In Making Loyalty Work For Small Businesses: Australia Edition, a PYMNTS and Pollinate collaboration, we discover that shopping local businesses is a bigger part of Australian consumers’ lives than in other markets studied, with 55 percent having made at least one purchase from a High...
A new card reader product from QuickBooks is designed to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) get paid faster, according to a press release. QuickBooks Card Reader allows SMB owners speed up in-person sales and get paid on the go. Their transactions can be automatically...
Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. are trying to recover from the pandemic, but long waits and high costs for merchandise deliveries might stand in the way, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. SMBs end up fighting over space in the lessening amounts...
Small, local businesses are a big part of most Australian consumers’ daily lives. Not only do 55 percent of Aussies regularly shop with local businesses, but 22 percent of them report shopping with such stores more than they shop with any other type of retailer....
As the beauty industry recovers from the pandemic, Square Appointments, an all-in-one scheduling service for beauty and personal care, is rolling out new products to help book more appointments and grow services, according to a company blog post. The new services include updates for Square...
Forty-six percent of small business owners say they had job openings they couldn’t fill, a report from NFIB says. That’s down two percent from May. But, the report notes, it’s still above the 48-year historic average of 22 percent, with small business owners still not...
The past year has pushed local businesses into the limelight in the United Kingdom. It has been 16 months since health-related closures began, and the nation’s consumers are more aware than ever of just how important the small, family-owned businesses are to their communities. Thirty-nine...
Pollinate, which equips banks with a toolkit for small businesses, is teaming with Mastercard to roll out its “Ingenious” filmmaker competition that will highlight the resilience of small businesses amid the pandemic, according to a Friday (June 25) announcement. “By combining our shared passion for...
Businesses making late payments aren’t new, nor is the resulting threat to cash flow for small- and midsized business (SMB) buyers and suppliers. While those issues can be caused by a number of factors when a business pays bills late, it’s not always because it...
