A compounding control method to prepare a compounded mixture for use with at least one pharmaceutical compounding device having an associated plurality of source solutions and a mixture receptacle. The method comprises determining whether the plurality of source solutions conform to a predetermined configuration providing an alert to an operator and preventing compounding if the source solutions are not as expected determining respective expiration dates of the source solutions warning/preventing use of any of the source solutions if any have the source solutions have expired accepting mixture inputs for the source solutions and urging at least a portion of at least one of the source solutions into the mixture receptacle based on the mixture inputs to form the compounded mixture.
