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Cash App and Square Unite to Support Local Merchants with ‘Neighborhoods’
Block is bringing together two of its core products to help local businesses serve their customers. On Wednesday, the fintech company unveiled “Neighborhoods” by Cash App, a new feature designed to help merchants compete more easily with national chains by removing this digital point of friction. It’s more than an app update—this offering creates a […]
Checkout and Cash In: Tiptop’s Trade-In Feature Saves You Money on Online Purchases
Have you ever wanted a way to save when making purchases online? We scramble when sales like Black Friday and Cyber Monday take place or use apps like Honey and Rakuten to save as much as possible. But what if there was a way to reduce the amount spent while decluttering our home? Tiptop could […]
Square’s Online Store Opens up to Large Sellers With New Developer Tools
Square’s efforts to attract large sellers to its platform are gaining traction based on its latest quarterly earnings report. The company says that its mid-market sellers grew by 43 percent annually, twice its total Gross Payment Volume (GPV) growth. To further that momentum, Square is launching a developer API giving these merchants access to not […]
Square Banks on Developer Platform to Woo Larger Sellers in March Upmarket
“The journey is one of peaks and valleys,” Carl Perry remarked, describing in a cautiously optimistic tone the progress made with the developer program he manages at Square. For more than six years, the commerce company has gradually opened more of itself up to third-party developers in a bid to bring its experience to more […]
Square’s Bitcoin Efforts Generate $34 Million in Revenue, But Doubt Remains
Square announced the results (PDF) of its first-quarter 2018 earnings, and for the most part, it was pretty routine. But one thing that did stand out was the revenue that was generated from Bitcoin: $34 million. This was the first time the company revealed the figure, given the fact that it only started letting its […]
Square’s Weebly Acquisition Beefs Up Its Small Business Stack Offering
When Square started nine years ago, it was simply focused on helping businesses make transactions on the fly, thanks to its iconic mobile card reader. Since then, it has branched out to look at new technologies designed to make commerce easier for business owners and consumers, from creating an online marketplace to the production of […]
Square Targets Larger Businesses With Robust Register Point-of-Sale Solution
As businesses get larger, the need for additional bells and whistles around particular technologies increases, and this is certainly the case with merchants and retailers with physical brick and mortar stores. Determining what’s right for a business is based on their growth and current standing — if you’re just starting, you may be looking for […]
Square’s Future Rests With Its Small Business Loan Program
Tod Wilson is largely what you’d expect from a small business owner. As the proprietor of Mr. Tod’s Pie Factory in New Jersey, he wants to grow his business and eventually take it nationwide. When I interviewed him in 2015, he had plans to open additional locations both in New Jersey and New York and […]
Square’s $5 Billion Gamble To Change The Commerce World
“And how will you be paying for these?” This is a question that some of us may remember being asked when buying groceries, clothes, or other goods and services. The marketplace has become congested with numerous ways for someone to pay for things. There’s the time-honored tradition of using cash, or perhaps by writing a […]
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