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Regulated Industries

Age-GatedMenu IntegrationState Compliant

Tu sitio de dispensario acaba de reprobar una auditoría de verificación de edad que ni sabías que estaba ocurriendo

Si eres un operador de cannabis viendo cómo tus competidores rankean mientras tu sitio está encerrado en la cárcel de Google, el problema es tu stack de cumplimiento, no tu producto.

100%

Compliance Rate

Every state we build for

<1.5s

Load Time

Mobile-first performance

Organic Traffic Lift

Average within 6 months

Compliance Fines

For our dispensary clients

What Cannabis Website Compliance Actually Protects — And What It Won't

Your site goes live with an age gate that passes your internal QA, then Massachusetts flags it three weeks later because the verification method doesn't meet their updated spec. Cannabis dispensary website development isn't about aesthetics or generic ecommerce templates — it's about building your business on infrastructure that handles state-by-state advertising rules, real-time inventory sync, and payment workarounds that don't crater your conversion rate. Your competitor's site might look clean, but if their menu data renders through an iframe that search engines can't crawl, they're bleeding organic traffic every week. We build Next.js dispensary sites with native checkout flows, compliant opt-in logic per state, and structured product data that actually ranks. Because a beautiful site that costs you your license or loses mobile traffic to a four-second load time isn't worth the domain registration.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Generic website builders can't handle state-specific cannabis advertising rules Full stop. What's compliant in Oregon might get you flagged in Massachusetts, and the rules update constantly -- sometimes mid-year with almost no notice. One non-compliant page -- a health claim, a missing disclaimer, an age gate that doesn't meet spec -- can trigger license suspension or fines up to $50K. That's not a risk worth taking to save money on a Squarespace subscription. This industry has real regulatory teeth, and the people enforcing the rules aren't cutting anyone slack for "we didn't know."

Menu data lives in your POS, but your website's showing stale inventory Customers drive across town expecting that Blue Dream cartridge, and it's been sold out since Tuesday. That kills trust fast. And once someone makes that trip for nothing, they're not coming back -- they're leaving you a one-star review on Google Maps instead. In a market where you're already competing hard for repeat business, that's an expensive problem to have sitting quietly in your tech stack.

No proper age gate means platforms like Google Ads reject your domain entirely You lose access to paid channels before you've even run a single campaign. And it doesn't stop there -- organic rankings take hits from policy flags too. So you're starting from a hole before you've written a single piece of content. Getting the age gate right from day one isn't optional. It's the foundation everything else gets built on.

Slow-loading dispensary sites lose mobile users mid-search Someone's standing outside in Denver or Ann Arbor looking for a nearby dispensary right now, and if your site takes four seconds to load, they've already tapped back and gone to your competitor. Every extra second of load time drops conversion rates by 7% in local search. That's not a rounding error -- that's real revenue walking out the door, repeatedly, every single day your site is slow.

Payment processing restrictions force clunky checkout workarounds, and customers notice immediately Cart abandonment spikes the moment someone hits unexpected friction at payment. They don't read the explanation. They just leave. And in a market where you're already fighting for every repeat customer, a broken checkout is a disaster. The workarounds exist -- ACH, cashless ATM, pay-at-pickup -- but they need to be implemented cleanly so the experience doesn't feel like a warning sign.

SEO gets completely crippled by duplicate menu content and thin product pages -- and most dispensaries don't even realize it's happening If you're pulling menu data through an iframe from Dutchie or Jane without proper rendering, search engines are either ignoring those pages or flagging them as duplicate content. Meanwhile, competitors with structured data and unique strain descriptions are owning every local pack you should be ranking in. It's a quiet problem that costs you traffic every week it goes unfixed.

Cumplimiento

State-by-State Compliance Engine

We map and implement advertising, content, and display rules for every state you operate in. And this isn't a one-time setup. Rules update as regulations change -- no manual audits needed on your end. We've built a compliance rules engine so changes get applied across your location pages automatically rather than someone catching it six months late during a routine review. That's the difference between staying compliant and hoping nobody notices.

Legally Sound Age Verification

Full-screen age gate with session persistence and optional ID verification integration. Meets or exceeds requirements in all recreational and medical states. Pretty straightforward in concept, but the implementation details matter -- session logic, mobile behavior, accessibility -- and most out-of-the-box solutions get at least one of those wrong. We've seen age gates that worked fine on desktop completely break on iOS Safari. Those details aren't minor when a regulator's reviewing your site.

Real-Time Menu Sync

Bidirectional API integration with Dutchie, Jane, Treez, or your existing POS. Inventory, pricing, and strain data stay accurate to the minute. No CSV imports, no manual updates, no customer showing up for a product that's been gone since yesterday morning. And because it's bidirectional, order data flows back into your POS too -- so your staff isn't reconciling two different systems at the end of every shift.

ADA & WCAG Accessibility

Dispensary sites serve medical patients who genuinely need accessible interfaces -- this isn't optional. We build to WCAG 2.1 AA with real screen reader testing and keyboard navigation throughout. Not just a quick Lighthouse check and a checkbox. Actual testing, with actual assistive technology, on actual devices. Because a medical patient trying to order their medication shouldn't be stopped by a menu that doesn't work with a screen reader.

Cannabis SEO Architecture

Structured data for products, local business schema, and unique strain descriptions that actually rank. The real kicker with most dispensary sites is the iframe problem -- embedded menus create duplicate content that search engines can't index properly. We fix that at the architecture level, before a single product page gets built, so you're not trying to undo the damage after you've already lost six months of ranking potential.

Analytics Without Third-Party Risk

Privacy-first analytics that track conversions without violating cannabis advertising policies on major ad platforms. Server-side event tracking is included so you're not flying blind on what's actually working -- but you're also not creating compliance exposure with client-side tracking scripts that ad platforms flag. You get the data you need to make real decisions. Just without the risk attached to how most sites collect it.

Qué construimos

Blocks paid ad platforms when your age gate doesn't meet Google's cannabis verification standards

Native checkout with pickup scheduling and delivery zones that renders as part of your site, not a sandboxed widget tanking Core Web Vitals

Loses walk-in customers who drove across town expecting inventory your stale menu still showed as available

Real-time menu sync from your POS so customers see accurate inventory before they leave their house

Craters mobile conversion when checkout friction hits and customers abandon mid-payment without explanation

Multi-location CMS that manages menus, hours, and promotions per store without conflicting updates from stressed staff

Bleeds organic rankings through duplicate menu content pulled via iframe that search engines flag or ignore

Faceted product search by effect, THC/CBD content, and price with edge-powered instant results that increase average order value

Triggers compliance flags from health claims or missing disclaimers that vary wildly state-to-state

Compliant SMS and email opt-in flows built to match each state's contact collection rules, not one-size-fits-all forms

Kills repeat business when slow page speed drops someone standing outside searching for a nearby dispensary

Content engine for strain guides and dosage education that drives long-term organic traffic when architected into the foundation

Nuestro proceso

Compliance & Discovery Audit

We start by reviewing your licenses, operating states, current tech stack, and POS system. Then we map every compliance requirement that'll affect your site's design and content. This phase usually surfaces things clients didn't know were issues -- and it's a lot better to find them in week one than after launch. We've had discovery calls where a client mentioned an upcoming expansion to a new state and we caught three compliance conflicts before they'd even signed a lease.

Week 1

Architecture & Menu Integration

We design the site structure, set up API connections to your POS and menu provider, and define the content model in your headless CMS. This is where the technical architecture gets locked in -- and it's worth spending real time here, because changing it later is expensive. The decisions made in this phase determine how fast your pages load, how well your menu syncs, and whether your SEO foundation is solid or full of holes.

Week 2–3

Design & Prototyping

High-fidelity designs for every page type -- homepage, menu, product detail, location pages, checkout -- all reviewed against state compliance checklists before a single line of code gets written. So you're not discovering compliance problems during QA. Or worse, after launch, when fixing them means pulling pages down and eating the ranking damage while you sort it out.

Week 3–4

Build & QA

Next.js development with edge-deployed pages, age gate logic, real-time menu rendering, and cross-browser testing including mobile POS terminals. Because your budtenders are checking orders on tablets, not just desktop browsers. And if the order management interface breaks on an iPad Mini running Chrome, that's a real operational problem on a busy Saturday afternoon.

Week 5–7

Launch & Compliance Handoff

We deploy to production, verify all compliance elements, submit sitemaps, and hand you a documented compliance runbook your team can actually use. Plus 30 days of support post-launch -- because something always comes up in the first month and you shouldn't be on your own when it does. We've never had a launch where nothing surfaced in those first 30 days. Not once.

Week 8

Next.jsSupabaseVercelDutchie APIJane APILeafly APISanity CMS

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Pueden construir un sitio de dispensario que cumpla con los requisitos de Google Ads?

Sí. Implementamos verificación de edad correcta, manejo de contenido restringido y estructuras de página alineadas con LegitScript. Google sigue restringiendo la mayoría de los anuncios de cannabis — eso no va a cambiar pronto — pero un sitio conforme mantiene tu dominio limpio ante futuros cambios de política y protege tus clasificaciones orgánicas de penalizaciones manuales. Vale la pena hacerlo bien aunque hoy no puedas publicar anuncios. Los sitios que estén listos cuando la política se abra tendrán una ventaja significativa sobre todos los que estaban esperando.

¿Cómo funciona la sincronización de menú en tiempo real con mi POS?

Nos conectamos directamente a la API de tu POS o proveedor de menú — Dutchie, Jane, Treez y otros. Cuando el inventario cambia en tu POS, tu sitio web lo refleja en minutos. Sin iframes, sin importaciones CSV con retraso. Y aquí está la razón por la que esto importa más allá de la precisión: los productos se renderizan como páginas nativas con marcado SEO completo, de modo que los motores de búsqueda puedan indexarlos correctamente. Ese cartucho de vape Blue Dream no solo aparece correctamente para tus clientes — también aparece en los resultados de búsqueda de Google.

¿Manejan el cumplimiento para múltiples estados?

Por supuesto. Cada estado tiene reglas distintas para imágenes, visualización de contenido de THC, afirmaciones sobre la salud y lenguaje promocional — y en la práctica, esas diferencias son significativas. Mantenemos una matriz de cumplimiento y aplicamos reglas específicas de cada estado automáticamente a las páginas de cada ubicación. Cuando cambian las regulaciones, actualizamos el motor de reglas en lugar de editar manualmente decenas de páginas. Esa distinción importa mucho si operas en cuatro estados y las regulaciones cambian en dos de ellos el mismo mes.

¿Funcionará mi sitio de dispensario sin los embeds de Dutchie o Jane?

Ese es precisamente el objetivo de construir de esta manera. Los iframes embebidos de proveedores de menú destruyen la velocidad de página, generan contenido duplicado e impiden que seas dueño de tu SEO. Extraemos los datos vía API y renderizamos páginas de producto nativas que tú controlas — páginas que los motores de búsqueda pueden indexar correctamente y que cargan rápido porque son parte de tu sitio real, no un widget atornillado al costado. Construiste una marca de dispensario que vale la pena encontrar. Tu sitio web debería ser realmente encontrable.

¿Cuánto tiempo tarda en desarrollarse un sitio web para dispensario?

Un sitio para dispensario de una sola ubicación normalmente toma de 6 a 8 semanas desde el inicio hasta el lanzamiento. Desarrollos con múltiples ubicaciones, integraciones de menú complejas y flujos de pedidos personalizados toman de 8 a 12 semanas. Todo lo definimos desde el principio — sin sorpresas en los plazos, sin llamadas de "necesitamos dos semanas más" la semana antes de tu fecha de lanzamiento planeada. Si algo va a afectar el cronograma, lo sabrás en la semana dos, no en la semana siete.

¿Puedo actualizar los menús y el contenido yo mismo después del lanzamiento?

Sí. Los menús se sincronizan automáticamente desde tu POS, así que eso nunca tendrá que tocarlo tu equipo. Todo el demás contenido — publicaciones de blog, banners, promociones, información de ubicación — se gestiona a través de Sanity CMS con un editor visual genuinamente sencillo de usar. Capacitamos a tu equipo durante la entrega y documentamos cada tipo de contenido, de modo que no dependas de nosotros para hacer actualizaciones básicas seis meses después. El objetivo es que te sientas completamente seguro administrando el sitio por tu cuenta — y la mayoría de los clientes lo logran en la primera semana.

Dispensary Websites from $8,000

Fixed-fee. Menu integration included. 30-day post-launch support.

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