BUILD / CANNABIS & HEMP
Your catalogue, sales territories and provider terms decide what the store must do. We assess those constraints before scoping ecommerce development for lawful hemp and CBD brands. Licensed cannabis and dispensary operations need a separate brief.
A CBD brand shipping lawful products direct to consumers and a licensed dispensary taking local orders have different operating requirements. Putting both under a cannabis ecommerce label does not give them the same routes to market. The first decision is which business model, products and jurisdictions the project covers.
This page describes our engineering assessment, not legal advice. A platform cannot make a product lawful. Your advisers establish the legal requirements; the build makes the agreed rules work in the store.
01 / LAWFUL HEMP & CBD DTC
We start with the products, destinations, channels and claims your advisers have reviewed. The brief covers how those decisions reach product data, checkout and fulfilment, and how staff withdraw or restrict an item without another integration publishing it again.
02 / LICENSED CANNABIS & DISPENSARIES
Bring the licence scope, jurisdictions and current point-of-sale and inventory systems. We need to establish which specialist controls and reporting obligations apply before deciding whether custom ecommerce fits. No seed-to-sale, dispensary or delivery integration is assumed to exist or be approved.
The output is a defined scope with dependencies, proposed controls and acceptance checks. It should also explain when keeping the current platform, using a specialist system or postponing a build is the sensible decision.
01 / ASSESSMENT
Map each product to the markets and channels your advisers have cleared. Specify how documents, review dates and product decisions are recorded, and test whether direct links, bundles or repeat orders bypass a restriction.
02 / ASSESSMENT
Record the actual platform, host, payment, carrier and communications requirements. Separate a working API connection from permission to use the service. List unresolved decisions and who is responsible for obtaining them.
03 / ASSESSMENT
Trace stock, orders, refunds and customer records through the current systems. Scope age or identity checks only against agreed requirements. Establish what happens when a provider is unavailable or staff need to hold an order.
04 / ASSESSMENT
Inventory URLs and data before moving them. Define redirects, reconciliation checks, access ownership and a rollback plan. Keep catalogue, payment and fulfilment acceptance separate so a successful page load cannot hide an unfinished dependency.
We are not a payment provider and do not promise underwriting, approval or uninterrupted processing. Each provider assesses your business; we integrate the route you are approved for and prepare the store for that review.
For the dated federal changes affecting US hemp, read the hemp merchant action guide with your advisers. Its verified dates and product scope are the starting reference, not a blanket permission to sell.
Hollow Point is an official Medusa Expert and the team that moved a £4.5M UK vape retailer. That is restricted-commerce migration experience, including age checks and payment integrations for a regulated retailer.
Our restricted-commerce engineering approach covers how platform, verification and operational constraints are assessed together. For this sector, the product and jurisdiction review must establish the scope before we apply that approach.
Ownership matters when you need to change catalogue rules or workflows that your current system cannot support. It also gives your team more software to maintain. A new storefront alone will not resolve a provider refusal, a product restriction or an unclear licence condition.
Read our Shopify alternatives for cannabis and hemp brands comparison for the platform terms and merchant questions behind a shortlist.
An ecommerce migration assessment establishes the data, URL and integration work before you commit to a rebuild. Where staying is viable, the assessment should make that option visible too.
The starting scope is ecommerce development for lawful hemp and CBD businesses. Licensed cannabis and dispensary enquiries need a separate assessment of jurisdictions, licences, specialist systems and provider acceptance before we can recommend a build.
No one can promise approval. The provider and acquiring bank assess your actual entity, products, markets and fulfilment model. We integrate the provider that accepts your business and build the store to meet its written requirements.
No. A platform move changes the technology and contracts you use. It does not change product legality or the terms of a licence. Qualified counsel must establish the legal position; each provider must confirm its own acceptance.
The assessment identifies catalogue rules, data quality, existing integrations, migration work and unresolved dependencies. We can then scope the build and acceptance checks. A provider decision or missing legal requirement can block release, so a fixed launch date before that work would be misleading.