Customizing Bottle Labels

Medications dispensed in your clinic, except injectables, print a bottle label with the patient, medication, directions, lot and clinic details. You choose what else prints, and whether the label is in English or Spanish.

A bottle label in English with the generic name, auxiliary warnings, DISCARD AFTER and DO NOT FLUSH

What You Can Add to a Label

Each toggle adds one item to the label:

Generic name: the generic name, under the medication name
Principal active ingredients: for compounds, your text under the name, up to 60 characters
Do not flush: prints DO NOT FLUSH
Discard date: prints DISCARD AFTER with the date
Auxiliary warnings: your warning text, up to 100 characters
Pill description: what the pill looks like, up to 40 characters

The discard date is one year from dispensing, or the lot's expiration date if that comes first.

Where the Settings Come From

Bottle label settings work at three levels, and each one starts from the level above it:

Practice default: the Bottle Label Defaults card in Billing > Settings

Medication item: the item's Dispensing Preset in Charge Items
Each dispense: the medication form on the Dispense Medication screen

An item follows the practice default until you save different settings for it.

When you add a medication to an order, its toggles start from the item's settings, and changes apply to that dispense only.

The Dispense Medication form with Bottle label language and Include in bottle label

Bottle Label Language

On the Dispense Medication screen, Bottle label language prints that medication's label in English or Spanish. It starts as English for every medication. Only the label's own wording is translated, such as Qty, Lot and DO NOT FLUSH. Directions and any text you type print as entered.

The same bottle label printed in Spanish, with directions typed in Spanish

Important Considerations

Injectables have no bottle label, so these settings don't appear
Generic name isn't offered for compounds or medications without a drug code
Principal active ingredients has no practice default; set it on each compound
Changing a default doesn't change medications already added to an order
A reorder starts from the item's settings, not the previous label

Setting your defaults once keeps labels consistent across your clinic, while each dispense can still be tailored to the patient.