Now onboarding pilot dispensaries in New Jersey
Rewards your budtenders can understand and count on.
Shepherd helps cannabis dispensaries reward their budtenders. Brands fund incentives and product lessons, your store approves every one, and each reward traces back to the sale that earned it.
- Start with a POS export
- Rewards go through your payroll
- No customer data
New reward
$2.00
Live resin cart · 1g
2 units × $1.00 per unit
Sale 4821 · line 3
Campaign version 2, approved by your store
Where it stands
Approved
Next: your store exports it for payroll.
Live resin, explained
4-minute lesson · quiz
Example screens with sample data.
What Shepherd promises
You approve every campaign
The exact terms, version by version. Any edit comes back to you.
Every reward shows its sale
The formula, the limits and the exact sale lines, on the budtender's phone.
Brands never see names
Results are shared in aggregate, and only where your store allows it.
Start with a CSV export
Upload your POS sales export. No integration project to begin.
How it works
From a brand's offer to a budtender's paycheck, in four steps.
Every step leaves a record you can open: who proposed, who approved, which sale earned what, and what went to payroll.
- 1
A brand proposes
Products, a per-unit reward, limits, a budget and dates, plus a short lesson for your team.
- 2
Your store decides
Approve the exact version or decline with a note. If anything changes, it comes back to you.
- 3
Sales come in
Upload your POS export, or connect read-only once your provider grants access. Returns reverse rewards automatically.
- 4
Rewards go to payroll
Review, approve and export a file for your payroll process. Shepherd never holds or moves money.
For dispensaries
Your store decides. Every time.
Brand money can motivate your team without taking over your floor. Every campaign, every reward and every data share waits for your approval.
- Campaigns to review2
- Reward dispute to resolve1
- Payroll export ready$186.00
- Vendor day request · SatNew
Off until you turn it on. Change it any time.
Approve exactly what runs
Campaigns are locked versions. An edit creates a new version that needs your approval.
Choose who takes part
Enroll staff with dated eligibility: a sale earns only if the person was enrolled at the time.
Decide what each brand sees
Sales, inventory and training sharing stay off until you switch them on, brand by brand.
Review in one queue
Disputes, returns and pending rewards in one place. Approve a campaign's rewards together.
Payroll-ready export
A file for your payroll process, then a record of what payroll confirmed.
Reports that don't oversell
Net sales, returns and incentive cost side by side. Before-and-after is shown as observed change, not proven lift.
Vendor days on one calendar
Approve brand events from your inbox; your team sees them on their phones.
We set it up with you
One secure link to confirm your details and approve data access. Our team handles the connection.
Spring live resin push
$1.00 per unit · limit $40 per person
- 1Partner store 1Active
- 2Partner store 2Approved · starts Apr 8
- 3Partner store 3Awaiting approval
Lesson: Live resin, explained
$3.00 for passing · approved at 2 stores
For brands
Reach the people who recommend your products.
Propose incentives and lessons stores can say yes to, then see how they did, without ever seeing who sold what.
Clear terms, quick decisions
Products, reward, limits, budget and dates in one proposal; each store decides in one place.
Teach the product
Short lessons with a quiz, and an optional reward for passing when the store agrees.
Show up in person
Request vendor days and pop-ups at partner stores; they approve from their inbox.
Results you can stand behind
Units, sales and reward cost for your own products, where stores share them. Small groups are withheld.
For budtenders
Know what you can earn. See why you earned it.
A phone-first home that shows the reward, the rules and the sale behind every dollar, so nobody has to take it on faith.
What you can earn, up front
Sponsor, products, reward, limits and dates before you start.
The sale behind every reward
The campaign version, the limits applied and the exact sale lines.
Something off? Dispute it
Your manager resolves it, and the answer stays on the record.
Learn in minutes
Short product lessons you can finish between customers, plus vendor days you can add to your calendar.
What you can earn
Live resin carts
$1.00 per unit
Until Apr 30 · limit $40
Fruit gummies
$0.50 per unit
Until May 15 · limit $40
Vendor day
Today, 2–5 pm
Terpenes 101
5 min · earn $3.00 when you pass
Built for trust
Handled like someone's pay. Because it is.
Rewards run through your payroll
Shepherd prepares a file for your payroll process. No gift cards, no stored value, no money held by Shepherd.
A ledger that can't be rewritten
Every reward, reversal and adjustment is added to the record, never edited away.
No customer data
Imports accept only the columns Shepherd needs. Anything else is refused before it is stored.
Honest numbers
Reports say what changed, and never claim credit they can't prove.
Does Shepherd pay my staff?
No. Rewards are calculated and approved in Shepherd, then exported as a file for your own payroll process. Shepherd never holds or moves money.
Do we need a POS integration to start?
No. A sales export from your POS is enough to start. Read-only connections to Metrc and major POS systems are built and switch on as each provider grants access.
What can brands see about my store?
Only what you share, brand by brand: results for their own products and campaigns, in aggregate. Never a budtender's name, and groups smaller than three people are withheld.
What happens when a sale is returned?
The matching reward is reversed automatically, never below zero. Once a reward has gone to payroll, nothing is taken back automatically; your store decides the follow-up.
Who funds the rewards?
The brand that proposes a campaign funds it, within the budget and limits your store approves. When the budget is used up, the campaign stops earning.
Where is Shepherd available?
We're starting with licensed adult-use dispensaries in New Jersey and the brands they carry. Medical and hemp products are not included for now.
What does a pilot involve?
We set up your store and team, bring in your sales data, and run first campaigns with brands you already carry. Nothing goes live without your approval.
Pilot program
Bring Shepherd to your store.
We're onboarding a small group of New Jersey dispensaries and the brands they carry. Tell us about your store: your locations, your POS and the brands you'd like to work with.
or write to hello@tryshepherd.ca
Brands are welcome to reach out too.