Cardinal Health Teams With Square on Pharmacy POS Payments

Cardinal Health, a manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, has teamed up with Square to provide payment solutions for independent pharmacies.

This collaboration aims to help independent pharmacies increase operational efficiency, stay current with customer payment preferences, and access integrated software tools for their business.

Through this partnership announced Wednesday (May 31), independent pharmacies can offer their customers flexible payment options such as text-to-pay, Apply Pay and Google Pay. The in-store payment solution runs on Square Terminal hardware, allowing pharmacies to provide patient payment flexibility. The eCommerce site Pharmacy Marketing Advantage Commerce leverages Square’s Web Payments SDK for online sales.

Brad Cochran, executive vice president of retail distribution at Cardinal Health and president of Medicine Shoppe International, said, “Through our work with Square, we can offer our customers options to stay current with payment trends as well as business tools and insights to help them streamline their operational workflows for greater efficiency.”

Pharmacy business owner Gerry O’Hare, also a Cardinal Health Retail Advisory Board member, said, “Square has significantly reduced our processing costs and given us the ability to complete a sale anywhere in the store, out in the field when making deliveries, or even online — and a great backend system to show us what our business looks like.”

Vijay Vachani, general manager of Developers & Partners at Square, highlighted the importance of meeting evolving customer preferences, stating, “Consumers today want the convenience of shopping in person or online with delivery or in-store pick up options, combined with the personalized attention independent pharmacies offer to their customers. Through our collaboration, Cardinal Health can provide a unified experience that enables pharmacies to meet these evolving customer preferences.”

Across all solutions, Square and Cardinal Health provide independent pharmacies access to easy-to-use analytics, dashboards, and Square’s broader ecosystem of integrated tools and software and access to customer support teams.