- Articles
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.
- Articles
How to Start Accepting Apple Pay Today
As the payments industry continues to evolve, your business need to stay up to speed. Here’s why you should start accepting Apple Pay with Square.
- Guides
How to Start a Restaurant
Want to open your own restaurant? Discover everything you need to know with Square—from developing a solid business plan to evaluating your costs and more.
- Articles
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.
- Guides
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.
- Articles
What Is a Contactless Payment?
Here’s some information about what contactless payments are all about and why they’re so secure.
- Articles
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.
- Articles
Multichannel inventory management: What it is and how to do it
Multichannel inventory management is the process of tracking inventory that is sold and stored across multiple channels. Here’s what to know and how to start.
- Articles
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.
- Articles
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.
- Articles
British Columbia Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Here’s everything you need to know about British Columbia’s minimum wage.
- Articles
Quebec Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Here’s everything you need to know about Quebec’s minimum wage.
- Articles
Alberta Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Here’s everything you need to know about Alberta’s minimum wage.
- Perspectives
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.
- Articles
New Brunswick Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Here’s everything you need to know about New Brunswick’s minimum wage.
- Articles
How to Get a Brampton Business Licence
Here’s what you’ll need to know to get your business licence in Brampton.
- Articles
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.
- Articles
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.
- Articles
How to Get a Quebec City Business Licence
Here’s what you’ll need to know to get your business licence in Quebec City.
- Articles
How to Get a Guelph Business Licence
Here’s what you’ll need to know to get your business licence in Guelph.
- Articles
Is Your Device Enabled for Tap to Pay on Android?
As businesses and consumers drive to a more contactless shopping experience, Tap to Pay on AndroidTM might play a role for your business and allow you to accept contactless payments with no additional hardware other than your phone.
- Articles
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.
- Conversations
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.
- Guides
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
- Conversations
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
- Articles
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.
- Guides
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.
- Articles
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.
- Guides
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.
- Articles
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.
- Articles
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.
- Articles
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.
- Research
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.
- Research
The Future of Retail Report: 2023 Edition
Square partnered with Wakefield Research to see how retail managers/owners and consumers are moving ahead in 2023. Read our latest retail industry report for new insights.
- Articles
How to Prepare Your Bar or Restaurant for Major Sports Events
Major sports events can mean big business for bars and restaurants in Canada. Here’s what you should take into account before hosting the next big game.
- Retail
Benefits of Afterpay for Retail
Square sellers can let their customers know that Afterpay is now available for online purchases.
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