A pharmacy stocks thousands of items, each in several batches with different expiry dates and prices. Selling the wrong batch, missing an expiry or failing to record a scheduled drug are compliance problems as well as losses. Pharmacy software is built around the batch.
Item, batch and expiry
Every stock record is an item plus a batch.
Billing at the counter
Customers will not wait. Billing should be possible from the keyboard or a scanner in seconds.
Sell the earliest expiry first, automatically. Nobody remembers at a busy counter.
Regulatory registers
Drug rules require records for scheduled medicines. Software should produce them from sales rather than a separate handwritten register.
Purchase and suppliers
Purchasing in pharmacy involves schemes, free quantities and frequent returns.
Customers and online orders
Repeat customers on long-term medication are the core of a pharmacy's revenue.
Chains and hospital pharmacies
Chains need central item and price control, inter-store transfers and consolidated reports. Hospital pharmacies need integration with the hospital system for inpatient indents, ward stock and charging to the patient bill. Key reports for both are stock value, expiry loss, margin by item and fast and slow movers.
