Patent ID: 8306651

Claim:
A pharmacy will-call system for management of articles selected to fulfill prescription orders while awaiting pick-up of the prescription orders from the pharmacy, the system comprising: a will-call storage module having a plurality of discrete storage locations each configured to accept only a single container holding at least one article for a patient's prescription order; a machine-readable code proximate each one of the storage locations; a code reader operative to read a code associated with each container and the code proximate each one of the storage locations; a visual indicator operative to visually indicate the storage location at which each container is located and to guide a user toward the storage location; and control apparatus operative to receive the codes from the code reader, associate the container holding the at least one article for the patient's prescription order with any available one of the storage locations and operate the indicator to indicate the storage location of the container holding the at least one article for the patient's prescription order to guide the user toward the storage location.