Founder & CEO, Innobrains Technologies
Arshad Ali is the founder and CEO of Innobrains Technologies, the company that makes MediPOS: pharmacy POS and management software built for medical stores in Pakistan.
Udhaar keeps regular customers coming back, but unrecorded credit quietly eats your cash. A practical guide to limits, records, statements, polite collection and old balances.
Expired stock is cash thrown in the bin. Here is why medicines expire on the shelf, a weekly and monthly routine that catches them in time, and why batch records at purchase are what make returns to the distributor possible.
You do not need to pull the shutter down for a day to count stock. Plan the count rack by rack, count in tablets, keep billing safely while you count, then post the differences and chase the shortages with a clear trail.
Fifteen practical questions for medical store owners comparing pharmacy software, from billing speed and batches to udhaar, backups, FBR and the real cost over three years.
Offline software runs on your shop PC and keeps billing when the internet drops. Cloud software runs online and opens from anywhere. Here are the honest trade-offs, with real PKR prices.
FIFO sells what arrived first. FEFO sells what expires first. A worked example with two batches of the same syrup shows why the difference matters in a medical store, and what your shelves and records need to get it right.
Tier-1 retailers must report every sale to FBR as it happens. Here is who that covers, what changes on the bill, and how integration keeps working when the internet drops.
A 10+1 scheme makes every box cheaper, but only if you record it properly and sell what you buy. Here is the landed cost arithmetic, why profit goes wrong, and how to judge a scheme.
A daily routine for counting the drawer, keeping wallet and card money apart from cash, and tracing a shortage to its cause while everyone still remembers the day.