A Horizon ERP alternative for pharma
An offline, AI-ready pharma solution — batch & expiry billing, Schedule-H and scheme landed cost — LekhaPro is an alternative to Horizon ERP for chemists and distributors.
Live product UI — sample data.
Pharma billing
FEFO batch/expiry counter and distribution billing with schemes, MRP and Schedule-H.
Pharma AI, offline
Expiry Radar & Rescue, Scheme Optimizer, salt substitution and drug-licence alerts on-device.
GST & control
Party credit limits, outstanding and full GST returns on a posted ledger.
What this actually means in practice
In pharma the two places money quietly disappears are the expiry bin and the debtors list. A batch bought at full margin becomes a write-off if nobody spots it ninety days out, and a retailer's outstanding creeps past his limit because nothing checks it at billing time. Software for this trade therefore has to do more than print a GST bill: it must keep batch, expiry, scheme cost and party credit visible while the invoice is being made.
On migration, expect masters and balances, not archives. Medicines, manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, rates and licence details come across from spreadsheets, and opening stock is entered batch-wise with expiries alongside opening party balances as at the changeover. There is no automated import of transaction history from Horizon ERP or any other package. The practical pattern is a quarter-start cut-over with the previous system left installed, read-only, for old bills and audit queries.
That is roughly how LekhaPro is arranged: FEFO billing with batch and expiry on the line, scheme and free-goods landed cost, credit limits and ageing per party, and an on-device Pharma AI that watches expiry and drug-licence dates without sending anything anywhere. GST returns and the posted ledger sit underneath it all, offline. Horizon ERP is an established pharma package with its own following, so weigh the change against the retraining it will cost your counter staff.
| What to check before switching | How LekhaPro answers it |
|---|---|
| Where does the near-expiry money show up? | Expiry Radar lists exposed batches by value; Expiry Rescue ranks the best recovery action for each. |
| Is a party's credit checked while the bill is made? | Yes — limits and outstanding surface during billing, and ageing is available per retailer at any time. |
| Does the scheme quantity change my cost per unit? | Yes — free goods are folded into landed cost, so reported margin reflects the real purchase. |
| Is the counter screen keyboard-driven? | Code, batch, expiry, scheme and MRP sit in one grid worked entirely from the keyboard. |
| Are drug-licence renewals tracked? | Yes — licence numbers with expiry monitoring, alongside Schedule-H and H1 prescription capture. |
| What has to be keyed in at cut-over? | Batch-wise opening stock with expiry dates and opening party balances. No transaction history is imported. |
| Do the AI features send my data outside? | No — the Pharma AI is deterministic and runs on-device, so stock and party data never leave. |
| What is the running cost? | ₹249 a month for the full offline core, ₹449 for multi-seat, ₹2,499 for AI and multi-branch. |
What’s included
- FEFO batch & expiry billing
- Schedule-H / H1 compliance
- Scheme & free-goods landed cost
- Credit limits & outstanding
- On-device Pharma AI
- LAN multi-user
- GST — offline
What it does not do
- · No automated migration of past invoices or purchase history — masters, batch-wise stock and balances only.
- · There is no payroll or HR module; staff and salesman costs are recorded as expenses in the ledger.
- · Desktop edition is Windows-only, with LAN counters served by one host PC.
- · Support is remote — email, WhatsApp and screen-share — rather than a local office visit.
Frequently asked
Is LekhaPro a good Horizon ERP alternative for pharma?
Yes for pharmacies and distributors wanting offline batch/expiry billing, Schedule-H and Pharma AI with local data. Compare both against your workflow.
Does it run offline?
Yes — pharma billing, batch/expiry, GST and Pharma AI all run offline.
Can several counters bill together?
Yes — one PC hosts the books and others connect over the LAN.
Can I switch mid-year without upsetting my GST filings?
Yes, provided you break at a return period. Close the final month on the old system, file its GSTR-1 and 3B from there, then start the next month entirely in LekhaPro with opening balances in place. Splitting a single month across two systems is what causes reconciliation grief, not the change of software itself.
Who does the data entry for the changeover?
Your team, with guided help. Masters and party balances load from spreadsheets we help you format, usually over a screen-share session; the batch-wise stock count is inevitably yours, because only your staff can read the racks. Plan two people for a day in a mid-sized business, and schedule it around a closing rather than a peak week.
What exactly is included in Alternative · pharma?
FEFO batch & expiry billing, schedule-H / H1 compliance, scheme & free-goods landed cost, credit limits & outstanding, on-device Pharma AI and LAN multi-user, and 1 more. Every item on that list is a working screen you can open in the trial rather than a capability described in the abstract.
How is alternative · pharma handled differently here?
It rests on pharma billing, pharma AI, offline and GST & control. The distinction that matters is that these are structural rather than cosmetic — the behaviour is built into how records are posted, not layered on as a report you have to remember to run.
Does Alternative · pharma post to the real books?
Yes, and that is the whole reason it lives in this product rather than beside it. What pharma billing records lands in the same posted double-entry ledger the Trial Balance, P&L and GST returns are built from — so there is no second set of alternative · pharma numbers to reconcile against the first.
Does Alternative · pharma cost extra?
No. Alternative · pharma is part of the accounting core rather than a paid add-on, so pharma AI, offline is there on the entry tier exactly as it is on the highest one. What the tiers change is reach and depth — devices, multi-branch and multi-warehouse reporting, and whether the conversational AI copilots are switched on.
Is anything in Alternative · pharma generated by AI?
None of the figures. Everything pharma billing produces is computed by tested engines and would be identical with the model switched off — what AI contributes is the sentence around a number and the routing that brings the right one to your attention. Nothing it writes posts to your books without your approval.