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Windows desktop app

v1.1.1

Your pharmacy.Ready in minutes.

Download Optima, set it up in a few steps and start managing your sales, stock, prescriptions and more. Free to try for 7 days. No card required.

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For Windows 10 & 11, 64-bitVersion 1.1.1Released 14 September 2026

  • Free 7-day trialNo card required
  • Your data stays localWorks offline
  • Same licenceafter you buy
  • Full featuresduring trial
The Optima owner dashboard showing sales, profit, the open shift, notifications and stock status.
  1. 1. DownloadGet the installer (online or offline)
  2. 2. Install & set upAdd your pharmacy in a guided setup
  3. 3. Start usingBegin selling, managing stock and more
  4. See the full setup guide

Choose your download

One product. Two ways to get it onto the counter.

Both installers contain the exact same Optima. Choose the small standard download if the computer can connect during installation; choose the offline kit if it cannot.

The only difference

Standard installer

The WebView2 runtime
Fetches one Microsoft component while installing, and only if this computer does not already have it. Windows 11 always does.
Internet needed
A working connection for about a minute, during the install itself.

Full offline installer

The WebView2 runtime
Carries that same Microsoft component inside the file, for every processor type, which is the entire reason it is so much bigger.
Internet needed
Nothing at all. It installs on a machine that has never seen a network.

Everything else - the till, your stock, batches and expiry, purchasing, shifts, expenses, reports, backups, extra terminals - is the same in both, and neither one needs the internet again once it is installed.

Start here

Standard installer

For any computer with a working internet connection at the moment you install. Small and quick.

  • Start here unless you know the machine has no connection
  • Usually needs nothing extra - Windows 11 already has it
  • The app itself never needs internet once installed
Download · 11.0 MB

Free account required · no payment to start the trial

Optima-Setup-1.1.1-online.exe

SHA-256

f3fef0543e9a915cd4c05237a6efcbdffea8df0eb7e28ee49b2d42158dcceb63

Full offline installer

For a pharmacy computer with no connection. Everything is inside the file. Put it on a USB stick.

  • Installs on a machine that has never touched a network
  • Larger because Microsoft's runtime carries every processor type
  • Download once and keep it for reinstalling on your licensed computer
Download · 217 MB

Free account required · no payment to start the trial

Optima-Setup-1.1.1-offline.exe

SHA-256

c2674aedcda399f34e669e69108af0e613ff03c2e0a7d8b9cd31894d9c0dbdce

What you are actually downloading

A real Windows desktop application, not a website in a wrapper. This is what opens on the counter once it is installed.

Point of sale - active shift

Point of sale - active shift

The Optima point of sale screen with medicine search, a current sale panel and cash, M-Pesa, card and split payment buttons.
Owner dashboard

Owner dashboard

The Optima owner dashboard showing sales, profit, stock status, recent transactions and operational alerts.

Point of sale

Cash and M-Pesa on the same sale, split between them if you need to. Barcode scanner and receipt printer work if you have them, and are not required if you do not.

Stock, batch by batch

Every batch carries its own expiry date, and dispensing takes the nearest-dated packet first, so stock leaves the shelf in the order that stops it expiring on you.

Purchasing and suppliers

Orders, deliveries and what each supplier actually costs you, recorded as you receive the goods rather than reconstructed at month end.

Shifts that reconcile

Open a till, close it, and see the cash you should have against the cash you do have, per member of staff, with the difference named.

What this installer does not do

Worth knowing before you put anything on a pharmacy computer. These are easy for us to state plainly because they follow from how the software is built, not from a promise about our intentions.

The full privacy notice and licence agreement say the same thing at length, and in writing.

  • A free account, then no sign-in to trade

    You create a free Optima account to download the installer, so your downloads, trial and licence stay together and we can help if something goes wrong. No payment is needed to start the 7-day trial. Once installed, daily work never signs in to anything: your records live in a file on your own computer, not on a server of ours.

  • Your business data stays put

    The app sends us no sales, no stock and no patient details. Not anonymised, not aggregated. None. It does ask us whether a newer version exists, and reports whether one installed, using scrambled identifiers that say nothing about your pharmacy.

  • No lock-in

    Your data is yours and exportable, and stays readable whether or not you keep paying us.

  • No adverts, ever

    Nobody is buying your pharmacy's data, because we are not selling it and never collect it in the first place.

Windows installation help

See an “Unknown publisher” warning?

Some Windows computers may show Microsoft Defender SmartScreen before installing Optima. This is normal. Follow the steps on the right to continue safely.

Download only from this pageAlways use the official Optima Systems download link and check the file checksum.
  • Safe to installNo viruses or malware
  • We guide youJust two simple steps
  • Still stuck?Contact our support

Follow these two steps

These screens show what you’ll see on Windows and how to continue.

Windows 10 & 11Same steps for both
  1. 1

    Click “More info”

    When this screen appears, click the More info link at the bottom.

    Windows protected your PC

    Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.

    More info
  2. 2

    Check the app name, then run

    The app name should show as Optima setup. Click Run anyway to continue.

    Windows protected your PC

    Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.

    App:
    Optima-Setup-1.1.1-online.exe
    Publisher:
    Unknown publisher
    Don’t runRun anyway

Still see the warning even after these steps?It’s usually safe to continue. If you’re unsure, contact our support team and we’ll help you.

Get support
Prove it before you run it

Check the file is the one we built

Worth doing if the installer reached you on a USB stick that has been around, or from anywhere other than this page. Paste this into PowerShell and compare the result with the checksum printed on the download above.

Get-FileHash "$HOME\Downloads\Optima-Setup-1.1.1-online.exe" -Algorithm SHA256 | Format-List

If the two strings match, character for character, the file is intact. If they do not, delete it and download again - and tell us.

What it needs to run

Optima is built for the computer a pharmacy already owns, not one it has to go out and buy.

Windows 10 or 11

64-bit. Windows 8 and earlier are not supported.

Any computer from the last decade

4 GB of memory is comfortable. It is a small app.

About 400 MB free

The app, plus room for years of records and local backups.

No internet needed

Required only to download. After that it runs entirely offline.

Installing, start to finish

Ten minutes, most of which is typing in your pharmacy’s details.

Stuck? Message us on WhatsApp
  1. 1

    Run the installer

    Double-click the file you downloaded. Windows will ask for permission to install for everyone on this computer - say yes. That is what lets a second member of staff sign in to Windows and still see the same pharmacy.

  2. 2

    Get past the red screen

    You will almost certainly see Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. It is expected, and the section above shows you both screens exactly as they appear, with what to click on each.

  3. 3

    Let it install

    It takes under a minute. Optima installs to Program Files and puts your pharmacy's data in a shared folder, so it survives updates and Windows accounts.

  4. 4

    Set up your pharmacy

    On first launch a wizard asks for your pharmacy details, creates the owner account, adds your staff, and optionally imports your stock from a spreadsheet.

  5. 5

    Make a sale

    Open a shift, ring up an item, take cash or M-Pesa. If that works, everything else will.

A real trial, not a demo

Put it to work for 7 days.

Not on a demo dataset. Put your real stock in, run your real till, and decide with a week of your own numbers in front of you.

Questions first? +254 725 532 997 on WhatsApp, or kevinjulu@gmail.com.