Traditional Chinese Medicine centres sit between a clinic and a wellness business. They run consultations and courses like a clinic, dispense product like a pharmacy, and depend on repeat visits like a spa. Most software handles one of the three.
Quick answer
TCM centre management software handles practitioner scheduling, multi-session treatment courses for acupuncture, tuina and cupping, herbal and supplement dispensing tracked as stock, patient visit records, and per-practitioner commission. In Malaysia it also needs LHDN MyInvois e-invoicing at the counter. LABÉAU covers scheduling, courses and package balances, dispensing inventory, commission and e-invoicing from RM174.92/month with a Chinese-language interface; Aoikumo is the established local alternative with deeper clinical records, and generic salon tools such as Fresha model neither dispensing nor courses.
Last updated 27 August 2026 · Written and maintained by the LABÉAU team, Kuala Lumpur
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Three businesses, one counter
A TCM centre bills consultations, delivers treatment courses over weeks, and dispenses herbs, powders and supplements — often all in a single visit, settled in one transaction.
That transaction is where most systems fall over. A clinic system handles the consultation but treats product as an afterthought. A retail POS handles the dispensing but has no concept of a course balance. A salon booking tool handles neither. What is needed is one checkout that can take a consultation fee, draw down a session from a ten-treatment acupuncture course, and sell a two-week herbal supply that deducts from stock — and issue one compliant e-invoice covering all three.
Dispensing is inventory with a shelf life
Herbal and supplement stock behaves differently from retail beauty product. It is often sold by weight or in made-up portions rather than as sealed units, it has genuine expiry dates that matter, and the same raw material can appear in several prepared formulations.
At minimum the system needs to deduct what was dispensed at the point of sale, track batches or expiry where you carry perishable stock, and alert on reorder points so a common formulation never runs short. Centres that count dispensing stock annually rather than continuously routinely discover the gap only when a practitioner cannot make up a prescription.
Practitioner diaries with treatment rooms and equipment as separate resources.
Multi-session courses for acupuncture, tuina, cupping and moxibustion, with live balances.
Dispensing stock deducted at the counter, with expiry and reorder alerts.
Visit records and treatment notes carried between practitioners.
Per-practitioner commission on consultations, treatments and dispensed product.
Chinese, English and Malay interface for staff and printed material.
Courses and recall keep the outcome on track
TCM treatment plans are almost always a course rather than a single visit, and the spacing is part of the plan. A ten-session acupuncture course delivered on schedule and the same ten sessions spread over six months are not the same treatment.
A system that knows each patient's remaining sessions and their intended interval can prompt the next booking automatically, on WhatsApp where it will be read. That serves the clinical plan and the commercial one at the same time — completed courses are better outcomes and lower unredeemed liability.
TCM centre software compared
Capability
LABÉAU
Aoikumo
Fresha
StoreHub
Practitioner & room scheduling
Yes
Yes
Limited
No
Multi-session course balances
Yes
Yes
Limited
No
Herbal / supplement dispensing stock
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Patient visit records
Basic
Yes
Limited
No
Per-practitioner commission
Yes
Yes
Basic
Limited
LHDN MyInvois e-invoice
Built in
Yes
No
Yes
Chinese interface
Yes
Yes
No
Limited
Indicative as of August 2026 — confirm current details with each vendor.
The bottom line
A TCM centre needs one counter that can settle a consultation, a course session and a herbal dispense together, and issue one compliant e-invoice for the lot. LABÉAU does that with Chinese-language support from RM174.92/month. Choose Aoikumo instead if structured clinical records are central to how you practise.
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Most use either a clinic management system such as Aoikumo, which is strong on structured patient records, or a beauty and wellness platform such as LABÉAU, which is stronger on courses, dispensing stock, commission and LHDN e-invoicing at the counter. Generic retail POS and salon booking tools model neither treatment courses nor dispensing properly.
It should, because they are typically settled in a single transaction. LABÉAU can take a consultation fee, redeem a session from a treatment course, and sell dispensed herbal product that deducts from stock in one checkout, producing a single LHDN-compliant e-invoice covering all three.
Where you carry perishable herbal or supplement stock, yes. Dispensing inventory differs from retail beauty product: it is often sold by weight or in made-up portions, has real expiry dates, and one raw material may appear in several formulations. Tracking deduction at the counter plus expiry and reorder points prevents a practitioner discovering a shortage mid-prescription.
Yes. LABÉAU's interface is available in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Cantonese alongside English and Bahasa Melayu, which matters for TCM centres where front-desk and practitioner staff work primarily in Chinese.
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