FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Product
Are the "forms" the patient assessment forms?
Yes. In Sync-RX, forms are the patient assessment forms a patient completes before a clinician reviews their order. They power intake, eligibility, follow-ups and re-consultations.
Can Sync-RX create and amend the weight-loss assessment flow, including questions, order and conditional logic?
Yes. Every assessment flow is fully configurable inside the no-code form builder. You can edit questions, reorder steps, add branching logic, gate prescribing decisions and run A/B tests on different versions of a flow.
Can the patient experience carry our own pharmacy or brand name?
Yes. The patient portal, emails and dispensing artefacts are fully white-labelled to your pharmacy or brand name, colours, domain and logo. Any brand names shown in demo accounts are placeholders.
Can you show how a prescriber approves an order and generates a prescription?
Yes. The full clinician review and prescribing flow is covered in the live demo and available in any prospect demo account. Prescriptions are generated as print-first HTML/PDF documents, each with a unique RX identifier and a full audit trail (issuing clinician, timestamp, patient, order, dispensing events). A cryptographic e-signature step (NHS EPS, Signable, DocuSign or an in-house PKI signature embedded in the PDF) is not wired in by default and is scoped separately if required. The high-level workflow is also covered in our platform overview.
Do you generate dispensing labels, and can you print in bulk?
Yes. Sync-RX generates dispensing labels, patient information leaflets and shipping documentation as part of the order-to-dispense workflow. Single-document print is live across prescriptions, dispensing labels and (via Shopify) shipping labels. Bulk-select and combined print jobs are a small extension of the document-generation module, delivered once the exact stationery and label formats are confirmed.
Can the back end handle non-prescription, OTC, P and GSL items?
Yes. The Products module supports non-prescription lines alongside prescription products in the same order. Each product carries classification metadata (POM / P / GSL / OTC) and the clinical screening pipeline uses that classification to decide whether a questionnaire is required, whether a pharmacist must review, or whether the item can be sold directly. That covers P items (e.g. Viagra, thrush treatments) where a pharmacist check is required, and GSL items (e.g. paracetamol) that come off the shelf with pack-size and quantity limits applied. Contraindication depth for P and GSL sales is configured per partner during onboarding.
Will the demo include full access, including the form builder?
Yes. Demo accounts are provisioned with full access to the form builder, clinician workspace, dispensing tools and order management so you can explore the end-to-end workflow yourself.
Are GLP-1s the main volume on Sync-RX, versus insomnia and other categories?
GLP-1s are a significant volume category for partners on the platform. Sync-RX itself is category-agnostic: catalogue, assessment flows and clinical rules are configured per brand, so the same platform runs weight loss, hair, ED, HRT and bloods workflows.
Technical
What form builder or underlying technology powers the forms?
A custom Sync-RX form builder, built in-house. It is not a third-party form tool wrapped in a clinical UI. That lets us couple form logic directly to prescribing rules, eligibility checks and the clinician workspace.
Is it your own form builder?
Yes. Built in-house and maintained as core platform functionality.
What technology is the system built on, JavaScript or WordPress?
Sync-RX is a custom-built web application with a Postgres data layer, row-level security on every patient table, and a 7 year audit log. It is not WordPress or any other off-the-shelf CMS.
Are you hosted on Shopify or something else? Can Sync-RX handle commerce natively?
Sync-RX is its own platform, not a Shopify app. It integrates with Shopify (and other storefronts) via HMAC-verified webhooks and the sync-shopify-orders edge function when a brand wants to keep a Shopify front end. Sync-RX can also handle commerce natively via a BYOK Stripe checkout (custom checkout, PaymentIntents, webhooks, auto order creation), so Shopify is not a hard dependency. The Ryft connector is also scaffolded as an alternative processor.
How does the assessment form integrate with our front end?
Via a simple iframe (or full-page on mobile) on your front-end site. Answers submit to Sync-RX, anonymous inserts are allowed via RLS so users don't need an account to start, and submission triggers the clinical triage pipeline (BMI checks, red/orange flag logic, image checks, GLP-1 37-question path). On payment the submission binds to the customer record and flows to the clinician queue. Your front-end code only embeds the iframe; no clinical logic lives outside Sync-RX.
Where will our marketing site / storefront CMS be hosted?
That is a separate decision from the Sync-RX clinical app. Two common paths: stand up a marketing site on the same builder you already use, or host it independently on something like Vercel with a headless CMS. Sync-RX plugs into either route via the questionnaire iframe and the commerce/checkout layer, so the CMS choice is a UX and marketing call rather than a clinical one. The Sync-RX clinical app, patient portal and admin app run on our infrastructure at rx.getsyncrx.com either way.
Who integrates my front end to this back end? Do I have to do it myself?
Sync-RX handles the integration work. As part of onboarding we wire up your storefront, subscription billing (Recharge), identity verification (Veriff / LexisNexis), pharmacy hand-off (TIP) and transactional email (Resend). You do not need an in-house engineering team to launch.
Can we amend the back end ourselves?
Configuration is self-serve from the admin UI: questionnaires, products, statuses, branding, integrations, user roles and compliance policies. Deeper platform changes are scoped and delivered by the Sync-RX team.
If we need a new back-end feature, can it be developed?
In most cases yes. New capability goes through a short scoping and pricing process. Where it makes sense as core platform functionality it ships to all customers; bespoke work is scoped and quoted separately.
Do you host it yourselves?
Yes. Sync-RX is operated by us on infrastructure built for ISO 27001 and UK GDPR, with row-level security on every patient table, encryption at rest and in transit, MFA for clinicians and a 7 year audit log. Specific hosting region and sub-processor details are shared on request during onboarding.
Commercial
Who owns the platform?
Sync-RX is owned and operated by Swan Medical Technologies Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17159551).
Does pricing work as a percentage of prescriptions or revenue?
Pricing is a flat platform fee plus a per-prescription or percentage component. We are flexible on the exact structure depending on volume and the commercial model of your brand.
How many clients use the system today?
Sync-RX is live at rx.getsyncrx.com and we are onboarding a small founding cohort of pharmacy and brand partners. We are deliberately keeping early numbers low so each launch gets close clinical and engineering support.
When did you launch?
The platform is built and live. We are in the early commercial phase, opening additional onboarding slots through 2026.
If we part ways later, what happens to back-end access and infrastructure?
Your patient and clinical data is yours. Sync-RX acts as your data processor, supports Right to Erasure and data export, and the commercial agreement sets out notice periods, exit assistance and data handover terms.
Does your team help with marketing, including email, paid and social?
Sync-RX is the regulated infrastructure, not a marketing agency. Transactional email is built in (via Resend) and the commercial team can introduce vetted partners for paid, creative and CRM. Exact scope of go-to-market support is agreed per engagement.
Are you a back-end platform for online pharmacies, like Pharmacy Mentor?
Same broad category, different model. Sync-RX is a single integrated platform that covers intake, clinician review, prescribing, dispensing, order management and subscription billing in one regulated workflow, rather than a marketing and SEO service for pharmacies.
Compliance
Where is patient data hosted, and is it multi-tenant?
Sync-RX is multi-tenant with hard isolation. Postgres with row-level security on every clinical table means no cross-tenant reads are possible even via a compromised app-level query. Partners are modelled in partners and partner_product_mappings, storage buckets are private with strict per-role access (patient-images, verification-images), edge functions validate the auth session before touching data, and the 7 year audit trail is per-tenant. Infrastructure is built for ISO 27001 and UK GDPR with encryption at rest and in transit and MFA for clinicians. Sync-RX acts as your data processor; you remain the data controller. A dedicated instance is available as a premium tier where a client has a specific procurement or data-residency driver.
How are duplicate accounts detected?
Every submission runs through a risk pipeline that captures email (lower-cased), IP, device fingerprint, name and DOB. Automated flags cover IP address reuse (90 day rolling window, then purged for GDPR), device fingerprint reuse, email/name reuse across accounts, same email seen from 2+ IPs, and same email seen from 2+ countries. Flags surface inline on the clinician's submission view with a risk score and matching prior submissions. Scheduled cross-account audits (velocity checks, alias detection, shared delivery addresses, shared payment fingerprints, cross-tenant email reuse) are on the roadmap using the same dataset.
Which regulators is Sync-RX aligned with?
Sync-RX is built around GPhC, MHRA and CQC expectations for online pharmacy and prescribing services, with audit trails, clinician sign-off and dispensing controls designed against those standards.
Integrations
Do you integrate with Royal Mail (Click & Drop and Local Collect)?
Roadmap. Neither Click & Drop nor Local Collect is integrated today. Both are standard REST APIs and slot cleanly into the existing shipping/order flow. They would be added as two connectors in the Integrations catalogue (same pattern as the current Shopify and Recharge connectors), with tracking numbers written back onto the order record and status events flowing into the audit log.
Do you integrate with the DPD API?
Roadmap. Same integration pattern as Royal Mail. Can be delivered alongside Click & Drop / Local Collect so shipping providers are pluggable per order.
Do you integrate with Docman (or equivalent)?
Live. Docman Connect is in the Integrations catalogue and sends prescriptions, consultation letters, discharge summaries and ad-hoc documents to GP practices (Sandpit today, production on switch-over). It supports auto-send with manual override per document type, status tracking (delivered/rejected) with rejection reason capture, a full audit trail in docman_audit_log, and an organisation cache so GP practice lookup stays fast. GP Connect (Update Record) is a second, complementary path for structured write-back once onboarding is complete.
Do you integrate with Superchat?
Roadmap. Superchat's public API has been reviewed. It would sit alongside the existing in-app Chat & Comments module, letting patient conversations flow through Superchat's omnichannel inbox while the clinical record stays inside Sync-RX.
Do customers upload photos post-payment?
Yes, and it is configurable. The Clinical Photo Upload flow ties images to the customer's questionnaire submission via verification_images. Uploads are stored in a private bucket, served through 1 hour signed URLs, and carry an approval audit trail. Clinicians review images alongside the submission before issuing. Placement can be inside the questionnaire (before payment) or post-purchase, depending on pharmacy preference.
How do discount codes work?
Discount codes are handled today via the connected commerce layer: Shopify discount codes on one-off orders, and Recharge discounts on subscription orders (percentage, fixed, or free shipping). Native discount codes inside the Sync-RX BYOK Stripe checkout are roadmap; the checkout already supports coupon logic hooks, so adding an in-house code table is a small piece of work.
Are third-party API costs (Veriff, LexisNexis, prescription signing) included in the subscription?
No. Third-party per-transaction costs (Veriff identity checks, LexisNexis IDU, Docman Connect, Stripe fees, Resend email, WhatsApp, Google Workspace seats, NHS API costs and so on) are pass-through: they are billed by the provider under your own account and API key using our Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) model. This keeps commercials transparent and lets you negotiate directly with each provider. The Sync-RX platform fee is the monthly or annual subscription.