Retail Bookkeeping & Payroll in Winnipeg
Your POS knows what sold, your bank knows what was deposited. The gap between them, made of fees, refunds, tips, gift cards and payouts from several processors, is where retail books go wrong.
Wiltshire Business Services, Inc. closes that gap every month and runs payroll your staff can count on.
Retail Bookkeeping Services
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GST and Manitoba RST/PST. 5% GST and 7% RST, filed separately and on time. We buy stock for resale without RST using your RST number, and document exempt sales, such as goods delivered to a reserve for status First Nations customers.
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Inventory and margin. Cost of goods sold, counts, shrinkage and markdowns, with margin by category so you know which lines earn their shelf space.
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Tips and gratuities. If you take tips at a café counter or service desk, we sort controlled from direct tips, run controlled tips through payroll, and hold tips owed to staff in their own account until paid.
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Payroll for retail teams. Hourly, part-time and seasonal staff; overtime, vacation and general holiday pay under Manitoba rules; T4 slips and Records of Employment.
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Gift cards, layaways and returns. Gift cards stay a liability until redeemed, and most Manitoba gift cards can’t expire, so we track balances and avoid overstating revenue.
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Processor fee review. Once deposits reconcile, you can see what each processor really costs, and whether it’s time to switch.
Who We Work With
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Independent shops
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Boutiques
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Specialty food and gift stores
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Cafés and restaurants
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Online sellers in Winnipeg and across Manitoba
How We Get Started
1. Connect. POS, payment processors, bank and payroll, all linked.
2. Reconcile. Every deposit matched to its sales batch, fees and refunds recorded.
3. Close. Inventory, sales tax and payroll liabilities balanced.
4. Report. Sales, margin and cash on a set date each month.
Know what you actually made last month.
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Frequently Asked Questions
• Why don’t my Shopify payouts match my sales? Payouts are net of fees, refunds, chargebacks and sometimes held funds, and one payout can cover several days of sales. We record each piece so both sales and deposits reconcile.
• Do I need to register for Manitoba RST? Usually, if you make taxable sales. Businesses with annual taxable sales under $30,000 can choose not to register, but then pay RST on goods bought for resale, and some businesses aren’t eligible. We’ll tell you which way makes sense.
• Can you handle more than one location? Yes. We track each store and channel separately and combine them in one report.
• Do you run payroll for part-time and seasonal staff? Yes, including Records of Employment when seasonal staff leave.
• Will you work with our POS? If it exports sales and deposit data, almost certainly.
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POS and payment reconciliation, whatever you use. Shopify POS, Square, Lightspeed, Clover, Moneris, Chase Payment Solutions, Stripe and PayPal. We record gross sales, fees, refunds and chargebacks separately through clearing accounts, so every deposit ties back to its batch.
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In-store and online in one set of books. Shopify payouts, marketplace fees and shipping income reconciled with store sales, by location or channel.