AffinityRx API Integration: Test Order Same Day, Live in About a Day

Why pharmacy integrations drag on, and why one API changes the math

Most telehealth brands start with one pharmacy integration and then need a second, and every added pharmacy repeats the work. Buyers often frame it as a choice: build API connections to 3 or 4 national pharmacy groups, or connect once to a platform.

• Each pharmacy is its own project. Its own order format, its own rate limits, its own support line.
• The second pharmacy is the expensive one. Failover, state coverage and price comparison all need a second route, and building that route yourself means routing logic you then maintain.
• Go-live depends on someone else's calendar. Waiting on a pharmacy's integration team puts your launch on its calendar.

For your developers, the question is how many integrations they maintain after launch. One is a better answer than four.

Three ways to connect a telehealth brand to compounding pharmacies

The criteria that matter are developer time, how many integrations you maintain, and what happens when a pharmacy can't fill.

How AffinityRx gets a telehealth brand from zero to a live order

The path from demo to a real order is six steps, and no documents are needed from your company. Each item below is live today.

1. Book a demo. You see the platform and the API with your volume and states in mind.
2. Preload the $5,000 credit. It is applied 100% to orders, never expires and has no minimum balance. When the credit runs low, orders fall back to the card on file.
3. Get a login. Your team and developers get access.
4. Enter the prescriber's NPI. AffinityRx verifies the NPI and the prescriber's state license before Live approval.
5. Place a test order. Headless integration is about 1 day of developer work, and the test order goes through the same day.
6. Place a real order. Live approval follows as soon as you request it, with sub-10-minute support replies while you go live.

Behind the single API, your orders get everything a multi-pharmacy platform should do. Failover sends an order to the next favorite pharmacy if the first is out of stock or rejects it, with prescriber re-sign as the default and auto re-sign available. Address validation checks deliverability, not just ZIP format. State board rules are checked per order, covering all 50 states for most SKUs. Batches of 20 orders and 300 requests a minute are the defaults, and both are raised on request. See the API features page and the specs page for details.

Two telehealth platforms, Cuvo and MyOrbitHealth, are live integrations and AffinityRx clients; together with a telehealth brand, those networks process roughly 60 to 70 thousand orders a month. Telehealth brands on them can become AffinityRx clients through them.

A one-day integration plan for your developers

Use this to scope the work before the demo.

• Day 0: confirm the prescriber's NPI and state license are ready: (fill in) [ ]
• Day 0: preload the $5,000 credit: [ ]
• Day 1: connect your front end and back end to the API: (fill in owner)
• Day 1: place a test order: [ ]
• Request Live approval: [ ]
• Primary pharmacy, second favorite and third favorite: (fill in)
• Peak orders per hour, so batch size and rate limit are raised up front: (fill in)

FAQs

Book a demo

If your pharmacy integration is the thing between you and launch, bring your developers to a demo and scope the day. Press the Book a demo button on the right side of this page. For the broader view first, read starting a telehealth brand: pharmacy partners you can go live with fast, or see the onboarding path from demo to first live order. Pricing is on the pricing page.

Sources

• AffinityRx API
• AffinityRx specs
• AffinityRx pricing