Payments & POS for Home Services

Payments & POS for Home Services.

Quote it, do it, get paid before you leave the driveway. No counter required.

Straight talk — this isn’t a retail POS

You don’t have a checkout counter, so you don’t need one. Your business runs on estimates, invoices, and getting paid on the spot — different products, usually a cheaper setup. Plenty of people will happily sell you a register you’ll never use. We’d rather put you on the right thing.

What makes it tricky

The realities of this business.

Getting paid on-site instead of chasing an invoice for three weeks

Writing an estimate in a customer’s kitchen, from your phone

No fixed counter — the “checkout” is wherever you’re standing

Deposits on scheduled work booked weeks out

Recurring and maintenance customers on a regular cycle

Several techs, in several places, all taking payment

What handles it

The features that actually matter here.

  • Square Invoices — estimates and invoices from a phone, in the field
  • Mobile card payments on the spot
  • Deposits on booked work, and card on file for recurring customers
  • Team permissions and sales attribution per tech
  • Customer records and job history
  • Square Appointments where you schedule visits
Sample setup

What you’d actually carry.

Recommended setupstarting point
  • Per technicianSquare Reader + their phone
  • OrSquare Terminal — prints a receipt on site
  • Officenothing required — it all runs from the field
Cheaper than you’d think

No counter, no register, no cash drawer. For most home services the hardware bill is a reader per person — the value is in the software doing the estimating, invoicing, and chasing for you.

Questions

Home Services, answered.

Can my techs take payment at the customer’s house?

Yes — a Reader paired to their phone, or a Terminal if you want a printed receipt on the spot. Getting paid before you leave is the whole point.

Do I need a POS counter?

No. This is the one setup where you need no counter at all — which also makes it the cheapest to start.

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