Recent content by Danny Whitaker-Leach

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    Waste services monthly price increase by over 20%

    I've just had an email from the company that handles my business waste advising my new monthly rate will be going up to over 20% more. I understand prices are going up across the board and increases are necessary but this seems excessively high ... They are stating the below as reasons for the...
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    Are Evri really that bad?

    I’m in the same position, any pointers as to how to get through to the right people at Royal Mail would be great!
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    Does anyone have Onbuy experience?

    Waste of time We started with them in 2018 in the clothing and apparel section most monthly orders we ever got was about 20 They used to have a deal where you only paid monthly subscription if your revenue was £500 or more that month, if it was less you didn’t pay the £19 a month only the...
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    What's the perfect business premises look like for a small ecommerce business?

    As a left field idea have you considered 3P fulfilment? It gets rid of the space and dispatch hassles, costs can be more but can be balanced by more capacity in your case time to move the business forwards. Definitely doesn’t work for all but we are seasonal and do self fulfil and 3P, at this...
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    3rd Party Fulfilment - Is this feasible?

    I currently run a hybrid of fulfilment and self fulfilment. Pros and cons to both. The fulfilment isn’t as cost effective as it can seem vs self fulfilling as they all add their markup on pick n pack, storage, goods in, postage, returns. However can be super useful for us we are really...
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    Reconciliation software

    Never heard of Parex but by the looks of it very similar to Tradebox. Peak months we can have a few thousand orders going through and the limit was becoming stretched. It was also starting to clog up the accounts and make life harder hence the move to monthly summaries which is much easier.
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    Can We have an FBA product and a version of a non-FBA on the same page?

    Yes just create a second offer for the same ASIN in seller central one MFN and the other FBA They will appear in seller central as two independent SKUs We add -FBA to the end of our FBA items and it’s clear and easy to see which is which
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    Accounting software for amazon

    Tradebox is what I use and cannot recommend it highly enough. Isn’t cheap but will capture everything down to SKU or country overrides and the new EU VAT reforms
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    Reconciliation software

    I am similar sell on multiple marketplaces domestically and internationally. Initially I started using Tradebox as fiscx suggested which allows you to import each transaction individually to Xero which works well until you hit xero api limit so I started using Tradebox summaries which is...
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    hood.de - anyone heard of it or used it?

    I have been approached by them to start up as a seller on the platform I have never actually heard of them myself until now and from my research them seem to be similar to Ebay with private and business sellers and some auction style formats Looking on the site there seems to be little to no...
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    Complicated VAT Question - being charged VAT on international postage by 3rd party fulfilment centre

    Yes and that directs you to 744B because it’s transport of goods outside of UK/EU I know for a fact if doing it myself there is no VAT charge on the postage from Royal Mail the confusion lies within is the postage a service they are doing when they are not charging for it and that is where...
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    Complicated VAT Question - being charged VAT on international postage by 3rd party fulfilment centre

    Few reasons really They don’t add a margin onto the postage charge from Royal Mail as far as I am aware The service they are providing is the pick and pack not the postage
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    Complicated VAT Question - being charged VAT on international postage by 3rd party fulfilment centre

    Sorry they are based in the UK also Danny
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    Preventing Authorised Retailers Selling on Amazon

    Brand registry on Amazon does give you some control with regards to stopping unauthorised resellers of the product I am not 100% sure how much restriction it does give you but worth reaching out to Amazon for Another big advantage as the brand owner if you did want some sellers on Amazon is...
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    Complicated VAT Question - being charged VAT on international postage by 3rd party fulfilment centre

    Hi, I have reached out to HMRC but they at the moment are taking a while to come back to me and I think its because its such a complicated scenario so any help (even directing HMRC) would be appreciated. I sell on Amazon / ebay etc globally and instead of self fulfilling I have recently...
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