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Starting a Supplement Business: How to Start a Store & Make Money Selling Supplements

Updated on October 25, 2024 | Published on September 17, 2024
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On top of providing high-quality care to patients, there are many considerations at play for practitioners when it comes to running a successful practice. Ensuring patients have a safe and convenient source for supplements is one of the most important. But is owning a supplement store profitable?

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Running your own supplement store gives you control over what the patient is taking, help to overcome this, can attract more patients to your clinic, and improves your clinic’s profitability. However, there are a few challenges with the traditional model. 

In this article, we’ll take a look at the challenges related to running supplement businesses as well as an easy way to overcome these barriers by using Fullscript for selling supplements online.

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Dispensing high-quality supplements with Fullscript can help you achieve better outcomes and growth for your practice all at no cost to you.

3 Potential barriers to running a supplement store  

1. Administrative burden 

The average supplement store may have dedicated staff members hired to oversee inventory. On top of paperwork, this can involve ordering, restocking, and checking for expired products. 

However, often in a clinical setting, these responsibilities fall on the administrative staff. This can take up a good portion of their time, meaning less spent helping your patients, booking appointments, and other vital tasks. 

2. Inventory management costs 

You’ll have to spend money before your own supplement business turns a profit. In addition to ongoing expenses like website hosting, payment processing fees, and customer service, you may potentially have thousands of dollars in inventory to oversee. 

Not only can this be a financial burden just on its own, but you must also consider the cost of potential spoilage in addition to refrigeration needs for certain kinds of supplements. 

3. Supplier relations

Ensuring you have good relationships with your supplement suppliers is critical to maintaining your business. However, developing these relations can take up a lot of your time and can sometimes involve complicated contractual and legal negotiations. 

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Fullscript lets you offer your patients healthcare’s best supplements without any additional costs or time lost.

How to successfully run your own dietary supplement store 

It’s safe to say that running a physical supplement store or selling supplements online is not an easy endeavor. This may have you wondering how you can ensure your patients have access to high-quality supplements without adding additional time and costs to your plate. 

Good news! There’s already a digital health platform out there that makes selling supplements a simple endeavor — Fullscript. More specifically, Fullscript makes it easy for you to prescribe, dispense, and manage healthcare’s best dietary supplements, all in one place. 

A look at how a Fullscript online supplement store works 

Once your account is set up, you can begin to send online supplement recommendations to your patients. We arm you with the tools to craft online treatment plans that include your personalized instructions, supplements, and wellness products, as well as educational resources. 

Patients can purchase products directly from the treatment plan, and have their orders delivered right to their door. Meanwhile, you can watch your practice grow as your patients order high-quality products and receive automated reminders that encourage refills again and again.

Did you know? Seventy-nine percent of patients prefer to order refills online, with 32% of Fullscript patients placing 7+ refill orders. 

Tips for optimizing your online supplement store

To ensure your store performs at the optimal level for your practice, consider implementing the following suggestions. 

1. Update your patient list

The more patients uploaded to your Fullscript store means the more patients have access to a safe and convenient source for their supplements. Follow these simple steps to upload new patients and keep your list up-to-date. 

2. Switch to a full product catalog

Catalog permissions are set at the dispensary level and dictate what level of access patients have to your Fullscript catalog. Switching to a full product catalog gives your patients access to the entire Fullscript catalog, including general wellness and personal care products. Learn more about changing your catalog permissions.

3. Utilize protocol templates

Build your own protocols or build multi-patient plans for your patients to browse and order from confidently. You’ll give your patients access to high-quality supplements without a prescription or appointment, and you’ll give yourself an easy way to grow your practice that supports one-to-many care.

The bottom line 

Is owning a supplement store profitable on Fullscript? Ultimately, using Fullscript to offer your patients an easy way to source their own supplements means you can grow your practice and spend less time managing your business and more time treating patients. 

Instead of starting your own online store, leveraging Fullscript also enables you to prescribe, dispense, and manage healthcare’s best dietary supplements, all in one place. Or, as Fullscript practitioner Dr. Ronald Hoffman, MD, puts it: 

“Fullscript is a logical alternative to laborious stocking, fulfilling, and shipping the many diverse products I recommend. Since adopting Fullscript, I have expanded my capability to offer a far greater range of innovative supplements. Fullscript also enables me to better track patient compliance, and make midcourse corrections with personalized instructions at the stroke of a key—24/7, from wherever I happen to be!”

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The information in this article is designed for educational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for informed medical advice or care. This information should not be used to diagnose or treat any health problems or illnesses without consulting a doctor. Consult with a health care practitioner before relying on any information in this article or on this website.

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