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Your billing software holds the regulars; a CRM shows which of them is drifting away.

A CRM for a pharmacy is the customer record kept beside the bill: who the household is, what they buy regularly, when a refill falls due and what was last said to them. GullySales works on turning billing data and WhatsApp conversations into one private register the counter can use.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Last updated 17 Oct 2026. Rules for this trade differ by state and professional body, and they change. We describe restrictions in general terms, so check the current position with your own council or adviser before you publish anything.

For pharmacies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The bill remembers but nobody reads it”

    Billing software stores every purchase and answers one question, what to charge. Which household is due, who bought last quarter but not this one, who switched from a brand to a generic: those answers sit in the data and nobody at the counter sees them.

  • “Prescription data is not marketing data”

    A customer's medicines reveal their health. The register has to keep what was dispensed apart from what is used to send messages, and record consent for each person. The record that drives reminders needs a name, a contact and a due date, not a list of drugs.

  • “The number on the bill may not belong to the patient”

    It may be the son's, the helper's or the shop's own. A reminder sent to the wrong person annoys a household or exposes a private matter. The record needs a line saying who to contact, and about what.

  • “A notebook works until the second counter”

    One pharmacist can carry the regulars in a notebook and in memory. With two shifts, a delivery boy and a second outlet, the notes drift apart and the customer repeats the story. A shared record, even a simple sheet, keeps the household's history across staff.

What we do

What we deliver for pharmacies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A regular customer register built from billing

    Households that buy on a repeating pattern, pulled from your billing export into one sheet or CRM, with duplicates merged.

    Result: The regulars are listed in one place, not scattered across the bill book.

  2. Contact and consent fields

    For each household, who to contact, on which channel, and a record of when and how they agreed to be reminded.

    Result: Every message you send has a recorded permission behind it.

  3. A due-for-refill list the counter can read

    A simple view of households whose supply is likely to be ending, sorted so the pharmacist can act at the start of a shift.

    Result: Staff see who to call before the customer calls an app.

  4. A drifting regular flag

    A marker for households whose purchases have stopped or shrunk against their own earlier pattern.

    Result: You find out about a lost regular while a conversation can still bring them back.

  5. Conversation notes linked to the household

    The last thing promised, a substitute agreed or a complaint made, noted against the family so any staff member can pick up.

    Result: The customer does not have to repeat themselves to a new face.

  6. Staff access rules

    A short list of who can see the register, who can edit it and what leaves the premises, set for the size of your shop.

    Result: Customer details stay with the people who need them.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

What a chemist's customer register holds, and what stays in the billing system.

Household name and the number that pays
Filled by the counter at the first bill. It separates the person who collects from the person who is cared for, which the bill alone cannot show.
Consent to message, and the channel
A yes or no with a date, filled when the number is taken. It is checked before any reminder or catalogue is sent.
Delivery address and the person who receives
Filled at the first delivery order. It spares the rider a call and lets the shop see which streets it serves.
Last regular visit
Read from billing, not typed. Lets the owner see which regular households have gone quiet.
Language and time to call
The preference the customer states. A retired patient who wants a call in Kannada before noon is not served by a text in English.

Who it is for

This is written for these pharmacies.

  • Independent neighbourhood chemists
  • Pharmacies attached to a clinic or nursing home
  • Hospital pharmacies serving outpatients
  • Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras and generic medicine stores
  • Multi-outlet local pharmacy chains
  • Franchise outlets of national pharmacy brands
  • Surgical and medical equipment stores
  • Pharmacies stocking Ayurvedic and homoeopathic medicines
  • Twenty-four hour and late-night pharmacies

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Billing software already holds everything you need and nobody reads its reports, so a new tool would be one more unread screen.
  • You want to store the medicines each customer buys in the register; that belongs in the billing and dispensing record, not a marketing tool.
  • One person at the shop does everything and a notebook ruled with a few columns would do the job.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
Do we need special software, or will a spreadsheet do?
Start with what you have. Some chemist billing packages export customer and purchase data, and a shared sheet can hold the register for one counter. A dedicated CRM becomes worth its cost when several staff or outlets need the same record, and we recommend by the size of the pharmacy.
Can we store what medicines a customer buys?
Treat it as sensitive. Keep purchase history in the billing system you already protect, put only what a reminder needs into the register, and ask your own adviser how data protection law applies to your records.
Can a pharmacy CRM store prescriptions?
No. Prescriptions and what was dispensed stay in the dispensing record the drug rules require. A marketing register holds names, consent and preferences only. The reason is that mixing them widens who can see a customer's health. Check what your licence and state require.
Who should be allowed to edit the register?
Only the counter staff who take numbers and the owner. A delivery rider needs the address, not the list. Set that on the first day, since access is harder to narrow later, and note who changed what so mistakes can be traced.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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