The POS That Keeps Selling When Your Internet Doesn't.

Three things keep small pharmacy owners awake. First, you don't really know what stock you have, and 10–12% of medicines in the Kenyan market are estimated counterfeit or substandard by the PPB. Second, when the network drops — and it does — your cloud POS goes with it, and customers walk out. Third, expired stock is straight-up financial loss; one owner shared writing off around 500k in a single year on a 5M inventory base.

Counterfeits enter through what KAPI's chairperson calls "briefcase importers using consolidated cargo" — informal middlemen with prices no legitimate distributor can match. Tier 2/3 chemists feel invisible to PPB, with the chairperson noting that "counterfeits sold to unlicensed pharmacies go unreported for fear of causing alarm". Meanwhile, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers reports 40% of members have lost market share to counterfeit goods.

DawaPos (the consumer name for ChemistOS) is built specifically for the working reality of those pharmacies. The whole system runs on the laptop you already own, fully offline. Sales, M-Pesa receipts, batch tracking, and printing all keep working through a network outage. Sync to the cloud happens quietly when you reconnect. Every box is tracked by batch and expiry, and the system always dispenses your earliest-expiring stock first to cut the write-off pile. When you need to restock, orders flow directly to verified Tier 1 distributors at bulk prices — no briefcase middlemen, no risk of fakes.