Notes from the pharmacy floor
Compliance, billing, and inventory guides — written for the counter, not the boardroom.
5 signs you've outgrown Marg (and what to move to)
Marg ERP built a lot of Indian pharmacies. But the desktop-first, dongle-tied era is ending — here's how to know when to switch.
June 30, 2026
Pharmacy compliance in India: the 2026 checklist every retailer needs
Drug Licence, GSTIN, batch/expiry tracking, prescription records, refrigerated storage — a plain-English guide to staying inspection-ready in 2026.
June 14, 2026
How top pharmacies bill a customer in under 30 seconds
A step-by-step teardown of a keyboard-first POS workflow: barcode scan, batch pick, split payment, print & done.
May 28, 2026
FEFO, not FIFO: expiry-first inventory for pharmacies
Why pharmacies must sell the earliest-expiring batch first — and how to build a system that enforces it without slowing the counter.
May 10, 2026
The 3 GST invoice-numbering mistakes that will fail a pharmacy audit
Reset resets, cashier suffixes, and multi-outlet collisions — the invoice-serial pitfalls that quietly break your GSTR-1.
April 22, 2026
HSN codes & GST rates for medicines in 2026 — a cheat sheet
The GST rates that apply to Indian pharmaceuticals — 0%, 5%, 12%, 18% — with the HSN codes that determine each, and the exceptions that catch you out.
March 15, 2026