No chart of accounts to design
The single biggest reason shops abandon accounting software is the setup: ledgers, groups, opening balances and a chart of accounts, decided before anyone has raised a bill. Here you enter your shop details, your items and your parties and start billing. Sales, purchases, receivables, payables, cash and stock are already structured. What you never do is choose which ledger a transaction belongs to, because a sale is a sale and the system knows where it goes.
The reports a shop owner actually reads
Sales by day, month, item and party. Outstanding by party with ageing. Payables by supplier. Cash and bank position. Stock valuation at landed cost. Purchase rate against sale rate per item. Those six answer almost every question a shop owner has, and none of them require a report to be built. The full trial-balance-style output exists for your CA, but you are not expected to read it.
What your accountant gets
Month-wise sales and purchase summaries, GST data already grouped for GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B with HSN summaries, party and supplier ledgers, and a closing stock figure at landed cost rather than an estimate. That is enough for an accountant to prepare the books without a carton of paper and a week of data entry, which usually shows up in what they charge as well as in how long it takes.
Where it deliberately stops
This is shop accounting, not a full financial suite. It does not do payroll journals, depreciation schedules, TDS returns or consolidated group accounts, and it is not trying to replace your CA. What it does is make sure that everything that happened in the shop was recorded once, correctly, and can be handed over cleanly. For the overwhelming majority of hardware, material and retail shops, that is the entire problem.
When you genuinely do need a CA
Software of this kind handles the recording; it does not replace judgement. You still want an accountant for the annual return and the balance sheet, for advice on how to hold stock and depreciate a vehicle, for anything involving TDS, and for the decision about which GST scheme you should be under. What changes is what you hand them. Instead of a carton of bills and an afternoon of questions, they receive month-wise summaries, party and supplier ledgers, GST data and a real closing stock figure. Most CAs charge less for that, and the ones who do not will at least finish faster.