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Take bookings online, collect party deposits by invoice, send waivers ahead of time and ring up snacks and merch at the counter. Payaroo helps you choose the Square tools that fit what you run.
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What your recreation business needs
Whether it's a bowling lane, an escape room, a climbing wall or a 6 p.m. yoga class, you're selling hours, and an hour nobody booked is gone. Around those hours come birthday parties and company outings that book weeks ahead, walk-ins at the counter and the pizza, drinks and grip socks people buy once they're inside.
A setup that fits takes bookings online, holds big groups with a deposit, gets waivers signed before anyone arrives and rings up food, drinks and merch at the same counter where people pay to play.
Birthday parties and company outings book weeks out, and a group that never shows leaves the party room empty on a Saturday.
How Square helps Send an invoice with a deposit to hold the date and the balance due later. Automatic reminders go out, and the host can pay by card or bank transfer.
Two groups show up for the 7 p.m. escape room because the booking lived in a notebook and an inbox.
How Square helps Online booking syncs with your calendar. On Square Premium, each service can be tied to the lane, room or equipment it uses, so it can't be double-booked.
You want a signed waiver from every participant, and a clipboard at the counter backs up the whole line.
How Square helps Send your waiver through Square Contracts to up to 20 guests at once, and they sign on their phones. Automatic sending at booking needs a paid plan and doesn't work with classes.
Regulars want a monthly membership or a ten-class pack, and the front desk loses track of who has what left.
How Square helps Class packs sold as packages apply automatically when someone books. Square Subscriptions bills memberships but doesn't count visits or classes. Both need a paid plan.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a recreation business — and why each one earns its place.
Online booking for lanes, rooms, sessions and parties, with a deposit taken when guests book.
Deposits and final balances for birthday parties, team outings and full buyouts, with automatic reminders before the balance is due.
Waivers and party agreements signed on a phone before anyone throws an axe or ties in on the wall.
A two-screen front counter for day passes, rentals and snacks, where guests see the total and pay on their side.
Yoga flows, belay lessons and kids' clinics with set spots, assigned instructors and recurring schedules.
Birthday and holiday gift cards that redeem at the counter or on your website.
Points per visit give league bowlers and regular climbers something back for coming in.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Take a deposit when guests book online on any plan and collect the rest when they arrive. On a paid plan, add a cancellation policy guests see at booking, require a card to hold the slot, charge no-show fees or require full prepayment.
Tie each service to the lane, room or station it uses, and a booking reserves it automatically so no one else can take it. Square lists resource booking on Square Premium.
Set the number of spots, assign an instructor and repeat the class on a schedule while guests reserve online. Classes need a paid plan and can't use the waitlist. Move a class to a new date or time and Square cancels and refunds everyone who'd booked it.
Sell a five-class pack or a bundle of sessions in person or online, and it's applied automatically when the guest books. Selling packs takes a paid plan, and each one expires within a year of the sale.
Square Subscriptions bills members weekly to yearly on a paid plan, with sign-up by link, QR code or your website. It doesn't count visits or classes, and Square has no member check-in, so decide how staff will confirm who's current.
Square Register, Terminal, Handheld, Stand and Reader can keep taking cards offline and process them when you reconnect. Square recommends doing that within 24 hours. Declined offline payments are your responsibility, and gift cards and Tap to Pay don't work offline.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
A countertop point of sale with two touchscreens: one for your team and one that faces the customer.
The front counter: day passes, rentals, snacks and gift cards on one screen while guests pay on the other.
A pocket-sized point of sale with a built-in barcode scanner and camera.
Sell drinks and add-ons at the lanes, in the party room or on the climbing floor, with a built-in scanner for merch barcodes.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
Battery-powered with a receipt printer, so a party host can settle up in the party room without leaving the cake.
Software and tools
Online booking for sessions, rooms, lanes and classes, with deposits at booking.
Party and group-event invoices with a deposit now and the balance later.
Waivers and event agreements, signed on a phone before the group arrives.
Weekly to yearly membership billing; it doesn't track visits or classes.
Automatic birthday and win-back emails, plus texts to guests who opt in.
How it works
One realistic day at a recreation business, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your recreation 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
Most venues run the front counter on Square Register, or Square Stand with an iPad, plus a receipt printer. Square Handheld takes orders and payments out on the floor, and Square Terminal is a battery-powered option that prints its own receipts. A phone with Square Reader or Tap to Pay covers a pop-up table at an outdoor event.
Yes. Square Appointments gives you a booking site that syncs with your calendar, and you can take a deposit when someone books. Showing a cancellation policy, requiring a card or full prepayment and charging no-show fees need a paid plan. Tying a booking to a specific lane or room so it can't be double-booked needs Square Premium.
Send your waiver through Square Contracts. Guests sign electronically and get a PDF copy, and you can send one contract to up to 20 people at once, which suits a group booking. Automatic sending at booking needs a paid plan and doesn't work for classes. Square doesn't give legal advice, so the wording is yours to choose.
Yes, with limits worth knowing. Class packs work as Square Appointments packages, which apply automatically when someone books and expire within one year. Memberships run through Square Subscriptions, billed weekly to yearly. Subscriptions doesn't track visits or classes, and Square doesn't have a check-in feature. Both need a paid plan.
For parties and group outings, send a Square invoice with a deposit to hold the date and the balance due later; automatic reminders follow up for you. For a tournament or a themed night, sell tickets through an event payment link made in the Dashboard or as Event items on your Square website.
Square decides its own pricing, and it can change. Square Free has no monthly subscription (you pay processing fees) and covers the POS, online booking with deposits and invoices. Classes, class packs, memberships, cancellation fees, automatic waiver sending and loyalty need Square Plus or Premium, and lane or room booking needs Premium. Square Payroll is a separate add-on. See Square's pricing page for current rates, and we'll help you match a plan to what you run.
Tell us what guests book, what they buy once they're inside and how members pay, and we'll lay out a setup. Before approving an account, Square reviews the application and verifies your identity and business. Payaroo then helps you set up services, policies, waivers and your counter items.
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Tell us what guests book and what they buy once they're through the door, and we'll help you fit Square to it.
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