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As customers look to avoid touching surfaces, in some parts of the country businesses are also limiting in-person contact. Touch-free transactions – allowing you to take a payment without making contact with a shared device – and remote payment options might be top of mind for your business.

Here’s how you can implement a variety of methods for safer payments.

Moving forward with your business means experimenting with new strategies to grow. With that in mind, business development — identifying new customer bases and building relationships — should be a top priority. To help you out, we’ve put together five ideas for finding new customers to grow your business.

“Can I open a tab?” Five words every bartender wants to hear, as they usually translate into higher sales (which usually translates into higher tips). But managing open tabs can be a headache. So we’re making it way easier for you with our new Open Tickets feature in Square Point of Sale, a simple, easy way to keep track of multiple open tabs.

If you’re a small business owner, you need to know how to create an invoice. The good news is that it’s pretty easy, especially if you use the right tools to streamline the process.

Square Invoices just got even better. You can set up recurring payments to automatically get paid each month, week, day, or even year. With this feature, there’s no need to chase down clients, take cards over the phone, or reenter the same info month after month. It’s billing made simple. Invoices, including recurring payments, are always free to send. Our rates are very competitive, and you get paid fast. And now you can do this in our invoicing app.

It’s important to evaluate your business on a regular basis to ensure that you’re on track to succeed. One of the most integral part of your business is inventory management.

Square’s new invoices app makes it as easy as pie to request and take payments anywhere, anytime. Here are five ways that invoicing apps can help you get paid faster:

Right now the world is trying to adapt and adjust to a new normal. The same goes for businesses and how customers shop and interact with them.

Customer reviews are a vital part of growing your business. They let you know what you can do to make your business better and the act of asking for reviews can create loyalty among your customers. This is why we have Square Feedback, a new free feature that helps you hear directly from your customers—giving you the opportunity to thank customers for their patronage, improve what isn’t working or privately ‘win them back’. You can even offer refunds or coupons through Square Feedback.