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A retail payment does not end when the screen says approved. Explore the six stages of the Triple G Payment Lifecycle and how checkout, settlement, funding, and reconciliation connect inside modern cannabis retail.
New editions publish regularly. Every one is written for operators making a decision.
Checkout is where customers, employees, payments, POS technology, and transaction information meet. The Checkout Architecture examines the four connected flows behind a modern regulated retail checkout experience.
The transaction fee is only one part of payment economics. The Total Cost to Accept™ framework examines direct, operating, capital, and friction costs to help retailers understand the broader economic impact of getting paid.
A payment terminal is only one layer of a much larger system. Explore the eight connected layers that make up the Regulated Retail Payments Stack and the infrastructure behind modern cannabis retail payments.
A completed transaction is only the beginning of the financial process. Learn how settlement, merchant funding, reporting, and reconciliation connect cannabis retail sales to usable business funds.
Triple G Journal is a business publication for the people who run cannabis retail, not a company blog.
Every edition takes one operational question — how a rebate is actually calculated, what a deposit schedule commits a provider to, what breaks when a chain grows past a few stores — and answers it in enough detail to act on. We publish what we would want to read before signing a payment agreement, including the parts that are inconvenient for a payments company to write down.
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Checkout is where customers, employees, payments, POS technology, and transaction information meet. The Checkout Architecture examines the four connected flows behind a modern regulated retail checkout experience.
The transaction fee is only one part of payment economics. The Total Cost to Accept™ framework examines direct, operating, capital, and friction costs to help retailers understand the broader economic impact of getting paid.
A payment terminal is only one layer of a much larger system. Explore the eight connected layers that make up the Regulated Retail Payments Stack and the infrastructure behind modern cannabis retail payments.
A completed transaction is only the beginning of the financial process. Learn how settlement, merchant funding, reporting, and reconciliation connect cannabis retail sales to usable business funds.
A retail payment does not end when the screen says approved. Explore the six stages of the Triple G Payment Lifecycle and how checkout, settlement, funding, and reconciliation connect inside modern cannabis retail.
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A practical comparison across cost, servicing, cash handling, and where the rebate ends up.
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Why a clear business-day deposit schedule beats a vague next-day promise, and how deposits differ from rebate payments.
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How to annualize monthly operating fees and weigh them against your rebate to see the real economics.
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Find your effective rebate per transaction, annualize it across volume and locations, and judge whether it is competitive.
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Ten practical criteria for evaluating a cannabis payment partner, from rebate economics and funding clarity to equipment, reporting, and support.
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