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Advice required on 50 50 shareholder

As noted above - is there a shareholders' agreement? Also check the articles of the company.

Note that as a director you have duties to all shareholders so be careful trying any sharp strategies which might benefit you and not the other shareholder.

Also, (and subject to the above) you could stop paying divs and potentially pay yourself a salary as director/employee although note potential need for shareholder approval.
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How to leave a Limited Partnership

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gprovan said:
We're still going at the moment, but have been hobbling along for a few years.
I haven't spoken to him yet. Firstly because I don't know what I'm going to do, and secondly because it's extremely difficult to talk to him.

I would say that the ball would be mostly in his court. I'm happy if necessary to walk away, but if he wants to keep the business running, he'll have to decide what he wants.
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Debts and leases the company has will belong to the company.
The company is a separate legal entity from its owners.

Though if anything has a personal guarantee from you then it can be difficult to get out of that.
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Returns: 14 days cancellation question/refunding postage

kulture
Just need to point out that in the law there is NO obligation for the retailer to pay the return costs for a simple return. The retailer should pay reasonable return costs if the goods are faulty and you are thus rejecting them. Otherwise on a simple return the obligation to pay the return post normally falls on the customer. Some retailers are more generous and offer to pay the return postage. Some have procedures that they ask you to follow in order to qualify.

In all cases the retailer is obliged to refund you what you paid for the goods IN FULL and for what they charged you for delivery (assuming you just went for their standard delivery). You are not obligated to jump through complicated hoops etc to cancel an order, simply returning it within 14 days should suffice, although I would sympathise with a retailer who took a bit longer to process the return if you did not follow sensible procedures.

From your original post it is not clear to me if you are the retailer or the customer. It is also not clear if the customer is a consumer or if this is a business to business transaction. What I have written applies to consumer transactions.
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How to choose a plugin to create a calculator?

vnxmmz
It is necessary to calculate the cost of goods taking into account various parameters: weight, color, characteristics, and the like. Probably the total cost of such a calculator for individual development will be very high.

Yes, there are many different tools for creating an online calculator, but they are extremely difficult to use if you do not own the code and programming.
Searches in the search eventually chose several plugins and online services:
  • Calculated Fields Form
  • uCalc
  • Woo Price Calculator
  • WpCalc
  • jsCalc
Perhaps one of these tools will work, but it will be clear as soon as I try to create an online calculator on it and test the possibilities. Maybe someone else knows similar paid and free tools?
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Getting my share

Bership said:
I found a way to improve a process that can save my employer £20k - 30k a year. I know that I won’t hear even ‘thank you’ for this. I know that because I saved them money in the past and received no reaction whatsoever. That is one of the reasons I have handed 3-month notice.
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Were I the employer in question, I would very much want to hear about savings that we could make and if these suggestions were to be implemented, a 'Thank You' would be in order!

That said - employees tend to over-rate the value of suggestions that they might make and not understand or know all the factors involved.
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Client web hosting not getting paid

justinaldridge
Surely if they haven't paid their hosting fees....you should just suspend their account? As soon as their site goes offline they'll want it back up ASAP.

If you don't pay your fees with any hosting provider, they just suspend the account and the sites become inaccessible. I know because it's happened to me when I've forgotten to renew my hosting!
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Managing clients money (bank rules)

starricz said:
Surely, there must be a way of having a legitimate business account that allows you to make hundreds-thousands of transactions per day and process money on the behalf of clients?
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I think what you are asking for is aggregation - the position of counter-party in a transaction where you are not actually supplying the goods. This means you have liability for all these transactions even though you neither supply the goods no have proper title over the payment. If you had hundreds of thousands of transactions you would need the equivalent capital deposited in order to cover the risk. Not many businesses want to do this and not many banks want them to have it either (it puts the bank at risk if you disappear).

Instead, the master merchant obliges each sub merchant to have an account and the risk goes with the sub merchant. At least, this is how Nochex does it.
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Different version of your domain

justinaldridge
The site is redirecting for me but the canonical is still incorrect.

FD Capital said:
tip seems to be to redirect the various different versions of your domain name through to your main version.
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Yes, best practice is to consolidate all the weighting into one version using 301 redirects. But ALL versions need redirecting. www is just a sub domain of the domain, it could be anything. Google could see and index each of these as different sites/pages:

https://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk
https://ukbusinessforums.co.uk
http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk
http://ukbusinessforums.co.uk
https://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/index.php
Etc.

The canonical tag is a signal only and not a directive. It means that Google can choose to ignore it, which it often does.

It's best to always tidy up and consolidate all versions into one.
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Dealing with Royal Mail price rises

J
I think it depends on your product, if it is price sensitive such as an item priced at £1.99 or £2.99 to prevent going up to the next pound. Then it might make sense to reduce the volume or quantity in a product, I often notice re-packaging helps this go unnoticed for a while.

Makes me think back to those adults that looked back at the Wagon wheel confectionary item with shock.
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