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Answer the prescription photo before the customer passes another chemist.

The enquiry in a pharmacy is a photograph of a prescription sent during the evening rush, often by an adult child paying for a parent in another city. GullySales sets who answers it, what the first reply confirms, and the delivery slot your counter can actually keep.

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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 lead generation means

Lead generation is the combined work of every channel that brings in a new enquiry, whether from search, adverts, referrals or a stall at an exhibition. GullySales runs these channels together and reports the number of enquiries each one produced, not the activity behind it.

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Sales and marketing for pharmacies, the overview.

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 message arrives at the worst possible minute”

    Seven in the evening, six people at the counter, and a prescription photograph waiting. That is when the order is won or handed to an app.

  • “The sender is often not the patient”

    A son in another city is paying for a parent's monthly medicines. The son wants a confirmation, a bill and a time, and will never walk in.

  • “Half the exchange is a stock question”

    Is it available, is there a substitute, what will it come to. Answering needs somebody who can walk to the shelf, not somebody reading a chat on a bus.

  • “Silence is read as no”

    The customer does not wait. They pass two more chemists on the way home, and one of them picks up the phone.

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 named person on the prescription number

    Who holds the enquiry phone through the evening rush and who takes it afterwards, written on the board so it is never everybody's job.

    Result: The message is read while the customer is still deciding.

  2. A first reply that confirms three things

    Stock, the substitute if the item is unavailable, and the amount, sent as a saved message so nobody is composing one under pressure.

    Result: The customer knows in minutes that you can serve them.

  3. A delivery slot the counter can keep

    The hours you deliver, the areas you cover and how long it takes, agreed with the staff before any of it is promised to a customer.

    Result: You stop promising what the evening cannot deliver.

  4. The paying relative recorded, with consent

    Where a family member elsewhere pays for the order, their number and address noted with permission, so the bill and the confirmation reach them.

    Result: The person paying stops having to chase you.

  5. An order book with reply times by hour

    Every call and message logged with the time, what was asked, when it was answered and whether it converted, read together afterwards.

    Result: You can see the hour you keep losing orders in.

  6. A dispensing check inside the routine

    Prescription validity, the schedule of the medicine and the record-keeping treated as part of taking a remote order, confirmed by your pharmacist.

    Result: Convenience does not quietly become a licence problem.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries generated
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries by source

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

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Where enquiries come from

A pharmacy's orders come from calls, messages and clinics, and each should be recorded without noting more than is needed.

WhatsApp prescription
Record the sender's number, the time received and who is dealing with it. Reply by confirming the items, the quantity and the delivery or pick-up time, and check the prescription before dispensing.
Phone call for a regular refill
Log the customer, the usual items and the last purchase date. Confirm what is in stock and when it can be collected, and note any item you could not supply.
Walk-in at the counter
Take a phone number from those who agree, with the household and the items bought. Ask whether they want a reminder when the regular medicines run low, and record yes or no.
Google profile call about stock or hours
Tag it as Google. Callers usually ask whether you are open or have an item, so reply plainly and note the item named, without recording any health condition.
Clinic, nursing home or old-age home
Record the institution, the contact and the items it buys in bulk. Settle the billing arrangement in writing, and check your own pharmacy rules before any arrangement with a doctor.
Neighbourhood society or senior citizens group
Log the group, the contact and the dates of any talk or health camp. Offer a delivery slot for members, and keep what members buy private.

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.

  • No one is assigned to read the WhatsApp number before the evening queue builds, so more messages would only lose the customer.
  • You hope a clinic nearby will send patients in return for a payment; that is not a lead source this trade may use.
  • Billing software does not record the customer's number, so there would be nothing to follow up with.

How it works

How the lead generation 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

    Understand your capacity

    We ask how many enquiries your team can answer well, who answers after hours, and what a good enquiry looks like. Without this, the system fills a funnel nobody is watching.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We read your call log, WhatsApp chats, enquiry sheet and platform dashboards. The baseline is recorded: enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Search and maps are chosen for people ready to buy, ads for people who are not yet looking, and content and referrals for trust.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms, tags, the lead record and the first-reply message are built and tested end to end. We submit test enquiries ourselves before any media money is spent.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    Enquiries are traced to source and judged by what became orders, not by volume alone. Channels that fill the sheet with poor enquiries are cut back. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  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 · you are here

    Sales process design

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

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    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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A customer sends a prescription at nine at night. Do we reply then?
Reply, even if it is only to say the shop is open till eleven and the item is in stock. Two lines at night keep the order. Whether it can be dispensed is a separate question, and that one is your pharmacist's.
Can we keep a regular customer's prescription on file and repeat it?
That depends on the medicine and on how long a prescription stays valid, which is a matter for your pharmacist and your drug inspector rather than for us. We set up the reminder and the ordering routine. The dispensing decision stays yours each time.
A caller asks whether we stock a medicine. Do we log it?
Log the call as a stock enquiry, with the item name as asked and nothing about the person's condition. Reply plainly whether it is in stock. If it is not, say when it can be ordered. Repeat misses show what to stock.
A nearby clinic sends patients to us. Should we record and reward it?
Record that patients say the clinic sent them. Do not pay or give anything of value to a clinic or doctor for sending prescriptions. Check your own pharmacy council and drug rules before any arrangement. A thank-you note is enough.
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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