Supplements, vitamins and over-the-counter medicine on the same shelf, and every one of them carrying a date. This is health store POS software that records batch and expiry as stock comes in, keeps the rate you actually paid, and tells you at closing what the day really earned.
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A clothing shop’s stock is the same stock in two years. A health store’s is not, and that one difference changes what the software has to do.
A tub of whey has eighteen months on it. A box of ORS sachets has three years. The syrup in the chiller has nine. One shelf can hold four different expiry horizons, and a till that only counts units cannot see a single one of them.
You bought the multivitamin at one rate in spring, a better rate when you took a full case, and a worse one last week because you ran short. Sell a bottle and the margin depends on which box it came out of. Nobody writes that down.
Expired stock is rarely one dramatic write-off. It is two boxes this month, three the next, found when a customer turns the pack over and reads the date out loud at the counter.
The date goes in once, when the delivery is unpacked — not later, not from memory. It takes about twenty seconds per line and it is the step everything else depends on.
One screen showing what expires in the next sixty and ninety days. Early enough that the supplier will still take it back, or that a shelf-edge discount can still move it.
Each delivery keeps its own cost. When a bottle sells, the profit is calculated against what that bottle actually cost you, not an average someone typed in six months ago.
Health stores carry hundreds of near-identical packs in three strengths and four flavours. Scanning is the only honest way to bill them quickly without picking the wrong one.
Takings tell you what came in. The profit line tells you what you kept, split by product, so the slow-earning shelf stops hiding behind the fast-moving one.
The person on the counter bills and looks up stock. Discounts, purchase rates and the profit report stay with you. Every sale carries the name of whoever rang it.
Real screens from the working demo, loaded with sample data. Open the demo and click through them yourself.
Not a feature list — the three moments in a day where the software either earns its place or does not.
You open the dashboard and the expiry list has four lines on it. Calcium tablets, sixty days out. Two flavours of protein, ninety. A box of glucose powder you had forgotten was in the back. You ring the supplier about the calcium, mark the protein for a shelf-edge discount, and move the glucose to the front. Eleven minutes, and it is the whole job.
A regular wants the same fish oil she bought last month and cannot remember the brand. You search her number, the last bill comes up, and she is out of the shop in forty seconds with the right pack. That is the part customers notice, and it costs nothing to have.
Takings for the day, and next to them the profit. Usually a little lower than the owner guessed, because the discounts and the expensive batch are both in the number. Most people find that uncomfortable for about a week, and useful for years after.
Four things it will not do. Better you read them now than find out in week three.
It bills over-the-counter medicine and supplements. If your country requires a licensed dispensing register with prescriber records for scheduled drugs, this is not that system and we will say so before you pay.
There is no panel billing and no claim submission. Every sale here is a cash, card or account sale.
This is cloud software, so billing needs a connection. If your area loses power or signal for hours at a time, tell us first and we will tell you honestly whether to buy it.
A shop that also sends out a few bulk orders is fine. A full distributor with sales reps, territories and route delivery needs something heavier than this.
Loading your stock is the real work, so we do that part with you rather than handing you an empty system and wishing you luck.
Send whatever you already have. An Excel sheet, an export from old software, or photographs of the register pages. We load it and send it back for you to check.
Scan through a shelf or two so the codes attach to the right products, and put in the current purchase rates. Expiry dates get added as each new delivery arrives, not all at once.
Hand the billing screen to whoever actually serves customers and let them break it. Their opinion after ten real sales is worth more than any demo.
Keep the old register going for a week. When the two agree at closing time three days running, switch off the old one. Nobody should take that on trust.
Expiry alerts and batch tracking start on Standard. One shop on Starter, and Professional only if you are running several.
Billing, stock and daily sales for a single shop. 1 branch, 2 users.
Adds barcode, batch and expiry alerts, supplier purchases and profit reports. 2 branches, 5 users.
Several shops on one account, with patients and consultation if a clinic sits alongside. 5 branches, unlimited users.
The demo has stock already loaded, so you can bill something, check an expiry list and look at a profit report in about five minutes. Or send us your product list and we will set the trial up with your own shelves in it.
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