The bulletin provides information on the latest enhancements to CCTT-Metrc, which will become effective on February 29, 2020. The enhancements are listed below. Detailed descriptions of each change are provided on the following pages.
I. Any licensee may designate cannabis or cannabis products that they hold in their inventory for donation.
II. Users authorized to manage package inventory will see several new enhancements around the New Package(s) process.
III. An In Transit tab has been added to the Packages page.
IV. A Notes column has been added to the Lab Results grid to display notes added by the testing laboratory.
V. The transfer manifest is now limited to a single destination and a single transporter.
VI. Transporters have access to a new Distributor Completed Manifest button on the Transfers Hub to be used to acknowledge that they have verified and received all items in the shipment prior to departing from the licensed premises.
VII. Licensees that are shipping packages are able to update the transporter information for the return trip if a package is rejected.
VIII. Transporters are able to acknowledge receipt of rejected packages, update estimated departure and arrival times, and record departure and arrival times for the return trip.
IX. The Transfers Hub has new icons within the grid for visual indicators on the direction and point of delivery for a transfer.
X. Transfer manifests are color-coded according to the status of each transfer.
XI. The transfer manifest includes item-specific details and source package information for each package where applicable.
XII. Users with the ability to add, edit, and assign Rooms will now see the term “Room” has been updated to “Location” throughout the application.
XIII. Users with plant permissions have the ability to take corrective action on incorrect harvest waste entries by discontinuing the waste, which returns the weight to the harvest batch.
XIV. All grids in CCTT-Metrc have a Filter button to remove multiple filters within the grid at one time.
XV. Users have expanded ability to specify the number of items to create on a page.
XVI. Row count restrictions have been implemented on CSV uploads.
XVII. The Support menu includes a new CSV Formatting Guide.
Any licensee may designate cannabis or cannabis products that they hold in their inventory for donation in CCTT-Metrc. Licensees cannot remove the donation designation made by another licensee or after the donated item has been transferred and accepted into the inventory of another licensee.
Marking Donations
To designate an existing package of cannabis or cannabis products for donation, on the Packages page:
1. Select the package to designate.
2. Select the Donation button, and then select Add as shown in Figure 1.
To designate cannabis or cannabis products for donation when creating a package on the New Packages page, check the Donation checkbox, as shown in Figure 2.
Entering Sales of Donated Cannabis or Cannabis Products:
To enter a cannabis goods sale as a donation to a medicinal cannabis patient or their primary caregiver, the licensed retailer must enter the Total Price of the sale of the designated cannabis goods package as $0.00 and indicate the customer type as Patient or Caregiver, on the Records Receipts page.
Removing the Donation Designation:
Only the licensee who designated a package for donation can remove the donation designation, but they can only do so if the donated package has not yet been transferred and accepted into the inventory of another licensee.
To remove a donation designation from a package of cannabis or cannabis products, on the New Packages page:
1. Select the package with the donation designation (identified with a gift package icon ).
2. Select the Donation button, and then select Remove as shown in Figure 4.
New Packages:
When the source package is designated for donation, all new packages created from it must also be designated for donation. Packages marked for donation cannot be combined with any other packages when creating a new package.
The remaining quantity of a source/content package(s) in the New Packages action window will now take into account all other New Package entries for that same source/content package. In the past, using a package multiple times would subtract the amount used from the package’s quantity independently. A user will now see the true total remaining quantity when the same package is used multiple times to create new packages. For example, Figure 5 shows the new remaining quantity is 7605.5g when the source/content package is used to make one 100g package. Figure 6 shows the new remaining quantity is 7505.5g when the source/content package is used again to make a second 100g package.
If the remaining quantity of a source/content package is calculated to be zero (0) when creating a new package, the user will now be able to finish that source package at the same time as creating the new package(s). Figure 7 below shows an example of finishing a source package when creating a new package. Once the user has marked the Finish Package checkbox, identified a Finish Date, and selected the Create Packages button, the source package moves to the Inactive tab.
Users now have a new button within the New Packages template that allows all new package quantities to be “Auto-Summed” based on the quantity removed from the source package. This button, shown in Figure 8, functions exactly as the Auto-Sum button does for each individual new package. Meaning, if a licensee has one source package of one hundred (100) cookies and wants to create ten (10) packages of ten (10) cookies each, the quantity removed from the source package would be set to ten (10) each for all ten (10) new packages. When selected, the Auto-Sum button populates the quantity of each new package with ten (10) each/cookies.
The following New item categories have been added:
a. Flower (packaged gram - each)
b. Flower (packaged eighth - each)
c. Flower (packaged half ounce - each)
d. Flower (packaged ounce - each)
e. Flower (packaged quarter - each)
f. Infused Butter/Oil (weight)
g. Infused Butter/Oil (weight - each)
h. Tincture (weight)
i. Tincture (weight - each)
j. Vape Cartridge (weight - each)
The following Existing item categories have been updated:
a. Changed Infused Butter/Oil to Infused Butter/Oil (volume)
b. Changed Infused Butter/Oil (each) to Infused Butter/Oil (volume - each)
c. Seeds has been updated to require a strain
d. Seeds (each) has been updated to require a strain
e. Changed Tincture to Tincture (volume)
f. Changed Tincture (each) to Tincture (volume - each)
g. Changed Vape Cartridge to Vape Cartridge (volume - each)
It is important to note that available item categories vary according to license type.
Users have a new Same Item checkbox option when creating a new package from an existing package as shown in Figure 9. Checking Same Item will assign the same package item from the source package. This option allows licensees who receive packages of an item not previously configured for their license to repackage and create lab sample packages using the same item name from the source package. Using the Same Item feature does not add the item to the list of items for that license.
Users with the View Packages permission have access to a new In Transit tab on the Packages page as pictured in Figure 10. The In Transit tab allows users to easily view/search packages currently in an active Outgoing Transfer or in an active Rejected Transfer.
The existing Lab Results tab within the Package drilldown has been updated to include a column that displays the notes that are entered by the lab when recoding test results. Notes are specific to each test result for each sample package. The Notes column displays up to 25 characters followed by three dots in a row, as pictured below in Figure 11. If the user clicks on the three dots in a row, the note will expand and display as seen in Figure 12 below.
The transfer manifest is now limited to a single destination and a single transporter. Licensees need to create separate transfer manifests for each destination. Licensees will receive an error when attempting to edit an existing Transfer or use an existing Transfer Template with more than one destination and/or transporter.
Users that have access to the Transfers Hub in CCTT-Metrc will notice a new Distributor Completed Manifest button for each active transfer. California requires transporters to use this button to acknowledge that they have verified and received the items on the Manifest prior to departing the shipping facility. Please see Figure 13 below.
Outbound Trip
Once the transfer is registered, both the transporter and destination licensees can access the transfer information.
A licensed transporter selected by the shipping licensee to transfer the packages can view the transfer information from the Transfers Hub. The Transfers Hub includes buttons for transporters to report the progress of each transfer as shown in Figure 13 above.
The use of each button is outlined below.
• The Edit button allows a transporter to update Estimated Departure and Arrival times.
• The Distributor Completed Manifest and Depart buttons are designed to be used when a transporter accepts custody of the packages for delivery and then departs the originating facility.
• The Arrive button indicates the transporter arrived at the destination facility.
It is also important to note the following when using these buttons:
• The buttons pictured in Figure 13 above are applied in chronological order. For example, if the Arrive button is clicked prior to the Depart button, the Depart button will no longer be displayed and no date/time can be recorded for the departure.
• If a transporter does not select any button during their route and the manifest is received by the destination facility, these buttons are no longer available for selection by the transporter.
Return Trip
If the destination facility rejects a package in the transfer, the originating facility has access to the return manifest under the Rejected tab as pictured in Figure 14.
A new Transporters button displays for each rejection on the Rejected transfers grid as pictured in Figure 15 below. This button allows the originating licensee to update details of the return trip, including transporter information as pictured in Figure 16.
Once modified, the return transporter will have access to the manifest under the Transfers Hub, including the Distributor Completes Manifest, Depart, Arrive and Edit buttons described above to record transporter activities for the return trip.
Transporters with access to the Transfers Hub in CCTT-Metrc will see a new icon and column outlined in Figure 17 . The icon identifies the point of delivery for each transfer and the new Direction column indicates the direction (Outbound or Return) of the trip.
Transfer Manifests in CCTT-Metrc are color-coded according to the status of each transfer in the system. “Outbound” and “Return” transporters are color-coded to indicate the direction of the transfer. Outbound transporters have light green shading, while Return transporters have light red (or pink) shading as shown in Figure 18.
Any in transit package, meaning the package has not been received or rejected, has light gray shading. Once the destination facility takes an action to receive or reject a package, the package status on the manifest is updated and color-coded accordingly. Received packages have a status of “Accepted” with light green shading. Rejected packages have a status of “Rejected” with light red (or pink) shading. Rejected packages that have been received back into the shipping facility’s inventory have a status of “Returned” with light red (or pink) shading.
When registering and receiving transfers, users will now see that the Transfer Manifest provides additional information about the packages included on the manifest. Each package now includes the item details (Strain, Unit Weight, Unit Volume, etc.) and source package information as shown in Figure 19 below.
Licensees with the ability to add, edit and assign Rooms will see the term Room has been renamed to Location throughout the system. For example, users with Admin permissions to add and edit rooms will now see Locations (formerly Rooms) on the Admin menu where they can Add Locations (formerly Add Rooms) and Edit Locations (formerly Edit Rooms) as shown in Figure 20. All cultivator licensees will see a default Location Type assigned to all existing locations and new locations.
All cultivator licensees with the ability to assign plants to rooms will now see a Location column on all Plants grids and a Location field on all Plants pages as shown in the Figure 21 example below.
When drilling down into a harvest batch, users can now toggle to the Waste tab and find a new
discontinue ( ) button next to each waste entry as seen in Figure 22. Once the discontinue button is selected, a confirmation box (as shown in Figure 23 below) displays for the user to confirm the action. When the OK button is selected, the waste entry is removed and the waste weight is added back into the weight of the harvest batch.
Users will now have a new Filters button, as seen in Figure 24, on the right-hand side of all grid toolbars. Clicking the Filters button displays a drop-down menu with a Clear Filters option. Clicking Clear Filters removes all applied filters from the grid.
Placing the mouse over the Clear Filters button, as shown in the example in Figure 25 below, displays all currently applied filters.
The ability to specify the number of rows to add has been expanded to all action windows within CCTT-Metrc. Users can enter a value into the field next to the + icon as shown in Figure 26, and then select the + icon to add that number of rows for creating multiple items at one time.
CCTT-Metrc processes all records in a CSV file as a single upload transaction. Before storing any data, each record is reviewed to make sure there are no errors (such as a data type mismatch or the wrong number of values) . If any record in the file generates an error, the upload is rejected. CCTT-Metrc will report each error and the row on which it occurred. The user must then modify the CSV file and retry.
With this information in mind, CCTT-Metrc now enforces a maximum of 500 rows for each CSV file uploaded into the system. If this maximum is exceeded, the data can be split into separate files with unique names that do not exceed the 500 row maximum. When adding plants to the same harvest or manicure batch using multiple CSV files, it is recommended that they be uploaded one file at a time.
The exception made at this time to the 500 row maximum is for recording lab test results. There is currently no maximum limit set for uploading lab results using the CSV import.
This limitation applies only to CSV imports and does not apply to data interfaced through the API.
A CSV Formatting Guide has been added to the Support dropdown menu as shown in Figure 27 below.
Please feel free to contact support at support@metrc.com or 877-566-6506 with any questions.
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