Pharmacy Software for French-Speaking Africa (2026)

Running a pharmacy or parapharmacy in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon or DR Congo comes with challenges that software designed for Europe ignores: no exhaustive local drug database, unstable internet, mobile-money rather than card payments, and tight budgets that make expensive subscriptions hard to justify.

Many pharmacies still enter every product by hand — name, dosage, price — which is slow and error-prone. digabloPos answers this context: a free POS and management app that works offline, accepts mobile money, and ships with a built-in medication catalogue to identify boxes automatically when scanned.

Every medication box carries a GS1 barcode — a 2D Data Matrix with the product code (GTIN), batch number and expiry date. digabloPos reads it and identifies the product with no typing: the name fills in, and for a lot-managed product the batch and expiry fill in too.

It draws on a built-in catalogue of 370,000+ references, built from official public databases (France's BDPM, the US openFDA NDC directory, and the UK NHS dm+d). When a product is not in the catalogue yet — common for India-sourced or local-lab medicines — the first pharmacy that creates it enriches a shared, anonymized catalogue, so the next pharmacy that scans the same box gets it automatically.

digabloPos natively tracks batches and expiry dates with FEFO (first-expired, first-out), alerts before stock expires, and traces each sale by batch for recalls.

And when a medication is out of stock, it instantly shows the products in your stock that share the same molecule (INN/DCI), so you can add an equivalent in a tap instead of losing the sale. It works offline, and the pharmacist keeps the final decision on any generic substitution.

The essentials — till, catalogue, scanning, batch and expiry tracking — require no subscription. The till keeps working without a connection and syncs when the network returns. Take payment in cash or via your market's mobile-money methods, and follow your pharmacy's sales remotely from your phone.