POS system for Michigan businesses

Michigan sales tax at a glance

Michigan's sales tax rate is 6% as of 2026, administered by the Michigan Department of Treasury. There are no county or city sales taxes, so the same rate applies whether your business is in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing or the Upper Peninsula. That makes the setup quicker than in states that stack local rates.

Food for home consumption is generally exempt, while prepared food, restaurant meals, soft drinks and most other goods are taxable at 6%. Michigan also has a use tax at the same rate. Confirm the current rate and your product rules with the Department of Treasury before you open.

Setting up Michigan sales tax in SeroPOS

In the back office go to Settings, then Tax Rates, and add Michigan sales tax at 6%. Add a 0% rate for exempt items with a clear name, such as "Exempt food". In the SeroPOS app the same list is under Admin, then Taxes, where you can make the 6% rate the default so new products pick it up.

Assign the rate to each product as you add it, or fill the tax column in a spreadsheet and import your catalogue in one go. Products priced tax-in can be marked "price includes tax", and SeroPOS works the tax back out on the receipt and in reports. Your sales tax licence number can print in the receipt header.

• Michigan sales tax 6%: the default
• 0%: food for home consumption and other exempt items

Grocers, delis and party stores

A Michigan party store or deli sells exempt grocery food alongside taxable prepared sandwiches, soft drinks and beer. In SeroPOS the tax is part of each product, so the cashier scans and each line is taxed correctly. A USB barcode scanner types straight into the search field, and the device camera can scan when you don't have one.

If you sell by weight at a deli counter, a connected scale or a typed weight carries the weight into the sale, and each weighed product keeps its own tax. Before you open, filter the back office product list by tax to check what sits on 0%, and use bulk edit to fix a group of products at once.

Card terminals that talk to the till

In Michigan, as almost everywhere, most customers pay by card or tap, so the terminal matters as much as the till. SeroPOS works with Global Payments, through Global Pay Cloud or on the T650P handheld with Terminal Plus, and with Gravity Payments terminals set up in Gravity Pay Settings.

Each till can have its own terminal, set under Card Terminal for This Till, so the front counter and the bar charge on separate devices. Tips typed on the terminal print on the receipt, Close Batch prints a day-end summary, and Check on Terminal reads the batch when you're not sure whether a card went through.

Already have a merchant account? Keep it if your processor is supported. If you want to compare costs, send us a recent statement and we'll quote a rate. Card processing is arranged separately from your SeroPOS plan. Tell us your monthly card volume and the terminals you use today, and we can say which setup fits your counter before you commit.

Tax reports and QuickBooks Desktop

The Tax Report in the back office shows tax collected on sales, tax paid on purchases and tax on expenses, with an overall figure and the invoices behind each number, filtered by location and date range. Run it for your filing period, and use the Product Taxes section of the daily sales summary to see which products the tax came from.

On the Pro plan SeroPOS sends sales, payments, customers and items to QuickBooks Desktop, US edition 2021 or later (Pro, Premier or Enterprise on Windows), through the Web Connector. It can build your sales tax items, groups and tax agency in QuickBooks for you, matched by rate rather than by name. The QuickBooks Online connection is set up for Canadian companies today.