Notes for people who run pharmacies

What KRA's eTIMS means for your pharmacy, the options for complying, and how to keep every sale eTIMS-ready without slowing down your counter

There's a pharmacy in Nairobi. The owner, James, had been a pharmacist for 19 years. He knew his stock the way a mother knows her children.

Expired medicines are one of the biggest hidden losses in many Kenyan pharmacies. In this article, we explore how manual expiry tracking leads to wasted stock, compliance risks, and lost revenue — and how cloud-based systems like [DawaTrack](https://dawatrack.com)

Walk into a busy pharmacy or clinic anywhere in Kenya today and you’ll notice something changing. In one facility, staff are still flipping through exercise books, balancing stock with handwritten notes, and trying to reconcile M-Pesa payments at the end of the day.