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Earn Extra Money with These Side Hustles for the School Year
With school starting back soon, do you know how you’ll earn extra money this semester?
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Inventory Audits: How to Create Counting Procedures
Inventory audits consist of analytical procedures to check a company’s inventory methods.
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How to Create a Cash Flow Analysis That Unveils Opportunities
Understanding cash flow will improve the health of your business and make crucial decisions for the future.
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What Making Tax Digital means for your business
What is Making Tax Digital? Will it affect your business? What do you need to do to prepare? We explain all.
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Introducing the Square Invoices app
Create, send and track invoices wherever you are with the free Square Invoices app.
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History of Money and Payments
How we make payments has come a long way through the ages. Find out more about the fascinating history of money and payments.
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How to Get Started with Invoicing for Your Catering Business
A guide to creating and sending invoices for catering businesses.
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How to Take Payments at Your Healthcare Practice
Patients want a range of payment options to cover their healthcare costs — online, in-app or in-person. Here’s how your practice can provide them all.
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How to Determine Consulting Fees
Standard consulting fees vary based on skill, expertise and the industry. Here’s how you can determine consulting fees for your services and be profitable.
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11 Benefits of Mobile Invoicing That Might Surprise You
Find out all about mobile invoicing, how it can benefit your business and how to send mobile invoices free with Square Invoices.
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4 Things You Miss Out On by Not Taking Cards
Unconvinced card payments would help your business? Here’s what you’re missing out on.
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How to Get Started with Invoicing for Your Photography Business
Discover all you need to know when getting started with invoicing for your photography business and become a pro.
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What Should You Charge for Housecleaning?
Creating a uniform price list is difficult since housecleaning rates are usually customized to a specific client and space.
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5 Ways Successful Small Businesses Save Money
Here are five simple ways small business owners can keep their finances in check.
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Your Ultimate Guide to Photography Pricing
How much should photographers charge for their work? Find out how to create an optimal photography pricing plan that works for your business and your customers.
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How to Connect Square Payments to Your Online Store
Want to connect your e-commerce site to Square? Here’s what you need to know.
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How to Write a Profit-Making Salon Business Plan
Every successful salon needs a plan of action. Here’s how to write a salon business plan that maps out your goals and details how you’ll accomplish them.
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Why Business Owners Should Pay Themselves First
Find out why it doesn’t pay to forgo your income as a business owner.
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7 Table Management Tips All Profitable Restaurants Should Know
One of the most important skills for profitabe restaurants to master is table management.
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Planning Your Business Finances: Essential Components of a Financial Analysis
Here’s what you need to know about conducting a financial analysi to determine the future earning potential for your business.
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How to Choose the Best Card Machine for Your Business
Choosing a card machine for your business? From upfront cost to transactions rates, here’s everything to consider when choosing a card reader.
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How to Calculate Your Food Cost Percentage
One of the most effective ways to manage your restaurant’s budget is to find ways to lower food costs. To do that right, you’ve got to know how to calculate your food cost percentage. Here, we explain how.
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Cloud Based Accounting: A Guide
Thinking about moving your business to cloud based accounting? Here’s what you need to know about cloud accountancy software.
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How to Improve your Cash Flow
Managing your cash flow is an essential part of keeping your business afloat. Here are our top tips for improving your cash flow.
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What is a Virtual Terminal?
Square’s Virtual Terminal allows you to take payments remotely. You can take payments over the phone by keying in payments to your computer.
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Turn Any Laptop into a Free Virtual POS (VPOS)
Accepting payments anytime, anywhere is possible with a virtual POS. Find out how to take card payments without a reader, app or special hardware.
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Chargeback 101: Credit Card Chargebacks Explained
A chargeback happens when a customer disputes a charge from your business and asks the card issuer to reverse it. Here are the most common chargeback culprits.
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What Are Interchange Fees?
Interchange fees, explained.
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What is a Social Enterprise?
Social enterprises reinvest their profits into their communities or to good causes.
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Electronic Payment Systems - What You Need to Know
Find everything you need to know about electronic payment systems here including how it works, what types there are and more.
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How to Run a Cleaning Business
As you run your cleaning business, you may face specific industry obstacles. Here’s how you can overcome common challenges in the cleaning industry.
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The Secret to Finding the Best Location for a Coffee Shop
Finding the best location for your coffee shop location can be difficult.
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Learn How to Protect Your Business from Non-Fraud Chargebacks
A chargeback, or dispute, is something that your customers can initiate when they are unhappy with a credit card payment you processed.
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6 Things to Think About If You Are a Retailer with Multiple Locations
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Why You Should Love Retail Inventory Management
Inventory can be a challenge for businesses. Follow these retail inventory management practices to help drive down costs and manage your materials.
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6 Retail Metrics You Should Use for Smarter Planning
Having the right sales, inventory, and employee data can help you identify the best use of your time and resources.
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