Glossary
Discrepancy
Any difference between physical, POS and state-system quantities for a package, or a sale with no matching state receipt. Classified as documentation, timing, process or loss before any adjustment is made.
Why it matters for reconciliation: the word covers very different problems. A package that was split but not relabelled, a sale waiting to sync, a sample pulled without an entry and a missing tag all look the same in a variance total, but they need different responses and only one of them is loss.
Example: a cycle count finds a package a few grams short. The sales log shows a receipt that has not synced, so the class is timing and the item is re-checked the next day. A missing tag with no record is classed as loss, investigated first and, where the state requires, notified.
Where this comes up on budally.com
- Metrc for dispensaries: what it records, and how a store reconciles against it
- Metrc reconciliation for dispensaries: the daily, weekly and 30-day procedure
- Flowhub alternatives 2026: what to weigh before you leave Flowhub, and who to look at
- How to compare cannabis POS systems in 2026: the 12 questions that decide it, and how to test each one in a demo
- The Metrc discrepancies playbook: the nine mismatches a dispensary sees, what causes each, and the fix that holds
- The monthly Metrc count is a race against the clock. Here’s how to stop running it.
Related terms
- Reconciliation
Matching POS, physical and state-system records: sales to receipts daily, packages to shelf by cycle count weekly, everything at the 30-day count most states require.
- Variance
The net difference, by quantity or value, between state-system inventory and physical or POS inventory for a period. The headline of the 30-day reconciliation report; some states set tolerances, which are limits, not targets.