Independent · Pharmacy-owner built · 2,900+ UK pharmacies

The independent ordering platform for serious UK pharmacies

One platform for ordering, margins, stock, reconciliation, and group control. Built by a pharmacy owner. Owned by no supplier. Tied to no wholesaler.

30-day free trial · Monthly rolling contract · No long ties.

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UK pharmacies on the platform
and counting
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Pharmacy groups
5 or more branches
£0M+
Stock ordered through DC
every month
£0
Average monthly saving
per pharmacy
Platform at a glance

Everything Drug Comparison does, in 1 view

Every module connected to the same data, the same wholesalers, and the same pharmacy. Scroll across to see what's included.

DC Ordering · Free
Pack & Brand
Block Pack
£408.55 saved
£82.95
£141.84
£11.00

Pack & Brand Optimisation

Smart pack switches and brand to generic suggestions on every order. £408.55 saved this month.

Paid module
105Invoices
8Discrepancies
£258.05Loss identified

Reconciliation Hub

Auto matches every invoice to your orders. Catches price errors and missing credits before you pay.

Free for all customers
+43.75%Spike caught

Market Intel

Live tracking on volatile lines. Alerts before prices spike or stock runs short. Buy ahead, not behind.

DC Ordering · Free
Pack optimisation
Brand optimisation
!Above tariff line
Loss report check
CD & fridge lines
20+ checks fired

Order Review

20+ automatic checks before every order leaves your branch. PIN protected, with named accountability.

DC Ordering · Free
+12.4%Margin this month
Profit per line£1,247

Margins & Profit Reporting

Real time profit per line, per branch, per period. See exactly where you make and where you lose money.

DC Ordering · Free
Camden
24 packsExcess
Wembley
24 packsNeeded
£187 saved

Excess Stock Sharing

Stock sitting in 1 branch becomes a supply option for another. Less waste, more cash in the business.

DC Ordering · Free
AAH
£19.5k / £25k
Phoenix
£11k / £20k
Alliance
£10.2k / £10k
Target hit on Alliance

Supplier Spend Targets

Track spend against contracted targets across every wholesaler. Catch shortfalls before they cost you money.

For groups
12Branches
£9.6kSaved this week
142Orders today
98%On target

Head Office

Run multiple branches from 1 dashboard. Group ordering, KPI reporting, and centralised oversight built in.

For groups
Croydon
Barnet
Wembley
Camden
19 pending

DC Warehouse

Central buying for pharmacy groups. Hold stock at group level, supply branches from a single inventory.

Free
DC App
Order Pad
Scan delivery
Reconcile stock

DC App

Order, scan deliveries, reconcile stock, and manage excess stock from your phone. Built for the pharmacy floor.

DC Ordering · Free
IFprice above tariff
BLOCK order
IFgeneric available
SUGGEST switch
Auto enforced

Product Rules Engine

Set automated buying rules for price, supplier, and pack. The system enforces them on every order, every day.

Also includes: PMR Integration with every major UK pharmacy system · Availability Tracker · Returns Management · Audit Logs

Connected to every major UK wholesaler
AAH Alliance Phoenix BNS Bestway Sigma Trident OTC Medihealth Clarity Lexon Day Lewis Cavendish Smartway Aver AAH Alliance Phoenix BNS Bestway Sigma Trident OTC Medihealth Clarity Lexon Day Lewis Cavendish Smartway Aver
The problem we solve

Pharmacy ordering is leaking money in places no one is watching

Every pharmacy owner already feels this. We built Drug Comparison because we lived it. Here are the 4 areas where money walks out the door, every day.

1

Time and efficiency

Hours wasted checking prices across supplier websites. Hidden rebates make true net cost invisible.

2

Ordering errors

Lines ordered above Drug Tariff. Brand ordered when generic was needed. Urgent orders placed without checking the loss.

3

Stock blind spots

Over-ordering items already on the shelf or sitting in another branch. No clear view of what the group holds.

4

Invoices that do not match

Wrong prices, missing credits, supplier errors. No clean audit trail of who ordered what at what price.

Independent.
Pharmacy-owner built.
Owned by no supplier.

Which means we negotiate the best commercial deals across every wholesaler, and pass the best net price straight to your invoice. No supplier influencing your buying. Just better deals, on every order.

10 years Negotiating direct supplier deals on behalf of UK pharmacies
Every wholesaler Major UK suppliers connected, with live net pricing
Zero conflict Not owned by, paid by, or pushed by any supplier
1-month rolling contract. No long ties. No exit fees.
For single pharmacies From £100/month · 30-day free trial

Independent pharmacy: every wholesaler in 1 screen, every saving surfaced before you order.

See DC Ordering
1
Best overall pricing

Every wholesaler compared at real net cost. Direct deals and rebates applied automatically.

2
Pack and brand optimisation built in

Smart pack switches and generic suggestions on every order.

3
Order Review before transmission

Above-tariff lines, missing credits, and supplier errors caught before you send.

4
Live margin and clawback reporting

Profit, loss, and Drug Tariff clawbacks tracked per line and period. Automatically.

For pharmacy groups Included with DC · No add-on fee

Head Office: every branch, every order, every rule. From 1 login.

See Head Office
1
See every branch

Group spend, savings, losses, and exceptions in 1 view.

2
Order across the group

1-click ordering to every branch. Live usage, smart quantities.

3
Control rules in bulk

Set suppliers, rules, and modules once. Applied everywhere.

4
Audit any branch

1-click branch impersonation. Every action logged.

The core · Included for every pharmacy

DC Ordering: the heart of how 2,900+ pharmacies buy stock

Every wholesaler in 1 screen. Every deal factored in. Every order reviewed before transmission. The system that pays for itself in the first week through the savings it surfaces.

1
Live multi-wholesaler price comparison

Compare AAH, Alliance, Phoenix, BNS, Sigma, Trident, and your direct deals on 1 screen with your real net cost factored in.

2
Pack and brand optimisation built in

System scans your order and recommends pack switches with exact percentage savings. Catches brand orders when generic exists. Adjusts quantities automatically.

3
Order Review with 20+ checks

Before transmission, the system fires checks for above-tariff lines, loss reports, CD and fridge lines, pack optimisation, and more. PIN-protected, with named accountability for staff.

4
Excess stock sharing between branches

Stock sitting in 1 branch automatically appears as a supply option for another. Acceptance, dispatch, and full audit trail handled in DC.

5
Margins, profits, and clawback reporting

Real-time margin tracking against Drug Tariff. Profit and loss visibility per line, per branch, per period.

See DC Ordering in action
Pack Optimisation dashboard showing savings of £408.55 across 45 products
£408.55
Saved this month on pack optimisation alone
45
Lines optimised
How it works

3 steps. Every order. Every day.

Drug Comparison sits where the work already happens. The system catches mistakes and surfaces savings before the order leaves your branch.

1

Build the order

Scan from the floor, order directly from your PMR system, or build manually. DC pulls live prices automatically.

2

Review and optimise

20+ staff-level checks fire automatically. Pack and brand optimisation. Loss reports. Above-tariff blocks. All caught before transmission.

3

Send and track

Orders transmit with full audit. Real-time confirmations. Smart reordering. Branch and head office reporting.

Money recovery · Paid module · Launching July

Reconciliation Hub: stop the money walking out of your pharmacy

Every pharmacy loses money on invoices that do not match what was ordered. Wrong prices, wrong quantities, missing credits, supplier errors. Reconciliation Hub catches every mismatch automatically, before you pay it.

1
Auto-match invoices to DC orders

Every invoice line is matched against your order history automatically. Ordered price vs invoiced price, line by line.

2
Flag every discrepancy

Price errors, missing credits, short deliveries, wrong quantities. The system surfaces what is wrong before you sign off the invoice.

3
Track open queries with suppliers

One place to manage every disputed line, credit chase, and unresolved query. Stop letting them disappear into emails.

4
Branch and group level reporting

See total recovered, average monthly leakage, biggest offending suppliers. Across 1 branch or your whole group.

Reconciliation Hub showing £258.05 in identified losses
£258.05
Loss identified this month
8
Discrepancies caught
Intelligence · Free for all customers · Launching June

Market Intel: see the price spike coming, not after it has hit you

The market moves fast on volatile lines. Drug Comparison tracks every wholesaler price and stock position across the products that matter to UK pharmacies, and alerts you before something spikes or runs short. Buy ahead, not behind.

1
Live tracking on volatile products

The system monitors price and availability across every major wholesaler, every day, on the products that move.

2
Alerts before prices move

Get notified when stock starts tightening or when a price is about to climb. Time to buy ahead, not catch up.

3
Powered by 2,900+ pharmacies' data

The intelligence is sharper because the data set is bigger. No other UK platform sees this much pharmacy ordering activity.

4
Free for every DC customer

Included in your subscription. No upgrade, no add-on, no extra cost. Active from the day you join.

Learn more about Market Intel
Market Intel dashboard showing price increases and decreases
+43.75%
Price spike caught
138
Increases tracked in last 24h
DC App · Free for every customer · Available now

The full ordering platform, in your pocket

Order on the move, between branches, after hours, anywhere you have a phone. Same data, same suppliers, same rules as the desktop platform. Built for pharmacy owners and managers who do not sit at a computer all day.

1
Best supplier shown on every line

Each line shows which wholesaler the system has chosen and why. Switch with one tap if you want to override.

2
Built-in barcode scanning

Scan stock straight into an order. No paper lists, no typing PIPs, no errors.

3
Order Panel, Status, Excess, Bulk

Live ordering, delivery status, excess stock list, and bulk ordering all on the same phone screen.

4
Free with every DC subscription

Available on the App Store now. Google Play coming soon. Sign in with the same login as your desktop platform.

DC App order panel screenshot showing multi-supplier ordering
For pharmacy groups

DC Warehouse: run your group's warehouse on the same platform your branches already use

For pharmacy groups buying centrally. Hold stock at group level, supply branches from a single inventory, run competitive tendering with any supplier, and dispatch with full audit. No spreadsheets, no phone orders, no double entry.

  • Central buying with branch-level allocation
  • Procurement and tendering with any supplier
  • Picking, dispatch, invoicing all built in
  • Plugs straight into your existing Drug Comparison platform
Combined with Head Office, Product Rules Engine, and Supplier Spend Targets, Drug Comparison gives pharmacy groups complete commercial control across every branch.
Learn more about DC Warehouse
DC Warehouse Order Management dashboard
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Pending branch orders
Live
Group-wide stock visibility
Every module exists because it was a pain that my fellow pharmacy owners and I went through.
Sarfaraz Juma
Founder

Sarfaraz Juma

Pharmacy Owner & Founder of Drug Comparison

I built Drug Comparison ten years ago because I was tired of overpaying for stock in my own pharmacies. I wanted to compare prices from every wholesaler in 1 place. That was the start of the story.

Then I wanted to know my margins. My profits. My clawbacks. Whether my staff were ordering correctly. Whether the right pack sizes were being bought. Whether brand was being ordered when generic should have been. Whether my invoices actually matched what I ordered.

Every module exists because it was a pain I went through myself, and still go through. I still own pharmacies. We are not owned by a wholesaler. Our only customer is you.

GPhC Registered Pharmacist
Pharmacy Owner since 2013
Building DC since 2015
In their words

What pharmacy owners say

Real customers. Real pharmacies.

"Drug Comparison has helped me achieve cost efficiency and save time. What I like most is the transparency and reporting, so I can see where I am making and losing money."

Amjad Abdulla
Pharmacy Owner

"We have used DC for several years. Saved a significant amount of time and money. Blocking products above tariff, clear audit trail of where products are coming from and at what price."

Taseen Iqbal
Pharmacy Owner

"Drug Comparison has saved our pharmacy a lot of money by ensuring we are always getting the best deal. The web transmission is brilliant, with immediate replies on out of stocks. My advice is, try it."

Alireza Jaffer
Pharmacy Owner

"Time is an intangible cost factor in any pharmacy. The best feature is that it brings all the suppliers together on 1 order screen. No more hassle of opening 4 different windows."

Meisam Ramani
Pharmacy Manager

"I have used several cascading systems. They are not transparent and you do not know what is going on. DC is different."

Kamran Sarwar
Pharmacy Owner

"We have virtually tried every other software on the market (3 different platforms) and have come to the conclusion that Drug Comparison is the best of them, from customer service to end point execution."

Hussain Jamali
Pharmacy Bond

"Having used Drug Comparison for some time and tested other platforms, I'm firmly of the opinion that DC is the best platform out there. It gives pharmacies full control of purchasing, with clear visibility of prices and market movements in order to make purchasing as profitable as possible. The user friendly UI and the development of new modules on a regular basis ensures that DC is always ahead of the curve, is excellent value for money, and is a must have for any pharmacy."

Steffan John
Fferyllfa D Powys Davies Pharmacy
Pricing

Transparent. Per branch. No tie-in.

Most pharmacies recover the subscription within the first week through better pricing alone.

Free Trial
£0
For 30 days

Test the platform on real orders, with full support, before you commit a penny.

  • Full access for 30 days
  • Every feature unlocked
  • Cancel any time during trial
  • Support included
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For pharmacy groups

Volume pricing, head office controls, and warehouse module for larger groups.

  • Discounts for multi-branch groups
  • Head office dashboard and KPIs
  • DC Warehouse module available
  • Reconciliation Hub available
  • Dedicated onboarding
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