Billux is a cloud billing app built for pharmacies, with batch/expiry tracking and a 200-medicine starter pack. Its Professional plan (₹5,500/year, as of September 2026) is priced between free tools and desktop systems like Marg. Here's a feature-by-feature look at where the two differ.
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▶ Try the real Nesayo now — 60-sec tour| Feature | Nesayo | Billux |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Billing free forever; the Full plan free for a new pharmacy's first month, then Essential ₹249/mo or Full ₹549/mo (as of October 2026) | Standard ₹2,500/year (~₹6.8/day); Professional ₹5,500/year (~₹15/day), 7-day free trial, no permanent free plan (per billux.in, as of September 2026) |
| Medicine database included | 2,54,034 medicines indexed, instant search | 200+ common medicines pre-loaded as a starter pack; other medicines entered manually with drug group and manufacturer fields |
| Schedule H1 register | Logged automatically at billing — patient, prescriber, medicine, batch, quantity; the pharmacist adds the prescriber's address (D&C Rules Rule 65(3)(h)) | A prescription (Rx) number and doctor-name field on the invoice — not a dedicated Schedule H1 register with most-restrictive classification logic |
| Stock rotation on billing | FEFO (First-Expired-First-Out) — automatic batch selection by expiry date | FIFO (First-In-First-Out) auto-selection when billing — rotates by purchase order, not by which batch expires soonest |
| Expiry alerts | Expiry Guard agent, checked every 6 hours; hard-blocks expired stock from sale | Colour-coded alerts (red = expired, orange = within 3 months, green = safe) plus 90/60/30-day expiry alerts |
| Voice billing | Deterministic + AI-assisted voice billing in Hindi, English and regional languages | Not listed on billux.in as of September 2026 |
| Prescription photo scan | AI-assisted extraction of medicines from a prescription photo | Not listed on billux.in as of September 2026 |
| Barcode scanner billing | Yes, with automatic HSN and GST population | Yes, with automatic HSN code population |
| GST rate handling | Per-medicine GST/HSN, default 5% for most medicines (HSN 3004) | GST rate automation per medicine (per billux.in) |
| GSTR-1 / GSTR-3B / annual reports | Yes | Yes |
| Tally export | Yes — sales, purchase, receipt and payment vouchers as Tally XML or CSV (Full plan) | Yes, Tally XML export |
| Offline billing | Progressive Web App, works offline, syncs automatically when internet returns | Cloud-based PWA, works offline, bills sync automatically when internet returns |
| WhatsApp invoice sharing | Yes | Yes |
| UPI payment collection | Yes | Yes |
| Customer credit tracking | Per-customer credit ledger and reminders | Customer credit score (0-100) based on payment history and overdue invoices |
| Loyalty / rewards program | Not a current feature | Loyalty points program, WhatsApp marketing campaigns (Professional plan) |
| Multi-branch, multi-user, role permissions | Multi-pharmacy plan available (₹2,999/mo, ₹999 per extra pharmacy, as of September 2026) | Unlimited branches and users, multi-godown/warehouse, stock transfers between branches (Professional plan) |
| Autonomous background agents | 5 named agents — Morning Briefing, Expiry Guard, Refill Radar, Stock Sense, Payment Advisor | Not listed on billux.in as of September 2026 |
| Chat-first interface | Yes — bill, check stock and get reports by typing or speaking to the app | Not listed on billux.in as of September 2026 |
| Distributor ordering / mini-ERP | Distributor purchase orders with WhatsApp confirmation link | Supplier outstanding tracking and purchase orders (Standard/Professional plans) |
Billux is a purpose-built pharmacy app, not a generic retail tool wearing a pharmacy skin — and that shows in the details it gets right for a counter: colour-coded expiry alerts (red/orange/green) alongside 90/60/30-day warnings, a barcode scanner that auto-populates the HSN code, and a customer credit score that turns overdue-invoice history into a single number a pharmacist can act on at a glance. Its Professional plan also bundles multi-branch, multi-godown stock transfers and WhatsApp marketing campaigns — useful for a small chain that wants those specific features without paying desktop-system prices.
Billux's own positioning is honest about where it sits: its blog frames the ₹5,500/year Professional plan as the middle ground between free tools and enterprise systems like Marg or Medeil, which it estimates at ₹8,000-15,000/year (per billux.in as of September 2026). For a pharmacy that wants a fixed, published annual price with no AI features attached, that middle-ground pitch is a real and reasonable option.
Billux's own site describes its stock rotation as FIFO auto-selection when billing — First-In, First-Out, meaning the batch purchased earliest is sold first. FEFO (First-Expired, First-Out), which Nesayo runs, sells the batch closest to its expiry date first, regardless of when it was purchased. The two usually agree, but they diverge whenever a later purchase happens to carry an earlier expiry date — a common case when a distributor ships older factory stock in a newer order. In that situation FIFO would sell the newer-purchased batch first and leave the near-expiry one sitting on the shelf, which is exactly the scenario FEFO exists to prevent.
This is not a claim that Billux mis-handles expiry — its colour-coded and 90/60/30-day alerts are a real safety net on top of FIFO. It is a structural difference worth knowing before choosing: FEFO is the rotation rule pharmacy inventory guidance generally points to, because it optimises directly for what actually expires next rather than what arrived first.
Billux's invoice carries a prescription (Rx) number and doctor-name field — useful for record-keeping, and a real step beyond plain billing software with no such field at all. What it is not, from what billux.in publishes, is a dedicated Schedule H1 log: a running record, specific to H1 drugs, written at the moment of sale with the patient, prescriber, medicine, batch and quantity, and applying most-restrictive-wins classification (so an item flagged H1 by any signal stays H1). Nesayo keeps that log automatically at billing; it does not record the prescriber's address yet, so the pharmacist adds it to complete the register D&C Rules Rule 65(3)(h) describes. A generic Rx-number field on an invoice and a purpose-built H1 log are different tools solving a similar-sounding but distinct compliance need.
For a pharmacy whose H1 dispensing volume is low, an Rx-number field plus careful manual record-keeping may be workable. For one that dispenses H1 drugs regularly, the gap between "a field exists" and "a dedicated H1 log exists" is the practical question to ask a vendor directly before choosing — including what the pharmacist still has to add by hand.
No — Billux offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required, but there is no permanent free plan. Its cheapest paid tier is the Standard Plan at ₹2,500/year (~₹6.8/day); the Professional Plan positioned for pharmacies is ₹5,500/year (~₹15/day), both per billux.in as of September 2026. Nesayo's billing (GST invoices, the 2,54,034-medicine catalog, batch and expiry tracking, WhatsApp bills) is free forever with no card required, and new pharmacies also get the Full plan free for their first month.
For billing alone, no — Nesayo billing costs ₹0 with no time limit, where even Billux's Standard Plan is ₹2,500/year (as of September 2026). If you want Nesayo's paid AI features (voice billing, photo prescription scanning, autonomous agents), a new pharmacy gets the Full plan free for its first month, then Essential is ₹249/month or Full ₹549/month (as of October 2026) — Essential is below Billux's Professional Plan at ₹5,500/year, ~₹458/month (as of September 2026), and both add capabilities Billux does not list, such as voice billing and a much larger medicine catalog.
Billux's invoice includes a prescription (Rx) number and doctor-name field, which supports basic record-keeping. Based on what billux.in publishes as of September 2026, it does not describe a dedicated Schedule H1 log with most-restrictive-wins classification. Nesayo logs Schedule H1 sales automatically at billing (patient, prescriber, medicine, batch, quantity); it does not record the prescriber's address yet, so the pharmacist adds it to complete the D&C Rules Rule 65(3)(h) register. Check directly with Billux for their current compliance documentation before relying on this for a regulated dispensing workflow.
Billux describes 'FIFO auto-selection when billing' on its site (First-In-First-Out — the earliest-purchased batch sells first). Nesayo uses FEFO (First-Expired-First-Out — the batch closest to expiry sells first), which is the standard pharmacy inventory guideline because it optimises directly for what expires soonest rather than what was bought first.
Billux ships a pharmacy starter pack of 200+ pre-loaded common medicines, with drug group and manufacturer fields for entering others manually (per billux.in as of September 2026). Nesayo's catalog has 2,54,034 medicines pre-loaded and instantly searchable at billing time.
As of September 2026, billux.in does not list voice billing among its features. Nesayo supports voice billing in Hindi, English and regional languages, in addition to typed and photo-based billing.
Billux's Professional Plan (₹5,500/year, as of September 2026) includes unlimited branches and users, multi-godown/warehouse support and stock transfers between branches — a genuinely broad multi-branch feature set at that price. Nesayo's multi-pharmacy plan is ₹2,999/month for the first pharmacy plus ₹999 per additional pharmacy (as of October 2026), and adds Schedule H1 logging at billing, FEFO and voice billing across every branch. Which fits better depends on branch count and whether pharmacy-specific compliance features matter for your chain.
Yes. Export your stock list as CSV and upload it to Nesayo — the importer auto-detects column mapping and common expiry date formats (MM/YY, MMM-YY, DD.MM.YYYY, ISO). Customer and invoice records can be exported and imported similarly.
Yes — per billux.in, Billux supports WhatsApp invoice sharing and UPI payment collection on all plans, similar to Nesayo.
Check any medicine's Schedule (H1/H/X), look up its HSN code and GST rate, or decode a printed expiry date — nesayo.com/tools.
A 2,54,034-medicine catalog, FEFO stock rotation and Schedule H1 sales logged at billing — free forever, no card. Voice billing and the other AI features come with your free first month of Full, then Essential or Full.
Start free →Disclaimer: This comparison is based on publicly-listed features and pricing of Billux as of 2026-10-14. Vendors update their products frequently — always verify current features and pricing directly on the vendor's website. Nesayo has no commercial relationship with Billux. No trademarks belonging to Billux are used other than to identify the competitor product, which is permitted nominative fair use under Indian Trade Marks Act.