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Pricing compounded medications is complex, with costs extending far beyond ingredients to include labour, devices, overheads, and market fluctuations. Compound Direct simplifies the process by offering real-time calculations, configurable pricing structures, and formulation-specific set prices, giving pharmacies clarity and flexibility.

In this blog, we’ll explore the core areas that matter most when setting up Compound Direct, from defining ingredients and understanding adjustment factors to tailoring dosage forms and building a master formulation database. Taking the time to set these foundations now will give you a system that not only works smoothly today but also scales with your pharmacy in the future.

Discover how Compound Direct ensures accurate and efficient compounding through real-time calculations. This blog breaks down the key processes behind the scenes, from ingredient roles and adjustment factors to weighing variations, so you can understand how the system adapts to changes and supports seamless, confident batch preparation.

The displacement factor is a calculation of how much volume an ingredient might take up in a formulation per gram. It determines how much base to remove when adding the ingredients.

Compound Direct's prescription-to-product workflow may differ from traditional processes. This guide will help you understand and optimise your use of our carefully designed system.

Signing off on a formulation isn’t just a checkbox, it’s a vital part of ensuring accuracy, safety, and traceability in your compounding workflow. In this guide, we’ll walk you through what signing off means in Compound Direct, how it works, and why it plays such a critical role in maintaining the integrity of your master formulations.

In Compound Direct, your compounding SOPs are stored securely and are easily accessible to all users. Procedures can be uploaded as PDFs for in-platform viewing or added as downloadable resources such as CMIs, templates, and forms.

Compound Direct allows you to easily add any devices and consumables used during the compounding process, as well as those needed to package finished products for use.

Knowing what you have in your inventory is not just crucial for ensuring you have what you need to make compounds in a timely manner, it also prevents over-ordering, loss due to expiry or incorrect monthly financials. Luckily Compound Direct has a simple and intuitive stocktaking module that will save you time and money.

In this guide, you will learn the basics of processing an electronic prescription. The guide will also refer to processing paper prescriptions that have eRx barcodes attached. Managing all the aspects of the eRx system in Compound Direct is very comprehensive so it has been divided into similar groups. The other guides can be found here (link to other guides)