They searched for the glass and the grinder. The shop that showed up wasn't the one that had it.

Q: What about CBD and hemp products?

Channel rules on hemp-derived products vary and change. We follow each channel's current policy and keep those categories off any channel that doesn't allow them.

Q: Is it worth it if the main product can't be listed?

The search that brings a new customer to a smoke shop is for the accessories and the basket, and that's the part we can put in the answer. Once they're in the door, the rest of the visit is yours.

Q: My POS already handles age verification and tax categories.

Good — that structure is what we use. We read item, count and price; your tax, age-verification and pricing logic stay in the register.

Q: I'm on a 2015-era POS.

Perfect. That's who we built this for. If your register tracks a sale, we can put it online.

Smoke and vape shops sell a lot more than the products the search engines won't list: glass, papers, grinders, lighters, drinks, snacks, phone accessories, the convenience basket. Zachcart publishes the part of your shelf that can go online to Google Search and Maps, AI answers and the delivery apps, synced from the register you already run — and keeps the regulated part where you decide it belongs.

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21POS SYSTEMS RESEARCHED

0CONNECTED TODAY

0ON GOOGLE'S FREE LOCAL INVENTORY LIST

Smoke shops are regulated-plus-everything-else retail.

Here is the honest version. Google's shopping channels and the delivery apps don't list tobacco or vape products, and no feed changes that. But the search that finds a smoke shop is usually for everything around those products — the glass, the torch, the papers, the energy drink — and that search goes to whichever store published a feed. Right now that's the gas station chain and the marketplace. Your shop, with the deepest accessory wall in the neighborhood, isn't in the answer. Search an accessory you stock plus "near me." If you don't appear, that's the dark shelf.

POS systems tobacco & vape stores run

21 systems · 0 connected

Tobacco and vape stores run the same systems as the convenience channel they grew up next to — the c-store cloud registers (FTx, Paradise, StoreTender, InfoTouch, POS Nation) plus a set of smoke-shop specialists. 21 systems in all, one connected today.

POS system	Company	Runs as	Store size	Google free local inventory list	Delivery connectors (vendor-native)	Zachcart
Affiniti Cloud POS	The Pinnacle Corporation	hybrid	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Franpos	Franpos	cloud	small, mid-size, enterprise	—	DoorDash: yes (company-reported)	BY REQUEST
GolfNow Business	not stated	cloud	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Paradise POS	Paradise POS	cloud	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Pinogy POS	Pinogy Corporation	not stated	micro, small	—	DoorDash: yes (company-reported)	BY REQUEST
CashierLive	CashierLive	cloud	small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
ConnectPOS	ConnectRetail	cloud	small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
EBMS Xpress POS	Koble Systems	hybrid	micro, small	—	DoorDash: restaurant product only · Uber Eats: restaurant product only	BY REQUEST
EzPOS	not stated	on-premise	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Keystroke POS	Lifelong Merchant Services	not stated	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Magestore POS	Magestore	not stated	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Magstar Total Retail	Perseus Group Software Corp. (Constellation Software family; Ontario corporation; private)	not stated	small, mid-size	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
MTPOS	MicroTelecom (not verified)	cloud	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Primus	Basic Software Systems	not stated	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
QuickFlora	QuickFlora, Inc.	not stated	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
RetailEdge	High Meadow Business Solutions	hybrid	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
RTP\|One	ACTIVE Network, LLC	not stated	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
SpecialtySoft	SpecialtySoft	not stated	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Storepass POS	Storepass; HQ not verified	cloud	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
SuitePOS	SuiteRetail	cloud	micro, small	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST
Sweed POS	The General Store	on-premise	small, micro	—	not confirmed	BY REQUEST

Connected systems link to their integration page. Run a system that is not listed? Browse the full directory or ask us.

What this mix means for your store

Thirteen of the 21 systems are cloud, so most smoke and vape shops connect by API with nothing to install. POS Nation is connected to Zachcart today; POS Nation and FTx POS report their own DoorDash connections, which in this vertical can only carry the non-tobacco basket anyway. Not one system on the list appears on Google's free local inventory list, which fits a vertical where vendors assumed nothing could be published. The practical read: every smoke shop's register already separates the regulated SKUs for tax and age-verification reasons, and that same category structure is what lets us publish the accessory wall and the convenience basket while leaving tobacco and vape products offline. The shelf that can go online is bigger than most owners expect.

If your register tracks a sale, we can put it online

FTx, Paradise, StoreTender and the cloud registers connect by API. The Windows-based systems connect by remote connector. Before anything publishes, we map your categories with you so regulated products are excluded by category, not by hand.

POS integrations How local inventory works

Four outcomes. One connection.

Your in-stock glass, papers, accessories, drinks and snacks on Google Search and Maps when someone nearby searches for them.

Product pages under your store's name for the listable catalog — clean data, live stock, no website project.

Your accessory wall as an answer AI assistants can cite for "who has a [brand] near me, open now."

Order-ready pipes to the delivery apps for the non-regulated basket, with sold-out items off the feed within a minute.

For distributors

Serve hundreds of independent smoke and vape shops? One agreement puts the whole network's listable shelf in the answer — and gives your reps a consented, live view of the shelves they serve.

For distributors & co-ops

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Can you list tobacco or vape products on Google or the delivery apps?

No, and nobody can — the channels don't allow it. We publish the rest of your shelf, which for most shops is the larger part of the SKU count, and we exclude regulated categories at the category level so nothing slips through.

What about CBD and hemp products?

Is it worth it if the main product can't be listed?

My POS already handles age verification and tax categories.

I'm on a 2015-era POS.

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