leave with a clear read on where you stand and what an audit would look for.

FounderDonovan Scott
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