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    Can I use my personal car to deliver my shop's goods ordered through Deliveroo?

    Zego is bit rubbish, often counts miles incorrectly and works out bit expensive too. Acorn offers a standard car insurance and you can add business plus fast food delivery etc.
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    Xero Apps For Magento Site that use Ebay/Paypal/Amazon and CC

    Take a look at Chrome extension Xero Reconcile Robot.
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    Consolidate / change card payment processors

    Check this out - https://lopay.com/en-gb/pricing - this is the cheapest I've seen. Probably the most popular is Stripe - https://stripe.com/gb/pricing Merchant account is which collects the money, like bank account ish. Gateway is a payment processor. For example with one merchant account you...
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    Looking for a good mobile card payment processor for a small construction business

    Check this out - https://lopay.com/en-gb/pricing If you sign up with my referral link you will get some fee free transactions etc - https://merchant.lopay.app/ref/MAAREKJAAN
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    Low card volume - best reader suggestions?

    I'm using Lopay on my Android phone, works well and cheapest I found - https://lopay.com/en-gb/pricing - they have card readers as well. Sign up with this link and we'll both get £1,000 of free transactions - https://merchant.lopay.app/ref/MAAREKJAAN
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    Energy Company Dispute - Advice Please

    Unfortunately yes they can and they will. I was in exact same situation. When you taking over a unit, you will be responsible for electricity and gas, even if you don't use them. Call them on Monday and tell them that you want gas meter to be removed. Then they have to stop charging you etc...
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    Alternatives to Opencart?

    Same can be done with Opencart and at a fraction of the cost.
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    New online business advice

    Make sure that the payment processor you use allows dropshipping.
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    Promo goods from China to UK as a sole trader

    For small orders the Chines suppliers usually use couriers like DHL, UPS, Fedex etc and with these you don't need to deal with customs. You will receive a invoice from courier for VAT and custom fees. Some couriers will send it before delivery and it needs to be paid before delivery. Others...
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    Employer Liability Insurance

    https://www.gov.uk/employers-liability-insurance
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    Insolvency & Bankruptcy help!!!

    The cheapest way to get out of everything is a personal bankruptcy. In this case you don't have to do anything with the business. When you declare personal bankruptcy you legally can't be company director and have to resign. After this no one can ask you for a penny. Company will hang in the...
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    Struggling to Find and Contact UK Manufacturers for Bulk Buying

    Depends on the manufacturer but in most cases £2K per order is too small amount and many manufacturers wont be interested. The next factor is where and how you will sell these - own shop, trade counter, online etc. If you're selling only on Ebay/Amazon, more likely they wont be interested...
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    Virtual landline phone numbers

    I've been using them for over a year now and never had any problems. There are extra costs if you need a switch board or need use the app etc.
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    Recommendations for Shift Planning Software

    Here is another one I've used in the past - https://www.joinhomebase.com/
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    Best UK Hosting Company?

    If I search in Google for "Krystal hosting reviews" I can see only good reviews, only very few bad ones?
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