Dutchie is the software behind the counter at thousands of legal dispensaries. Brothers Ross and Zach Lipson launched it in Bend, Oregon, in 2017 as online ordering for three local shops; the company now operates out of Boston. It builds point-of-sale, e-commerce, payments, loyalty and marketing tools for licensed cannabis retailers, and says more than 6,500 businesses across the U.S. and Canada run on it.
From three Bend shops to a $3.75 billion valuation
Dutchie grew fast. By 2018 it was working with 50 stores and had closed a $3 million seed round. In March 2021 it raised a $200 million Series C led by Tiger Global and bought two cannabis point-of-sale companies, Greenbits and LeafLogix, moving from online menus into the register itself.
That October a $350 million round led by D1 Capital Partners valued the company at $3.75 billion. Ross Lipson, then CEO, framed the mission around a simple belief that cannabis is good for humanity.
Its own register and a new CEO
In August 2022 Dutchie launched Dutchie POS with its own dual-screen terminal: a 15-inch screen for the budtender and a 10-inch display facing the customer, built for dispensaries across the U.S. and Canada. At the time the company had raised $603 million and employed about 700 people.
The founders did not stay for the next phase. At the end of 2022 the Lipsons left their leadership roles, and the board handed the CEO job to Tim Barash, a former Toast finance chief who had been Dutchie's executive chairman. Barash remains chairman and CEO, and Chris Ostrowski runs technology as CTO.
What runs on Dutchie
Point of Sale is the core, and everything else plugs into it:
- E-Commerce and E-Commerce Pro: dispensary storefronts and menus
- Mobile App: a native iOS and Android app branded as the dispensary's own
- Kiosk and Kiosk Pro: in-store self-service kiosks
- Loyalty and Marketing Pro: points, segments and campaigns
- Pay by Bank: cashless ACH payments
- Consumer AI: voice, shopping and register assistants
- Cultivation and Manufacturing: software for growers and processors
- Delivery, reporting, automated compliance and multi-location management
Connect, a tool for brands, and Nexus are both on the way.
Pay by Bank and the Green Wednesday numbers
Pay by Bank is Dutchie's cashless alternative to paying in bills. Customers link a bank account once, then authorize an ACH transfer at checkout, online, in the app, at a kiosk, on delivery or at the register. Orders are verified in real time and settle the next business day.
Dutchie says the system reaches more than 12,000 financial institutions and roughly 2 million customers, and that Pay by Bank orders run 31% bigger than cash baskets. On Green Wednesday 2024, average dispensary sales on the platform jumped 91% over a typical Wednesday and baskets rose 9% to $70.80.
Integrations, menus and peers
The register ties into more than 100 technology partners: Metrc and BioTrack for state tracking, QuickBooks and Sage Intacct for accounting, Onfleet for delivery, and Weedmaps and Leafly for menu sync. It competes for the same counters as BLAZE, another cannabis point-of-sale maker.
Shoppers meet Dutchie on menus and pre-order pages, like the ones Temescal Wellness runs for its Massachusetts stores. The dispensary sets prices, holds the inventory and handles any delivery; Dutchie supplies the software, handling roughly a million transactions a day and, by its own count, more than $100 billion in transactions since launch.
E-Commerce Pro and the 2026 AI push
In August 2025 Dutchie launched E-Commerce Pro, customizable storefronts with AI product recommendations and built-in payments, loyalty and marketing, alongside a Certified Partner Program of agencies such as Range Marketing, Cannaplanners and Presto Agency for dispensaries that want a custom build.
June 2026 brought a Consumer AI suite of four products. Voice AI answers store phone calls around the clock, taking orders and checking inventory. Agentic Commerce lets shoppers describe what they want in plain language and builds the cart. Register Co-Pilot feeds budtenders upsell and loyalty prompts, and Consumer Pulse pulls surveys and reviews into one live sentiment feed.
August delivered a rebuilt native app, branded to each dispensary down to the icon, with an in-app AI concierge that reads the live menu, checks purchase limits and builds the basket, plus one-scan loyalty stored in Apple Wallet. September added AI-assisted lab report parsing.
Round Up the Change
In February 2026 Dutchie launched Round Up the Change, a checkout option that lets shoppers round up their total, with the proceeds going to reform groups including Last Prisoner Project, Mission Green, the U.S. Cannabis Roundtable and the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association. It is available to eligible Dutchie retailers nationwide.