Top WordPress plug-ins for pharmacies
Do you want to increase the functionality of your pharmacy website and make it more user friendly, efficient, and secure? Downloading one or more WordPress plug-ins for pharmacies can help.
There are tens of thousands of plug-ins that you can add to your website, says Kristen Wright, a digital marketing manager for the journaling app Day One by Automattic. “A WordPress plugin can do everything from making a minor site improvement to massive, all-encompassing changes that completely alter the way your website is displayed and used.”
Ready to get started? Here are eight of the best WordPress plug-ins for pharmacies.
1. Hospital Management System for WordPress
The Hospital Management System plug-in may have been designed for hospitals, but it offers a whole host of features like these for pharmacies:
- Different access rights for pharmacists, support staff, and other users
- Easy patient registration and onboarding
- Medical history checks
- Patient billing
The Hospital Management System plug-in costs $64.
2. Simply Schedule Appointments
Pharmacies are increasingly offering patient appointments in addition to taking care of walk-ins. If yours is considering adding this service, you could use a booking system like Simply Schedule Appointments to manage the process.
The system is easy to set up, and there’s no coding required. The plug-in lets pharmacists customize the plug-in to match their branding, add the booking calendar to any page on their website, and choose when they’re available.
The plug-in boasts dozens of integrations, including Google Calendar syncing. There’s also free support if you get stuck.
The Simply Schedule Appointments plug-in is available from $99.
3. Bookly
If the Simply Schedule Appointments plug-in doesn’t float your boat, Bookly, a competing booking plug-in, might do the trick.
The Bookly plug-in is as quick and easy to set up as Simply Schedule Appointments, and it makes it simple for your customers to book an appointment with a pharmacist. If you charge patients for a consultation, Bookly offers a payments integration that lets you collect payment up front. There’s also customer support and a knowledge base if you get stuck.
The Bookly WordPress plug-in starts from $33 a year.
4. Medical Prescription Attachment plug-in
Do you sell medicine online? Do you require customers to have a prescription for some or all of your products? If you do, a plug-in like the Medical Prescription Attachment plug-in for WooCommerce is essential.
This plug-in provides functionality for users to upload a copy of their prescription when placing an order on your pharmacy website. On the back end, you can choose which products require a prescription and approve or disapprove orders as necessary.
The Medical Prescription Attachment Plug-in costs $49.
5. Sucuri
Security is a necessity when you’re handling personal medical information, which is why a plug-in like Sucuri Security is essential for pharmacy websites. Sucuri Security is a free-to-use WordPress security plug-in that provides a suite of services like these:
- Activity auditing
- File monitoring
- Malware scanning
- Security notifications
- A website firewall
While the plug-in is free, premium features, like the website firewall, make the paid plans an excellent value. They start at $229 per year and include features that stop brute-force attacks on your website and filter out bad traffic before they reach your server.
6. LiveChat
While your pharmacists can offer customers the support they need when they’re in the store, offering advice to people browsing your website is a little harder. But adding online chat functionality using a plug-in like LiveChat makes providing advice easy.
LiveChat gives you everything you need to help users. That includes online chat functionality, automated messaging, and popups. It even lets you and your staff have multiple chats with different users at the same time.
The LiveChat plug-in is free to download, but you need to be a LiveChat customer to access the features. Plans start at $20 per month.
7. Yoast Local SEO plug-in
Even if you plan to sell prescriptions online, you still need to attract a lot of local foot traffic to your store. Having a strong local SEO presence can help your pharmacy appear higher in local searches on Google and in Google Maps.
That can be tricky to achieve without the help of a dedicated WordPress plug-in. The Yoast Local SEO plug-in makes it easy to optimize your website for local SEO, adding key business information and telling Google everything they need to know to rank you high in results. Best of all, it comes with free local SEO training.
The yearly cost of the Yoast Local SEO plug-in is $79.
8. Jotform Online Forms plug-in
Jotform offers one of the most versatile WordPress plug-ins for pharmacies. With Jotform’s drag-and-drop builder and range of templates, pharmacists can create
- Prescription request forms
- Patient surveys
- Many more pharmacy forms
- A pharmacy app to log patient data and fulfill subscriptions
These tools are powerful on their own, but pharmacists can take them to the next level by hosting them on their website using the Jotform Online Forms plug-in. It’s one of the best ways to add an intuitive registration or prescription request process to your site.
Better still, because Jotform is HIPAA-friendly, you don’t have to worry about the safety of your customer data.
The Jotform Online Forms plug-in is free to use, but some functionality may require a premium Jotform plan.
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