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What Is a Contactless Payment?

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

How to Take Card Payments Over the Phone

Need to take card payments on the phone? Square’s Virtual Terminal can help.

How to Handle Increased Customer Demand as You Reopen

Customer demand is fluctuating as businesses reopen. Use these operational tips to help you keep up with increased customer demand.

5 Tips for Business Owners to Manage Their Cash Flow

Whether you’ve just opened your business or you want to learn how to run an existing business as efficiently as possible, here are four tips for handling cash flow problems.

How to Increase Gift Card Sales

Learn how to create a perfect Gift Card program to ramp up sales and boost your overall revenue.

Square Partners with Digital Main Street

Square joins Digital Main Street to provide tools and resources to all types of small businesses to modernize their operations, helping them to rebuild by creating new ways of doing business.

How to Plan to Reopen Your Small Business

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused many small businesses to close their doors, but there will be a day when you can reopen. Here are steps you can take to prepare to reopen.

How to Manage Your Retail Business During COVID-19

Whether you sell clothes or candles, bicycles or barbecue sauce, you can adapt to the current situation with these tips and resources.

How to Manage Your Service Business During A Pandemic

We’ve compiled tips for managing your business – whether you provide blowouts, massage therapy, personal training, tutoring, tax support, home repairs, manicures or cleaning services.

7 Tips for Businesses Making the Shift to Delivery

Here’s how to seamlessly make the shift to delivery.

How to Manage Your Food and Beverage Business During COVID-19

We’ve compiled tips – whether you’re still serving or you’re closed and need to maintain cash flow – as well as industry resources to help you manage your business right now.

Why the Growth in BOPIS Will Continue to Accelerate (and How to Make the Shift Now)

Reasons why perfecting your buy-online-purchase-in-store process now can have both short- and long-term benefits, along with some suggestions for making a smooth transition.

How to Shift Your Brick-and-Mortar Business to eCommerce

Here’s how to get started bringing your brick-and-mortar business online.

How to Expand Your Delivery and Pickup Options

Learn more about your options for how customers can pick up or receive their items.

How Some Businesses Are Adapting Their Product Offerings

Examples of how businesses are adapting their product offerings to keep serving and supporting their customers.

Free Skillshare Membership: Learn from Experts with These Business Classes

We’ve partnered with Skillshare, an online learning community, to provide you with a free 3-month membership. Access thousands of classes and learn from experts.

Resources for Small Businesses

Stay informed as resources that can help your business become available.

How to Promote eGift Cards for Your Business

With eGift Cards, your customers can support your business, even if your doors are temporarily closed.

How to Manage Stress: 9 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship can be stressful. Here are a few ways to beat the feeling.

How to Create a Cash Flow Analysis That Unveils Opportunities

Understanding cash flow will improve the health of your business and make your life easier.

7 Simple Ways to Melt Away Stress

Work-related stress is a fact of life, unfortunately.

How to Drive Sales to Your Website

Proven strategies for getting more people to your website—and then getting them to buy things.

Strategies for Staying Calm Under Pressure as a Small Business Owner

How to deal with workplace stress when you own your own business.

5 Ways to Make Shipping Less of a Time Suck

To help you spend more time selling and less time on the operational details, here are five tips to help you streamline your shipping process and better manage inventory.

What to Think About When You Think About Shipping

Whether you occasionally ship stuff to customers or you have a full-fledged e-commerce operation, shipping is important. Luckily, our friends over at ShipStation put together this handy guide to help you get the right box out the door, every time.