Pharmacy POS
Batch, expiry and the right salt found in three seconds, because that is all the counter has.
A pharmacy counter is not a retail counter. The customer is often unwell or in a hurry, the prescription is handwritten, the brand asked for may be finished when an equivalent salt is sitting on the shelf, and behind all of it is stock that expires with your money inside it. Most pharmacy software fails on one point: it is too slow to use when four people are waiting.
What gets built here is scoped around your counter. The search behaviour, the strip and pack handling, the batch rules and the registers you are required to maintain all come from how your pharmacy works, not from a general retail template with medicine names loaded into it.
What it fixes
- Expired stock found on the shelf after the window for a supplier return has already closed
- Several batches of the same medicine at different purchase rates and different expiry dates, all treated as one pile
- Selling in strips when purchase was by pack, so the stock figure drifts within a month
- A prescription naming a brand you do not stock, with no quick way to find what carries the same salt
- The narcotics and controlled register kept separately by hand, and only tidied before an inspection
- Near-expiry stock that could have been returned or swapped with the supplier, noticed too late to do either
What gets built
A starting point, not a fixed list. The build is scoped to your own process before anything is written.
Batch and expiry tracking
Stock held per batch with its own rate and expiry date, and the counter defaulting to the batch that should move first. Without batch-level stock, expiry reporting is decoration.
Salt and generic search
Find by brand, by salt or by part of either, so a staff member can offer an equivalent when the named brand is finished. Scoped to the item data you are willing to maintain.
Strip, pack and loose
Purchase in packs, sell in strips or single tablets, with the conversion defined once per item so the stock count stays true.
Near-expiry and supplier returns
A list of what is approaching expiry with enough notice to act on it, and return entries recorded against the batch and the party so credit can be chased.
Controlled-substance register
Flagged items recorded with the detail your register demands. This should be built to the format you are actually inspected against, so bring the current register to the scoping call.
Counter speed
Keyboard-first entry, a short path from search to bill and a printed receipt. If a sale takes longer than writing it down, staff will go back to writing it down.
Who this is for
Retail pharmacies and medical stores, from one busy counter up to a few branches, where expiry write-offs and dead stock have become a real number rather than an annoyance. It is a poor fit for a very small counter stocking a few hundred fast-moving lines, where nothing sits long enough to expire. If your main problem is purchasing, multi-branch stock and expiry provisioning rather than the counter itself, the pharmacy management page describes the build that fits better.
Questions
Can it stop us selling an expired batch?
The build can warn or block on an expired batch at the point of sale, and that is worth switching on. Be clear that it only works if batch and expiry are entered correctly at purchase. The control is real; the discipline behind it stays yours.
Will it keep up with official price revisions?
Prices can be updated in bulk, including from a supplier file, rather than item by item. There is no official live feed we can promise to read automatically, so we will not claim one. Someone still has to apply a revision; the system turns that from a day into a few minutes.
Our staff change often and are not computer people.
Then this only works if the counter screen is hard to get wrong and if training is part of the plan rather than a handover message. It also argues for keeping the first version small. A pharmacy that gets batch, expiry and fast billing right is better off than one with twenty modules nobody opens.
Tell us how your pharmacy runs.
We scope it first — what it takes, how long, what it costs. No obligation.