Compare · Pharmacy tills and stock software
PixelCare and Marg ERP
Indian desktop billing, inventory and accounting ERP widely used by chemists, medical stores and pharma distributors, built around Indian GST compliance.
How Marg ERP is delivered
Windows desktop install that works offline. Cloud hosting is an extra cost per user.
Its published price
Licences from Rs 5,550 to Rs 26,000 plus tax in South Asia (Indian rupees), and USD 350 to 1,150 elsewhere. Extra users and customisation cost more.
Its pricing page →On our 28 questions
Marg ERP’s website confirms 11 in full and 4 in part or as a paid add-on. PixelCare is built to answer all 28 in one product.
Marg ERP’s website →Worth knowing
What a buyer should check about Marg ERP.
Each point is from Marg ERP’s own material, read on 3 October 2026.
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No clinic side at all: no appointments, consultation billing, notes or prescribing.
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Built around Indian GST, e-way bills and Indian banks; Pakistan's FBR tax integration is not mentioned on the pharmacy page.
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Users are capped by edition (e.g. Basic: 1 full-rights user, max 2), with Rs 3,000 per extra user.
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Desktop Windows software; cloud access costs extra (Rs 7,500 per user on top of the licence).
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Pricing page does not state whether licences are one-time or yearly, and says customisation is extra and final prices vary.
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Side by side
All 28 questions.
“Not stated” means we found nothing either way on Marg ERP’s website. Check with the vendor before you decide.
| Capability | PixelCare | Marg ERP |
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| Appointments by doctor | Yes Each doctor’s hours, slot length, leave and holidays | No Pharmacy billing and inventory product; its pharmacy page and product menu offer no clinic, appointment or medical-record module. Source |
| Patients book online | Yes Under the clinic’s own name, with booking rules | No Pharmacy billing and inventory product; its pharmacy page and product menu offer no clinic, appointment or medical-record module. Source |
| Walk-ins and token queue | Yes Tokens, one queue, waiting-room screen | No Pharmacy billing and inventory product; its pharmacy page and product menu offer no clinic, appointment or medical-record module. Source |
| Reminders by SMS, WhatsApp or email | Yes In the clinic’s own words and sender name | Yes Sends invoices, dues, payment and prescription-refill reminders to customers on WhatsApp. Source |
| Visit record and vitals | Yes Structured record, vitals with trends, templates | No Pharmacy billing and inventory product; its pharmacy page and product menu offer no clinic, appointment or medical-record module. Source |
| Prescriptions | Yes Written from the pharmacy’s own shelf, printed or sent | No No prescribing; the pharmacy can attach a photo of the customer's prescription to the bill. Source |
| Lab and imaging orders | Yes Orders, results and abnormal-value flags | No Pharmacy billing and inventory product; its pharmacy page and product menu offer no clinic, appointment or medical-record module. Source |
| Phone and video visits | Yes Booked, noted and billed like any visit | No No clinic video visits; it resells partner doctor-consultation services to pharmacy customers via QR code. Source |
| Billing, discounts and refunds | Yes Limits per role, part payments, credit | No Retail GST sales invoices only; no consultation billing. Source |
| Online and card payments | Yes Local gateways, wallets, QR and card machines | Yes MargPay dynamic QR codes and payment links with automatic reconciliation. Source |
| Company and insurer billing | Yes Agreed rates, monthly invoice, ageing | Not stated |
| Doctor’s share and payouts | Yes Any arrangement, a ledger per doctor, payout runs | Not stated |
| Pharmacy stock by batch and expiry | Yes Earliest expiry first, never an expired batch | In part Batch-wise tracking, near-expiry alerts and returns to supplier; earliest-expiry-first selection not stated. Source |
| Pharmacy till | Yes Barcode, shifts, returns, works offline | Yes Barcode and touchscreen billing, multiple counters, cash drawer with user permissions, Android POS terminals. Source |
| Suppliers and purchasing | Yes Orders, goods received, returns, supplier balances | Yes Purchase import from supplier bills, reorder rules, ordering into distributors' ERP, vendor payments and purchase orders. Source |
| Full accounts inside the product | Yes Ledger, trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet | Yes Built-in accounting with Trial Balance, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, plus bank reconciliation. Source |
| Reports | Yes Financial and operational, PDF and spreadsheet | Yes Claims 1,000+ MIS reports on sales, stock, GST and profit. Source |
| Several clinics and branches | Yes Separate books, combined reports | Yes Multi-branch and multi-store consolidated accounts; Marg Cloud manages unlimited branches centrally. Source |
| Roles and permissions | Yes Per-person switches and money limits | In part User counts and rights fixed by edition (e.g. one full-rights user); cloud version adds role-based permissions. Source |
| The clinic’s own brand | Yes Name, logo, colours and web address on every screen | Not stated |
| Custom fields and forms | Yes On patient, booking and visit forms | Not stated |
| Languages and right-to-left | Yes Per clinic, per user and per patient | In part Invoices in Indian regional languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu); Urdu or right-to-left not mentioned. Source |
| Works without internet | Yes Till and day list carry on; work posts itself later | Yes Desktop-first; billing and accounting run offline, internet needed only for banking and filing. Source |
| Mobile apps | Yes For patients, doctors and the desk | Yes Companion apps: eRetail, eOrder, eOwner, eDelivery, SFAXpert. Source |
| API and integrations | Yes Documented interface and webhooks | Yes API integration for data access plus connected banking with several Indian banks. Source |
| Audit trail | Yes Permanent, with every record opening logged | In part Marg Cloud tracks every user action with logs; desktop 'internal audit' is data validation. Source |
| Export of all data | Yes Every list, restricted and logged | Yes GST data uploadable as Excel, JSON or CSV; MIS reports downloadable. Source |
| Patient portal | Yes Bookings, receipts, prescriptions and results | No Pharmacy billing and inventory product; its pharmacy page and product menu offer no clinic, appointment or medical-record module. Source |
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See what PixelCare does that Marg ERP does not.
The live demo is a working clinic with sample patients, stock and seven weeks of history. Enter as the owner, the receptionist, the doctor, the pharmacist or a patient.