When I first started using square about five or six years ago, I stopped. The reason I stopped was because I started getting emails of purchases that people were making who paid me through Square. I wasn't comfortable with that so I canceled. Since I got home from the convention, I thought I'd give it another try.

I've been collecting application fees that way. I raised my application fee 50% from $20 to $30 and have increased my income from application fees alone just by sending invoices to their emails.

I also took a holding fee this way at the beginning of the month because I told the person that if they didn't pay the holding fee that day, that the Rent discount was going away the next day. (It was, but this was a lead who needed A little motivation to pull the trigger on this unit. )

I also had another young set of lady tenants who wanted to get another cat and paid the second pet registration fee and the first month pet fee through Square. I had told her to send in the $125 to the PO Box and she said OK. The week went by and it wasn't there, so I texted her and let her know that there was an option to pay it with her debit or credit card if she prefer that than getting a check or money order. She was excited to be able to do that and asked if she could. I sent her the invoice in her email and with in 15 minutes it was paid.

I also received a rent payment for it this morning on a storage unit. The lady is late and often and pays the late fee. I sent her the invoice with the late fee included. And she paid it.

I think that this is going to help me collect rents when people are behind because they will be able to put it on a credit card if they have to. They may have room on the credit card, just no cash to pay the rent with. So it's definitely an option. I really like it for incoming tenants with the speed of getting application fees and holding fees.

NE -- excuse my stupid question. They only time I have used Square is when I am buying something from farmer's market-type vendors. They have the card reader plugged into their tablet computer in order to be able to accept POS credit cards.

I'm using Square to collect payments for rent from government employees. They are required to pay per diem rent with a credit card.

I'm able to charge right at $3k all at once, so the limits have definitely been raised. 2.75 percent charge for the service, not bad.

I can send invoices via email or text. I can make repeat payments with a stored credit card from a repeat customer (and hopefully all tenants are repeat customers).

My military tenants love it becuase it provides an electronic paper trail for the reimbursement office.

NE,

Love Square! Been using it for years.

A local landlord has all of her rents come in this way using the recurring automatic payment feature.

RathdrumGal,

The LL can enter the transaction over the phone by typing in the card numbers. The fee is slightly higher for this method.

NE,

Love Square! Been using it for years.

A local landlord has all of her rents come in this way using the recurring automatic payment feature.

RathdrumGal,

The LL can enter the transaction over the phone by typing in the card numbers. The fee is slightly higher for this method.