Dutchie Ecommerce Integration
Your Dutchie records already describe every product you sell. Buddy turns them into a branded website of your own — crawlable pages, filters your buyers would recognize, and stock that reflects the floor. Connected in a day, with your old menu URLs redirected.
Dutchie Certified Partner
A Storefront That Belongs to Your Dispensary, Not to a Menu Widget
Dispensaries running Dutchie usually have their operational house in order — the catalog is clean, discounts are structured, staff know the workflow. What is missing is a shopping experience that belongs to the store rather than to a menu widget dropped into a page.
Buddy takes the Dutchie data you already maintain and renders it as a website of your own: crawlable product pages, brand and category pages that can rank, a search index you control, and analytics that report on your domain instead of someone else's. Nothing about the way your team works changes.
If you also run Flowhub at another location, the Flowhub ecommerce integration covers that side. Or explore what a full retail commerce platform looks like when it's built for cannabis from day one.
Weighing your options first? Our comparison of how dispensary websites get built separates the register decision from the storefront decision before you commit to either.
How the Dutchie Ecommerce Integration Works
The connection reads from Dutchie continuously and writes orders back. Here is the field-level picture of what actually moves:
Product records — name, brand, strain, category, THC/CBD values, weight and variant options pulled straight from your Dutchie records
Stock counts — quantity on hand per location, so a product that just sold out stops appearing as available online
Price and discount rules — list price plus the discount conditions attached to it, so the storefront math matches the register math
Specials and promotions — the promotions you already maintain in Dutchie surface as shoppable groupings on your site
Customer records — the same shopper identity across your Dutchie data and your Buddy account area, without a second database to reconcile
Order handoff — orders placed on Buddy are written back with the line items, totals and fulfillment type your staff expects to see
What stays in Dutchie: compliance reporting, in-store transactions, purchasing and receiving, staff permissions, and the record of truth for stock. What moves to Buddy: the storefront, the merchandising decisions, the content, the email and text follow-up, and the customer relationship online. Neither side duplicates the other.
What a Dutchie Migration Actually Looks Like
Nothing in Dutchie gets rebuilt, re-entered or turned off. The move is a connection plus a mapping pass, and it runs in this order:
- Day one — connect — we authorize the Dutchie connection and pull a full catalog snapshot so you can see exactly what came across before anything is public
- Day one — map — categories, brands and strain fields get mapped to storefront navigation and filters; anything Dutchie leaves blank is flagged for you to fill in
- Day one — dress it — theme, header, footer, product cards and any landing pages are set up while the catalog keeps syncing in the background
- Go live — redirect — your existing menu URLs are redirected to the matching Buddy pages so the traffic you already earned lands somewhere real
- After launch — watch — we monitor the first sync cycles for price and stock mismatches and correct mappings before they reach shoppers
The riskiest part of any menu change is losing the URLs customers and Google already know, which is why redirects happen before launch rather than after. See the full Buddy feature set for what's included.
What Changes When the Storefront Is Yours
Native Ecommerce
Menu-Widget Vendors
BuddyA website on your own domain, indexed under your brand
Iframe & Hosted MenusA shopping surface served from a domain you do not control
BuddyCategory, brand and product pages that Google can render and rank
Iframe & Hosted MenusListings that search engines struggle to read or attribute to you
BuddyReads your Dutchie product, price and stock records continuously
Iframe & Hosted MenusBatch refreshes that leave sold-out items purchasable
BuddyShopper behavior and contact data land in your account
Iframe & Hosted MenusAudience insight held by the menu vendor
BuddyNavigation, filters and layout follow how your buyers merchandise
Iframe & Hosted MenusA fixed layout every store on the platform shares
BuddyOld menu URLs redirected to matching pages at launch
Iframe & Hosted MenusRankings reset when the menu changes hands
Live on Dutchie in About 24 Hours
There is no rebuild phase. Authorization, catalog mapping and theming happen in a single working day, and the redirects go in before the switch. Most Dutchie stores are taking online orders on Buddy the day after the first call.
300+
Dispensaries powered
+62%
Avg. conversion rate lift
−44%
Cart abandonment
92
Avg. SEO score
A Dutchie Certified Partner
Buddy is a Dutchie Certified Partner — vetted and approved to help dispensaries build standout online storefronts on top of their Dutchie integration. That means when you choose Buddy, you're getting a platform Dutchie itself recognizes for helping retailers launch fast, customize deeply, and grow online.
Stores on Dutchie keep every operational workflow exactly as it is; Buddy simply reads those records and presents them as a site the store owns, with the ordering path running back into the same queue.
Already Running Dutchie? Here's What Changes and What Doesn't
Buddy is a Dutchie Certified Partner, and this section exists because the two systems are designed to run together rather than instead of each other.
What does not change: Dutchie stays your point of sale and your system of record. Inventory, pricing, compliance and reporting keep running exactly where they run now, and your staff keep the workflows they already use at the counter.
What changes: the customer-facing storefront moves onto your own domain. Products, categories and brands become server-rendered pages at their own addresses, product schema with live price and availability is generated automatically, and checkout completes on your site before syncing the order back into Dutchie.
If you are still weighing approaches, the comparison of how dispensary websites get built lays out all five side by side.
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