Head Office
Group Ordering launching June 2026 · Early access open

Every Branch. Every order. Every rule. One Head Office login.

Visibility across every Branch, Group Orders in one click, Supplier and Rule Control in bulk, and one-click Branch Audit. Live today, with Group Ordering going live in June 2026.

100+UK pharmacy groups on DC
2,900+Pharmacies on DC
£800Average savings per Branch, per month
£10KAverage savings per Branch, per year
Going live June 2026

Place a Group order from one screen

This is the Head Office Group Ordering screen, launching June 2026. Search for a product, see usage and best price across every Branch, and send the order to every Branch in a single click. Early access opens now for Drug Comparison customers.

Drug Comparison Head Office Group Ordering screen showing products being ordered across multiple Branches with best-price routing and supplier spend breakdown

Live screen from the Head Office Group Ordering module, currently in final testing ahead of June launch. Drug Comparison customers on the early access list get it first.

How groups run today

The 5 places Head Office time gets lost

Most groups know there is friction running ordering across multiple Branches. It is usually one or more of these.

1
Placing urgent group orders, Branch by Branch

The market shifts and you need stock across the group fast. Without Head Office, the only way to do it is to log into every Branch and place the same order, one Branch at a time. For 10 Branches that is 10 separate logins and 10 separate orders to put through, while the price keeps moving on you. This is where most group time goes, and where the savings usually go with it.

2
No visibility into what each Branch is buying

Without Head Office, the buying activity at each Branch is hidden behind a separate login. You do not know what was ordered, what was paid, which supplier was used, or whether a better price was on the table. With no view, there is nothing to audit.

3
Setting the same rule Branch by Branch

A new supplier deal lands. A pricing rule changes. You apply it once at Head Office, then again at every Branch one at a time, hoping nobody missed an update.

4
Manual login to every Branch for any group view

Need a group spend number, a margin breakdown, or a list of lines above tariff? Without Head Office the only way to get any of these is to log into every Branch one at a time, run the report on each, and stitch the numbers together yourself. The result is normally out of date before you finish.

5
No clear audit when something goes wrong

A Branch ordered from the wrong supplier or above tariff. By the time you find out, the order has shipped, the credit window has closed, and nobody can say exactly when the decision was made.

Most groups absorb all 5

You either accept the manual login routine as the cost of running a group, or your team spends half the week logging in and out of Branches to keep tabs on the buying. When the market moves and you need urgent stock for every Branch, the same thing happens 10 times over for 1 group-wide order. The hours go, and the saving usually goes with them.

Drug Comparison Head Office is the control layer that sits above your Branches. From 1 login you see every Branch, place orders across the group in a single click, and audit any Branch instantly.

Every Branch1 login away
Every orderAcross the group, 1 click
Every ruleSet once, applied everywhere
Every reportGroup level, live
What Head Office does

4 jobs. 1 screen.

Head Office is built around the 4 things group owners do every day, not a feature list.

See everything across every Branch

One consolidated view across the group. Total spend, savings, losses, and exceptions, with Branch-level drilldown when you need it.

  • Group total spend across all Branches
  • Pack optimisation savings and losses, group level
  • Lines above tariff, by Branch and group
  • Expensive line audit across the group
Launching June 2026

Order for every Branch in one click

When the market shifts and you need urgent stock across the group, you place the order once at Head Office and it goes to every Branch. The Branch-by-Branch login routine ends.

  • One-click ordering across every Branch in the group
  • Live Branch usage and historic purchase patterns visible
  • Smart suggested quantities for each Branch
  • Best-price routing applied per Branch automatically
Register for June early access

Control everything in bulk

Set it once at Head Office, applied everywhere. Suppliers, rules, modules, and supplier priorities, all managed centrally.

  • Turn suppliers on or off across all Branches
  • Set supplier priority by Branch group or globally
  • Apply Product Rules in bulk across the group
  • Control which DC modules each Branch can see

Audit any Branch in one click

Drop into any Branch directly from Head Office without passing credentials or logging in again. You see what they see, and every action you take is logged in the audit trail.

  • One-click Branch impersonation from Head Office
  • Expensive line report when a Branch went above tariff
  • Audit log of every Head Office action across Branches
  • Lines ordered above drug tariff, by Branch and date
For your team on the ground

Your Branches keep working exactly as they do today

Head Office is a layer that sits above your Branches, not a replacement for them. Your Branch managers and dispensers keep their own login, their own dashboards, their own day-to-day workflow. Nothing changes for them on day 1.

What changes is that Head Office now sees what every Branch is doing, and you can step in whenever you need to.

What your Branches still see

  • Their own login, dashboard, and reports
  • The full Drug Comparison ordering experience
  • Their own supplier list, within group rules
  • Pack optimisation, smart notifications, reports
  • Branch-level data, exactly as before
Group reports

The reports group owners use most

20+ reports are available at Head Office. These are the ones group owners run weekly.

Supplier savings

How much each supplier is saving you across every Branch, ranked. Spot the suppliers that pull their weight and the ones that do not.

Margin report

Margin by Branch, supplier, and product group, with the comparison to the rest of the group. The single fastest way to see where margin is leaking.

Lines above drug tariff

Every line ordered above tariff, Branch by Branch. The report your area managers want on a Monday morning.

Pack optimisation

Savings booked from the right pack size, losses from the wrong one. By Branch, by month, with the full audit trail.

Expensive line audit

When a Branch ordered from a more expensive supplier with a cheaper one available. Every instance, by Branch, by date, by line.

Group total spend

Total order value across all Branches, by supplier, by category, by month. The one number every owner wants on the dashboard.

Why Drug Comparison

Built by a pharmacist who owns multiple pharmacies. On a platform that is truly independent.

Drug Comparison is not owned by any wholesaler or buying group. Every supplier is treated on its merits, and every group sees the same comparison data. The platform answers to you, not to a parent company that needs you to order from one place.

Head Office is included with every Drug Comparison subscription. No separate fee, no premium tier, no add-on for the control layer that makes the group work. If you are already paying for Branch licences, you already have it.

Built on a decade of running pharmacies. Drug Comparison has been serving UK community pharmacy since 2015. Every Head Office feature is in the product because a pharmacy group asked for it.

Independent · Included with DC · Built for pharmacy
How it works

Up and running on Head Office the same day

No data migration, no overhaul, no implementation project. If your Branches are already on Drug Comparison, Head Office is a phone call away.

1

Contact our support team

Tell us you want a Head Office login for your group. Email, phone, or in-app. We pick it up the same day.

2

We assign your Branches

We attach the Branches you own to your new Head Office account. Nothing changes at Branch level. Your team keeps ordering as normal while we set it up.

3

Log in and run the group

You get your Head Office login details and immediate access to every module. Group ordering switches on for early access registrants when it goes live in June.

Pricing

One price per Branch. Head Office included.

Simple per-Branch pricing, with Head Office included at no extra charge. Group plans available on request.

Standard Branch licence

£100/Branch/month

Full Drug Comparison platform per Branch. Order Panel, Pack Optimisation, Order Review, Reports, DC App, Smart Notifications, Product Rules.

Group plans are available for multi-Branch operators. Talk to us about your group commercials when you register.

Get on the early access list
Sarfaraz Juma

Sarfaraz Juma

Pharmacist and Founder, Drug Comparison

I am a pharmacist and I own multiple pharmacies. The group owners on Drug Comparison kept telling me the same story. They were spending too much time logging in and out of Branches just to see what each one was doing. The worst was when the market moved and they needed urgent stock across the group. By the time they had logged into all 10 Branches and placed the same order 10 times over, the price had usually moved or the stock had gone. I built Head Office to put a stop to all of it. From 1 login you see every Branch, audit any of them in a click, and place a group order across all the Branches at once. I built it the way I would want to use it for my own pharmacies.

2,900+UK pharmacies on Drug Comparison
100+Pharmacy groups already on the platform
Since 2015Serving UK community pharmacy
Going live June 2026 · Included with DC

Be first when Group Ordering goes live

Group Ordering switches on for early access registrants in June. Drug Comparison customers go to the top of the queue. Register now to be ready, or book a 30-minute demo if you want to see the rest of Head Office before then.