For 2 years I've not printed up receipts of sales to save on paper and ink. Now that I'm doing these batch numbers - I am going through a ton of ink and paper. >:/
I typically process about 10 orders a day through 3 stores...
Print to PDF and monthly burn them to a cd. That's what we did for our businesses. We only printed out what we needed, when we needed it. If you use TurboTax and Quicken for book keeping you can enter your sales and receipts weekly and when tax time comes quicken will import to Turbo tax and done.
I'm currently using freshbooks which is a cloud accounting thing. I was using Excel and had all these awesome spreadsheets - but... BAM... one day my files were corrupt. I've lost a ton of important information. So I opted instead for something not locally on my computer.
I do have professional pdf software and considered that. Do you add your batch numbers to your pdf?
Sandy, I don't have to use batch numbers, as a mark very limited editions, usually, only onsies or twosis.. So what ever would work for you that would give you all the information that you need.