Running a pharmacy till: expiry tracking, prescriptions, and low-stock alerts

A pharmacy till that behaves exactly like a general grocery till is missing the point. Medicines expire, some require a prescription, and running out of a critical drug is a very different problem from running out of soft drinks.

A catalog that knows it's a pharmacy

When a business is set up as a pharmacy in SmarterPOS, its product catalog picks up fields a grocery catalog doesn't need — batch numbers, expiry dates, and a prescription-required flag per product. Products flagged as requiring a prescription show a small Rx badge right on the checkout screen, so a cashier never has to remember which items need extra care.

Catching expiry before it becomes a write-off

The web portal's Expiry Report lists every batch that's expired or approaching its expiry date, valued at cost, for a given store — so a pharmacist can see what needs to move (or be discounted) before it becomes dead stock. When a batch does expire, it can be written off directly from the report as a stock adjustment, keeping the books honest without a separate manual process.

Low-stock alerts that respect reorder levels

Every product carries its own reorder level, and the dashboard surfaces low-stock and out-of-stock products across every branch in one place — distinguishing "getting low" from "already at zero" so nothing critical runs out silently between deliveries.

Built for the whole business, not just the pharmacy counter

Many pharmacy owners in Uganda also run a general shop, or a hardware store, under the same roof. SmarterPOS lets one account run multiple business types — each with its own catalog and settings — rolling everything up into a single dashboard, so switching between "pharmacist" and "shop owner" doesn't mean switching software.