With rising pressures on prescription margins, the growing burden of Rx regulatory responsibilities, and the increasing need to operate an efficient and often high-volume pharmacy, it has never been so important to choose the right retail pharmacy point-of-sale system.
Our MerchantSoft retail pharmacy point-of-sale (POS) software is designed from the ground up to support the needs of any size pharmacy, from small independent pharmacies to large multi-store chains, hospitals, or clinics with the capabilities that deliver the efficiency, responsibility, accountability, and security that you need to successfully operate your enterprise.
Learn more about what our MerchantSoft system can do for your enterprise:
Update integrated A/R charge balances across the enterprise, access patient specific A/R information from one or multiple locations, and store patient A/R signatures for future auditing and reporting.
- View centrally in real-time patient sales history with signatures
- Update in real-time integrated A/R charge balances across the enterprise
- View central sales audit with G/L interface
- Enterprise sales reporting with margins
- Drill down from A/R to POS transactions
- Generates detail statements - balance forward or open item
- Internet-based credit/debit settlement
- Stores Rx and A/R signatures for 10+ years
Fully integrates with pharmacy management systems to create a complete pharmacy retail operations solution.
Interfaces with these PMS systems:
- HBS
- PCSI Rx3000
- RS Software
- Epic Willow
- SXC RxExpress
- TDS Rx30
- Cost Effective
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- Opus-ISM
- McKesson EnterpriseRx
- SoftWriters/FrameworksLTC
- VIP
- KeyCentrix
- CarePoint
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Even without an interface...
Scanning the Rx barcode from your PMS will add the Rx signature.
Manages your over-the-counter items through an advanced OTC inventory management system that tracks sales, manages prices and inventory counts, and provides accurate reporting.
- Track and manage items across the enterprise
- View in real-time inventory status: quantity sold, on-hand, on-order and so on
- Generate automatic purchase orders based on sales history: running the dynamic buyer's worksheet program
- Updates inventory automatically when order arrives: PO receiving or by exception
- Provides perpetual inventory and detail audit trail
- Support multiple suppliers for each item
- Replenish or reorder top-selling items efficiently
- Allows for lower purchasing costs by tracking item movement and supplier histories
- Transfer inventory across multi-store landscape
- Receive and tag merchandise with bar-code scanner
- Mark items as inactive and maintain their history without cluttering reports or inventory views
- Manage inventory with wireless, handheld device for physical inventories and price audits
- Manages central ordering for different vendors (with or without drop shipping)
- Transmit orders to EDI certified major wholesalers
- Provides sales, department, item, and audit reporting
- Provides multiple pricing structures for mark-up and discount flexibility
- Receives electronic item and price updates from major wholesalers
Fully Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant and Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) validated solution helps protect your business from credit card information theft and giving your customers peace of mind.
What is PA-DSS?
Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) is the PCI Council-managed program formerly known as the Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) program by Visa. The goal of PA-DSS is to help software vendors and others develop secure payment applications that do not store prohibited data, such as full magnetic stripe, CVV2 or PIN data, and ensure their payment applications support compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). Payment applications that are sold, distributed or licensed to third parties are subject to the PA-DSS requirements.
What does it mean that Emporos is PA-DSS Certified?
Emporos is PA-DSS certified so you can be assured that your customer's credit card information is protected to the fullest extent based on PCI Security Standards Council guidelines. To attain certification Emporos underwent rigorous training, extensive testing, additional programming efforts, and outside scrutiny by a Qualified Security Assessor that tested and approved our software.
What else do I need to know?
PA-DSS is only one part of your systems' overall security. You will also need to be sure your system, network, and physical enviroment complies with PCI-DSS.
Click here to learn more about PCI-DSS.
Emporos recommendations to secure your POS system
- Do not install any unnecessary and unsecured services on your POS including music, e-mail, and third-party software
- A firewall must be in place which blocks non-essential internet traffic both outbound and inbound
- Passwords should be complex and unique
Helps in controlling and limiting liability by tracking milligrams and packages, preventing illegal sales, providing the ability to scan most state driver licenses for automated data entry, and generating detailed audit reports to meet state and federal regulations.
- Scans most states' driver's licenses
- Auto-enters required information
- Manages and tracks milligrams and packages
- Prevents clerk from making illegal sale
- Helps control or limit liability
- Supports federal and state regulations
- Captures and stores signatures
- Generates detailed audit reports with signatures
Easy-to-learn touchscreen interface with signature capture for customer payments and prescriptions using a single terminal per station, saving you time, money, and counter space.
- Maximize employee productivity with easy-to-learn intuitive touchscreen
- Integrated Rx speeds checkout and reduces errors
- Scan a script and see will-call on POS
- Updates in real-time pharmacy work-flow by removing scripts from will-call
- Fast end-of-day charges and drawer reconciliation
- Auto-reconcile credit cards
- Captures electronic signature for Rx, counseling, safety caps, HIPAA, A/R charge & Pseudoephedrine
- Allows Debit (PIN #s entry), Credit-card signature capture plus approval in seconds
- Allows for quick and cost effective employee training
- Gift cards without third-party fees
- Management Reports
Uses an innovative bar-code scanning feature that displays all prescriptions associated with patient improving the customer's shopping experience with accuracy, convenience, and peace of mind at checkout.
- All patient scripts displayed at POS
- View and manage PMS A/R charges, payments, and balances at POS
- Auto-attach patient's name to POS transaction
- Adjudication audit reporting
- Verify script(s) to right patient at POS
- Prescription sales information updates in real time to PMS
- Retrieve Rx signature fast and easily for patient inquiries or audits
Charge to your patient's card on file (tokenized & encrypted) to process the fulfillment of prescriptions sent by mail to patients.
- Integrated with your pharmacy management system
Delivers an Inventory Information Approval System (IIAS) compliant solution for the acceptance and processing of FSA payments.
- Auto-updates the OTC Eligible Items List monthly
- Auto-updates eligible FSA BIN ranges (first 6 digits of card) monthly
- Allows manual FSA-eligible flagging for white label OTC items
- All prescriptions flagged as FSA-eligible
IIAS Compliance for FSA Cards
In 2006, the IRS issued a notice describing an “inventory information approval system” or IIAS for use in auto-substantiating flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) claims, (click here to view the IRS ruling). Under this notice, pharmacies are required to have an IIAS in place by July 1, 2009 or they will be unable to process FSA purchases at the point of sale.
The IRS provided an exemption called the “90% Rule” whereby pharmacies with greater than 90% of total receipts that are Qualified Healthcare Products are exempt from IIAS. However, the implications of this rule are detrimental. Read more...
The intent of the IRS ruling was to reduce the paperwork for consumers and FSA administrators while also eliminating the misuse of FSA funds. IIAS certified pharmacies are able to substantiate their FSA transactions through the store’s POS system and automatically pay for qualified health products without their customers having to submit receipts.
In response to the IRS ruling, the Special Interest Group for IIAS Standards (SIGIS) was formed to produce and promote a voluntary industry standard solution to meet the IRS requirements for operating an IIAS, and to help pharmacies with the transition to accept FSA cards. Emporos Systems has been intimately involved with SIGIS as a member of several committees and our MerchantSoft software are certified by SIGIS. Emporos Systems worked closely with everyone in the industry to enable our pharmacies to meet these new guidelines.
As a SIGIS-certified TPS Solution (Third Party Servicer), Emporos Systems is able to help pharmacies quickly certify and accept FSA cards by completing the short form online and installing our IIAS certified software.
As a company that exclusively serves pharmacies, our expert pharmacy support team provides our customers with ongoing service and support through our customer care center, continuing training and education programs, and our online training and resource center.
- Web-based ticket system and toll-free phone support
- Standard support desk hours (8am-6pm ET) + after-hours support for critical issues
- Free twice-monthly continuing education webinars + additional scheduled training as needed
Want to learn in more detail how our MerchantSoft system can improve the operation of your pharmacy?