The single most useful check before ordering weed online in Canada is whether you can pay at all: 25 of 55 published stores accept Interac e-Transfer and nothing else. The rest of this list is ordered the same way: the checks that eliminate a store come before the ones that change what you spend there.

Key Takeaways

  • Check payment first. 50 of 55 stores take e-Transfer; only 13 take credit cards.
  • $150 is a minimum spend, not a discount. 36 of 49 stores use that exact threshold.
  • Convert everything to price per gram: the only unit that compares across pack sizes.
  • Check for a live coupon before you judge a total; there are 127 verified codes in the directory.
  • "Premium" is not a grade. AAAA to AA is a grade.

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The seven checks, in order

None of these requires contacting a store or placing an order. All seven are answerable from a product page and a listing.

Seven checks, in the order they save you money Seven checks, in the order they save you money Each one is answerable before you add anything to a basket 1. Payment Can you actually pay? 25 of 55 stores take e-Transfer only 2. Threshold What does free shipping cost you? $150 at 36 of 49 stores 3. Per gram Convert every price to $/g The only comparable unit across pack sizes 4. Coupon Check for a live code first 127 verified codes across the directory 5. Origin Does it ship from Canada? 52 of 55 stores do 6. Grade Is a grade actually stated? "Premium" without AAAA–AA is not a grade 7. Totals Re-check the total after shipping A cheaper gram can lose to a shipping fee
Work top to bottom. The first two checks eliminate stores entirely; the rest change what you pay at one you have already qualified.

1–2. The two that eliminate stores

Payment. Interac e-Transfer is accepted at 50 of 55 published stores, 91%, and 25 accept nothing else. Credit cards appear at 13 stores and some form of cryptocurrency at 21. If e-Transfer is not available to you, establish that before you spend time comparing products.

Threshold. 36 of the 49 stores that publish a free-shipping minimum set it at $150, and 6 publish none at all. Because the figure is so standardised, it is not a reason to choose one store over another, but it does set the size of order you are implicitly being pushed toward.

3–4. The two that change the price

Price per gram. Pack sizes are deliberately hard to compare. An eighth, a quarter, a half-ounce and an ounce priced in dollars tell you very little side by side; the same prices divided by grams tell you everything. An ounce is 28 grams, a half 14, a quarter 7, an eighth 3.5. Do the division before you form an opinion.

Coupons. There are 127 verified codes across the directory at the time of writing. A code changes the comparison, so check before you decide a store is expensive, and check that it is live rather than assuming an old one still works.

Order of operations matters: convert to price per gram, then apply the coupon, then compare. Comparing headline prices and applying a code afterwards regularly picks the wrong store.

5–7. The three that protect the order

Shipping origin. 52 of 55 published stores ship from Canada. A store shipping from elsewhere introduces delivery time and customs considerations that a listing rarely spells out.

Grade. Canadian stores use a letter scale, AAAA down to AA, that at least means something consistent enough to compare. "Premium", "craft" and "top shelf" do not map onto it and are not independently defined. If a listing uses the adjectives and omits the letters, you have not been told the grade.

The total. Re-check the final figure after shipping, because a lower per-gram price at a store you have not reached the threshold for can easily lose to a slightly higher one at a store you have.

The threshold trap

The most common and most expensive mistake is treating a free-shipping minimum as a saving. It is a condition attached to a minimum spend.

Two ways to spend $150 Two ways to spend $150 Ordering to the threshold • Price everything per gram first • Apply a live coupon before judging the total • Reach the threshold with product you wanted • Compare the final total, not the headline Ordering past it • Adding filler to clear $150 • Taking "free shipping" as a saving in itself • Comparing an ounce price to an eighth price • Stacking a coupon assumption that never applied A free-shipping threshold is a minimum spend. It is a condition, not a discount.
The difference between using a shipping threshold and being used by it.

If you were going to spend $150 anyway, clearing the threshold is free. If you were going to spend $90 and you add $60 of product you did not want in order to avoid a shipping fee, you have spent $60 to save a fee that was almost certainly smaller.

FAQ

What is the safest way to pay a Canadian online dispensary?
Interac e-Transfer is the method the market runs on: 50 of 55 published stores accept it. Keep a record of the transfer, and treat any store asking for an unusual payment route as a reason to stop.
How do I compare prices between different pack sizes?
Convert everything to price per gram. An ounce is 28 grams, a half-ounce 14, a quarter 7 and an eighth 3.5. Dividing the price by the grams is the only way to compare an eighth against an ounce honestly. There is a fuller breakdown in our weed measurements guide .
Is free shipping actually worth reaching for?
Only if you were going to spend near the threshold anyway. 36 of 49 stores set it at $150. Adding products you did not want in order to clear it costs more than the shipping fee it avoids.
What does AAAA mean on a Canadian dispensary?
It is the top of the informal Canadian letter scale running AAAA, AAA, AA. It is not a regulated standard, but it is applied consistently enough to be more useful than words like "premium" or "craft", which have no definition at all. See our guide to Canadian weed grades .
Should I trust a dispensary's own star rating?
Treat an unverified rating shown on a store's own site as marketing. Ratings are only meaningful when the review volume behind them is visible and the reviews are not controlled by the seller.

Figures are computed from Weedpedia's published dispensary database (55 stores, 127 verified coupon codes) at the time of writing. Related reading: what actually differs between Canadian dispensaries, how to find the cheapest weed in Canada, and the live verified coupon list.

For adults 19+. Information about third-party retailers is drawn from their own published listings and is not an endorsement. Verify shipping, payment and return terms directly with any store before ordering.