Vyapar is a widely used billing app with a free tier and pharmacy features covering batch/expiry, FEFO and a Schedule H/H1 register. Here's where a pharmacy-only tool still differs.
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▶ Try the real Nesayo now — 60-sec tour| Feature | Nesayo | Vyapar |
|---|---|---|
| Primary market | Indian retail pharmacies only | All SMB retail (grocery, hardware, pharma, services) |
| Pricing | Billing free forever; AI Employee ₹999/mo (₹9,990/yr), as of September 2026 | Free plan available; paid plans billed annually + 18% GST (current prices at vyaparapp.in/pricing) |
| Medicine database included | 2,54,034 medicines indexed, instant search | Not listed publicly as of September 2026 |
| Schedule H/H1 register | Schedule H1 sales logged at billing (patient, prescriber, medicine, batch, quantity); the pharmacist adds the prescriber's address (Rule 65(3)(h)) | Yes — digital Schedule H/H1 register, with admin-controlled activation and a prescription/doctor note field |
| FEFO (First Expiry First Out) | Automatic batch selection | Yes — batch and expiry tracking with FEFO stock rotation |
| Expiry alerts 30/60/90 days | Expiry Guard agent every 6 hours | Yes — automatic near-expiry batch alerts |
| Voice billing | English, Hindi and Hinglish (voice beta) (Hindi/Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Marathi/Bengali/Gujarati/Punjabi/Urdu/English) | Not listed publicly as of September 2026 |
| Prescription photo scan | AI Vision extracts medicines from Rx photo | Prescription upload for reference; reading medicines from an Rx photo not listed publicly as of September 2026 |
| Drug interaction warnings | Checked before a bill is saved, at the counter and in chat (salt pairs); free checker at /tools/drug-interaction-checker | Not listed publicly as of September 2026 |
| GSTR-1 / GSTR-3B export | Yes, 5% default for medicines (HSN 3004) | Yes, generic GST returns |
| Tally export | Yes — sales, purchase, receipt and payment vouchers as Tally XML or CSV (AI Employee plan) | Yes — Tally import/export on the Platinum plan |
| Double-entry accounting | P&L, stock valuation, day book — no formal balance sheet/trial balance | Yes, full P&L + balance sheet |
| Non-medicine retail SKUs (Patanjali, ORS, cosmetics) | Yes — barcode scan, per-item GST/HSN; no pre-loaded FMCG catalog | Full — any retail SKU |
| AI agents (Morning Briefing, Expiry Guard, Refill Radar, Stock Sense, Payment Advisor) | 5 named autonomous agents, scheduled | Not listed publicly as of September 2026 |
| Distributor ordering built-in | WhatsApp confirmation link per PO | Purchase orders sent to suppliers from the app, with pending/received tracking |
Vyapar isn't a lesser product — it's a different one, built for a different job. If a shop's revenue is mostly non-medicine (Patanjali products, cosmetics, general FMCG, ORS and OTC alongside a small pharmacy counter), Vyapar's full accounting with P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow summaries is genuinely deeper than a pharmacy-first tool needs to go. Non-medicine SKUs themselves work fine on Nesayo — scan a barcode, set price and GST once, it's in the list forever — the real gap is that Vyapar ships pre-built for general retail categories where Nesayo pre-loads only the 2,54,034-medicine catalogue. Vyapar is also a mature, widely-used product with a large existing user base, which matters for the same reason Marg's dealer network matters: real people you can ask for help, not just a support ticket queue.
The honest dividing line is medicine share of revenue, not brand preference. A shop where medicines are under roughly 20% of turnover is arguably better served by general retail software with pharmacy features, such as Vyapar. Above roughly 60% medicine share, the difference is what a pharmacy-only tool adds on top — voice billing, reading a prescription photo and scheduled AI agents — which Vyapar does not list publicly as of September 2026.
Vyapar's pharmacy pages list a digital Schedule H and H1 register maintained with every transaction, admin-controlled activation of restricted medicines with a field for the prescription reference and doctor name, and batch and expiry tracking with FEFO stock rotation (vyaparapp.in, September 2026). On register-keeping and stock rotation, the two products start from similar ground, so the checks below are worth running on either.
First, which Rule 65(3)(h) particulars the register fills from the sale itself and which the pharmacist still writes: the rule asks for the name and address of the prescriber, the name of the patient, and the name and quantity of the drug. Nesayo logs the patient, prescriber, medicine, batch and quantity at billing; it does not record the prescriber's address yet, so the pharmacist adds it. Second, whether expired stock is refused at billing or only flagged: Nesayo refuses to bill a batch once its expiry month has passed, and a pack printed EXP 08/2026 stays sellable through 31 August 2026.
Switch if you want voice billing, reading medicines from a prescription photo or scheduled AI agents — none of which Vyapar lists publicly as of September 2026. Vyapar's pharmacy features already cover batch/expiry, FEFO and a Schedule H/H1 register, so stay if that is all you need. Nesayo billing is free; the optional AI Employee is ₹999/month (as of September 2026).
Both have a free tier: Nesayo billing is free, and Vyapar lists a free plan, with paid plans billed annually + 18% GST (see vyaparapp.in/pricing). Nesayo's optional AI Employee is ₹999/month (₹9,990/year), as of September 2026. If your shop mostly sells general goods (Patanjali, ORS, cosmetics), Vyapar's pre-built general-retail categories and full accounting are a reasonable choice.
Yes. Vyapar has pharmacy features: GST invoicing, drug licence on invoices, batch and expiry tracking with FEFO rotation, near-expiry alerts and a digital Schedule H/H1 register. As of September 2026 it does not list voice billing or prescription-photo reading.
Both can ring up a non-medicine item — Nesayo via barcode scan with per-item GST/HSN set once, Vyapar via its pre-built general-retail category system. Vyapar's setup is faster if non-medicine is most of the revenue; Nesayo's medicine catalogue (2,54,034 items, pre-loaded) is the bigger time-saver the other way round. If your medicine share is under 20% of revenue, Vyapar may be simpler; above roughly 60%, a pharmacy-only tool with the medicine catalogue pre-loaded fits better.
As of September 2026, Vyapar does not list voice billing on its pharmacy pages. Nesayo supports voice billing in Hindi and English (beta, on paid plans, as of September 2026).
Yes. Export your stock from Vyapar as CSV and upload it to Nesayo. Vyapar tracks batch and expiry, so include those columns in your export. Nesayo auto-detects column mapping and expiry date formats (MM/YY, MMM-YY, DD.MM.YYYY, ISO), and its catalogue fills in manufacturer, HSN and GST where your file leaves them blank.
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.
Billing is free forever, with more than 2.5 lakh medicines pre-loaded. Add voice billing and prescription scanning from ₹399/month, or all five AI agents at ₹999/month, as of September 2026.
Start free →Disclaimer: This comparison is based on publicly-listed features and pricing of Vyapar as of 2026-09-30. Vendors update their products frequently — always verify current features and pricing directly on the vendor's website. Nesayo has no commercial relationship with Vyapar. No trademarks belonging to Vyapar are used other than to identify the competitor product, which is permitted nominative fair use under Indian Trade Marks Act.