Recent content by eCommerce63

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    VAT Question

    Thanks .... that means our Website has been set up incorrectly :( We were told no VAT on the postage when we asked. The website only seems to calculate VAT on the product sale and then adds the P&P on. So in the example above the Total Invoice generated on our site would be for £15 and not for...
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    VAT Question

    Thanks for the responses - but I am still not clear on this. Based on what you are saying, in the previous example if we sell a product at £10 online and charge £3 postage, what should the Invoice total be? (We take the package to a PO and send via Royal Mail, and product attracts VAT at a rate...
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    VAT Question

    Maybe I am doing everything wrong then - we charge VAT on the item but not on the postage. So for instance if we have a product we are selling at £10, customer is charged £10+VAT = £12. They then pay postage eg £3 so total invoice is £15. Are u saying we should be charging £13 + VAT = £15.60 ...
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    VAT Question

    I have an VAT registered online business where I sell products and charge for postage and I am currently writing some software to analyse how well/or not we are doing. My question is, if turnover for month was £10,000, and £500 of that figure was postage paid by the customer, would VAT be...
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    Royal Mail Collection Service

    OBA Accnt/PPI licence and dropping stuff off at Sorting Office seems the way to go for us. Time for a bit of research now .... Thank you all for your input
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    Royal Mail Collection Service

    Hi All. I am considering Royal Mails Collection service. Apparently if you have a spend of £15,000+ on Postal Products per annum this service is free of charge. Otherwise its £725+VAT I have got to the point where I am spending approx £12,000 per year posting parcels and would like to avail of...
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    Royalmail - PPI & OBA

    Wouldn't count on that either....I've tried several times but never got that return call
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    Intellectual Property etc

    Hi all. I have an online business which is my full time job for the last 18 months. In Sept last year I invested in a new website to help build the business. Just recently I noticed another website that has just been setup in the same service sector. They have blatantly cut and pasted my "About...
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    Hi All

    I'm a former IT professional, now I run an eCommerce website in a non related field. Thought it would be a good idea to join here to pick the brains of those with substantially more business acumen than myself.