House Cleaning Payments & Square Setup

Residential cleaning is recurring work with tips, lockouts and last-minute cancellations. Square covers booking, cards on file and payroll; Roots adds independent contractor crew payouts and faster pay.
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Payment solutions for residential cleaning & maid services

How these solutions fit residential cleaning & maid services

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

Square Appointments

For residential cleaning & maid services: Schedule site estimates and cleaning appointments, collect appointment payments and keep staff calendars aligned. Enforce a cancellation fee with a card on file. Square Appointments gives customers a booking site and sends confirmations and reminders automatically. Roots maps your services, crews and policies into it.
  • Map services, durations, buffers and travel time into Square Appointments
  • Set deposit, prepayment and cancellation policies
  • Add booking to your website and Google Business Profile
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Square Invoices

For residential cleaning & maid services: Send itemized invoices for cleaning visits, restoration projects and service invoices and track deposits, due dates and outstanding balances. Bill recurring cleans automatically after each visit. Square Invoices sends estimates and invoices by email, SMS or a shareable link and tracks what's paid, unpaid or overdue. Roots configures the templates, payment schedules and reminders around how you bill.
  • Build your service catalog, tax settings and branded invoice and estimate templates
  • Set up deposit and milestone schedules that match your contracts and any state limits you operate under
  • Connect Square to QuickBooks Online or Xero so paid invoices reconcile automatically
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Square Payroll

For residential cleaning & maid services: Organize payroll for cleaners and dispatch teams, using staff and time records to prepare pay runs. Pay W-2 staff and 1099 help in the same system that tracks their hours. Square Payroll runs full-service payroll with automated tax filings, or contractor-only payments, connected to Square timecards.
  • Set up employees, 1099 subcontractors and pay schedules
  • Connect timecards from Square team management
  • Walk through labor-cost reports by job type
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Square Staff

For residential cleaning & maid services: Set roles, permissions and schedules for cleaners and dispatch teams, with a clearer view of staffing across shifts. Keep team hours, permissions and labor costs in the same system as your payments. Square's staff tools schedule shifts, track attendance and control what each team member can do in Square.
  • Set roles and permissions for techs, dispatchers and office staff
  • Configure timecards and overtime rules
  • Sync hours to payroll
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Square Marketing

For residential cleaning & maid services: Build opt-in campaigns for cleaning visits, restoration projects and service invoices, from new offerings to reminders for returning customers. Send homeowners timely reminders so repeat work comes to you first. Square Marketing sends email and text campaigns to customers in your Square Customer Directory.
  • Build seasonal and service-interval reminder campaigns
  • Segment customers by service history
  • Set up SMS opt-in at checkout and booking
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Square Gift Cards

For residential cleaning & maid services: Offer gift cards redeemable toward cleaning visits, restoration projects and service invoices and track purchased and redeemed balances. Sell deep-clean gift cards for Mother's Day and move-in gifts. 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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Gig Worker Payouts

For residential cleaning & maid services: Pay independent cleaners and restoration crews from approved jobs or service records, with earnings and transfer status tracked together. Pay independent contractor cleaners per job by bank transfer. Gig payouts pay independent contractors per job, with onboarding and payout records. Provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Roots Payments is not a bank or money transmitter.
  • Design the payout flow around job completion
  • Integrate with your dispatch software
  • Support payees
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Instant Payouts

For residential cleaning & maid services: Plan faster disbursements to independent cleaners and restoration crews, matching each transfer to approved earnings or completed work. Fast pay helps cleaning companies keep independent contractor crews and drivers loyal. Faster payout options send funds to eligible debit cards or accounts, often the same day. Provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Roots Payments is not a bank or money transmitter.
  • Configure payout speeds and who pays the fee
  • Onboard payees
  • Reporting
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Merchant Account

For residential cleaning & maid services: Arrange a processing account for cleaning visits, restoration projects and service invoices, with checkout methods matched to how customers pay. Typical tickets for cleaning companies run $120 to $500 per visit, 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
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Residential Cleaning & Maid Services payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Square Appointments for House Cleaning, Square Invoices for House Cleaning, Square Payroll for House Cleaning. Roots helps compare the setup, software and processing requirements around how you operate.
Yes. Bring your current POS, checkout or billing tools and recent processing statements. We review job estimates, deposits, field payments and final invoices, then plan the changes your residential cleaning & maid services business needs.
Request a quote for your business. The review covers your payment mix, locations, software, hardware recommendations and implementation work. Consultations and payment reviews are free.
Bring recent payment statements, the systems you use and a record of how a customer places an order, receives a service or pays a bill. Tell us which residential cleaning & maid services workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

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