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5 Repetitive Tasks Businesses Should Automate This Year

Automation helps optimise workflows and saves time. These are five tasks all businesses should be automating this year in order to grow.

7 Easy-to-Implement Tips to Prevent Shoplifting

Want to know how to protect your merchandise? Here are a few tips that can make a big difference.

Is Dynamic Pricing Right for Your Restaurant?

With the flexibility of adjusting pricing to accommodate market conditions and customer needs, now may be the perfect time to explore dynamic pricing as a strategy for your restaurant.

How to Make a Budget for Your Business

Maybe you’ve decided to start your own business (congrats), or maybe you’re already running one (also congrats). In either case, you need to make a budget. But where to start? Our friends over at Xero share their top tips for making a rock-solid budget.

4 Budgeting Methods for Business Success

Budgeting methods and tools can help you keep track of where your money is going and help you make decisions that help you meet your business’s financial goals. Here are a few types of budgeting methods commonly used by businesses.

Business automation 101: What is Automation and How Does it Work?

What is business automation and how does it work? Here’s everything you need to know about automation in business, from its uses to its benefits.

Salon Cancellation Policy Templates and Examples You Need

Here’s how to create booking and cancellation policy templates to help you run your business more smoothly.

What Is Credit Card Processing and How It Works

In this guide, we walk you through everything you need to know about credit card processing—and how to select the best option for your business.

Why It Might Be Time to Update Your Salon’s Pricing Strategy In Tough Times

Reassessing your pricing strategy now may well yield results that see your services expanding, your customer base growing, and may ultimately drive more profitability for your business.

Inventory Management 101: How to Manage Small Business Inventory

Running out or having excessive stock are bad for your bottom line. Learn inventory management techniques to have the right products when you need them.

How To Use Apple Pay: A Comprehensive Guide for Business Owners

Square’s Apple Pay guide walks you through the ins and outs of Apple Pay, how to use it at stores and online, and how to accept it at your business.

How Can I Accept Credit Card Payments?

Use this step by step guide to accept credit cards. You’ll need a credit card reader that accepts EMV chip cards, which make credit card payments more secure.

What Is a Contactless Payment?

Here’s some information about what contactless payments are all about and why they’re so secure.

Artificial Intelligence: What it is and how it’s transforming business

Here’s what to know about artificial intelligence in business, common uses and what the future of AI means for companies and staff.

10 Tips on How to Host a Wedding at Your Bar or Restaurant

Square offers a full suite of tools to help you manage the logistics, planning, and operational tasks needed to transform your bar or restaurant into a part-time wedding venue.

British Columbia Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know

Here’s everything you need to know about British Columbia’s minimum wage.

Quebec Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know

Here’s everything you need to know about Quebec’s minimum wage.

Square Seller Chef Darren MacLean: Sustainability isn’t just the right thing to do: It’s good business sense

Square Seller Chef Darren MacLean: When opportunities emerge to amplify the message of sustainability beyond our borders, we have a responsibility to take it and not waste it – much like our planet’s incredible resources.

New Brunswick Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know

Here’s everything you need to know about New Brunswick’s minimum wage.

How to Get a Brampton Business Licence

Here’s what you’ll need to know to get your business licence in Brampton.

How to Open a Nail Salon

Here are 10 steps you should take in the planning and development phase before you open a nail salon.

4 Ways to Make Scheduling Easier at Your Restaurant

Restaurant scheduling can be daunting. Here are some ways to remove pain points for both you and your staff.

How to Get a Quebec City Business Licence

Here’s what you’ll need to know to get your business licence in Quebec City.

How to Get a Guelph Business Licence

Here’s what you’ll need to know to get your business licence in Guelph.

How to Get a Toronto Business Licence

For Toronto to issue you a business licence, you’ll have to meet specific city requirements. Here’s what you need to know to get started.

How Halifax’s Dilly Dally Coffee Cafe thrives on creating a culture of kindness

Here, we speak with co-owner Laura Draeger about the small business community in Halifax, Dilly Dally’s culture of kindness, keeping calm amidst economic uncertainty, using Square to streamline operations at the cafe and the true meaning of hospitality.

What Are Mobile Payments? And How to Use Them

Mobile payments are payments made under financial regulation and performed from a mobile phone with coontactless capabilities. Here’s why your business should accept them

How Winnipeg’s Oh Doughnuts and Good Fortune Barbershop are supporting local and leaning into sustainability as they grow

Here we speak to Square sellers Amanda Kinden of Oh Doughnuts and Cait Bousfield of Good Fortune Barber Shop about the supportive nature of Winnipeg’s small business community, running a sustainable business and using Square’s ecosystem of tools

Square Reader (2nd generation): new features to help you take payments anywhere

The next generation of Square Reader: the contactless card reader known and loved by countless businesses globally, with a few smart improvements and new features to make taking payments even smoother than before.

What Is a Payment Gateway? (And Why You Don't Need One)

Payment gateways allow merchants to accept credit card payments by connecting payment processors and merchant account providers.

Consumers Want Email from Brands — Here’s How to Do It Well

New research found that consumers like to get email offers from brands over direct mail, mobile apps, and social media.

How to Create and Implement a Returns and Exchange Policy

Everything you need to know to create a return and exchange policy for your retail business.

10 Ways to Expand Revenue Streams at Festivals

For small and large festivals alike, incorporating some of these additional revenue streams offers up a whole lot of opportunity for greater profit yields and, as a result, you can see your festival grow to a major annual event.

The Top Restaurant Trends in 2023

Square teamed up with Wakefield Research to investigate what 500 restaurant owners and managers in Canada and 2,000 consumers across North America are thinking about the current state and future for food businesses.

The Top Retail Trends in 2023

Retailers are tapping into the qualities that make them unique, reworking them, and using them to their advantage as consumer needs evolve. The future of retail in 2023 lies in the overall experience.

The Future of Restaurants Report: 2023 Edition

What is the future of the restaurant industry? Square partnered with Wakefield Research to gather industry trends from business owners and restaurant experts. Read our latest restaurant report for new insights.