Merchants who use Square to process payments online and in-person were out of luck on Thursday after an outage hit the service. Square communicated with sellers on Twitter, tweeting about 4 hours into the outage, “We are currently experiencing issues Read more
What are online payment services up to? Not just PayPal and Square, but offerings from the likes of Amazon, Google, and Facebook? Some “tech” companies are acting more like financial institutions – such as banks and credit card companies – Read more
Online payments service Square will acquire AfterPay in a deal valued at a whopping $29 billion. Square cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey (who also cofounded and is CEO of Twitter) said together, the two companies can better connect their ecosystems Read more
Now you can use Square without the need for an online store. The online payments service announced Square Online Checkout on Thursday, which lets sellers create a link or button so they can accept payments without having to build an Read more
UPS is aggressively working to attract smaller online merchants through its UPS Digital Access Program, and on Wednesday, it announced a collaboration with Square, an online payments and store-hosting service. The new solution provides Square’s ecommerce customers with UPS shipping Read more
Square is imposing new fees for merchants who transfer funds to their bank account, it announced on Tuesday. Beginning on February 7, 2020, the rate for instant and same-day transfers from a Square balance to a bank account is changing Read more
Weebly launched new ecommerce tools on Monday to help sellers manage their stores from their mobile devices. Weebly, which was acquired by payments firm Square on May 31st of this year, emphasized the convenience factor that allows sellers to run Read more
eBay entered into a partnership with Square Capital to provide eBay sellers with business financing. in its announcement, eBay said, “sellers may be eligible to receive up to $100,000 in funding in as little as one business day.” Press release Read more
It’s hard to believe that just one year-and-10-days ago, it was business as usual at Etsy under a CEO who had happily reigned for 6 years. But on May 2, 2017, the company’s Board of Directors abruptly turned things upside Read more
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