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Getting started

From sign-up to your first printed prescription in about ten minutes.

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This guide takes you from a new account to a printed prescription. You need your medical registration number, a computer or tablet with a printer, and one sheet of the paper you normally prescribe on.

1. Create your account

Open the sign-up page. First choose how you will sign in:

  • Sign up with Google, and pick your Google account. Google confirms your email, so there is no code to type. Or:
  • your email and a password of at least 10 characters, then Continue. A short phrase is easiest to remember.

Then fill in your details:

  • Your full name, as you want it printed.
  • Your mobile number.
  • Medical registration number and the council you are registered with. Both are printed on every prescription, as the NMC requires, so enter them exactly as they appear on your certificate.
  • Qualifications (for example MBBS, MD (Medicine)) and your clinic name. You can change these later.

With email and a password, you will get a 6-digit code to confirm your address. New accounts start with 14 days of Pro so you can try everything; nothing is charged and no card is needed.

2. The welcome steps

After sign-up the app asks four short questions. Each can be changed later.

  1. Your details: check how your name, qualifications, registration number and clinic will print.

  2. Your paper: choose what you print on.

    • Plain paper: RxKite prints the whole pad, header and footer included, in the colours you pick.
    • Pre-printed pad: your pad already has your name and clinic printed at the top and bottom. RxKite prints only in the blank space between. See Pre-printed pads.
    • Letterhead file: upload your letterhead as an image or PDF and RxKite prints it behind the prescription on plain paper.

    Then pick the paper size: A5 is the usual Indian prescription pad, A4 is ordinary printer paper.

  3. Your signature (optional): photograph your signature on white paper and upload it. It is used on prescriptions you email. When you print, you choose each time whether to include it or sign by hand.

  4. Ready: write your first prescription, or go to Pad & printing to fine-tune the layout.

The first time you open Today, a short tour shows where everything is: New prescription, finding a patient, your patients and prescriptions, your pad and settings. It takes about a minute. Press Skip tour whenever you like (or Esc), and it will not come back by itself, on this device or any other. To take it again, open Guides in the sidebar (in the menu on a phone) and choose Show me around.

3. Write your first prescription

Press New prescription (or Ctrl + N anywhere in the app).

  1. Type the patient's name, mobile number or patient ID. If they are new, choose Register a new patient. Only the name is required; age, sex, mobile and allergies take a few seconds more and are remembered for every future visit.
  2. Fill in what you need. Every section is optional: vitals, complaints and findings, diagnosis, tests, medicines, advice and follow-up. Empty sections are not printed.
  3. For each medicine type the name with its strength in the same box (Paracetamol 650 mg), then dose, frequency (1-0-1), when to take it and for how long. Medicines you have prescribed before are suggested after two letters, with your usual dose filled in.
  4. Watch the preview on the right. It is the exact page that will print.

Everything is saved as you type. If the browser closes, the draft is waiting in Prescriptions → Drafts.

4. Save, sign and print

Press the green Save, sign & print (or Ctrl + P). Choose how the signature prints:

  • I will sign by hand: leaves a clear space above your name.
  • Print my signature and stamp: uses the images from Settings.

Then press Save & print, Save only (to print later, or for your front desk to print), or Save & WhatsApp. Each one saves and signs the prescription under your name, gives it a number such as RX-2026-00137, and locks it. To correct a signed prescription, open it and press Edit: it is signed again as version 2 under the same number, with your reason, and the first version stays on record.

In the browser's print window, set Scale: 100% / Actual size (not Fit to page) and Margins: None or Default. You only need to do this once per printer.

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