Community events and bazaars

Square Point of Sale is free to download and turns a phone or tablet into a point of sale, so mosques, synagogues, temples and other houses of worship can take donations, zakat and sadaqah, dues, High Holiday seats and school fees in person. Take cards at bazaars, dinners and festivals. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, helps you choose a plan, configure items and staff access, and train your team.Free 30-minute consultation. Review your setup, compare options and leave with clear next steps.

How each solution supports mosques, synagogues & temples

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

Donation Processing

For mosques, synagogues & temples: Organize one-time and recurring contributions, with campaign or program references connected to giving records, event enrollments and campaign totals. Online giving lets mosques, synagogues, temples and other houses of worship accept one-time and recurring gifts by card, digital wallet and ACH, with receipts donors can use at tax time. Run Ramadan, High Holiday or festival campaigns with designations such as zakat, sadaqah or building funds. Roots sets up giving forms, fee-coverage options and reporting, and connects them to your donor records.
  • Build giving forms and campaign pages
  • Set up receipts with the IRS acknowledgment language donors need
  • Connect gifts to your donor database or accounting
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Recurring Billing

For mosques, synagogues & temples: Schedule and manage payments for recurring giving and community program fees, including renewals and customer account balances. Recurring billing lets mosques, synagogues, temples and other houses of worship put donations, zakat and sadaqah, dues, High Holiday seats and school fees on an automatic schedule, charged to a saved card or bank account. Annual pledges and memberships paid monthly on autopay. Roots builds the plans, retry rules and notifications, and connects them to your records.
  • Design payment plans (including 10-month or 12-month) for congregants and visitors
  • Set retry, dunning and late-fee rules
  • Sync recurring payments to your accounting or management system
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Unattended Payments

For mosques, synagogues & temples: Build self-service checkout for donations, event registrations and community programs at kiosks, stations or access points that operate without a staffed counter. Unattended payment kiosks and readers let mosques, synagogues, temples and other houses of worship take payments around the clock without a staffed counter. Tap-to-give kiosks at entrances, for visitors who don't carry cash. Roots specifies the hardware, sets up processing and connects it to your back-office system.
  • Specify kiosk hardware and placement
  • Integrate with your account or giving system
  • Monitor devices and support them after launch
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Square Point of Sale

For mosques, synagogues & temples: Bring donations, event registrations and community programs into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around giving records, event enrollments and campaign totals. Square Point of Sale is free to download and turns a phone or tablet into a point of sale, so mosques, synagogues, temples and other houses of worship can take donations, zakat and sadaqah, dues, High Holiday seats and school fees in person. Take cards at bazaars, dinners and festivals. 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 mosques, synagogues, temples and other houses of worship actually take payments
  • Build the item library for donations, zakat and sadaqah, dues, High Holiday seats and school fees, with taxes, discounts and categories set up correctly
  • Configure team permissions, receipts and reporting, then train staff and volunteers

ACH Payments

For mosques, synagogues & temples: Offer bank-account payments for donations, event registrations and community programs, with authorization and invoice matching built into the workflow. ACH lets mosques, synagogues, temples and other houses of worship collect donations, zakat and sadaqah, dues, High Holiday seats and school fees directly from a payer's bank account, usually at a lower cost than cards on larger payments. Lower-cost bank payments for large pledges and school tuition. Roots sets up ACH with authorization language and fraud controls that meet Nacha's rules.
  • Write compliant authorization language for congregants and visitors
  • Set up account verification and return monitoring
  • Help you meet Nacha's 2026 fraud-monitoring requirements
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Square Point of Sale questions

Questions congregation 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 mosques, synagogues & temples 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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