A merchant account sized to your tickets

Typical tickets for car washes run $10 washes to $40/month memberships, and a merchant account's limits and pricing can be set for that range. A dedicated merchant account gives you custom pricing and processing limits set during underwriting. Roots uses it when Square isn't the right fit.
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Payment solutions for car washes

How each solution supports car washes

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Recurring Billing

For car washes: Schedule and manage payments for wash memberships and maintenance packages, including renewals and customer account balances. Bill unlimited-wash memberships monthly with retries and card updater. Recurring billing charges a saved card or bank account on a schedule, with retries when a payment fails.
  • Design plan structures and billing dates
  • Set up clear authorization and cancellation terms
  • Import existing autopay customers where permitted
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Unattended Payments

For car washes: Build self-service checkout for car washes, detailing packages and appearance services at kiosks, stations or access points that operate without a staffed counter. Accept chip and tap at entrance pay stations. Unattended readers let customers pay at a kiosk, gate or machine with chip, tap or wallet.
  • Match readers to your equipment
  • Coordinate integration with your equipment vendor
  • Monitor uptime and settlement
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Payment Gateway

For car washes: Connect online or remote checkout for car washes, detailing packages and appearance services to a gateway that fits your business systems. Connect your wash management software to a gateway for memberships. a payment gateway configured by Roots handles card-present and card-not-present payments with a secure card vault and hosted payment pages.
  • Check compatibility with your car wash tunnel controller
  • Set up the vault, users and fraud rules
  • Support during cutover and after
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Chargeback Management

For car washes: Organize evidence for disputed car washes, detailing packages and appearance services, including customer authorizations, delivery details and service records. Roots coordinates chargeback-management services to help your business handle disputes and organize responses.
  • Discuss your business goals on a free consultation
  • Coordinate your provider introduction and setup
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Square Point of Sale

For car washes: Bring car washes, detailing packages and appearance services into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around vehicle services, membership balances and wash totals. Use Square at an attended counter or detail bay. Square Point of Sale is Square's POS app for taking payments in person, online or in the field. Roots sets up your items, services, taxes, permissions and devices so checkout is quick.
  • Choose the Square plan and hardware that fit your counter, trucks or bays
  • Import your catalog and customer list and set team permissions
  • Configure taxes, discounts, receipts and (if you use them) tips
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Square Gift Cards

For car washes: Offer gift cards redeemable toward car washes, detailing packages and appearance services and track purchased and redeemed balances. Sell wash books and eGift cards. Square Gift Cards covers physical and eGift cards that redeem at your POS or online.
  • Set up eGift cards on your website and POS
  • Plan holiday and Father's Day gift card promos
  • Configure reporting on outstanding balances
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Fleet Card Acceptance

For car washes: Plan fleet-account checkout for eligible car washes, detailing packages and appearance services, capturing vehicle or driver references for each transaction. Fleet managers route vehicles to car washes that accept their fleet cards. Fleet cards require extra prompts and data at checkout. Roots sets up acceptance so fleet managers can send vehicles your way.
  • Enable fleet networks on your account
  • Configure terminal prompts
  • Help you market to local fleets
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Merchant Account

For car washes: Arrange a processing account for car washes, detailing packages and appearance services, with checkout methods matched to how customers pay. Typical tickets for car washes run $10 washes to $40/month memberships, and a merchant account's limits and pricing can be set for that range. A dedicated merchant account gives you custom pricing and processing limits set during underwriting. Roots uses it when Square isn't the right fit.
  • Statement review and a pricing quote
  • Underwriting and application support
  • A named support contact after go-live

Merchant Account questions

Questions car wash owners ask about payments.
It enables your business to accept card payments through a processing partner. Roots helps compare the options, prepare the application and configure your checkout.
Yes. A free review covers processing charges, payment channels and equipment so you can decide which changes make sense.
Bring your processing statements, payment channels and checkout equipment. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for car washes and prepare a clear setup scope.
Request a quote for your business and the setup you need. We review the scope and costs with you before you proceed. Consultations and payment reviews are free.

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