One system at a fixed annual price, with fewer outside costs.
FarmaciaOS® is the software for the Swiss pharmacy, from the till to the accounts.
CHF 8’000 to 10’000 per site and year, depending on the size of the pharmacy. Everything included: licence, accounting module, maintenance, updates and support.
Developed by Nicholas Bünger, MSc ETH Masch.-Ing., pharmacy owner.
Status
- In use
- Two pharmacies in Ticino use FarmaciaOS® every day (the founder’s own), since September 2026.
- Under contract
- Five more pharmacies are under contract. Start: 2027.
- Interest
- Around 20 more pharmacies in Switzerland have expressed interest.
As of 10.11.2026
What FarmaciaOS® saves
| Conventional pharmacy software | FarmaciaOS® | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | CHF 7’500–8’500 | CHF 8’000–10’000, everything included |
| Support and maintenance | CHF 3’000–7’000 | Included |
| Accountant | CHF 12’000–14’000 | CHF 4’000–6’000 |
| Total per year | CHF 22’500–29’500 | CHF 12’000–16’000 |
| Saving per year | CHF 6’500–17’500 |
Estimate by Bünger Engineering for an independent pharmacy. Actual costs depend on the pharmacy and on the current supplier.
Accounting runs in the same system as the till and stock and reads the bank statements. Payments are matched to invoices automatically, and the data reaches the external accountant already prepared. This saves a lot of accounting time.
By our estimate, up to 20% of one pharmacy employee’s working time is freed up. That time went into checking MediData payments and other invoices; the matching is now automatic.
Invoices to the health insurers go straight from the system through MediData, and incoming payments are matched by themselves. That can replace a factoring service.
Till, stock, billing and accounting are one system rather than separate programmes.
Maintenance, updates and support are in the price. The software needs no outside IT contractor and no agency, and updates cost nothing extra.
What is in it
The till sells, prescriptions are read from their QR code (e-prescription), narcotics are kept in the register. The electronic invoice goes to the health insurer through MediData, with checks before it is sent.
Stock levels, orders from wholesalers and goods receipt are in the system, and so is accounting.
Franca, the AI assistant, answers questions about the pharmacy’s own data in plain language. The interface is available in Italian, German and French; the PharmIndex article catalogue is connected.
On the phone: iPhone and Android apps in pilot
- iPhone
- Version 1.1, distributed through TestFlight (pilot, not yet on the App Store). The app reads the prescription with the camera, uploads documents to the pharmacy’s document archive (a drive of the pharmacy’s own, on the pharmacy’s infrastructure), takes questions for Franca by voice and translates for customers who speak another language.
- Android
- Version 1.2, direct installation (not yet on Google Play). The app brings the complete system to phone and tablet at the counter, with a microphone for Franca.
Where the data lives
The data stays with the pharmacy, and the system is installed there.
Franca uses European models on its own infrastructure. Patient data does not pass through any third-party cloud service.
Access is controlled by roles, and a log records the operations.
Development and contact
FarmaciaOS® is a product of Bünger Engineering, developed by Nicholas Bünger. Demo requests go straight to him.
FarmaciaOS® is a registered trademark of Nicholas Bünger (Swiss trademark no. 858458, class 44).
Nicholas Bünger
MSc ETH Masch.-Ing., pharmacy owner
Bünger Engineering (sole proprietorship)
Seestrasse 436, 8038 Zurich
UID CHE-309.326.113