Dispensary event calendar
Stop booking pop-ups over text message
Cannect gives brands and dispensaries one shared calendar: retailers request the slots that are genuinely open, brands approve and assign a rep in a click, and every confirmation, reminder and recap sends itself.
One calendar both sides can actually see
Booking a brand day today usually takes a dozen text messages. A buyer asks a rep for a Saturday, the rep checks with their manager, the manager checks a spreadsheet, and somewhere in that chain the date gets double-booked or forgotten. The information exists — it is just spread across four inboxes.
Cannect puts it in one place. Dispensaries see a brand’s real availability by weekday and time block, request the slot they want, and get a confirmation the moment it is approved. Nothing is held in someone’s head.
Capacity that reflects who is actually free
Each time block exposes only as many slots as the brand has reps available after existing bookings, and reps who cannot physically reach the store in time are excluded from that slot entirely. That means a request that comes in on the calendar is a request you can say yes to, rather than one you have to unwind two days later.
Recurring pop-ups without recurring admin
A retailer who wants the same brand every other Thursday sets it up once. Cannect generates the whole series on approval, keeps it rolling forward for open-ended schedules, and lets an admin approve or adjust the series as a single unit instead of eighteen separate bookings.
Messaging that goes out on its own
Confirmation on approval, a reminder the day before, an updated notice if a rep changes, and a recap request afterwards — all editable per brand, sent by email and SMS. The store hears from you at every step without anyone remembering to send anything.
Your calendar becomes shopper-facing demand
Approved pop-ups publish automatically to Cannections, the public schedule shoppers use to find dispensary deals near them. A booking stops being a private logistics item and starts being foot traffic the store can attribute to you — which is the argument that gets you the next date.
Built for multi-brand, multi-state programs
Roles are scoped per brand, so a rep who works two brands sees each one separately, and retailer organizations with several stores pick which location a booking is for. Everything runs on your own subdomain with your logo — the same white-labeled setup described on our brand activation platform page.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a dispensary event calendar?
- It is a shared schedule of in-store brand activations — pop-ups, brand days, happy hours and sponsored events — that both the dispensary and the brand can see and book against, replacing the text-message and spreadsheet workflow most teams use.
- Can dispensaries request pop-ups themselves?
- Yes. Retail partners see a brand's real availability by weekday and time block and submit a request for the slot they want. The brand approves it and assigns a rep, and the confirmation sends automatically.
- How does it prevent double-booking a rep?
- Slot capacity is calculated from active reps minus overlapping approved bookings, and a database-level rule blocks any assignment that would double-book a rep or put them somewhere they cannot drive to in time.
- Do confirmation emails and reminders send automatically?
- Yes. Confirmation on approval, a day-before reminder, rep-change notices and post-event recap requests all dispatch on their own. Each template is editable per brand and can go out by email, SMS, or both.
- Can a store book the same brand on a repeating schedule?
- Yes. Recurring bookings repeat every N weeks or months for a set count or indefinitely. The series is approved once and generated in full, and open-ended series roll forward automatically.
Give your retail partners a calendar to book against
Real availability, no double-bookings, automatic confirmations — and every approved event published to shoppers.