KayaPush
HR, payroll, scheduling, and time tracking for dispensaries, with POS-connected labor forecasting.
KayaPush is an HR and payroll platform for cannabis businesses, launched in 2021 by Push Operations, a Vancouver workforce management company that had spent the previous decade building scheduling and payroll software for restaurants. That lineage shows: KayaPush is built around hourly retail operations, and its strongest features are the ones that connect labor to sales. The platform covers hiring and onboarding, scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and HR compliance in one subscription. Schedules auto-generate from custom rules and historical sales data, managers see forecasted labor as a percentage of sales while building a shift, and shift swaps show their cost impact before approval. Time tracking uses facial recognition at clock-in to prevent buddy punching. Payroll runs unlimited pay cycles with automated tax filing, journal entries pushed to accounting software, and year-end forms for both US and Canadian employees, including W-2s, 1099s, T4s, and ROEs. The POS integrations are the differentiator. KayaPush pulls live and historical sales from Blaze, Cova, Dutchie, Flowhub, Treez, and Greenline, which is what makes the labor forecasting real rather than a manager's estimate. HR compliance is delivered as advisory support plus tooling: on-demand access to HR experts, state-compliant handbooks that update when laws change, a compliance calendar, and state-mandated training. Pricing is published, unusual in this category, and charged per location with unlimited employees and administrators, which favors single stores and small groups over headcount-heavy enterprises.
At a glance
- Starting price
- $349 /location/mo
- Category
- HR
- Cannabis focus
- Cannabis Specialized
- Founded
- 2021
- Company size
- Startup
- Contract
- Month to month
What it does
- HR, payroll, scheduling, and time tracking in one per-location subscription
- POS-connected labor forecasting against live and historical dispensary sales
- On-demand HR compliance support with state-specific handbooks and training
Key features
Payroll and tax filing · Auto-scheduling · Labor cost forecasting · Facial recognition time clock · Hiring and onboarding · HR compliance advisory · Enterprise dashboard · Employee mobile app
Best fit
Retailers, Operators, Cultivators
Who is it for?
Retail cannabis stores scheduling hourly budtenders against forecasted sales, with labor cost visible before a shift is published.
Operators comparing sales and labor across stores in one enterprise dashboard rather than reconciling separate schedules.
Production teams tracking hours by department and location for cost allocation and payroll.
Cannabis delivery services managing driver scheduling, shift swaps, and time tracking from a mobile app.
New license holders that want published per-location pricing and HR advisory support without building an internal HR function.