Accounting Software for Pharmacy & Health Retail
The front store mixes taxable and exempt categories, everything has a date, and write-off discipline is regulatory hygiene, not just accounting hygiene.
How SeroBooks answers it
Dated stock is a duty of care
In health retail an expiry date is not an inventory nuisance — it is a safety obligation and a regulatory one. Knowing which lot is on the shelf, which lot went out the door, and to whom, is the difference between a controlled recall and a week of guesswork.
SeroBooks tracks batches with their dates from the moment goods are received, and every sale drawing from a batch is remembered against it.
Recall tracing that already exists
Open any batch and the recall view lists every sale it went out on, with the customer and invoice. A supplier notice on Monday morning becomes a list of people to call before lunch, plus a precise figure for what is still on the shelf to pull.
None of that requires special preparation, because the data was captured in the ordinary flow of receiving and selling.
Rotation as the default, not the discipline
When a sale does not name a batch, the oldest with stock is drawn automatically. The Expiry screen shows value at risk across the chosen horizon, expired batches still holding stock, and the business's stated on-expiry policy — so the weekly review has a worklist and a dollar figure.
Write-offs carry reasons into the damaged-goods report and the ledger, so shrink is a number rather than a shrug.
Books that stand up to an audit
Every document posts double-entry journals at the moment it happens, period locks are enforced at the ledger, and the audit trail keeps superseded lines with who replaced them and when. Statements verify their own integrity — balanced trial balance, balanced balance sheet, cash flow tied to the cash accounts.
Reviewers get to walk the numbers to their documents without a leap of faith anywhere.