Recent content by North_Wind

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    Choosing an ecommerce solution

    Hmm - we just migrated off Magento as we had to upgrade to v2 (which essentially required a full recode) so we undertook a full review of our £3.5m pA turnover online operation. We decided against upgrading to Magento v2 for three main reasons: (1) it seems prone to being hacked and having...
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    Alternative to Quickbooks

    My accountant recommended (insisted?) I use QuickBooks when Making Tax Digital started applying to my company. I am not happy as everything takes 3 times as long as when I input everything into Excel as my nominal ledger (about 30-40 transactions per quarter). And I have to pay! Is Xero any...
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    Offline and online sales decline

    I have an investment in an online retailer (lighting). We were off 80% at one point when lockdown first started (March). Then up a bit (early April) then down then steadily up. Lots of new account openings. September was our busiest month ever. We've seen a slight dip since the Tier 1-3 was...