- Square Sellers
How Papillote & Cie has increased their customer base since switching to Square
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Is Your Device Enabled for Tap to Pay on iPhone?
- Square Sellers
How Toronto cocktail lounge Aura stays committed to quality with help from Square
- Guides
What is Drop Shipping and How Does it Work?
Drop shipping is a popular inventory method for online businesses. Learn everything about what drop shipping is and how it can work for your business.
- Retail
Dynamic and Smart Pricing Strategies for Your Retail Business
Dynamic pricing is a flexible pricing strategy that can help your business adapt to changes in the market. It requires being smart and adjusting prices based on important external factors.
- 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.
- Articles
Nova Scotia Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Here’s everything you need to know about Nova Scotia’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.
- Guides
How to Start a Business: A Simple Guide for New Business Owners
Learn how to start your business with this guide—covering everything from business plan creation to permits and legal obligations.
- Articles
Retail Demand Forecasting: How to Maximize Sales and Minimize Risks
If done well, demand forecasting can help you accurately manage your order quantities and avoid unnecessary discounts.
- 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
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
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
The Top Restaurant Trends in 2024
For a more in-depth look at these 2024 industry trends, download the full 2024 Future of Restaurants report.
- Articles
How to Use Preorders to Boost Retail Revenue
It’s no surprise that preordering is a top sales strategy for some of the most popular brands in the world. If you are considering preorders for your business, here’s everything you need to know.
- Articles
4 Marketing Predictions for 2024
Wondering where to focus your marketing efforts in 2024? Here are our predictions for the top marketing trends in 2024.
- Square Sellers
How Vancouver’s Forecast Coffee cuts costs and optimizes staff time with Square
Here, we speak to Salusbury about catching the entrepreneurial bug, growing his business during the COVID-19 pandemic, the customer experience at Forecast and how Square’s products help him and his staff run a successful coffee shop.
- Square Sellers
How a B.C. founder shifted from tech to tahini and launched the successful QSR chain Superbaba with Square
Here, we speak to El Chami about his personal and professional background, considering customer needs when making business decisions, the staff experience at his restaurants and the Square products that help him run and grow Superbaba.
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE: MENTORSHIP SERIES | HOW TO BUILD REST INTO YOUR HUSTLE
The second year of Chef Darren MacLean’s Cultural Chef Exchange is underway in Calgary, AB, where MacLean recently met with visiting chef Andrew Wong to fish, forage, and discuss how to build rest into the daly grind of a restaurateurs’ life.
- Square Sellers
How Grow & Gather’s operations are flourishing thanks to Square for Retail
Here, we speak to Triveri about the garden centre’s serene atmosphere, her windy path to entrepreneurship, the advantage that specialty stores have over big box stores and how Square is helping to streamline her business.
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE: MENTORSHIP SERIES | YOUR BRAND AS A REFLECTION OF YOU
Chef Darren MacLean recently met with visiting chef Andrew Clarke to fish, forage, and discuss how to create a restaurant brand that reflects your personality and values.
- Research
The Future of Commerce Report: 2024 Edition
Square’s 2024 Future of Commerce report will give you inspiration, tactics and tools to future-proof your business.
- Research
The Future of Customers Report: 2024 Edition
The Square Future of Customers report gives insights into how shoppers today are making retail purchases in person or online, the way they like to dine, and their preferences when it comes to beauty providers.
- Research
The Future of Restaurants Report: 2024 Edition
Square surveyed restaurant owners across the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia to uncover what’s propelling restaurants across the globe and what restaurant owners still need to help them accomplish their goals in 2024.
- Research
The Future of Retail Report: 2024 Edition
To uncover the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for retailers, Square partnered with Wakefield Research for our annual Future of Retail report to gather actionable insights for forward-looking retail leaders across the globe.
- Articles
Multihyphenate Businesses: What They Are and How to Start One
Being a multihyphenate business is a great way to keep up with changing industries and markets. But, what does that mean and how do you succeed?
- Square Sellers
How Amici Food + Beverage Co. solved their inventory management issues with Square for Retail
Here we speak to Ryan Nesci about running his stores, how Square solved Amici’s inventory management issues, and the customer experience at Amici.
- Articles
Streamlining the Make Phase of Your Supply Chain
In order to efficiently manage company resources while meeting customer demand, it’s critical to strategically approach the planning, sourcing, and procurement phases of your supply chain and inventory management processes first.
- Articles
Building an Agile Supply Chain With Strategic Sourcing
These are the steps businesses should take to identify requirements, vet suppliers, and manage those relationships for long-term success.
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE: MENTORSHIP SERIES | SCALE SUSTAINABLY
Chef Darren MacClean met with visiting chefs Rodrigo Pacheco and Nuit Regular to fly fish, forage, and discuss why restaurants should practice sustainability as they scale their business.
- Square Sellers
How The Grove Hotel became a multihyphenate business with help from Square
Here we speak to the co-owner of The Grove Hotel about becoming a multihyphenate operation, providing unique experiences for guests, the “cool kids” who work at The Grove, and what’s next for her expanding business.
- Articles
Using the Procurement Process as a Competitive Advantage
Let’s review the key steps to the procurement lifecycle and how technology can help along the way. Grouped into five broad stages, each step plays a role in producing higher margins and happier customers.
- Articles
Tools That Will Keep Your Cash Flow Positive
Maintaining a positive cash flow is what keeps your business afloat.
- Conversations
CULTURAL CHEF EXCHANGE X SQUARE MENTORSHIP SERIES: DEMONSTRATE LEADERSHIP
Chef Darren MacLean recently met with visiting Chef Shane Osborn to fish for trout and discuss how restaurateurs can demonstrate leadership, motivate staff and encourage employee retention in their restaurants.
- Conversations
How independent fashion label Cakeworthy leans on nostalgia while investing in the future of their business with Square for Retail
Learn about Cakeworthy’s rapid growth, the decision to open up brick-and-mortar locations, the importance of rewarding loyal customers and how every Cakeworthy item is designed to be “an Instagram post just waiting to be captured.”
- Articles
Introducing Balance Folders
Balance Folders makes it easy for you to set aside money for upcoming expenses, big business purchases or financial goals.
- Articles
Saskatchewan Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Here’s everything you need to know about Saskatchewan’s minimum wage.
- Articles
Ontario Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Ontario’s minimum wage rates are subject to increase each year on October 1. Here is everything you need to know
- Articles
Manitoba Minimum Wage Increases: Everything You Need to Know
Here’s everything you need to know about Manitoba’s minimum wage.
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