Your Square account closes November 5. What to save and settle before it does.
Square closes CBD accounts on November 5. Before then: export your customer list, reports and catalog, call about saved cards, and settle refunds and loans. Then check which products the November 12 and December 11 hemp changes touch.
November 3, 2026
How to get your high-risk store’s payments ready for Black Friday 2026
Last updated: November 2, 2026 Short answer To get your payments ready for this Black Friday (November 27th, 2026), put…
November 2, 2026
Reserves, Holds, and Payouts: What to Ask a Processor Before You Sign
Last updated: November 2, 2026 Square is exiting CBD. Its notice set November 5 as the closing date for primarily-CBD…
Payment processor switch: The document checklist that keeps you selling
Last updated: November 2, 2026 The merchants who switch processors without losing a day of sales aren’t lucky. They’re ready.…
Payments & peptides: What a compliant peptide merchant looks like
The word "peptide" covers an FDA-approved drug and a "research use only" vial. Underwriters treat them very differently. Here's how the category is structured in 2026.
The MATCH List and TMF: How terminated-merchant listings work
The MATCH list and VMSS follow a merchant and its owners for five years. How listings happen, the thresholds that trigger them, and what can be undone.
The CBD seller’s calm guide to switching processors
Last updated: November 2, 2026 If you got the notice, you already know the feeling. One email, and the processor…
Shopify banned vape eCommerce. Here’s how high-risk payment processing actually works from here.
Late last month, Shopify moved to prohibit vape and e-cigarette sales across its platform in the United States, a decision…