📋 In This Article
- What Happened
- The One Thing You Should Do
- What Looks Different
- New Audit Tools
- Common Questions
- Related Articles
🔄 What Happened
The Office of Drug Control (ODC) replaced its Cannabis Reporting Template. Version 3.0 of the template and its guidance were published in February 2026 and apply from the Q1 2026 reporting period onward. The Q1 2026 report, due 15 April 2026, was the first one filed on the new layout.
GrowerIQ now generates the V3 format automatically. Your day-to-day work does not change: record harvests, transfers, sales, and destructions exactly as you always have, then generate the report from Reports > ODC Quarterly Report as usual. What changes is the layout of the workbook you download, plus one new piece of information the report uses: each Australian buyer's licence type.
Your Data and Workflows Do Not Change
The same underlying activity data feeds the new template. Only the columns it lands in have changed, and GrowerIQ handles the new layout for you. The one action worth taking is classifying your buyers, covered next.
✅ The One Thing You Should Do
The V3 template splits domestic supply into separate columns based on the licence the buyer holds. GrowerIQ picks the right column automatically, but it needs to know each Australian buyer's licence type. This is a one-time question per buyer, ideally confirmed with them at onboarding.
To classify a buyer:
- Go to CRM > Accounts
- Open the buyer's account (or click Add New Account for a new buyer)
- In the account form, find the ODC quarterly reporting section and the Licence type for ODC reporting dropdown (this field only appears for organisations based in Australia)
- Pick the option that matches the buyer's licence and click SUBMIT
| Option in the dropdown | Choose it when the buyer is... |
|---|---|
| Other medicinal cannabis grower or processor: C1, P2, M2 | Another ND Act licence holder: a cultivator, producer, or manufacturer licensed by the ODC |
| Pharmaceutical manufacturer (GMP): P3, M4 | A GMP pharmaceutical manufacturer holding a licence under Part 3-3 of the Therapeutic Goods Act |
| Pharmacy, distributor, or state-only licence holder: Domestic Sales (non-ND-Act) | Any domestic buyer without an ND Act licence, such as a pharmacy, distributor, or state-licensed operator |
If You Skip This
Unclassified buyers default to the GMP pharmaceutical manufacturer column (the dropdown shows this as "Not classified yet (defaults to GMP / P3·M4)"). The report still generates, but the Breakdown Report's new Recipient Audit tab flags every unclassified buyer with a WARNING so you can fix the classification and regenerate before submitting.
Exports Are Not Affected
Buyers outside Australia always count in the Supply - Export column based on their country. You do not need to classify overseas buyers, and an export is never double-counted in a domestic supply column.
👀 What Looks Different
Every tab keeps the same monthly-row structure as before. The changes are in the columns.
Cannabis Stock tabs (>1% THC and <=1% THC)
| Change | Detail |
|---|---|
| Domestic supply split into four columns | The single V2 "Supply - Domestic Sales, Transfer" column is now four: supply to another ND Act licence holder for manufacture (column J, pathway P2), supply to another ND Act licence holder for other purposes (column K), supply to a GMP Part 3-3 TG Act licence holder (column L, pathway P3), and domestic sales or transfer to non-ND-Act buyers (column M, pathways P7-P10) |
| Export and Destroyed shifted | Supply - Export is now column N (pathway P6) and Destroyed is column O (pathway P5) |
| Closing stock moved | Closing stock is now column P (it was column M in V2) |
| New Comments column | Column Q, for explaining amendments, discrepancies, or corrections to a prior quarter |
GrowerIQ routes each shipment into column J, L, or M based on the buyer's licence classification. Column K (other purposes) is reported as zero, since shipment records do not distinguish that case today.
See the Cannabis Stock article for the full column-by-column reference.
Cannabis Resin Stock tab
| Change | Detail |
|---|---|
| Source split by plant part | "Produced from own cultivation" is now two columns: produced from flower heads (column C) and produced from other plant parts (column D) |
| Same four-way supply split | Columns J through M, identical to the stock tabs above, with export in column N and destroyed in column O |
| Closing stock moved | Now column P, with the new Comments column in Q |
GrowerIQ splits columns C and D automatically based on how each end type is classified by plant part. You can see exactly how every end type was classified on the Breakdown Report's new Endtype Classification tab (see New Audit Tools below).
See the Cannabis Resin Stock article for the full reference.
Manufacturing tab
| Change | Detail |
|---|---|
| Domestic vs imported inputs | Starting material is now split by origin: columns D to F for domestic material (low THC cannabis, high THC cannabis, resin) and columns G to I for imported material. Extract used as an input is also split into domestic (column J) and imported (column K) |
| Supply split mirrors the stock tabs | Domestic sales to non-ND-Act buyers (column L), GMP Part 3-3 licence holders (column M, pathway M4), other ND Act licence holders for manufacture (column N, pathway M2), and export (column O, pathway M5) |
| New reference standard category | Column Q, "Supply for use as a reference standard for medical or scientific testing" (pathway M7). GrowerIQ reports this as zero today; contact support if your operation supplies reference standards |
| Closing stock moved | Now column S, with the new Comments column in T |
| Tab order | The Manufacturing tab moved to the end of the ODC template, after the Table sheet (in your GrowerIQ download it is followed only by the GrowerIQ Pre-Submission Review sheet) |
See the Manufacturing article for the full reference.
Crops tabs (Medicinal and Scientific)
| Change | Detail |
|---|---|
| Exported column removed | The V2 "Plants Exported" column is gone. Plant exports are no longer reported on the Crops tabs |
| New Comments column | Column J, for explaining amendments or discrepancies |
| Q4 only: Annual Cultivation Area | A new year-end block asks for area sown (hectares), area harvested (hectares), and quantity produced (kg dry weight). GrowerIQ leaves these three cells blank for you to fill in before submitting your Q4 report |
See the Crops article for the full reference.
All tabs: two significant figures
The V3 guidance requires all weights to be reported to two significant figures, and GrowerIQ now rounds every weight in the report accordingly (for example, 0.04567 kg is reported as 0.046). Cells contain numerical values only, with no units or symbols, also per the V3 guidance.
🔍 New Audit Tools
The Breakdown Report grew from 8 tabs to 10. The two new tabs help you verify the V3-specific data before you submit:
- Endtype Classification - lists every end type that produced or held weight in the quarter, with its category, plant part classification (flower heads vs other plant parts, which drives the resin source split), source, quarter weight, and status
- Recipient Audit - lists every buyer you supplied in the quarter, with their country, licence type, ODC pathway code, quarter total in kg, and a status that shows WARNING when the licence type is unset and the supply defaulted to the GMP column
Check the Recipient Audit First
After your first V3 generation, open the Recipient Audit tab and clear any WARNING rows by classifying those buyers (see The One Thing You Should Do), then regenerate the report.
For everything else inside the Breakdown Report, see the Breakdown Report article.
❓ Common Questions
Do I need to re-file quarters I already submitted on the old template? No. Reports you already submitted on the V2 template stand as filed. All future filings use the V3 layout. Note that if you re-generate a past quarter in GrowerIQ today, it will come out in the V3 layout; there is no option to generate the old format.
Where do the suggested comments go now? The Pre-Submission Review still generates suggested comments, and the V3 template gives them a proper home: paste them into the new Comments column (column Q) of the stock tabs. The review sheet itself tells you "Copy to column Q of Stock tabs". See the Pre-Submission Review article.
Do I have to fill in the new supply columns manually? No. GrowerIQ fills them automatically from your recorded shipments combined with each buyer's licence classification. The only cells GrowerIQ leaves for you to fill are the Q4-only Annual Cultivation Area block on the Crops tabs, plus any comments you paste into the Comments columns (such as the suggested comments from the Pre-Submission Review).
Did the supply pathway codes change? The codes themselves (C1, P1-P10, M1-M10) still work the same way; what changed is that more of them now have their own dedicated columns. See the Supply Pathway Codes article for the full list.