Initially launching in Washington State, Toptender.com’s platform has already connected with more than 1000 budtenders, expanding into California, Colorado, and Nevada. To date, they’re working with more than 50 cannabis retailers and producer/processor brands, plus there is a massive wave of support that is continuing to build with budtenders across the nation.
So… why is there so much hype surrounding Toptender?
Toptender believes that the more knowledge and experience a budtender can acquire, the greater the chance their career can advance.
They’ve created the first user-friendly platform for budtenders, cannabis brands, and those retailers who train staff to learn as much as possible about cannabis. The platform’s unique educational value combined with the brand’s decision to pay $20 to each budtender who signs up has helped them connect and support hundreds of people across the cannabis industry so far.
In an interview with Respect My Region’s Collin Johnson, Toptender’s CEO Ryan Porter discussed the fact that many of the new-hires at recreational cannabis shops usually don’t get the right tools to work a point of sale system and start selling right out the gate. “If they’re super new at the store, they start training by just running security for the store. It could take months of soaking up information before they get behind the counter,” Ryan shared.
Unless a new hire has recent budtending experience at a local retailer, the constant rotation of products and brands can take quite some time to get familiar with. There are always new products, strains, and flavors rotating in and out which puts serious pressure on the budtender to keep up and invest more time and money into their own education.
In our experience, retailers heavily rely on the budtender to become familiar with all of the products themselves. But how long does that really take?
Budtenders usually receive weekly educational samples and some of their vendors set up in-store events where staff can connect with the brands and learn more if there is time between customers. Toptender removes the if by giving all budtenders the ability to digitally learn about the products they sell. The platform is updated with new brands and product quizzes every single day, plus companies are able to update custom profiles and leverage a backend dashboard to create full-on training courses for their team.
Signing up for the platform is as simple as visiting Toptender.com, entering a few quick pieces of information, then responding to a series of texts. When I signed up, it took less than three minutes.
Sign up and start earning today at Toptender.com!
