# Front-end share

A term used when buying pharmacy.

Revenue from everything that is not a prescription, at a margin the prescriptions do not carry.

Dispensing margins are set by contracts a small pharmacy does not negotiate, so the part of the business the owner actually controls is the front end and the clinical services beside it. Two pharmacies filling the same script count can therefore earn very differently. Split revenue and margin into dispensing, front end, and services for three years, because a shrinking front end under a flat script count is a business quietly becoming a contract.

Part of: Buying a Pharmacy (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-pharmacy)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-pharmacy/terms/front-end-share
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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