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    Sage nominals advice for Ltd Co loan to Director

    Thanks for the responses guys, very useful and much appreciated !
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    Sage nominals advice for Ltd Co loan to Director

    Hi, Looking to take a £6875 directors loan out from our Limited company now which I will pay back to the company by August 2020 - our year end is December so this loan will be repaid within 9 months of our year end. First question is, based on the above, do I need to pay interest at 2.5% if...
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    Penetration Testing for Credit Card 'Terminal' Computer

    Spoken with Safer Payments who confirmed we don't need a scan.
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    Penetration Testing for Credit Card 'Terminal' Computer

    Hi, We are a small single office business to business trader and are just coming up to our annual PCI compliance and need to understand penetration testing as follows: We have a single workstation PC on a segmented area of our network (not accessible from the rest of the network). On that PC...
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    Email for Small Office - 3 PC's

    Thanks for all the advice guys, been away this week and busy before that, sorry for not responding earlier. Will have a think and look into Office 365 I think.
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    Email for Small Office - 3 PC's

    Just wondering what people do for email in a small office - 3 computers all receiving and sending emails from a 'sales@' email address. We currently use Outlook 2010 installed locally on each PC, accessing our email hosting by pop3 and using Ablebits BCC to blind copy the emails sent to the...
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    Site Hacked - Does this section of htaccess file look normal

    Thanks guys for confirming, had a busy week so forgot to post back here but you helped a lot by confirming.
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    Site Hacked - Does this section of htaccess file look normal

    Hello, Our Opencart site got hacked - looks like through FTP access. We have reverted to backed up version of our site and changed all passwords etc for FTP and CPanel access, plus our admin passwords for Opencart admin panel access. There were some dodgy re-directs in place (when accessing...
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    Sage Instant Accounts Plus - Euro Sales Invoice ?

    Morning Guys, Need some help please ..... Currently we are only working and raising sales invoices in GBP£. We have a UK customer with a colleague in Austria who would like to purchase from us in Euros. We currently use Sage Instant Accounts Plus - can we setup a Euro price against products...
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    When can I take dividends?

    We run a profit/loss report and balance sheet from Sage each quarter (making sure everything is up-to-date so the reports are accurate). We then declare/allocate a sensible dividend based on previous quarters performance. This is done without involving the accountat. Then we do an end of year...
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    LTD Co Director Applying for Mortgage - Employee or Self Employed?

    We used a mortgage broker 3 years ago (when we had been trading 3 years). My experience with mortgage brokers hasnn't been great in the past but this one was superb and was able to help guide us to which lenders would look favourably on our ltd company accounts etc. We got a great rate/deal...
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    Anyone using Opencart + SagePay? Upgrade help needed

    We have just done this - we are using Opencart 1.5.4 This free Sagepay v3 module from Welford Media has worked perfectly for us: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=16868 1. Simply FTP the folders/files for the module across into your root folder. 2...
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    Advice needed on best way forward with website please

    We use opencart also - themed with a theme from themeforest. If you have mastered frontpage in the past then you will find opencart relatively straightforward to setup and maintain with new products etc moving forward. We have found it ranks well with google, as long as your content is...
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    Opening Mini Showroom - Check List ?

    You can set a few diverts up in the online control panel so in the event of a power failure any incoming calls are diverted to a number of your choice - most likely your mobile number. So any incoing calls to you virtual number are received by your mobile while the power is off.
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    Opening Mini Showroom - Check List ?

    You may be able to port your existing 'real' number and convert it into a 'virtual' number with Voipfone. This would mean any calls on the 'existing number' are handled across voip and would allow for multiple calls to/from this number at the same time. Voipfone can answer that one - some...