Session 3: Metrc NY Webinar

What Is the Metrc NY Summer Webinar: Retail Item ID?

This free virtual session is on July 8, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET, part of the Metrc New York Summer Webinar Series. It's hosted online and open to all licensed New York cannabis operators. The focus is Retail Item ID, Metrc's standardized product identification system, and how it works across the supply chain from production through retail.

Metrc is the state-mandated track-and-trace platform for New York cannabis, and Retail Item ID is one of the features that most operators hear about but don't fully understand until something goes wrong at checkout or during an audit.

Why Cannabis Operators Should Care

Retail Item ID affects every license type that touches a product. Cultivators and processors set it up. Distributors move products tagged with it. Retailers use it at checkout and during inventory audits. If anyone in the chain sets it up wrong, it creates problems downstream for everyone else.

This session explains how a single QR code can handle both audit verification and point-of-sale checkout, which sounds small but can cut a lot of manual work for retailers. It also gets into brand data visibility, which matters more than people expect once regulators and consumers start asking questions about specific product origins.

How to Get the Most Out of It

Understand Where Your Products Fit in the Chain

This session covers the full supply chain, not just retail. Come in knowing your license type and where in the production-to-sale chain your operation sits. That context makes the session a lot more specific and useful.

Focus on the QR Code Workflow

The single-QR-code functionality for audit and checkout is the most practical takeaway from this session for dispensary and retail operators. Make sure you understand exactly how that works before the session ends. If it's unclear, ask during Q&A.

Loop in Whoever Manages Your Labeling

Retail Item ID directly affects labeling. If your compliance person and your labeling or packaging team aren't aligned on this, you'll create extra work for yourself down the line. Consider having both on the call.

Check Your Current Item Records After

After the session, look at a few of your active items in Metrc. If they don't have Retail Item ID set up correctly, you'll want to know that before a regulator does.

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