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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.

Understanding the Fast Recovery Act

The Fast Recovery Act has important implications for restaurants in the state of California. Take a deeper look at what this act means for businesses and the industry,

How to Take Card Payments Over the Phone

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

Tips and Tools to Help Manage Increased Customer Demand

Customer demand can fluctuate often. Use these operational tips to help you keep up with increases.

5 Steps To Minimize Inflation's Damage to Your Business

Build inflation scenarios and estimate how suppliers, customers, and competitors are reacting.

Keep Your Money Secure: How to Spot Phishing Emails

Phishing emails, a portmanteau of phony fishing, is the practice of bad actors trying to scam or trick you into giving away sensitive information, like account passwords or identity numbers. Here are some best practices when opening emails at work.

How to Use Transfers to Manage Your Cash Flow

Healthy cash flow is crucial to a successful business.

New COVID-19 Resources to Help Your Small Business Navigate This Next Stage

With continued COVID-19 cases in the U.S., some business owners are revisiting how they’re operating and where to go next. Use this curated list of COVID-19 resources for small businesses to help guide you during this next stage.

What the New CDC Guidelines for Fully Vaccinated People Mean for Business Owners

Here is key information for business owners navigating indoor operations with new CDC guidelines recommending fully vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in high-transmission areas of the U.S.

Reopening A Retail Store: What You Need to Know

After pivoting business models during 2020, retail stores face the challenge of revisiting the operations of their brick-and-mortar locations as restrictions lift, even as many still recover from the impact of the past year.

Reopening A Restaurant: What You Need to Know

Reopening your doors isn’t as simple as just opening up a few more tables. Here are important strategies for restaurant owners to consider in their reopening plans.

What to Consider When Reopening Your Business

After months of lockdown, businesses are eager to get back into full operations, but still cautious about the future

What You Need to Know About The Restaurant Revitalization Fund

As restaurants start to focus on recovery, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund offers a lifeline. Here’s what you need to know about the Restaurant Revitalization Fund.

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 Increase Gift Card Sales

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

A Quick Overview of the New PPP Loan

The second round of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is now live. Learn about the details, business requirements, and how to apply for the new PPP loan.

Should Your Restaurant Go into Hibernation for the Winter?

While not an easy decision to make, it’s possible that closing temporarily — and perhaps biding their time until a vaccine is widely distributed — can help restaurants avoid closing down for good.

How to Create a Socially Distanced Front-Desk Experience

Your front desk has taken on a different meaning. So how can you continue to create a friendly and socially distanced experience? Use these front desk best practices to maintain a relaxing atmosphere in your salon or spa.

Prepare Now for Your Next Business Pivot

Four steps to get your existing operational framework ready for your business to make a pivot during unexpected events.

What’s Different About PTO During COVID-19?

How do you manage PTO during COVID-19? Learn more about unused vacation days, changing a PTO policy, and how the FFCRA interacts with existing paid time off.

How to Navigate Changing COVID-19 Guidelines

Confused by the COVID-19 guidelines for businesses? You’re not alone. Read on to learn how to reopen your business while still following safety protocols.

How to Manage Healthcare Supply Chain Disruptions

Providers are now confronting the challenge of reopening their business amid supply shortages.

Unemployment for Employers: What You Should Know

Learn more about unemployment taxes, what to do if your employee files, and how the CARES Act expands unemployment benefits.

A Retailer’s Guide to COVID-19 Supply Disruptions

A shift in consumer buying habits and temporary store closures in some markets have some nonessential retailers rethinking business operations.

How Restaurants Are Adapting to the New Normal

Restaurants are leveraging their supply chains by selling groceries to customers during the COVID-19 shutdown.

Restauranteurs Brace for Continued Supply Chain Volatility

How restaurants are coping with a new reality when it comes to supply chain management.

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 Create a Business Continuity Plan

Whether it’s a natural disaster, a forced shut down, or shortages in your supply chain, unexpected events. The best place to start is creating a business continuity plan.

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.

How Businesses and Restaurants are Adapting to Delivery

Learn how businesses are adapting to delivery in the new reality. Many restaurants and retailers are successfully adjusting to delivery as a business evolution strategy.

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 Support Small Businesses While Social Distancing

Ways to support your local businesses while social distancing.

Resources for Small Business Assistance and Relief

Could your small business use help with funding right now? Learn more about COVID-19 loans, grants, and other federal and state programs for businesses.

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

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