Veterinary Clinics Payments

General practice vet clinics collect in full at checkout, sell prescription diets, medications and retail products, and run wellness plans. HSA and FSA cards generally can't be used for routine pet care.
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Payment solutions for veterinary clinics & animal hospitals

How these solutions fit veterinary clinics & animal hospitals

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

Square Point of Sale

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Bring veterinary visits, procedures and pet-care products into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around treatment estimates, client invoices and pet-care sales. Square Point of Sale is Square's free POS app for taking payments in person, online and on the go. Checkout for exams, procedures, medications and retail. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, configures it around how your veterinary clinic actually checks pet owners out.
  • Map your services, fees and products into the Square item library before your first pet owner
  • Recommend and configure Square hardware for your front desk or field work (you buy it from Square)
  • Set team permissions so each role sees only what it needs
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Square Appointments

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Schedule pet exams and procedure consultations, collect appointment payments and keep staff calendars aligned. Square Appointments lets pet owners book online 24/7, sends automated reminders and keeps every staff calendar in one place. Online booking for wellness visits, without prepayment on services that include prescription products. Roots sets up your services, availability, policies and forms so the calendar works from day one.
  • Build your service menu with durations, buffers, prices and assigned staff
  • Set cancellation and prepayment policies that match your written policy
  • Turn intake, consent and policy documents into automated digital forms
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Square Inventory

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Track pet-care products, food and veterinary retail supplies with item-level stock records and replenishment workflows. Square's item library tracks products, stock and sales across your POS and online store, and Square for Retail features add deeper inventory tools. Track food, preventives and retail products. Roots imports your catalog and sets up counts and alerts.
  • Import and clean up your product catalog
  • Set stock counts, low-stock alerts and categories
  • Configure barcode scanning and labels
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Square Payroll

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Organize payroll for veterinarians, technicians and receptionists, using staff and time records to prepare pay runs. Square Payroll runs unlimited pay runs for employees and contractors, files payroll taxes and imports timecards from Square. Pay techs and support staff, with timecards from Square. Roots sets up pay rates, tax accounts and timecard imports.
  • Set up employees, contractors, pay rates and tax accounts
  • Connect timecards from Square to payroll
  • Map payroll to your accounting software
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Merchant Account

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Arrange a processing account for veterinary visits, procedures and pet-care products, with checkout methods matched to how customers pay. A dedicated merchant account underwritten for your veterinary clinic, with pricing you can read and a person to call. MCC 0742 accounts with pricing sized for veterinary tickets.
  • Analyze your current statements and quote side by side
  • Prepare the underwriting package so approval moves quickly
  • Set up terminals, gateway and software connections
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Recurring Billing

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Schedule and manage payments for pet wellness plans and scheduled treatment installments, including renewals and customer account balances. Automate recurring card and ACH charges for memberships, retainers and payment plans. Monthly wellness plan billing.
  • Draft authorization language for recurring charges
  • Set up schedules and retry rules
  • Connect billing to your software
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Text to Pay

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Send a payment request for veterinary visits, procedures and pet-care products by text so customers can pay against a specific order or invoice. Text-to-pay sends a secure payment link by SMS, so pet owners can pay a balance from their phone in seconds. Text estimates and balances to pet owners.
  • Write compliant message templates with opt-in language
  • Integrate with your billing system
  • Set reminder cadences
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Custom Payment Integration

For veterinary clinics & animal hospitals: Connect the payment flow for veterinary visits, procedures and pet-care products with your software and the operational records behind treatment estimates, client invoices and pet-care sales. We connect payments to the systems you already run so balances, receipts and deposits reconcile automatically. Post payments to your practice-management software.
  • Scope integrations your software vendor supports
  • Build and test the connection
  • Keep sensitive data out of payment records
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Veterinary Clinics & Animal Hospitals payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Square POS for Veterinarians, Square Appointments for Veterinarians, Square Inventory for Veterinarians. 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 appointments, invoices, deposits and customer billing, then plan the changes your veterinary clinics & animal hospitals 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 veterinary clinics & animal hospitals workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

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