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How-to guides
Step-by-step for the everyday jobs at the counter — billing, invoices and the registers an inspector asks for.
The Proposed CCTV Rule for Medical Stores
A draft rule would make CCTV compulsory wherever prescription medicines are sold, with three months of footage kept. What it asks, what it leaves open, and how to object while you still can.
ReadEvery 2026 Drug-Rule Change a Chemist Should Know
Cough syrups, the Schedule H2 barcode expansion, and a draft CCTV rule: what each 2026 change actually asks of a retail counter, and what the headlines got wrong.
ReadEnter a Distributor's Purchase Bill from a Photo
A 60-line distributor bill is half an hour of typing, and one wrong batch number costs you at expiry. How entering it from a photo works, and what you still need to check.
ReadDrug License & Record-Keeping Rules for an Indian Retail Pharmacy
Which licence you need, the registered-pharmacist requirement, and the registers a chemist shop must keep — in plain English.
ReadSchedule H1 & the Prescription Register
What Schedule H, H1 and X mean, the exact fields an H1 register must carry, the three-year retention rule, and how to record it at billing time.
ReadHow to Make a GST-Compliant Medical Bill
Mandatory fields, HSN codes, CGST/SGST vs IGST, GST rates on medicines, and a worked example you can copy.
ReadWhat Is GSTR? GST Returns for Pharmacies, Made Simple
GSTR-1 vs GSTR-3B, the monthly filing cycle, why chemist shops find it fiddly, and how to build both from your own sales.
ReadReading about it is the slow way.
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