OMMPOS Blog - Oregon

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Medical and Recreational Sales Limits Now Available

Scan Print and Pop The Cash Drawer. Wireless Printing Now Available.

Scan, Print and Pop the cash drawer with OMMPOS Wireless Printing and Star Micronics Hardware. Pardon the shaky video.

Call with Questions. Thank you!, Raja Afrika (971) 276 - 3371

The Metrc Sales Reconciliation Tool is now Joint Smart.

Before now the tool had a hard time reconciling joints because of the unit weight. We have fixed this issue and the Metrc Sales Reconciliation tool now correctly reconciles pre-rolls.

Please make sure that your pre-rolls are specified as Non-Infused Pre-Rolls in the Products Settings for State Category. Please call me with any questions.

Thanks,

Raja (971) 276 - 3371

There was an issue with today's update that caused duplicate entries to appear on the METRC Sales Upload page for some users. This issue has been fixed.

This issue affected regular OMMPOS and Private Cloud customers. Backup Server customers were not affected.

This issue may have affected you if you reported sales to METRC today from 7 am to 6:30 pm. We recommend using the METRC Sales Reconciliation tool to ensure that today 11/4 and yesterday's sales 11/3 are reconciled with METRC .

Please call me with any questions. Thank you, Raja Afrika (971) 276 - 3371

Scan, Print and Pop the cash drawer with OMMPOS Wireless Printing and Star Micronics Hardware. Pardon the shaky video.

Fill out your Marijuana Tax Voucher faster than ever with our new OMMPOS Marijuana Tax Voucher report.

UPDATE 5:40 pmWe have completely restored label and report printing. Barcode printing is now available again.

What happened? Yesterday at 7pm the label and reports server began to slow down and then fail. We immediately begin trying to fix the issue and contacted Microsoft Tech support. When we were not able to resolve the issue right away we began working on creating a backup label and report server. We brought that backup server online at 8:37 am. We worked with Microsoft through out the day to fix the original server and we have now brought that server back online. We now have a backup Label and Reports server in case of emergencies. We are really sorry for the inconvenience. Please call me with questions. Thank you for your business! - Raja (971) 276 - 3371

UPDATE 8:37 am We have restored labels and reports for regular OMMPOS customers. We are working on Private Cloud customers now and should have service restored before Noon.

We are experiencing an outage of our label and report server. We are working to fix the issue. Printing labels and reports in unavailable at this time. We hope to have this issue resolved this morning. -Raja

Commission Will Meet to Pass Emergency Temporary Rules

Portland, OR -- The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) will meet next week to act on the Executive Order on the Vaping Public Health Crisis issued today by Oregon Governor Kate Brown.  The Governor’s order directs the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the OLCC to enact a temporary ban on the sale of flavored vaping products, as well as other sources or additives that public health investigators link to the vaping-related illness.

Governor Brown emphasized protecting Oregonians’ health as the primary focus of her action, by removing possibly unsafe products from the marketplace, discouraging vaping by children and youth, and reducing human exposure to potentially dangerous chemicals. 

Brown further encouraged Oregonians to stop using vaping products until more is known about the cause of the respiratory illness.  The Governor also called on the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to step in to regulate flavored vaping products and additives.

The order directs both agencies to enact a 180-day ban on all flavored vaping products and to develop plans within 90 days to address consumer warnings about the dangers of vaping, vaping product ingredient disclosure, product safety tests of vaping equipment, improved health care provider reporting of vaping lung injuries to OHA, and creating a statewide prevention and education campaign aimed at discouraging the use of vaping products.

The Governor is also asking the agencies to develop proposals for long-term solutions to present to the Legislature during the 2020 legislative session.  Governor Brown will include the OLCC in a Vaping Public Health Workgroup tasked with studying the vaping illness crisis and making recommendations to the legislature.

“We will act quickly on the Governor’s directive to address this growing public health crisis,” said Steve Marks, OLCC Executive Director.  “The OLCC will utilize the real-time findings of public health officials here in Oregon and across the country as they continue their investigation into the cause of the vaping respiratory illness outbreak.  We’ll let scientists guide us as we contemplate taking additional actions with a measured approach.”

The OLCC Commission will act on temporary rules proposing to ban licensed marijuana retailers from selling any cannabinoid (marijuana and hemp) products containing any flavor, including non-marijuana terpenes.  In this interpretation the OLCC does not include terpenes derived from marijuana as a “flavor.”  The temporary rule will also prohibit licensed processors from manufacturing or distributing those same products.

After the Commission acts the OLCC will provide further guidance to licensees about taking inventory of flavored or non-marijuana terpene-containing products, removing them from retail store shelves and setting those items aside.  The OLCC will make compliance checks at licensed processors and retailers to make sure affected product is not being offered for sale.

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We just received 10 Cases of OLCC compliant thermal labels.

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We received an official response from the Oregon Department of Revenue regarding the Marijuana Taxation issue and the OMMPOS METRC Sales Reconciliation tool. First a quick timeline.

• OMMPOS was the first Oregon company to begin reporting to METRC in 2016.
• OMMPOS reported GROSS sales values to METRC and NET sales values through our Instant Tax E-file tool from Q2 2016 - Q1 2019.
• In May 2019 we received reports that stores were being taxed at a higher tax rate than they should have been.
• We create the METRC Sales Reconciliation Tool to enable retailers to correct their METRC sales receipts to match their OMMPOS sales receipts.

Yesterday the Oregon Department of Revenue responded to us to let us know that they have been receiving a lot of phone calls with questions about this issue. They wanted us to let you know that

• No customers of OMMPOS or any other point of sales system are being taxed at a higher rate than what their sales records indicate. We rely on taxpayers to correctly report their sales information and are grateful for your continued partnership in that goal
• When we identify a deficiency in the course of an audit we do not necessarily know which point of sales system the retailer is using (and some retailers switch point of sales systems in the course of their business).  In the course of several audits within the past year we identified that the sales figures getting reported to OLCC from some retailers did not match the sales figures reported on returns. When retailers provided point of sales records detailing actual sales that corresponded to their returns, we reversed deficiencies.

Please give us a call with any questions. Thank you!

Raja Afrika
Marijuana Software
(971) 276 - 3371