Can we charge based on hourly use?

[TechExpress]

If our business model requires charges by houly rate (... $20 per hour at .3 hrs = $6.00 charge) where and how can we set this up.  Our currant invoicing software computates our total hourly billing this way, and upon multipal charges for different task requiring increses or decreces in time provides us a total for the hourly charges.   

The other itemised things such as materials, like nuts or bolts + markup and taxes are also computated and generated within the "Balance Due" total line.

any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Kelly]

Items and modifiers can be used to set this type of billing up, there are a few ways you can track billable hours depending on which you think would work best for your business. 

You can set up an item as "an hour" then apply as many as you need to charge the customer correctly. In addition, you can add a modifier set that you can apply to a sale to charge those partial hours. If you are billing for partial hours more often, you can create a "half hour" item, then use modifiers to add those whole hours. It's all up to you! Our Support Center has tons of information on both modifiers and items.

[mjeakman]

Is there a way within Square Register to actually track hourly rental time? For example.... Customer comes in. Can he "swipe in" to "start the clock" and when done can he "swipe out" to stop the clock and then an invoice would be calculated based on his/her actual use of the facility?

[EJ_]

@mjeakman That's not an available feature, but I can see how it could be helpful. We'll document this and update if anything comes up in regards to this in the future!

[osalinas]

Did something ever come of this? I am hoping to charge by the hour. Track the time an ticket was open till close, then charge by that amount of time.

[pumpactionpimp1]

Is it possible to charge based on an hourly use? I am helping a flight school setup a billing system. 

The goal is to have a touch screen icon for each airplane and instructor. 

We want to have the student pick the airplane ICON and enter the amount of time they used. 

Example

Cessna 172 N13333 icon and enter 1.5hr. 

Instructor Joe Smith icon and enter 1hr.

This Cessna rents for $70 so the entry would be $105. 

The instructor rate is $40 so the entry would be $ 40.

[Sean]

@pumpactionpimp1 - I went ahead and moved your thread here because it looks like Kelly helped another seller with a similar quesiton. Please check out her answer. 

[AviatorFlight]

For my flight school I have 2 items for the airpane. 

Cessna 172 1.0 = $125

Cessna 172 0.1 = $12.50

if someone flies the airplane 1.5 then its 

1 x 1.0

5 x 0.1

If there is a better way I would like to know but I've been doing it this way fopr years on square.

[AvatarsVR]

Smart man, you should be a coder with that type of thinking..

[juchaker]

This would be really useful feature.

Our business charges in 1/2 hour increments.  It would nice to have a single line item for a specific day.

For example,

  Monday @ quantity = 6.5

  Tuesday @ quantity = 8.0

  Wednesday @ quantity = 9.5

Open up the quantity field to include all rational numbers which include the fractional parts not just a whole number.

[Yannstlo]

This should be an available option. I charge customers for the time I spend working at their site and in certain tasks that I perform while I'm there I can charge different hourly rates. 

I cannot believe it is not available to this day...

[CirrusRules1]

I’m trying to do the same. Could I get you to call me and explain how you did that?  [Personal Information Redacted]

[Chad]

Hey @CirrusRules1! 

I recommend @ mentioning the member you're referring to, to get their attention. 🙂

[Russell]

Hey @juchaker and @Yannstlo - thanks to both of you for making your first post to the 👥 community. 

Thanks for taking the time to chime in on this. I'll pass this feedback to our Product Team. 

[wellspring]

I also bill time frequently and have no idea why I can't enter fractional qty's. I mean I understand it's because you don't support it, however I just can't understand why you wouldn't.

[kava]

Wow, I just started setting up for Square, and I am behoovered at the fact that this setting still does not exist- especially being my business is entirely based off of this type of structure. I'm going to apply for the beta feature though. Please get it together y'all, I know you're working on it- but really. 

Edit: Being I've read more into this- I'm probably not going to be able to utilize it in general, unless I manually add in info and figure some ways around it (like just manually invoicing each individual, etc.). This defeats the entire purpose of using this scheduling system. I want to suggest that calendar integration is embedded, in addition to the option of selecting 'variables', ex; hourly rates, daily rates, etc. Therefore, if a client needs a massage for two hours at 9:00am on Sunday- they will be charged appropriately, and my calendar will book out 9-11am on Sunday. 

[ask4adam]

Another basic feature Square does not have that just about all invoicing tools have.

This product has some many promising advanced features, but it misses on the basics.

[Rayh]

Hello everyone. I am trying to integrate a square card reader to use of my rental buisness. Basically people will be renting a product from my kiosk (automated) and it will charge by the hour, once returned it will stop charging. Is there a way to achieve this?

[JustinC]

@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! 

[Rayh]

Thank you

[jaywiseman]

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