FOR SUPPLEMENT BRANDS
Add a prescription line to a supplement brand
You already sell to people working on their hair, weight, sleep or energy, and some of them need more than a supplement can do. Tessic adds prescription treatment under your brand, with licensed providers deciding who gets it and a licensed pharmacy shipping it.
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Prescription categories to add
Filed
LegitScript application, during setup
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Brand name on both product lines
$25
Flat fee per completed consult
WHERE YOU START
You can sell a subscription. Tessic adds the part that needs a license.
A supplement brand already runs most of the selling side of a telehealth brand. What it can't do is write a prescription or ship one, and both require licenses the brand doesn't hold.
Running in your brand today
- A subscriber base that reorders every month
- Paid social, email and SMS that already convert
- A 3PL or warehouse shipping supplement orders
- Trust in a category like hair, sleep, weight or skin
What a prescription line needs
- Licensed providers to assess patients and prescribe
- A licensed pharmacy to dispense and ship, cold-chain included
- An MSO and friendly-PC structure so your company can own the line
- Electronic prescribing, including controlled drugs, with labs and follow-up
- LegitScript certification before prescription ads can run
HOW IT WORKS
How a supplement brand adds prescriptions
The supplement business keeps running while the prescription line is built next to it.
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Match the category
Pick the prescription category closest to your line: hair restoration for a hair-growth brand, weight care for a metabolic line, mental health for sleep and stress.
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Build the clinic
Tessic sets up the legal structure, credentials providers under your brand and connects the pharmacy, then stands up a prescription storefront in your branding that your site links to.
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Offer it to subscribers
Email and text your list about the new line. Customers complete intake online, and a provider decides whether treatment fits.
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Run two lines under one name
Supplements keep shipping from your warehouse. Prescriptions ship from the pharmacy and renew on their own subscription.
YOUR CONCERNS
What supplement founders ask
Moving from supplements to prescriptions changes the rules on claims, ads and shipping. These concerns come up first.
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“Will adding prescriptions bring more scrutiny to our supplement line?”
The prescription line runs as its own clinic under your brand. Licensed providers make treatment decisions inside a physician-owned practice, and a licensed pharmacy dispenses. Keep supplement products and their marketing separate from it, and have your regulatory lawyer review how the two appear side by side on your site.
02
“Can prescriptions ship from our 3PL with everything else?”
No. Prescription drugs must be dispensed by a licensed pharmacy, so they ship from Tessic's contracted pharmacy, cold-chain where needed. Your 3PL keeps shipping supplements as it does now.
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“Our growth runs on Meta ads. Can we advertise prescriptions there?”
Meta, Google and the big card processors want LegitScript certification before they'll carry a prescription brand's ads or payments. Tessic prepares and files the application during setup. Until it clears, the new line sells through channels you own, starting with your subscriber list.
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“Our customers are used to one-click checkout. Prescriptions need a visit.”
The visit starts as an online intake that a licensed provider reviews, with a live consult where state rules call for one. After approval, refills renew monthly without another checkout.
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“We're a consumer brand. We don't make medical decisions.”
And you won't. Clinical decisions sit with licensed providers inside the friendly PC. Your company owns the brand, the business and the customer relationship; the providers own the medical judgment.
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“Won't prescriptions eat into supplement sales?”
They catch customers a supplement wasn't going to satisfy, the ones who would otherwise leave for a telehealth brand. With both lines under your name, a customer who needs more stays with you.
PROOF
The economics of a second line
Published Tessic terms and client results, set against how a supplement brand already makes money.
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Markup on prescriptions
Medication is billed at wholesale, so you set the prescription margin the same way you set supplement margins.
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Gross margin per patient
What a weight-care brand gained in one quarter after moving to 0% markup and no revenue share, with patient prices unchanged.
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Lines added in one quarter
A hair restoration brand on Tessic opened three more treatment categories within a quarter, on the same platform fee.
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Pharmacy licenses your company needs
Tessic's contracted pharmacy holds the license and dispenses every prescription. Your company never stores or ships a drug.
“We moved off a platform that took a percentage of every order. Same volume, better margins, and our patients never noticed the migration.”
WHICH PROGRAM
The program for a brand with subscribers
A supplement brand's edge is its list. Grow puts the prescription line in front of that list and keeps renewals running.
- customer.io, HubSpot and GoHighLevel sync with your current list
- Email, SMS and iMessage sequences for the launch and for refills
- Failed-payment recovery on prescription subscriptions
- Revenue, retention and LTV reporting for the new line
Recommended program
Grow Program
Built for recurring revenue
$2,000/mo
+ $15,000 one-time setup
Also consider
Scale Program
$4,000/mo
If the prescription line should launch as its own brand beside the supplement brand, Scale runs unlimited brands on one account.
FAQ
Supplement brand questions
Yes, as two subscriptions under the same brand: supplements on your current store, prescriptions on the Tessic storefront.
Yes. The supplement store stays where it is, and the prescription storefront runs on Tessic in your branding. Link between them the way you'd link any page on your site.
Providers are licensed in all 50 states, so the prescription line can take patients wherever your supplement customers live.
LegitScript sets its own review schedule and never guarantees certification. Filing during setup gets the review started as early as possible.
Their provider, through the patient portal. Your customer service team keeps handling supplement orders and shipping, and sends medical questions to the portal.
Prescription revenue, retention and LTV are reported inside Tessic on Grow, and the customer.io, HubSpot or GoHighLevel sync keeps your marketing tools current.
Grow is $2,000 a month after a $15,000 one-time setup. Each completed provider visit is $25, medication is billed at wholesale, and Tessic takes no share of prescription or supplement revenue.
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