Warning: I switched my Colorado shop from a Square reader to a real POS and my bookkeeping got way easier
I run a small grooming shop in Fort Collins and for two years I tracked everything on a Square reader plus a paper calendar. Every April my CPA would hand me a bill for around $600 because my records were a mess of cash and card slips. Back in January I moved to a proper POS that logs each service and tip automatically, and it cost me $45 a month. My tax prep bill dropped to $250 this spring, and I can see my numbers without digging through a shoebox. The card fees are about the same, the real win is that I stopped losing receipts behind the front desk. Any other Colorado owners here made a similar switch, and did the bookkeeping savings actually hold up after the first year?