Internet Cafe for Public Use using iPad

Hi to all,
Good day.
I'm planning to put up an internet cafe for public usage, as you can read at the topic i will use the iPad instead of PC or Mac.
Q1: Is there any app that can monitor the time consumed and how much the price to pay (this will automatically starts upon login)?
Q2: How to secure iPad from thief (we know iPad is too handy), is there any casing or accessories that we can lock-up the iPad in its place?
Q#: Can anyone help me?
Thanks

We did think about using the device as a "Shared Device" but we thought this would get over complicated, as the library has requested that the users can just pick it up and use it without any hassle. Which in an ideal world would be easy but alas, it is not!
We also thought about using Single App Mode and locking it into the AirWatch Secure Browser, where we could disable things like caching and saving usernames and passwords etc!
Thanks for your reply!
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