Prescription Design
Design the prescription paper patients get: clone your printed paper from a photo, or build it from scratch
The prescription design is the look of the prescription patients get as a PDF, on WhatsApp, and in print. Clone your printed paper from a photo, or design it from scratch, and watch a live preview as you go.
Navigate to Dashboard → Settings → Prescription. Doctors find it in the doctor view under Settings → Prescription.
Who can edit
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Owner / Admin | Choose One design for all doctors or A design for each doctor, and edit any of them |
| Doctor | Edit their own design |
| Everyone else | See the design (read only) |
One design or one per doctor
Owners and admins pick one of two options at the top:
- One design for all doctors: a single shared paper. Each doctor's own name fills in wherever
{doctor}is written. - A design for each doctor: every doctor gets their own paper. Pick the doctor from Choose a doctor to edit theirs.
A doctor with no design of their own starts from the clinic's shared design. The page says This is the clinic's shared design. Saving makes it this doctor's own.
Clone your paper from a photo
The quickest way to start is to copy the paper you already print.
Take a photo of your printed prescription paper
A clear, straight photo works best. JPG, PNG or WEBP, up to 10 MB.
Tap Upload a photo
Under Clone your paper from a photo. While it shows Reading your paper…, Docistra reads the page size, the main color, the Arabic and English sides of the header, the logo position, the title and R/ mark, the fill-in fields and their labels, and the footer (addresses, phones, website, email, colored band and a faint background logo).
Logo cut out
Docistra cuts the logo out of the photo and uses it as the paper's logo.
Review, then tap Save design
Check every detail in the preview and fix anything it misread. Nothing is saved until you tap Save design.
When you clone a shared clinic design, the doctor's name on the paper is replaced with {doctor} so it works for every doctor. For a doctor's own design, the name is kept as printed.
Designing from scratch
Every part of the paper can be changed. The preview on the side updates as you type, using sample patient details.
Choose A4 or A5, and pick one of the preset colors or a custom color. The color is used for headings, lines and the footer band.
The header has an Arabic side (right) and an English side (left). Each side has a name line and up to 8 lines under it, such as your specialty and credentials.
Write {doctor} for the name so each doctor's own name shows, for example Dr. {doctor} or د. {doctor}.
Place the logo Left, Center or Right, or choose None. Drag the slider to change its size, and tap Replace logo to upload a different image. Without one, the clinic logo is used.
Turn on Faint logo in the background for a light copy of the logo behind the page.
Set the title above the patient details (for example Prescription) and turn the R/ mark on or off.
The fields are Date, Patient Name, Age, Diagnosis, Doctor and Rx code. Turn each one on or off, rename its label, and use the up and down arrows to reorder them.
Add your Addresses (one per line), up to 6, and your Booking numbers, website and email. Turn on Colored band to put the footer on a band of the paper's color.
When you're done, tap Save design. New prescriptions use it straight away. Unsaved changes shows while you have edits that aren't saved.
The default design
If nothing has been designed yet, Docistra starts from a default: A4, dark blue, Dr. {doctor} / د. {doctor} in the header, the logo in the center, the Prescription title with R/, the Date, Patient Name, Age, Diagnosis and Rx code fields, and a colored footer band with your branch addresses and clinic phone filled in.
Reset to default
Tap Reset to default and confirm to remove the design you're editing. New prescriptions then use the next design in line (see below).
Which design a prescription uses
When a prescription is made, Docistra uses:
- The visit doctor's own design, if they have one
- Otherwise, the clinic's shared design
- Otherwise, the default design
This is true whichever option the owner picked at the top: a doctor's own saved design always comes first.