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A distributor bills in strips and a pharmacy sells in capsules. Both are right - and taking the quantity from one with the rate from the other is how a shelf count ends up a tenth of what arrived, with the margin on every sale reading as a loss.
Four bills, three distributors, ninety-odd lines - and an evening gone. Purchase entry is the longest unpaid job in a medical store, and most of it is retyping something the distributor already has in a file.
Most medical stores count their shelves once a year, on a Sunday, and argue about the differences on Monday. There is a calmer way to do it - and the differences are the point, not the problem.
Most pharmacies watch the selling price and let the buying price look after itself. Scheme goods, distributor rates and credit days quietly decide the margin long before anything is sold.
From the first customer to the till count at night, here is what a normal day in a medical store looks like when the software is carrying it - billing, split payments, khata, expiry and the day close.
The features that sound impressive in a demo are rarely the ones that matter day to day. Here is what genuinely good pharmacy software does for you — and what to insist on before you commit.
Expired stock is one of the most controllable costs in a pharmacy. Here is a simple, practical system for spotting ageing batches and clearing them before the date passes.
Credit is unavoidable in an Indian medical store — losing track of it is not. How to age what you are owed, set limits that hold, and chase at thirty days instead of ninety.
Schedule H1 sales need a separate register kept for three years — prescriber, patient, drug and quantity. Here is what goes in it, the four mistakes that cost stores at inspection, and how to make it take seconds per sale.
Medicines do not all sit in one GST slab, and a single counter sale can mix three of them. A practical guide to HSN codes, what belongs in GSTR-1 versus GSTR-3B, and the four mistakes that invite a notice.
Expiry alerts, GST billing, khata and reports — the things these articles talk about, running in your pharmacy by this evening. 14 days free, no card.
