New Mexico is replacing BioTrack with a new state track-and-trace system called New Mexico Seed to Sale, or NMS2S, built for the Cannabis Control Division by Real Time Solutions. On August 14 the CCD published Industry Bulletin 26-09, and for the first time there is an actual schedule: which day BioTrack goes dark, which day your inventory gets copied over, and which day every sale in the state has to run through the new system.
Read together with Bulletin 26-08 from earlier in the month, the two documents cover most of what a licensee needs to plan around. The dates below are CCD’s, not ours. The division calls them tentative and says it will publish updates if anything has to move, so treat this as the plan of record until a newer bulletin replaces it.
The NMS2S timeline at a glance
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:00 PM | BioTrack shuts off for producers, manufacturers, and labs. The state takes a full backup of the data exactly as it sits. |
| Aug 25 to Sep 2 | Retailers keep selling through BioTrack but cannot receive inventory from anyone. |
| Aug 25 to Aug 31 | Testing labs cannot receive samples. |
| On or around Aug 31 | Producer and manufacturer inventories appear in NMS2S. Labs start accepting samples again. Past test results are migrated. |
| Sep 1, 12:01 AM | Retail inventory snapshot. Whatever BioTrack shows at midnight is what migrates. Retailer-to-retailer transfers through BioTrack end here. |
| Sep 2, by noon | Retail inventory is live in NMS2S. Retailers run both systems at once: sales in BioTrack, receiving in NMS2S. |
| Sep 4, 12:01 AM | BioTrack is turned off for good. Every sale runs through NMS2S, including sales made through POS integrations. |
If you hold a retail license
Your dates are different from everyone else’s, and the one that matters most is not August 25.
Stock the store before August 25. From 5:00 PM that day until around September 2 you cannot receive product from anyone. That is roughly eight days of selling with no resupply, and CCD says outright that retailers should plan inventory around it.
Your record is captured September 1 at midnight. CCD’s instruction is to have your retail inventory synchronized with BioTrack before that night. If your point of sale and BioTrack disagree, the BioTrack number is the one that becomes your opening inventory in NMS2S. The POS number is thrown away.
September 2 through 4 you run two systems. Sales stay in BioTrack while receiving happens in NMS2S, and CCD expects you to adjust your NMS2S inventory down by hand for every sale made in BioTrack during the window. Plan for who on your staff owns that reconciliation, because it happens during business hours while the store is open.
September 4 your POS must be on the new API. After 12:01 AM every sale has to go through NMS2S, including sales that flow through a POS integrator. The integration is your vendor’s to rebuild, so ask them now, in writing, whether they will be certified against NMS2S before September 4.
If you produce or manufacture
August 25 at 5:00 PM is your line. The record freezes as it sits, so any package that is wrong at that moment migrates wrong.
The bulletin is clear that the shutdown does not suspend your license privileges. You can keep growing, harvesting, and processing during the downtime. What you must do is keep accurate records of everything that changes, because CCD expects all of it to be reconciled inside NMS2S once your inventory reappears on or around August 31. Reconciliation on day one in an unfamiliar system will go a lot faster if the paper trail from the dark week is clean.
If you run a testing lab
No samples in from August 25 through August 31. Producers and manufacturers who need results before restocking retail should think about that gap now, because a sample that misses the window waits out the whole shutdown. Historical results migrate; CCD says all past testing data will be over by August 31.
What Bulletin 26-08 already settled
The earlier bulletin answered the structural questions, and two of its points are worth repeating because they have deadlines attached.
Only what is in BioTrack migrates. Not your POS records, not your spreadsheets, not what is physically on the shelf. The electronic state record is the record.
Logins do not carry over. Every BioTrack account is discarded. Whoever is listed as the primary controlling person in NM-PLUS becomes the first and only administrator on your NMS2S license until they create accounts for everyone else. If that name belongs to somebody who left the company two years ago, fix it in NM-PLUS before launch. It takes minutes and costs nothing.
One more thing CCD has been explicit about: adjustments made solely to make the record look clean for migration are not permitted. Finding a real discrepancy and correcting it through the proper mechanism is ordinary reconciliation. Zeroing things out to tidy up is not.
What is still coming
CCD says user training manuals should be out the week of August 17. API documentation exists only for point-of-sale integrations right now; connections for other third-party tools, inventory management systems included, will not get documentation until after launch. Watch the Data and News page at rld.nm.gov, because CCD says the updates will keep coming as bulletins.
Common questions
When does BioTrack shut down in New Mexico?
Two dates. August 25 at 5:00 PM for producers, manufacturers, and labs. September 4 at 12:01 AM for retailers, which is when the system goes off for good.
Can dispensaries keep selling during the NMS2S transition?
Yes. Retail sales continue in BioTrack the whole way through and only move to NMS2S on September 4. What stops is receiving: no incoming inventory from August 25 until around September 2.
What happens to product already on my shelves?
CCD says all products on the market for sale to consumers are grandfathered into the new system. The migration copies your record; it does not disqualify existing stock.
Will the dates change?
Maybe. CCD calls the schedule tentative, says it will try not to move anything, and commits to publishing updates if something does move. Plan against these dates and watch for new bulletins.
Where we fit in
Between now and the snapshot, the only work that changes your outcome is making the BioTrack record right. Canneye reads your record for you: you create a read-only login inside your own account, we pull your inventory, manifests, and adjustment history through the state API, and you get a written punch list of what will cause a problem when it migrates. That service is the NMS2S migration readiness audit, and the page explains exactly what it covers by license type.
Canneye is a cannabis specialist in Albuquerque. We are not affiliated with the Cannabis Control Division, Real Time Solutions, or BioTrack, and nothing here is legal advice. Both bulletins are public documents; read them yourself at rld.nm.gov.