thread Feedback on setting up services in Payments Troubleshooting

Feedback on setting up services

mkbs — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:07:19 GMT

If you're setting up a service business, you have to do things in the right order to avoid frustration... I did the following, which appears to be exactly wrong:

Setup square payments, and created some items
Set up a square website, and then realised that on the Items list for the website Items have a type, which can be product or service, so I edited them one by one to become services
Set up square appointments... holy crap the service is a different thing again. Gah.

Don't be like me! 🙂

Re: Feedback on setting up services

Boris — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:27:48 GMT

Hi @mkbs

Thanks for the helpful tip!

If you are setting up a service based business where you want to take bookings online, it is easier to setup your Services through the Square Online Dashboard under Appointments.

Once you have all your Services and Appointment settings in place then you can link that to a Square Online Site.

We do appreciate your feedback through and we'll pass it onto the respective teams. Feel free to reach out to Support if you require any further assistance with your account setup