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Growing Your Business Online vs. In-Store

The shutdowns in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic sent online shopping into overdrive. When customers could no longer access in-store shopping, they turned online.

Communicate with Your Customers Better, Digitally

Connect your communications digitally. It’ll help you unify customer experiences and make them personalized to each customer, which is vital as digital interactions continue growing.

How to Successfully Scale Your Business Online

Ensuring your business remains on the path to greatness—planning for your eCommerce store’s growth in the future—is essential.

20 Touchpoints: How to Ensure a Great Salon Experience

Customer service doesn’t just happen at the front desk, it happens at every touchpoint that your beauty and wellness customers interact with. Here are 20 salon touchpoints that can make or break your customer experience.

How Lucky Bug Farm Grows Food with a Focus on Equity and Sustainability

We speak with Aliyah Fraser of Lucky Bug Farm about the intersection of issues regarding housing and food, her work as an advocate and educator, and her dreams for the future of her business and her community.

3 Ways to Prepare Your Online Business for Black Friday Sales

Black Friday is not just an important shopping day for larger retailers. Here are three ways smaller online sellers can maximize their sales.

What Is Cost of Goods Sold and How Do You Calculate It?

When you run a business, cost of goods sold (COGS) is an essential metric. Learn all about COGS, how it works and how to calculate it with our handy guide.

Developer Spotlight: Copper CRM

In our chat with our newest collaborator, Copper CRM, we talk about how the partnership with Square Invoices will help relationship-focused businesses.

Skills Needed for Growing Your Business Online

Take a look at some of the most important skills you’ll need to hone to grow your business online.

How to Grow Business Online

Learn about eCommerce sales and how you can boost your sales online

5 Restaurant Marketing Ideas for Reopening Your Business

As businesses reopen, customers are ready to get back out into the world and are looking for places to go. Here are 5 ways you can market your restaurant and catch customers’ attention.

Splitting Hairs: A Third of Canadians Admit to Cheating on Their Hair Stylists

A new survey from payments company Square reveals the truth about hair fidelity

How Good Fortune Barbershop is Making Haircuts More Inclusive

We speak with Good Fortune Barbershop about their work, their commitment to their customers, and the impact hair can have on one’s identity.

The Future of Retail in Canada 2021

In this guide we explore how businesses are embracing emerging technology and changing customer behaviours to meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive retail landscape.

Credit Card Authorization Form Templates [Download]

Whenever you are taking payment by credit card and the card isn’t present, there is some degree of risk.

How Creating Professional Contracts Can Streamline Your Small Business and Boost Your Brand

Using Square Contracts is quick, easy, professional, and can foster trust with your customers

The Future of Restaurants in Canada 2021

In this guide we draw on expert analysis and insight into how restaurants are pivoting to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the food service industry’s future.

What Is Refinancing, and How Does it Work?

Ideally, refinancing an existing loan should create a better financial circumstance for you and your business. If you have a debt you’re thinking of refinancing, it’s important to first understand how the process works.

Introducing Square Loans

can Square Loans can help independent sellers like you quickly access the funding you need for moving your business forward.

What Is Working Capital and How Do You Calculate It?

You’ve probably heard the saying, “It takes money to make money.” That money is working capital, which is a measure of your business’s financial health.

5 Pandemic Habits That Are Here to Stay

The pandemic has changed how Canadian businesses operate. Here are five pandemic trends that are here to stay.

A Comprehensive Guide to Business Loans

For many small business owners, cash flow management problems are a commonly cited source of stress. Loans are one way you can invest in opportunities like expansion or covering your current expenses.

How to Increase Gift Card Sales

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

Competitor Analysis: A Definition and Guide

How to do a competitor analysis and why it’s important for your business

How to Create a Budget for Your Small Business

We’ve put together a six-step guide on how to create — and manage — your small business budget.

Why You Need an Integrated POS for Your Business

Here are some of the benefits of having a POS system that is integrated with your hardware and software for taking payments.

Hair Salon Ideas: Website, Event, and Marketing Ideas

Grow your business with these effective hair salon marketing ideas. Top hair salon ideas to bring in clients, including event and hair salon website ideas.

From the taproom to table-tops, Junction Craft Brewery taps into Square

Learn how Junction Craft Brewery implemented an online store, payments, inventory and scheduling overnight.

How to Optimize Your Menu for Takeout and Delivery

As social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic encourages more people to stay at home, adapting your food and drinks offerings to accommodate pickup and delivery can attract more customers and help open up a new revenue stream.

Transforming Your Business — Tips From the Experts

Learn how local businesses are pivoting their approach and transforming their businesses in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Small Businesses with Mighty Hearts

COVID has brought many small business owners across Canada to the brink of closing up shop for good. Community leaders discuss the future of small business in Canada, how owners can adapt, and other tips for fellow entrepreneurs.

The Power of Local

We partnered with Nextdoor Canada on a webinar series featuring conversations with business owners and industry experts. Hear how they have harnessed power of the neighbourhood to support and grow their businesses.

The Homebody Products Shoppers Are Buying More of

The pandemic has turned everybody into a homebody. To give you insight into the trending products you might want to sell, we combed through Square data to identify the comfort items shoppers are buying more of.

Ghost Kitchens: Should You Open One for Your Restaurant?

Here’s a look at what ghost kitchens are and how they may (or may not) fit within your restaurant business.

How Restaurants Are Modernizing Kitchens and Streamlining Orders

A customizable POS designed specifically for restaurants helps streamlines your operations, manages front-of-house and back-of-house, keeps your kitchen moving and makes the food ordering journey smooth sailing for customers.

5 Ways to Boost E-Commerce Sales

Are you ready for the e-commerce tidal wave?