Quick Start Guide
Metrc New York Quick Start
Basic setup guide for New York Metrc operations. Covers user access, beginning inventory awareness, finished goods, testing status, transfer readiness, and the minimum records teams should keep from day one.
Compliance Note
Do not use this guide to bypass or reinterpret state requirements. If package ownership, testing status, transfer state, or beginning inventory handling is uncertain, stop and route the decision through your compliance lead.
1. Start with user access and role clarity
Before operators transact in Metrc, the facility needs a clean user and permission model.
- Identify who will administer employees, who will handle inventory, and who will approve transfer or compliance decisions.
- Confirm each user is onboarded with the correct email, facility, and permission scope.
- Reissue onboarding or credentialing steps immediately when the welcome flow stalls instead of letting teams share credentials.
- Record who is responsible for access reviews when staff move roles or leave the company.
2. Teach the team how inventory state affects movement
Most early errors come from trying to move inventory before package state, testing, or identifiers are ready.
- Explain the difference between beginning inventory, active retail inventory, and transfer-ready inventory.
- Confirm finished goods that need to move to dispensaries have the required Retail Item IDs before scheduling shipment.
- Make sure staff understand that a COA alone is not enough if the package itself does not carry the expected test status in the system.
- Hold any package whose testing or finished-good state is unclear.
3. Build the transfer process around documentation
The right habit is to treat every transfer as both a system event and a physical recordkeeping event.
- Before a shipment moves, confirm the transfer exists, the manifest is complete, and the sending license is correct.
- Before a receiving team accepts inventory, confirm whether any beginning inventory or onboarding constraint still requires a hold.
- Keep transfer numbers, manifest copies, package IDs, and receiving notes together in the same operational record.
- Teach staff that a rushed receive decision is a compliance risk, not just a workflow shortcut.
4. Create a same-day discrepancy routine
The fastest way to stabilize a new Metrc workflow is to resolve mismatches the same day they are discovered.
- Review blocked transfers, missing IDs, and testing-state issues at a fixed time each day.
- Escalate package-state mismatches before the team attempts workarounds in spreadsheets or side notes.
- Have one person own outbound vendor tickets and one person own internal compliance sign-off.
- Keep a short incident log for onboarding, transfer, and package-state issues so repeat problems are visible.
Official Source Links
Related Download Assets
Checklists • PDF
Metrc Recall and Destruction Workflow Checklist
Checklist for isolating affected packages, preserving traceability, and confirming recall or destruction prerequisites before product moves again in New York workflows.
Runbooks • DOCX
NY Cannabis Manifest Exception SOP
Operational SOP for delivery manifest exceptions, chain-of-custody disruptions, and transport incident escalation in New York cannabis workflows.
Templates • DOCX
NY Cannabis Compliance Incident Log
Structured incident log for manifest exceptions, package holds, recall events, destruction blockers, and other traceability-impacting events in New York cannabis facilities.
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Metrc User Onboarding or Credentialing Is Blocked
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Reviewed
Last reviewed on May 11, 2026 by Tamem J, IT Solutions Engineer.