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San Diego — June 2, 2026 — FundCanna, the cannabis industry’s largest dedicated working capital lender, rolled out a free inventory calculator this week aimed squarely at one of the murkiest numbers on a dispensary’s books: how much cash is just sitting on the shelves.
The tool, called the Days On Hand Inventory Calculator, gives operators a fast way to see whether they’re carrying too much product, too little, or somewhere close to the sweet spot.
The cash flow problem nobody likes to talk about
Every dispensary owner knows the feeling. Order too aggressively and your money is locked up in jars of flower that won’t move for weeks. Order too cautiously and you watch customers walk out empty-handed.
The metric behind all of this is “days on hand” — basically, how long a product sits before it sells. It’s a number apparel chains, grocery stores, and big-box retailers have been tracking forever. Cannabis, oddly, hasn’t had a standardized way to measure it. FundCanna says its calculator is the first to adapt the benchmark specifically for licensed dispensaries.
What’s under the hood
FundCanna built the calculator using public market data alongside anonymized information pulled from more than 6,000 underwriting files and funded clients over the past five years. Plug in your numbers and you get a quick read on where you fall: overstocked, understocked, or inside the typical 20-to-35-day window, which shifts depending on your operating model. The tool also estimates how many dollars are tied up in inventory at that moment.
Some early numbers
In one test case, a mid-sized dispensary that was sitting on more than 70 days of inventory discovered roughly $800,000 in excess capital parked on its shelves. That’s money the operator could put back to work without having to ring up a single additional sale. Other operators in the pilot reported that the calculator’s output lined up closely with the financial models they’d built themselves in spreadsheets — only it took seconds instead of an afternoon.
What if the problem is the opposite
Plenty of dispensaries have the reverse issue: they hoard cash and run thin on product, which quietly costs them sales. For those operators, FundCanna ties the calculator into ReadyPaid™, its buy-now-pay-later option that lets a dispensary restock without writing a check upfront. Suppliers still get paid right away; the dispensary pays as the product sells through.
Why it matters beyond this one tool
The release signals where FundCanna is heading as a company. It’s no longer just writing checks. The pitch now is that capital and data should travel together — lend the money, but also hand the operator the dashboard that tells them whether they actually need it.
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Source: FundCanna via ACCESS Newswire
