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    Advice re: not having a card payment facility

    Thank you everyone for your comments. To be honest this is the first time a customer has asked to pay by card and so I have never looked into it before, I think it will be beneficial for us to look into this for the future but the fees have always concerned me - if anyone knows on where is...
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    Advice re: not having a card payment facility

    Hello We are a kitchen business and do not yet have a card payment facility, however we have a customer who does not want to pay by our accepted methods of payment (cash, cheque or bank transfer) has anyone had experience of this? The customer is reluctant to pay due to lack of protection (he...
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    Need to sharpen up on costings, advice needed please

    Thank you, yes I think we need to revisit our costings and break everything down, thank you for your help :-)
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    Need to sharpen up on costings, advice needed please

    Completely agree. Thank you!!!
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    Need to sharpen up on costings, advice needed please

    Thank you and you have helped as I think I just need to go back over our product and service and break it down to add it on as a margin?
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    Need to sharpen up on costings, advice needed please

    Thank you for that. Our other concern is the vat - when a customer goes direct to our tradesmen they are not vat registered so they avoid it, when we did a bit of market research when we first started a couple of other businesses said they do it that way so the customer avoids the vat I'm...
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    Need to sharpen up on costings, advice needed please

    Hello We have a (fairly new) kitchen business, we have a showroom and supply and install kitchens. We are still having teething problems when it comes to pricing up our work and we are in need of a little guidance? Our prices are 2 form - supply of kitchen and installation of kitchen. We are...
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    Scaling up: next steps for small business?

    We have put the van on hold for now, but computer equipment would be ideal still
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    Scaling up: next steps for small business?

    Ok thank you for your help and advice :-)
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    Scaling up: next steps for small business?

    We don't have a mortgage on our property it is rented. In terms of costs to renovate, we are looking at around £15,000 although we haven't looked at figures properly yet until we know how to approach the financial side of it. We are still repaying back family too from our last investment
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    Scaling up: next steps for small business?

    Thank you and apologies that I didn't reply to my last post - December was a busy time and in all honesty it slipped out of my mind until now. We are best on the outskirts of Coventry, near Leamington Spa, Kenilworth...
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    Scaling up: next steps for small business?

    We are coming towards the end of our 3rd year
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    Scaling up: next steps for small business?

    Hello, I feel a bit overwhelmed at the moment. We have a small kitchen business where we retail and install kitchens. We have a showroom which we renovated through a loan of £15,000 from family and our own personal investment. We have come to the stage now where we need to re-invest into...
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    Next steps for new business

    Hello I am new to the forum and this is my first post. Myself and my husband set up a kitchen showroom 2 years ago, we design, sell and install kitchens. We have been going through a transition period where initially my husband was fitting the kitchens as well as designing and selling and...
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