@Rayh Charging rentals by the hour is a feature that hasn't been developed yet. You'll need to create an variably priced item named rental, for instance, and manually calculate the price at checkout. 

In the meantime, I moved you to a place where we're continuously tracking everyone asking for this feature. We'll update this thread if anything coming up in the future. 

Glad to see you posting in the Community! 

Thank you

As an independent contractor, billing hourly is one of my main sales. Having to put items in as an hourly is time consuming. A way to track and bill hourly would be great. Or even have a spot to put in say 3 hours at a rate of $20 and it automatically calculates and adds to sale 

Any update for charging rentals by hour? My friend has a restaurant business, serving foods and renting a party room. He is looking for new POS, and I recommended Square. But one of major features he needs is charging a room hourly base. For example, a private room is rented from 3:15 PM and 4:30 PM at $40 rate per hour. The system automatically computes hours (1 hour 15 minutes) and charges to a customer ($50). If this feature is available, I will strongly recommend Square. Thank you.

If you setup a custom unit type and call it per hour, then make the accuracy “.00”. Then you will just use a 100th scale for the hours. You can easily find the scale online. Just search “minutes to 100th conversion chart”. I charge $64 an hour for automotive labor and use this all the time. 

Thank you for this information.

If I understand correctly, there is no way to automate this operation that it can be done without a cachier. The easiest way, probably, would be taking a card from a customer, swiping it, turning a timer on,  letting castomer to use a service, and stoping the timer when it finishes?

 I have never used this system and it is unclear for me:

• How long can I keep CC information waiting when the customer finishes?
• Can I process another customer when the previous one in not processed?
• I am planning to use free CC reader connected to a cel phone. Do I need to collect customer signatures and how? Do I have to print out receipts and how?

Thanks for your help.

Yes, that is correct, @Serge1.

• How long can I keep CC information waiting when the customer finishes?

It sounds like you may want to keep your customer's cards on file - learn more here.

• Can I process another customer when the previous one in not processed?

I'm not sure what this question means, but you can only process one payment at a time. 

I'm unsure what your business model is, but you would need to charge the card after you know how much you want to charge the customer. You would not be swiping the card, then providing a service, then charging at the end. You would be swiping the card (or charging the card on file) after providing a service. The exception here would be if you are using Square Invoices to charge for a service before providing it, or using Square Appointments and requiring prepayment.

• I am planning to use free CC reader connected to a cel phone.
  Do I need to collect customer signatures and how?
  Do I have to print out receipts and how?

You may have heard that credit card brands are no longer requiring signatures for transactions. This is made possible by improved security/authorization solutions in the credit card processing world, such as chip-enabled cards and EMV card readers. We always recommend a Square Reader for contactless and chip for the safest processing for both you and your customers. If you do want customers to sign and tip, you can learn more about this here.

You do not have to print receipts - you can also send them digitally.

Say just wanted to say think you for your insights on the  billing conundrum.   I want to pose another question regarding "Form Fields" .. your know like the data inputted by the customer within the forms field, then submitted.  This submitting of the data is parsed and provided in the layout the form owner specs either for CRM data or what not.   Is there anyway to add an additional (10) fields within my GUI Square's platform..?  At the moment, I fussing with FMP 19 Server, and Square API's to get this seamless while a maintaining "I think" proprietary components of the data cashe.      Have you got any  thoughts on the plan..  I need editable definable field at the frontend of the customer's experience..

Hi @TechExpress,

Thanks for reaching out. I am happy to help.  But I want to be honest, I am not quite understanding the request. 

Do you mind clarifying your question one more time. I want to make sure we providing the most accurate information. 

Yes, sorry im not a writer at all.   Is there anyway to add an additional (10) fields within my GUI Square's platform..? Like this..  where i can add fields that become part of the form data thats handed off to me upon submission.

No worries, sometimes it can be hard trying to explain these things. But I got it!

At this moment there is not a way to add additional fields to the Square Forum for your third party API. This would be a feature request . We would love for you to elaborate your suggestions on our ideate board. Our Product Team is constantly improving our products based on feedback like this.

Let us know if you have additional questions on this inquiry. Happy to assist. 

How can we get Square to add hourly billing? Threaten to leave to Quickbooks? 😃 (Dead Serious) Other ideas welcome!

Hi @CleanSlate

Would this solution here work for you to add/charge hourly billing? 

Thanks for the tip, but I don't want to do a workaround and in 2023 I don't think we should have to. Square has the resources and platform already set up to easily add this function.  I just want to see them do it. It would be a win win for everyone.  

Javan