Square
"Square launched Square Handheld, its most powerful, portable point-of-sale device ever. Combining a sleek, durable design with comprehensive, versatile software, Square Handheld enables sellers to manage everything from payments to back-of-house operations right from their pocket."
Square
"Square debuted Square Releases — a new biannual product launch that delivers the most important new features and tools, all at once. Born out of feedback from the Square seller community, Square Releases gives businesses a simple, consistent way to discover what’s new, understand what’s next, and take action to grow."
Square
"Square announced new Square Banking tools that give sellers instant access to their cash flow and free, easier ways to manage their earnings. Today, business owners can conveniently sign up for a Square payments account and a free Square Checking¹ account in just minutes through one streamlined application—right on Square’s website and point of sale app."
Business Wire
"Peach Finance today announced it is powering Square’s credit card offering. The credit card integrates directly with Square’s broader ecosystem of solutions, enabling sellers to manage their cash flow from the same platform they use to run their business."
Salt Edge
"Square has partnered with Salt Edge, a leading open banking platform, to help streamline and simplify payment operations for sellers in the UK."
Business Wire
"Square announced a new partnership with Sysco, a leading global foodservice distributor, along with a number of new features to help food and beverage sellers run their businesses with ease."
Business Wire
"In the third quarter of 2024, Square completed a significant infrastructure shift, creating a best-in-class commerce platform with leading payments and ordering capabilities for sellers. The new platform fundamentally changes how the company builds products and will provide expanded commerce capabilities like Pre-Auth and Bar Tabs to sellers of all sizes across verticals in the U.S."
Business Wire
"Square unveiled Square Kiosk, a fully integrated software, hardware, and payments solution that enables self-serve ordering for quick-service restaurants."
Business Wire
"Offline payments, Square’s no-connection-required solution to deliver continuous commerce connectivity, is now available to Square sellers using every hardware device, and in every country."
Block
"Square today launched Tap to Pay on Android for sellers across Canada. The new technology enables businesses to securely accept credit card contactless payments with a compatible Android device, at no additional cost."
Block
"Square announced a new suite of solutions designed to give sellers a competitive edge this holiday selling period ...Square is introducing House Accounts, a deferred payment account that business regulars and corporate clients can easily charge purchases to. When a seller is ready to settle up, they can quickly create an invoice for the outstanding balance and receive payment online via credit card, ACH payment, or Card on File. ."
Block
"Today, technology company Square announced a partnership with Jane Technologies, the premier online ordering platform service for cannabis dispensaries, solidifying plans to cater to cannabis sellers in Canada."
CNN
"Alyssa Henry, the CEO of Square – a unit of Jack Dorsey’s fintech company, Block – will leave her post at the company next month. Dorsey, whose current title is Block Head and Chairperson, will take on an additional role of “Square Head."
Yahoo News
"Square said there was "no evidence" a cyberattack caused an outage that left customers and small businesses unable to use the payment giant's technology on Thursday through early-Friday. The payments technology giant said in a post-mortem of the daylong outage that the outage was caused by a DNS issue."
Electronic Payments International
"As many frustrated business owners will know, Square suffered global outages last week across its service. On Thursday, Square had over 18,000 outage reports, with Cash App, also owned by Square, having 9,000 reports, with problems running into the following day. Square will see a global impact in the fallout of these outages, with the company currently operating in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, Spain, UK and USA"
Yahoo News
"Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments...In a new posting on its status update page, Square says that it is “actively observing the recovery of all Square systems” after engineers implemented a fix early on Friday. The company noted...it anticipates "slight delays" for some transfers as a result of the disruption."
Square
"Consumer spending has been hard to predict in recent quarters...Across all industries, sellers have been offering subscriptions to continually engage and bring back customers, while leveraging technology to automate recurring payments for memberships, donations, and more. "
Square
"Today, Square is introducing the inaugural edition of its quarterly Restaurant Industry Report – this report will look at data across more than 800,000 food and beverage Square sellers, examining dining trends and how consumer spending is changing."
Square
"Today, Square launched Square Go, a consumer booking app that provides an end-to-end booking experience so consumers can search, discover, and schedule with highly-rated independent service providers in their area."
Block
"Square today announced the beta launch of new banking and spend management solutions for its U.S. sellers, including new credit tools and features that help businesses simplify their cash flow management and consolidate their finances."
Australian Financial Review
"Payments and business software provider Square will put generative artificial intelligence into the hands of its merchant customers this year, allowing small businesses to use its data to determine what products are top sellers and which employees are the most productive."
The New York Times
"Millions of Americans use mobile payment apps to pay friends, family and retailers, but they may not know that money held in the apps often lacks federal insurance protection."
PR Newswire
"Cardinal Health today launched modern payment solutions, powered by Square, to help independent pharmacies increase operational efficiency, stay current with customer payment preferences, and access integrated software tools for their business."
Klaviyo
"Klaviyo, a marketing automation and customer data platform for B2C businesses, today announced a new integration with Square Online – Square’s ecommerce platform that helps sellers more easily run and grow their businesses. With this new integration, sellers can quickly sync real-time and historical data from Square Online into Klaviyo, including event-level data, profile properties, and catalog information and utilize that to deliver truly personalized experiences across their marketing channels, including email and SMS. For businesses using Square Point of Sale, Klaviyo will also receive customer purchase data made through in-person locations to help connect offline and online interactions."
MarketWatch
"After allowing sellers to accept contactless payments with just their iPhones last year, Square will make the same move for merchants that have Android devices. The company, which is part of Block Inc., announced Wednesday that it was rolling out Tap to Pay on Android in the U.S. and five international markets."
Block
"Square today launched Tap to Pay on Android for sellers in the UK. The new technology empowers sellers to securely accept contactless payments with a compatible Android device, and at no additional cost. With Tap to Pay on Android, Square is making it even easier for new sellers and established businesses to conduct in-person commerce. Using a compatible Android device, a seller simply opens the Square Point of Sale, Square Appointments, Square for Restaurants, or Square Invoices app, enters the sale, and presents their smartphone to the customer. From there, the buyer will see the total they owe along with the familiar contactless payments symbol, and can choose to complete the payment with a contactless credit or debit card, or a digital wallet such as Google Pay."
Square
"Today, Square unveiled an integrated spring product release, introducing a bevy of new features across our entire product ecosystem to unlock growth and create resilience for any type and size of business. “Square has more than 35 integrated tools, and they’re all designed to help sellers work smarter by automating their operations and creating new revenue streams,” said Alyssa Henry, CEO of Square."
Square
"Beginning next month, three new pricing changes are going into effect for Square sellers: updates to our refund policy, changes to paid transfers pricing, and new pricing for our revamped Square Online paid plans."
GlobeNewswire News Room
“Prizeout Corp., an innovative adtech company that works to turn withdrawals into a growth solution for eCommerce and retail businesses, has announced its integration with Square, the globally trusted software and hardware and payments company. As part of the Square App Marketplace, Prizeout’s integration works seamlessly across all stores running a Square Online site. Square sellers can connect their Square account to Prizeout and seamlessly turn their eGift cards into an invaluable tool to spur customer growth and retention. Participating Square sellers can create a campaign directly from the Prizeout Dashboard, allowing them to customize their demographic targeting and develop efforts to fit their marketing goals. Within these campaigns, they can offer bonus incentives to targeted user segments as they see fit.”
Businesswire
“American Express and Square announced an expansion of their relationship and plans to launch a new credit card built specifically for Square sellers on the American Express network. The new card will be the first credit card Square offers to its community of small business owners in the U.S. It will integrate directly with Square’s broader ecosystem of solutions, empowering sellers to organize their finances and manage their cash flow from the same platform they use to run their business.”
