One link for registration and supply fees

Square Payment Links let in-home and family childcare providers collect a payment, sell an item, accept a donation, or sell an event or class with a link, QR code or buy button. Send a link for registration or the annual supply fee. Roots builds your links and QR codes, sets up custom fields and redirects, and ties them to reporting.
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Payment solutions for in-home & family childcare

How each solution supports in-home & family childcare

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

Square Invoices

For in-home & family childcare: Send itemized invoices for childcare tuition, registration and activity fees and track deposits, due dates and outstanding balances. Square Invoices lets in-home and family childcare providers send invoices by email, text or link and get paid by card, digital wallet or ACH bank transfer. Set up a recurring weekly invoice for each family, charged automatically to their card or bank account. Roots sets up your templates, recurring schedules and autopay, and connects invoices to your accounting.
  • Design invoice templates and custom fields (terms, policies, account numbers) for in-home and family childcare providers
  • Set up recurring schedules and card-on-file or bank-on-file autopay for families
  • Configure reminders and late-payment workflows
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Square Point of Sale

For in-home & family childcare: Bring childcare tuition, registration and activity fees into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around family accounts, attendance references and tuition balances. Square Point of Sale is free to download and turns a phone or tablet into a point of sale, so in-home and family childcare providers can take weekly tuition and fees in person. Take a tap on your phone for late-pickup or extra days. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, helps you choose a plan, configure items and staff access, and train your team.
  • Recommend the right Square plan and devices for how in-home and family childcare providers actually take payments
  • Build the item library for weekly tuition and fees, with taxes, discounts and categories set up correctly
  • Configure team permissions, receipts and reporting, then train staff and volunteers
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Square Banking

For in-home & family childcare: Plan account and cash-flow workflows around income from childcare tuition, registration and activity fees and day-to-day operating expenses. Square Banking offers checking, savings and loans connected to Square sales, so in-home and family childcare providers can see cash flow in one place. Automatically set aside a percentage of each payment for quarterly taxes. Roots explains how Square Banking fits your cash flow and helps you set it up; banking products are Square's, not Roots'.
  • Explain how transfers and set-asides work for in-home and family childcare providers
  • Help configure automatic set-asides
  • Reconcile Square Banking with your accounting
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ACH Payments

For in-home & family childcare: Offer bank-account payments for childcare tuition, registration and activity fees, with authorization and invoice matching built into the workflow. ACH lets in-home and family childcare providers collect weekly tuition and fees directly from a payer's bank account, usually at a lower cost than cards on larger payments. ACH autopay keeps fees low on weekly tuition. Roots sets up ACH with authorization language and fraud controls that meet Nacha's rules.
  • Write compliant authorization language for families
  • Set up account verification and return monitoring
  • Help you meet Nacha's 2026 fraud-monitoring requirements
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Square Payment Links questions

Questions childcare center administrators ask about payments.
Square Payment Links can be shared by email, text or social media, or presented as a QR code or website buy button.
Yes. Square describes reusable links that can collect payments from multiple customers. Roots helps configure the offering and payment references.
Bring your offerings, link-sharing channels and payment references. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for in-home & family childcare and prepare a clear setup scope.
See Square’s official pages for current software, hardware and processing prices. Request a quote for your Roots setup or custom project. Consultations and payment reviews are free.

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