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Square Point of Sale is free to download and turns a phone or tablet into a point of sale, so tutoring and test prep businesses can take sessions, packages and monthly memberships in person. Centers take cards at check-in or sell prepaid session packages at the desk. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, helps you choose a plan, configure items and staff access, and train your team.
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Payment solutions for tutoring & test prep

How each solution supports tutoring & test prep

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

Square Appointments

For tutoring & test prep: Schedule admissions consultations and tutoring sessions, collect appointment payments and keep staff calendars aligned. Square Appointments is Square's booking software: clients see your availability, book online, and pay online or in person, which fits tutoring and test prep businesses that sell time. Parents book sessions online, recurring weekly sessions stay on the calendar, and cancellation fees protect tutor time. Roots builds your service menu, instructor calendars and policies, and connects booking to payments and reporting.
  • Map your sessions, packages and monthly memberships into bookable services, packages and classes
  • Set cancellation, deposit and no-show policies that match your enrollment terms
  • Configure instructor calendars, permissions and payroll hand-off
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Square Invoices

For tutoring & test prep: Send itemized invoices for tuition, course enrollments and school activities and track deposits, due dates and outstanding balances. Square Invoices lets tutoring and test prep businesses send invoices by email, text or link and get paid by card, digital wallet or ACH bank transfer. Monthly memberships bill automatically to a card on file, with reminders for anything unpaid. 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 tutoring and test prep businesses
  • Set up recurring schedules and card-on-file or bank-on-file autopay for parents and students
  • Configure reminders and late-payment workflows
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Square Point of Sale

For tutoring & test prep: Bring tuition, course enrollments and school activities into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around student references, tuition balances and enrollment records. Square Point of Sale is free to download and turns a phone or tablet into a point of sale, so tutoring and test prep businesses can take sessions, packages and monthly memberships in person. Centers take cards at check-in or sell prepaid session packages at the desk. 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 tutoring and test prep businesses actually take payments
  • Build the item library for sessions, packages and monthly memberships, with taxes, discounts and categories set up correctly
  • Configure team permissions, receipts and reporting, then train staff and volunteers

Square Payment Links

For tutoring & test prep: Share a checkout link for tuition, course enrollments and school activities through messages, email or your website. Square Payment Links let tutoring and test prep businesses collect a payment, sell an item, accept a donation, or sell an event or class with a link, QR code or buy button. Sell SAT, ACT or LSAT bootcamps with one link per cohort. Roots builds your links and QR codes, sets up custom fields and redirects, and ties them to reporting.
  • Plan which links tutoring and test prep businesses need (fees, events, donations) and name them clearly
  • Create print-ready QR codes for flyers, signs and newsletters
  • Set custom fields and post-payment redirects to capture the details you need
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Square Marketing

For tutoring & test prep: Build opt-in campaigns for tuition, course enrollments and school activities, from new offerings to reminders for returning customers. Square Marketing lets tutoring and test prep businesses send email and text campaigns to the contacts already in the Square customer directory. Email parents before exam season and at re-enrollment time. Roots cleans up your contact lists, builds templates and schedules your first campaigns.
  • Import and de-duplicate your parent and student contacts
  • Build branded templates and a campaign calendar
  • Set up consent capture for text messaging
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Recurring Billing

For tutoring & test prep: Schedule and manage payments for tuition installments and recurring course fees, including renewals and customer account balances. Recurring billing lets tutoring and test prep businesses put sessions, packages and monthly memberships on an automatic schedule, charged to a saved card or bank account. Multi-location centers run memberships with retries and card updating on a dedicated account. Roots builds the plans, retry rules and notifications, and connects them to your records.
  • Design payment plans (including 10-month or 12-month) for parents and students
  • Set retry, dunning and late-fee rules
  • Sync recurring payments to your accounting or management system
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Marketplace Payments

For tutoring & test prep: Collect customer payments for tuition, course enrollments and school activities and allocate proceeds to tutors and educational contractors within the marketplace workflow. Tutoring & Test Prep Centers that take payments for others need to onboard sub-merchants, split each payment, and pay out correctly. Platforms that match students with independent tutors split each session and pay tutors their share. Funds flows are provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners.
  • Design the funds flow and fee model
  • Integrate onboarding and payouts into your platform
  • Support compliance reviews with partner banks
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Gig Worker Payouts

For tutoring & test prep: Pay tutors and educational contractors from approved jobs or service records, with earnings and transfer status tracked together. Tutoring & Test Prep Centers that rely on independent contractors need to onboard them, pay them quickly and collect payment records, without running checks. Pay independent contractor tutors after each session by ACH or push-to-card, through our licensed partners. Provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Roots Payments is not a bank or money transmitter.
  • Map your contractor pay cycle and approval steps
  • Integrate payouts with your scheduling or dispatch system
  • Support contractors with payout questions
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Square Point of Sale questions

Questions school administrators ask about payments.
Square POS combines payment acceptance with item and customer records. Roots configures the catalog, staff workflow and reporting around your business.
Yes. We help test checkout, receipts, refunds and daily reporting, then train your team on the selected Square setup.
Bring your item or service catalog, checkout stations and staff roles. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for tutoring & test prep 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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