Vol. 04 · Pharmacies
The counter that knows what the doctor just prescribed — before the patient walks in.
Vedge Pharmacy is a point-of-sale, an inventory system, an insurance claims desk (NHIS, private, corporate — every provider), and a discovery surface. On one screen, in one workflow, for every pharmacy that fills a prescription.
Eight surfaces
What lives on
the counter.
A pharmacy in any African city runs nine things at once. We put them on one screen so you can actually see all of them.
- POS
Point of sale
Barcode scan, cedi-native receipts, split payments, and offline fallback if the Ridge Road power goes out mid-sale.
- INV
Inventory depth
Live stock levels per SKU, per branch, per lot. Low-stock alerts fire before you run out, not the day a patient walks in.
- EXP
Expiry tracking
Every pack is tagged with its expiry date at intake. Vedge surfaces anything within 60 days of expiring — so you return or clear it before it’s worthless.
- RX
Prescription fill
When a Vedge hospital prescribes, the prescription lands in your queue before the patient reaches the door. Scan, dispense, counsel, close.
- INS
Insurance reimbursement
NHIS, private insurers, corporate plans, and community schemes. Claim capture the moment you dispense, not at the end of the month. Submissions and reconciliation are part of the workflow, not a chore.
- CTR
Controlled-drug ledger
Schedule II and III medications are tracked with a full audit trail. When the PSG inspector arrives, you have the ledger open in seconds.
- SUP
Supplier orders
Generate purchase orders from reorder points. Send to suppliers in one tap. Track receipt against the PO.
- VIS
Visibility to doctors
Paid tiers put your pharmacy in the prescribing doctor’s route when a patient is searching. Opt out any time.
The flywheel
Pharmacies get discovered.
Not listed.
Every paid Vedge pharmacy is plugged into a live loop: a doctor writes a prescription, a patient searches for it, you appear, they come. No flyers, no SEO, no ads.
- 01
A patient is prescribed a medication
Inside a Vedge hospital or clinic, during a visit. The prescription is digital from the moment it’s written.
- 02
Vedge finds nearby pharmacies
The patient app locates every pharmacy within a radius that carries the prescribed drug right now, ranked by distance, price, and stock.
- 03
Your pharmacy gets the ping
If you’re on a paid tier and you have the stock, you appear. The patient taps, the order lands in your queue, they walk over.
- 04
They pick up, you dispense
Scan, counsel, close. If the patient is insured — NHIS or otherwise — the claim files itself in the right format for the right provider. Revenue and reimbursement logged in one motion.
Four tiers
Start free. Scale by counter.
Every tier includes the core POS and inventory. Upgrades unlock discovery, controlled-drug tracking, and multi-branch reporting — in that order.
Basic
Free- 1 counter
- POS & basic inventory
- Prescription fill
- Listed in the patient app
- Community support
Recommended Starter
Most common- Up to 2 counters
- Everything in Basic
- Appears when Vedge doctors prescribe nearby
- Demand forecasting
- Supplier orders
Recommended Plus
- Up to 5 counters
- Everything in Starter
- Expiry tracking
- Controlled-drug ledger
- Insurance reimbursement (NHIS + private)
- Multi-supplier reconciliation
Chain
- Unlimited counters
- Everything in Plus
- Central warehouse
- Inter-branch transfers
- Multi-site reporting
- Priority support
A pharmacist writes
“The first week I was on Growth, three patients I’d never seen walked in holding my counter’s name on their phone. I hadn’t spent a pesewa on advertising.”
Start here
Fourteen days. No card. No commitment.
Start a pharmacy trial today. We’ll ship you a barcode scanner cradle (if you don’t have one) and a member of the implementation team will walk you through your first day of sales, live.