Recording Credit Card Payouts

RE: How am I supposed to record this in Quickbooks? 

1. Record each sale as an individual sale. Probably as a Sales Receipt.

2. Deposit the receipts in batches mirroring the processor's batches. 

I have 400+ sales receipts for each day.  I would need to hire someone just to enter those and then to match them up each day.  So not a very feasible option in my case. 

I have 400+ sales receipts a day.  I would have to hire someone just to enter those...let alone match each one up to a deposit...

If you don't enter your sales in QuickBooks, then I don't see the issue.

In that case, just record deposits that match up to whatever the merchant deposits into your bank account and call it income.

Is that problematic for some reason?

RE:  I really don't want to have to calculate what sales were done between 6pm and when we close and then assign them some where different than the payout.

Why would you need to do that?

I guess that's part of my question. Is that a problem? I've always just entered the income that was earned in a day, together as one journal entry for that day. So it feels sloppy to record deposits that include part of one day and part of another.  So I'm wondering if that's a problem or if it just feels wrong because it isn't what I typically do. 

@novice_1221 

Sorry to jump in here but thought I might be able to add something.  I previously owned a business that had the exact same issue.  The way I handled it was to enter the daily sales just as you do, with a journal entry (imported from the POS), and then only change the sales/deposits on the last day of the month to reconcile the bank statement.  I also reconciled the merchant fees as one lump sum at month-end even though they were taken out prior to the individual payouts.  It makes your head swim for a month or two (more in my case) but after that, it will become second nature. 

The only caveat is December.  You will need to enter the difference between the sales and payouts as an entry to A/R since you want the sales to be recorded in one tax year and the payout deposit to be recorded in the next tax year.