Retail | BLAZE x Weedmaps Menu Crawler

What is the Weedmaps Menu Crawler?

BLAZE and Weedmaps have integrated further to bring you a menu crawler that makes managing your inventory and product information on your Weedmaps menu easy. The crawler helps you maintain inventory and product information integrity so your menu is updated as changes are made via transactions, transfers, reconciliations, or adding batches.

The crawler allows BLAZE and Weedmaps to communicate back and forth to sync your inventory and product information with both systems. If you make a change in either the BLAZE or Weedmaps platform, the change will be recognized by the crawler and saved on your Weedmaps menu.

Although changes can be made in both BLAZE and Weedmaps to reflect your menu, it is recommended that changes be primarily made within the BLAZE system in order for the POS to remain as the one "Source of Truth" within the Crawler integration. Even though product changes can be made in Weedmaps, this should only be done when it is truly necessary. 

 

How Does the Weedmaps Menu Crawler Differ from the Original Weedmaps Menu Integration?

Back and forth communication between BLAZE and Weedmaps to allow changes to be made in either platform

• WMID's need to be stored in BLAZE when using the online ordering feature.

• WMID's need to be stored in BLAZE for verifying products.

• WMID's no longer need to be re-authorized manually every 2 weeks unless using the online ordering feature.

• Inventory management now is in Weedmaps, not via Regions in BLAZE

• Syncs cannot be manually triggered in BLAZE, the crawler checks the Weedmaps menu for major changes every few minutes and updates accordingly 

Prerequisites for the Weedmaps Menu Crawler

• Create a Developer Key (aka API Key) in BLAZE for each shop

  • Global Settings > Company Settings > Developer Key
    
    

• Map your BLAZE categories to Weedmaps categories in BLAZE for each shop

• Global Settings > Integration Settings > Weedmaps
  
  

• Generate the Online Store Code in BLAZE for each shop
  • Global Settings > Current Shop Settings > Online Store
    

• Identify what inventories you want to be synced to your specific WMID(s) in BLAZE 

  • Global Settings > Current Shop Settings > Inventories 

• Ensure your products display on the Weedmaps menu and have "Sync to Third Party" set to "Yes"
  • Retail > Inventory

How to Set Up Weedmaps Menu Crawler in BLAZE

1. Ensure you have met the prerequisites above.

2. Send your Developer Key to your Weedmaps representative. 

• Global Settings > Company Settings > Developer Key

3.  Generate your Online Store Code

• Global Settings > Current Shop Settings > Online Store
• Click Edit
• Click Generate on the Online Store Code

4. Send your desired inventories to sync to your specific WMID(s) to your Weedmaps representative.

• Global Settings > Current Shop Settings > Inventories

How to Set Up Weedmaps Menu Crawler in Weedmaps

1. Navigate to Weedmaps > Login > Avatar > Manage my business > Listing > Dispensaries OR Deliveries.

2. Click the Edit button of the desired WMID > Menu.

• Verify "Integrated with" is Blaze (Crawler)

3. Click on the POS Integrated button (or POS Integrate button if a POS is not currently integrated).

• Verify "Blaze credentials" is the Developer Key / API Key shared with the Weedmaps representative by clicking the eye icon.
• Verify the "Blaze Inventory" information is the same inventory information shared with your Weedmaps representative

4. Repeat steps 2-3 as needed for each desired WMID to switch to the Crawler.

5. Manually re-verify products OR reach out to help@weedmaps.com to schedule a date for their team to verify your menu on your behalf. 

Enable Products to Sync with 3rd Parties

BLAZE Retail gives you the ability to choose which products are shown on Weedmaps and which are not.

1. In BLAZE Web Retail, navigate to Inventory >All.

2. Using the mass selector, select the products you want to show on Weedmaps. Click the Select Action button. 

• Select Update 3rd Party Menus
• Set the dropdown to Active
  
  
  

• Click Save
• You have now mass-selected products to sync with 3rd parties (like WM)!