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Keep weekly and biweekly clients on a repeating schedule, let new ones book from your website and charge a saved card once the clean is done. Payaroo helps you set up the Square tools behind it.
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What your cleaning business needs
Cleaning runs on repeat visits: the weekly house, the biweekly condo, the dental office every weeknight after close. Most clients are out when the crew arrives, so getting paid can't depend on catching them at the door.
A setup that fits keeps the regulars on a repeating schedule, reminds each client before the visit, charges a saved card when the job's done and bills commercial accounts by invoice. Each cleaner sees where they're headed next.
You finish the clean, lock the door and drive off, and the payment turns into a week of texts.
How Square helps With the client's signed authorization, save their card and charge it from the Appointments calendar after the clean, or send an invoice with automatic reminders.
A 7 a.m. cancellation or a locked gate leaves a crew with an empty slot and nothing to show for it.
How Square helps On a paid plan, clients see your cancellation policy when they book, you can require a card to hold the slot and a late-cancel or no-show fee can go on that card. Automatic reminders go out before each visit.
Most of your week is the same clients on repeat, and rebuilding the schedule by hand eats your evenings.
How Square helps Book regulars as recurring appointments and keep notes on each client's profile, like the pets, the preferred products and the rooms to skip, so any cleaner can cover the route.
Offices and property managers want a written quote, a signed agreement and one invoice a month.
How Square helps Send an estimate they accept online, attach a Square Contracts service agreement for e-signature and bill the account with recurring invoices paid by card or bank transfer.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a cleaning business — and why each one earns its place.
Online booking, repeating appointments for regulars and a calendar for each cleaner or crew.
Clients are rarely home at the end of a clean, so a saved card with their signed authorization lets you charge after you lock up.
Estimates, monthly invoices and automatic reminders for offices, property managers and move-out jobs.
Start from Square's service agreement or card authorization templates, and clients sign online before the first clean.
Clients agree to your cancellation policy when they book, so a lockout or same-day cancel doesn't cost the crew the whole slot.
Take a contactless card or phone wallet at the door for one-time deep cleans and move-outs, right on your phone.
Track a flat or tiered commission for each cleaner on the services they complete, with reports you can import into Square Payroll.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Book regular clients on a repeating schedule from the Appointments calendar, so weekly and biweekly homes stay on the books without re-entering each visit.
Clients book from Square's free booking site or a booking widget embedded on your website, and each booking lands on your calendar. You can take a deposit when they book; requiring full prepayment needs a paid plan.
Confirmation requests and reminders go out by text and email at times you choose. Edit the wording to ask clients to leave the gate unlocked or keep the dog inside.
Each cleaner gets their own services, hours and calendar, and permissions decide who sees which schedule. Booking two cleaners on one appointment is a paid plan feature.
Send an estimate the client accepts online, then turn it into an invoice. On a paid plan, one estimate can offer options, say a standard clean or a deep clean, and convert on its own once accepted.
Set services to happen at the client's location. Collecting the address during online booking needs a paid plan, and Square doesn't add drive time between homes for you.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
Accept contactless cards and phone wallets on your own phone with no extra hardware.
For many jobs your phone is enough: take a contactless card or phone wallet at the door when the client is home.
A small Bluetooth card reader that pairs with your phone or tablet.
Adds chip cards to your phone for clients who don't tap, and it's small enough to live in the supply caddy.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
A battery-powered card machine with a built-in printer, for crews that hand over a paper receipt after a move-out clean.
Software and tools
Online booking, repeating appointments, reminders and a calendar for each cleaner.
Estimates and recurring invoices for offices, property managers and move-outs.
Service agreements and card authorizations signed online before the first visit.
Client profiles with visit history, notes and attached files such as a walkthrough checklist.
Emails for spring-cleaning and move-out season, plus texts to clients who opt in.
How it works
One realistic day at a cleaning business, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your cleaning business. We'll stop as soon as we can point you to a useful starting setup.
Tell Buckaroo how your business works and he'll help you figure out which Square tools make sense.
FAQs
Often not. Many cleaning jobs are paid with a card on file or an invoice, so there's nothing to tap. When a client does pay at the door, Tap to Pay takes contactless cards and phone wallets on your iPhone or Android phone, Square Reader adds chip cards and Square Terminal prints receipts on the spot. Tap to Pay needs an internet connection.
Yes. Square Appointments books regular clients on a repeating schedule from the calendar, and automatic reminders go out before each visit. For commercial accounts billed by the month, recurring invoices can charge a saved card or verified bank account on schedule.
On a paid Square plan, yes. Clients see your cancellation policy when they book, and you can require a card to hold the appointment. You can then charge a no-show or late-cancellation fee to that card for up to 14 days after the appointment.
Not automatically. Square doesn't calculate travel time between client addresses. On a paid plan, a service can block extra time after each appointment, which leaves a gap before the next booking. Collecting the client's address through online booking is also a paid plan feature.
Yes. Square Appointments includes a free booking site that syncs with your calendar, and you can link to it or embed it on your own website. You can ask for a deposit when someone books; requiring full prepayment or a card to hold the slot needs a paid plan.
Pricing is set by Square, not Payaroo. Square Free has no monthly subscription, though processing fees apply, and it covers booking, invoicing and the POS app. Cancellation fees, two cleaners on one booking, commission tracking, multi-option estimates and email marketing come with Square Plus or Premium, and Square Payroll is a separate add-on. Square's pricing page has current rates, and we can help you decide whether your crew needs more than Free.
Start by telling us how your clients book and pay: recurring homes, one-time move-outs or commercial contracts. Square reviews every application, checking your identity and your business, before it approves an account. Once you're approved, Payaroo helps you load your services, set up the recurring schedule and connect invoicing.
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Tell us about your regulars, your crews and your commercial accounts, and we'll help you set up the rest.
Square reviews and approves every account. Call Payaroo at 972-431-0439.
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