The pandemic year has been very challenging, and we are betting you cannot wait to get back on track and with the COVID-19 restrictions loosened up: everyone is ready to face all dining rooms, the busy season, and packed weekends. It is also the perfect time to make sure you are spending your time and energy on what will be your bottom line. In addition, no one got into a restaurant business or opened a retail location to spend their time in the back office banging away at paperwork, forms, spreadsheet, or managing their taxes.
There are so many things to be done. It is imperative that you save and focus your skills on cooking your best food, making your best products, and serving the community. So why do we chug along and waste our skills on tasks that can be easily automated? Consider using your point-of-sale system (POS) as your back office assistant.
eatOS does much more than act as a cash register for your business. Just like you do on your phone, to make running your business easier and your personal life, you likely use apps to make everything better. Now you can do the same for your business.
There are three apps you should consider installing right now.
1. Scheduling
Say goodbye to printed sheets of paper, whiteboards, verbal commitment, emails, and spreadsheets. Instead, you need a scheduling app that can help you easily manage your schedule, collect availability from your employees, communicate with your team, and let them easily switch shifts. It even syncs with your payroll service to send them information when it is time to run payroll.
2. Payroll
Look for a full-service payroll app that can complete your payroll accurately and syncs with your scheduling app. It can also file your local, state, and federal payroll taxes for you. It is also used to collect and store all your employee 19s, W2s, and 1099s.
3. Collecting, filing, and paying sales tax
We might be biased, but we think businesses get zero benefits from managing their sales tax. Keeping the state’s funds can cause lumpy cashflow issues or mistakes, and late fillings get expensive quickly. There is an app that puts sales tax on autopilot. Each day we automatically set aside from the necessary sales funds from your receipts, file and pay them to the state right when they are due without having to do anything.
We genuinely want you to be focused on growing your business and serving your staff and community. We want you to be efficient, and technology can help you get your valuable time back. Automating these three specific items is a smart move for your business. They are easy to set up and can get you instant results.
