Pharmacists
Pharmacy website design and development, directed by pharmacists who own pharmacies
We dispense, compound, and run pharmacies every week, and our own stores run on the platform we deliver to clients. A pharmacy site has to do three things: show patients what you offer that the banner store does not, let them act (refill, transfer, book) without phoning, and stay inside your College's advertising standard and Health Canada's limits on prescription drug advertising.
Our work
A pharmacy site that is running now
Mediglen Pharmacy and Compounding, Coquitlam, British Columbia
An action oriented site where a patient can request a refill or a transfer, complete a weight management intake, and arrange free local delivery, instead of being told to telephone.
- Refill and transfer requests that reach the pharmacy and are acknowledged
- A seven step clinical intake that saves as you go, so nothing is lost if you stop
- A summary document produced in the patient's own browser at the end of the intake
- A compounding section with eight specialty areas, and a cold chain delivery service across ten cities
Every screen of Mediglen Pharmacy and Compounding, and other pharmacy work: NovaMed Pharmacy (live), Carebridge Pharmacy (built, awaiting launch).




Mediglen Pharmacy and Compounding: the home page, the compounding page, the delivery page and the phone view. The hardware is drawn in code and is an illustration; only the screens are real.
What goes wrong
The problems we see on pharmacy sites
- A banner template that looks like every other store and says nothing about your compounding lab, your clinic services, or your languages.
- Patients phoning for refills and transfers because the site has no way to request them.
- Minor ailment and vaccination services that patients cannot find or book.
- Copy written by a marketer that names prescription drugs, prices them, or promises outcomes a College would object to.
- Direct to consumer competitors taking weight loss, skin, and men's health patients that used to walk in.
Regulators
Who sets the advertising rules
| Province | Regulator |
|---|---|
| British Columbia | College of Pharmacists of British Columbia (CPBC) |
| Alberta | Alberta College of Pharmacy (ACP) |
| Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals (SCPP) |
| Manitoba | College of Pharmacists of Manitoba (CPhM) |
| Ontario | Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP) |
| Québec | Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec (OPQ) |
| New Brunswick | New Brunswick College of Pharmacists (NBCP) |
| Nova Scotia | Nova Scotia Pharmacy Regulator (NSPR) |
| Prince Edward Island | Prince Edward Island College of Pharmacy (PEICP) |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | College of Pharmacy of Newfoundland and Labrador (CPNL) |
What we deliver
Patient tools for a pharmacy
Refill and transfer requests
Patients submit a refill or a transfer from another pharmacy in under a minute. The request routes to your pharmacy management system or a Canadian hosted intake tool, never by plain email.
What we mean by thisOnline shop for your front store
OTC, natural health, and home health products on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Square, Wix, or Lightspeed, or the shop you already run. Prescription drugs are never sold online, and scheduled products follow your province's rules.
What we mean by thisMinor ailment and vaccination booking
In provinces where pharmacists assess and prescribe, patients book the assessment or the vaccine online. Scope wording is checked against your College so the site claims only what you are licensed to do.
What we mean by thisCompounding and specialty intake
Structured intake for compounded prescriptions, with the prescriber's details and consent captured up front.
What we mean by thisService line pages
One page per service that earns money: compounding, travel health, medication reviews, blister packs, delivery, clinic services. Each structured for search and reviewed by a pharmacist.
Hours, closures, and notices your staff edit
A protected panel where your team changes hours, holiday closures, vaccine availability, and a notice bar, with no developer involved.
What we mean by thisLanguages your community speaks
Built so a second or third language (Punjabi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, Arabic, Tagalog, Korean, French) is a content task, not a rebuild.
What we mean by this
Software your practice may already use
A pharmacy runs a dispensing system (Kroll, Propel Rx, Fillware, WinRx, or Ubik in Quebec) and, increasingly, a separate clinical service tool for booking and intake (PharmaConnect, MedMe, MedEssist, FillAssist). The website links to the patient side of each, or carries a request form that routes into your workflow. It never writes into the dispensing system unless the vendor grants access and the work is scoped separately.
Keep the software your team already uses. We review your booking, intake and patient portal tools before proposing the website. Your proposal identifies the connection method for each tool and any vendor requirements or additional costs.
| Software | What it does | What a patient does from your site | Website route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kroll TELUS Health. Clinical or practice system. | Dispensing and pharmacy management. | Refills, prescription photos and appointment requests go through PharmaConnect, the vendor's patient service, where the pharmacy has enabled it. | Link or button; Routed request Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| Propel Rx (also PharmaClik Rx, Nexxsys) McKesson Canada. Clinical or practice system. | Dispensing and pharmacy management. PharmaClik Rx and Nexxsys were combined into Propel Rx; some stores still describe their system by the older name. Available across Canada except Quebec, according to the vendor. | Web refills through the patient channel the store's banner provides, where it has one. | Link or button; Routed request Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| Fillware Fillware Technologies. Clinical or practice system. | Dispensing, billing and pharmacy management, with a separate point of sale. | Refills through the pharmacy's existing refill portal, or through the FillAssist app where the pharmacy licenses it. | Link or button; Routed request Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| WinRx Applied Robotics. Clinical or practice system. | Dispensing and pharmacy management, with optional patient services. | Appointment booking through the vendor's Pharmacy Dashboard booking page and refill requests through its iEMR patient app, where the pharmacy has activated them. Pharmacy Dashboard also documents a REST API (token authenticated: appointments, refill requests, patients) for the pharmacy's own integrations. | Link or button; Routed request; Direct connection Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| Ubik TELUS Health. Clinical or practice system. | Dispensing and pharmacy management. Quebec. | Online prescription services and appointment booking through Pharma Space (Espace Pharma), where the pharmacy has the add on. | Link or button; Routed request Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| PharmaConnect TELUS Health. Patient facing tool. | Patient service for Kroll pharmacies: refills, prescription photos and appointments. | Request a refill or manage an appointment from a button on the site. Refill requests land in Kroll; booking needs the pharmacy's booking module. | Link or button Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| MedMe Health MedMe Health. Patient facing tool. | Booking, intake and documentation for pharmacy clinical services. | Book a vaccination, a minor ailment assessment or a medication review from a service specific link, which is the vendor's recommended way to place booking on a website. | Link or button Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| MedEssist MedEssist. Patient facing tool. | Booking, intake and patient communications for pharmacies. | Book a service and complete intake inside your page through the vendor's documented embed, or through a link. The vendor also allows linking an existing refill tool from its pages. | Link or button; Vendor supported embed Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| FillAssist PharmAssess. Patient facing tool. | Patient refill app that works with Fillware. | Request refills and send documents from the app; the vendor writes back into Fillware. | Link or button Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
| MAPflow MAPflow. Adjacent service. | Assessment, documentation and billing for minor ailments and clinical services, used by the pharmacy team. | Nothing to link to: intake links are sent to each patient by the pharmacy. The site describes the service and sends patients to book through your booking tool, call or visit. | Explained on the site, not connected Connect with us to discuss your individual or enterprise needs. |
How a website connects to pharmacy software
Most practices run two layers of software. The clinical system holds the record, the schedule and the billing. The patient facing tool is what a patient touches: booking, a refill request, an intake form or a portal. A website connects to the second layer, through whatever the vendor supports, and never replaces the first.
| Route | What it means | Confirmed at proposal |
|---|---|---|
| Link or button | The website sends the patient to the booking page, refill tool, intake form or portal the vendor already hosts. Works with any tool that has a public address, and with the button code some vendors generate. | The address your practice approves for patients, and any rule about new or existing patients. |
| Vendor supported embed | The vendor's own booking or intake component runs inside your page, so the patient does not leave your site. Only where the vendor documents an embed, and only when it works with a keyboard and on a phone, with a plain link as the fallback. | The vendor's current embed documentation, the module enabled on your account, and a test on a phone. |
| Existing vendor connector | Your clinical system already connects to a patient tool (an EMR to Ocean, a practice system to an exercise platform). The website links to that tool; the connection between the two systems is the vendor's, not ours. | The exact product, edition and module on each side, what the connector is permitted to do, and your vendor's confirmation. |
| Routed request | A form Monograph builds sends a refill, transfer, intake or registration request into your own system or a Canadian hosted intake tool, not to a shared inbox and never by plain email. A clinician at your practice still reviews every request. Available in Signature and Platform builds. | The destination your team will work from, who owns it, and where it stores what it receives. |
| Direct connection | New, authenticated data exchange between the website and your system through the vendor's own interface. Only where the vendor grants access, and always scoped, quoted and tested separately before patients use it. | Vendor access or approval, a suitable contract, the defined data flow, a test environment, and who maintains it. |
Compliance
What the review covers for pharmacists
- Prescription drugs are described only by name, price, and quantity, in line with the Food and Drug Regulations. No promotion of a prescription product's benefits to the public.
- Pharmacist prescribing and assessment services are described within the scope your province and College allow, using their terminology.
- No patient testimonials where your College's advertising standard prohibits them, and no superlatives, guarantees, or comparisons with named competitors.
- Fees and professional services are described accurately; any advertised price includes what your College requires.
- Forms never carry personal health information by plain email. Intake routes to your system or a Canadian hosted tool.
Which privacy law your forms fall under
Personal information a pharmacy site collects is governed federally by PIPEDA. For activity within a province that has substantially similar legislation, that province's law applies instead: PIPA in British Columbia, PIPA in Alberta, and Québec's private sector act as amended by Law 25. Pharmacies and pharmacists that are health information custodians are also covered by their province's health information law, such as PHIPA in Ontario. Which law applies depends on your province and on what a form collects, which is one reason our forms collect contact details and a free text message only.
The full compliance register and the plain language advertising rules guide.
Pricing
The same three services
Build from $2,500
A website built to a clinical standard, from the starter template every Monograph site is built on.
Care $150 to $250 per month
Hosting, updates, monitoring, content changes, and a quarterly compliance re review.
Growth from $500 per month
An SEO and AI search program that is executed every month, not just planned.
Questions from pharmacists
Do you build websites for pharmacies across Canada?
Yes. Monograph designs and maintains websites for pharmacies across Canada, from Vancouver. Your copy is written to the advertising standard of your regulatory College and your province, the regulator for your province is confirmed at each review, and your refill, transfer and booking tools connect to the systems your pharmacy already runs.
What should a pharmacy website include?
At minimum: a way to request refills and transfers without phoning, booking for the clinical services you offer, one page for each service that earns money, accurate hours, address, phone, and a map, a privacy policy that matches your forms, and accessible design. Many pharmacies now add an online shop for front store products. Every page also has to stay within your College's advertising standard and Health Canada's limits on prescription drug advertising.
Can our website sell front store products online?
Yes. We connect your site to Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Square, Wix, or Lightspeed, or to the shop you already run. Prescription drugs are never sold through it, scheduled non prescription products are handled the way your province's drug schedules require or left out, and product copy is reviewed against your College's standard before launch.
Which privacy law applies to a pharmacy website in Canada?
It depends on the province. PIPEDA applies federally; PIPA applies to private organizations in British Columbia and in Alberta; Québec's private sector act, as amended by Law 25, applies in Québec; and health information custodians are covered by provincial health information laws such as PHIPA in Ontario. Confirm the current version with your College and privacy counsel. Our forms ask for contact details and a free text message only, the message field asks patients not to include health details, and every request is routed into your system or a Canadian hosted intake tool, never by plain email.
We already have a site from our banner or another vendor. How does moving work?
Check your banner agreement first: some banners restrict or require their own site, and we work within what yours allows. When you move, your domain stays in your name, every old page address is redirected to its new page, and the records that carry your email are left alone unless you ask us to move email too.
Who can change the site after launch?
Your staff change hours, closures, vaccine availability, and a notice bar themselves in a protected panel. Anything else on an existing page goes through Care, with a two business day response and no hourly billing; a new page is a fixed price add on.
What do you need from us?
Access to your domain and Google Business Profile, the facts (services, hours, staff, licences, and what must not be advertised), and content approval within five business days. A pharmacist writes the copy; you correct the facts and approve it before anything goes live.
What happens if we stop working with you?
On a build, the domain, code, content, and accounts are yours from day one. Care is free for the first three months after launch and then runs month to month; ending it ends the maintenance, not your ownership, and you receive a documented handover.
Our banner provides a website. Why would we need another one?
Banner sites serve the banner's brand, and every store on it looks the same. Patients choose a pharmacy, not a banner. Your own site shows what makes your store different, within the rules, and it belongs to you if you ever change banners or sell.
Can the site take refill requests without emailing patient details?
Yes. Requests are collected on an encrypted form and routed into your pharmacy system or a Canadian hosted intake tool. Nothing about a patient's medication travels by plain email through anything we deliver.
Can you write the minor ailments page so it is accurate for our province?
Yes. A pharmacist writes it, using your College's terminology for the services you are licensed to provide, and we keep a dated record of the standard we checked it against.
Can patients request refills from the site if we run Kroll, Propel Rx, Fillware or WinRx?
Yes, through the patient service your vendor already provides where you have enabled it (PharmaConnect for Kroll, your banner's patient channel for Propel Rx, your existing portal or the FillAssist app for Fillware, the vendor's patient app for WinRx), or through a refill request form we build that routes into your workflow. A request is a request: a pharmacist still checks it, and a new prescription cannot be transmitted through a website form. Which route applies is confirmed at proposal, along with any vendor fee.
We use MedMe or MedEssist for clinical services. Does the site work with them?
Yes. MedMe recommends a booking link for each service, so each service page carries the link for that service. MedEssist documents an embed for existing pharmacy websites, so booking and intake can sit inside your page, with a plain link as the fallback. Neither is described as connected until we have tested it with your account.
Our pharmacy runs Ubik in Quebec. Is that different?
In two ways. The patient side is Pharma Space (Espace Pharma), so the site links to that rather than to PharmaConnect, and the site itself has to meet the Charter of the French Language. Propel Rx is not offered in Quebec, according to its vendor.
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