About
Founded by someone who dispenses.
Software for herbal dispensaries is usually designed by people who have never weighed anything. Dispensary Tree was founded, and is directed, by Jason Tarter, R.TCMP, R.Ac, a practitioner who still sees patients and still dispenses herbal medicine.
Why this exists
Most herbal dispensaries still run on paper. Formulas written out by hand, labels written out again, stock counted on a clipboard when someone remembers. It works until it does not — until a label is unreadable, until a jar is empty mid-formula, until someone asks what you dispensed two months ago.
Dispensary Tree exists to take the work out of custom herbal formulation, dispensing and herbal product sales, so practitioners, clinics and dispensaries can look after patients and still run a careful, efficient, profitable dispensary.
Built by herbalists, for herbalists
Generic inventory and retail software does not understand herbal medicine. A dispensary needs tools that do:
- the complexity of custom formulation
- batch and lot tracking
- detailed product information
- the regulations specific to herbal products
- the relationship between practitioners and the dispensaries that fill their formulas
Practitioners and dispensaries were getting by on manual processes, spreadsheets and generic software, and could not grow past them. Dispensary Tree started from that problem rather than from a software category.
The software is designed by Chinese medicine herbalists for Chinese medicine herbalists.
The person behind it
Jason Tarter, R.TCMP, R.Ac
Founder.
Jason is a Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Registered Acupuncturist in Ontario. He trained at the Institute of Traditional Medicine and the Toronto School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been in practice since 2008, and runs his own herbal dispensary.
He founded Dispensary Tree to give herbal practitioners professional-grade tools. He decides what gets built, and a development team builds it. He is known for answering support questions quickly, often within the hour, and he listens to the people using it: the platform changes because of what practitioners and dispensaries ask for.
Jason has been wonderful to work with! I typically receive an answer to any questions the same day and often within the hour no matter how small or complicated they may be.
Why practitioners choose it
Made for herbal medicine, not adapted to it.
Herbal-specific
Not generic inventory software. Built from the ground up for herbal medicine dispensing.
Custom formulation first
A formula builder that understands how personalized herbal formulas are actually put together.
Traceability
Batch and lot tracking from ingredient to patient.
Patient data under HIPAA
Patient records, formulas and orders are held under HIPAA requirements.
Responsive support
Same-day answers, often within the hour.
Grows with you
The same system works for a solo practitioner and an enterprise dispensary, so you never have to switch.
What we will not do
Three commitments, since this market has been burned.
No clinical claims
This is software. It does not tell you what a formula treats, and it never will. You are the practitioner.
No invented numbers
If a figure appears on this site, it has a basis we can state.
No generated content
Anything published under this name is written by a person who knows the medicine.
Where this is going
A future where every herbal practitioner and dispensary has professional-grade tools: less administration, safer dispensing, herbal medicine that can stand beside conventional healthcare, and a community that works together.
We are building that one dispensary at a time.
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