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    SSP for Part Time Worker

    Thanks for the response I have gone ahead and started to do the calculation based on the employee getting the full £88.45. Guess I should thank my lucky stars that on the whole they are great staff and do not have regular time off sick! Thanks again
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    SSP for Part Time Worker

    Hi hoping someone can help... I have am having to deal with my first staff sickness so I headed off to the UK gov website to run the calculation. Basic details as follows - Employee due to be off sick for at least 8 weeks due to the need to have a operation. Sickness started on the 11th Jan...
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    VAT on Royal Mail

    My accountant has told me that I need to be charging VAT on all my Royal mail postal costs. I am a small business with ( apart from the usual busy christmas periods) a small number of orders per day which I post myself at the local PO. I have looked at the Royal Mail website and it says that VAT...
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    Help us choose a new logo!

    Agree with comments about the squiggles but I kind of like some sort of flowing graphic message as I get the connection with writing a note in a card. I would also consider who you mainly sell to ( or who makes the buying decisions) if it is mostly female then 5 and 6 are very male to my eye...
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    Am i missing something or is Magento really this long winded?

    Hi there You need to update the visibility option on the general tab on each of the simple products to be set to not visible individually. Hope that helps. ( you can do this as you set them up or go in and select them all from the catalogue view and then do a bulk update of attributes...
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    Am i missing something or is Magento really this long winded?

    Ok I might be mis understanding but when I load my product images I only ever load them on to the configurable product ( not the simple ones) as I set the simple products not to display individually ( otherwise it looks like you have duplicate products) So I load all of the images onto the...
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    Am i missing something or is Magento really this long winded?

    Hi there When we 1st started with Magento we found it very long and drawn out. But once you have got your head around how it all works and see the results I am sure you will be pleased with your decision. One quick tip- instead of setting up all the simple products first ( individually )...
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    Christmas

    I was in Morrisons today and they were promoting their christmas club, got back to the office to discover we had has an order for some christmas items so perhaps customers are thinking ahead and spreading out the christmas spending. However just heard that the temp will be 82 tomorrow so...
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    Magento Best Practice Check

    Hi Joseph we are just going through a major upgrade at the moment so would love to give it a try when we get all the niggles ironed out if that is an option? maybe sometime next week? Cheers Lynn
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    Employing a Student

    Hi All Just got the opportunity to employ a student over the summer holidays and possibly for some weekend work after that. I want to do all of the employment side of things by the book so am looking for some advice on the basics I need to set up to pay NI and PAYE. I have looked on...
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    BOS First Data PCI Letter

    Letter just landed on my mat saying that my PCI DSS management fee was now due and text as follows. "With effect from your outlets next Merchant Statement, the PCI DSS Management Fee will appear as £35.99 per month." Contacted them and apparently it is a miss print in the letter as the...
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    ecommerce platforms

    For chuff sake!!! does this question have to come up every week? use the search function on the site as this must be the most popular question asked in the e-commerce section.
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    Apple Macs???

    Having started off with a MacBook a few years ago I then moved on to the Air ( only an option if you travel a lot as it is not the most powerful machine). We now have big Imac's and would never ever go back to PC windows systems. Despite a few problems with the Air ( hinges faulty a few models...
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    Rated People

    We used rated people twice as we were new to the area and did not have people we could ask. Results were great from a customer point of view had great wooden floor and bathroom installation. We got about 5 responses to each job we posted, then got quotes and asked to see examples of work...
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    Nice looking blog?

    I would agree that you should brand the blog to look and feel like your site. We have a blog design which people comment on as it is a bit of fun and we are in the process of taking some of the design elements back to the website. As your business is all about people having fun ( hopefully) at...
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