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Your Essential Salon Equipment Checklist

Having a well-equipped, connected, and easy-to-manage salon is essential to setting up your business for success. Here is the Square checklist guide for all of the hardware and tools you should consider to get up and running.

How L'Atelier combines science and fashion when helping customers discover their “new look”

Here, we speak to Halim about moving across continents for his career, why “l’Atelier” is the perfect name to describe his business, and how he combines science and fashion when helping his customers discover their “new look”

The Essential Restaurant Equipment Checklist

Thinking of opening a new restaurant? Check out this essential restaurant equipment buying guide for a full-service restaurant.

What Is ROI and How Do You Calculate It?

ROI is a powerful tool for measuring returns and making predictions for the future. Here is everything you need to understand about calculating and using ROI.

What is Self-Employment Tax?

Here’s a beginner’s guide to self-employment tax and other key information you should know about taxes when you’re self-employed.

Five Ways Conversational Commerce Strengthens Customer Relationships

To create trust and loyalty, businesses must provide exemplary customer service throughout their customers’ lifetimes. Forward-thinking brands are enhancing their customer service by using conversational commerce.

5 Things To Know When Starting a Business in Ontario

5 Things To Know When Starting a Business in Ontario

Canadian Government helping businesses grow online: Canada Digital Adoption Program now open for applications

In an effort to help businesses bounce back from two years of pandemic-induced challenges, the Government of Canada launched the Canada Digital Adoption Program (CDAP) on March 3, 2022.

Square partnered with StrikeUP Canada to help women entrepreneurs succeed on their own terms

Square’s commitment to helping women sellers grow and strengthen their businesses remains a priority.

Everything Small Business Owners Need to Know About Employment Insurance

Learn how employment insurance affects your small business and workers. Join Square today for financial guidance and resources for your company.

When Do You Charge the GST/HST? Is Your Business Exempt?

Find out when to charge the the GST/HST in Canada and whether or not your business is exempt from the charge with Square.

How to Understand Your Overhead Costs

Understanding your overhead costs is an important part of managing your business. Here are a few basics you should know.

Ontario Labour Laws — Everything Small Businesses Need to Know

New Ontario labour laws can help both employers and employees. Find out how labour laws have changed, and how to keep on top of them.

Alberta Employment Standards: Everything Your Small Business Needs to Know

Want to know more about Employment Standards in Alberta? Here’s everything your small business needs to know to get started.

How to Develop the Right Growth Strategy for Your Business

Learn how to develop the right growth strategy for your small business with Square. Develop your marketing strategy for expansion across new markets today.

Alberta Labour Laws: 8 Laws You Probably Didn’t Know About

Alberta’s labour laws are unique, so if you run a business there, you must ensure you’re up to speed with the latest legalities. Square’s guide is here to help.

6 Essential Marketing Tactics to Employ in 2022

Get your marketing strategy ready for 2022. Check out our essential marketing tactics for your small business, from social media to customer experience.

How Restaurants are Automating Back-of-House Operations

Robot chefs and mechanical cooks are just scratching the surface of the potential for back-of-house efficiency. Here’s a closer look at back-of-house restaurant automation trends.

B.C. Labour Laws: Everything Your Small Business Needs to Know

You must learn and adopt certain rules that apply to business ownership in B.C.— especially if you hire employees. B.C. labour laws set the bar for the province’s standards of employment.

How to Register a Business in Ontario

Canada is a great place to grow and start your business. However, Ontario is a particular hotspot, it seems, as it’s home to some of the nation’s highest personal incomes.

How CHAR Restaurant Group is helping to establish Calgary, Alberta as a thriving culinary destination

Here, we speak to Connie and John about what inspired their interest in cooking, Calgary’s food scene, their background in butchery, how Square has helped them grow their businesses, and the future of CHAR.

How Tite Frette focuses on customer experience to shine a spotlight on Quebec’s unique microbrews

Here, we speak to Tite Frette’s president and co-founder about the “Tite Frette Experience,” the uniqueness of made-in-Quebec alcoholic beverages, and the decision to become a franchise.

A Guide to the B.C. Employment Standards Act

Do you run a small business in British Columbia? Follow Square’s employment standards guide to better understand your responsibilities as an employer.

How to Get Your Vancouver Business Licence

Looking to start a new business, but wondering how to get your Vancouver Business Licence? Learn how to apply and what you need to know with Square.

How to Build a Salon Website

Here are seven steps that can help you build out your salon website.

What Is Buy Now Pay Later and How Does It Work?

Buy now, pay later services have grown increasingly popular over the past couple of years. Here’s what you need to know about BNPL financing and how it works for businesses.

How to Set Up a Loyalty Program that Works

Looking to keep your customers coming back for more?

How to Get a GST Number in Canada: GST Registration

Most businesses in Canada have to register for a GST number. In fact, registering for a GST number is mandatory for all Canadian businesses unless the Canada Revenue Agency deems the business a small supplier.

Which Receipts Do You Need to Keep as a Small Business Owner?

Which receipts should you keep? And in what form? And for how long? We’ll answer all those questions in this post.

Square launches On-Demand Delivery in Canada

Square has partnered exclusively with DoorDash to offer you food and beverage delivery services — including alcohol in eligible provinces — at launch.

How to Grow Your Personal Training Business

Here are some tips and tools for standing out across platforms, increasing your reach, and booking new fitness clients.

3 Important Invoice Management Tips for Small Businesses in 2021

Good invoice management encourages regular cash flow, eases accounting woes and saves you time.

How to Open a Salon

Are you an aspiring aspiring salon owner? This guide walks you through everything you need to know when starting a beauty salon.

How to Build a Personal Trainer Website

Here are seven steps that can help you build out your personal training website.

The Future of Omnichannel

If you’re looking to keep tabs on consumers’ changing habits, learn what’s next in eCommerce, and see what the future holds for omnichannel retail, this post is for you.

Marketing Ideas for Beauty Businesses

If you run a business in the beauty industry, you know how important it is to stay in touch with clients and attract new ones. Read on for some email marketing tactics that can be especially effective for beauty businesses that need a marketing makeover.