Blogs - Managed IT Support Yorkshire

December 17 2021
Lottie Perrelle

Manual Finance Tasks NPOs Should Automate

Many businesses are still stuck in the time-warp that is spreadsheets in order to store and manipulate numbers. Whilst this works for some, it is incredibly easy to make mistakes when performing mathematical calculations in this way. Manual tasks like this also become quite tedious, particularly when finances are involved. With lots of financial automation […]

November 29 2021
Lottie Perrelle

Creating An IT Strategy Plan For Your Business

IT plans and strategies within business have always been more of a reactive thought process – something goes wrong and then business owners realise their systems need fixing. If someone in the company needed a new computer, server or piece of software, the IT department would go out and buy it immediately. However, over the […]

November 19 2021
Lottie Perrelle

Missed A Payroll? Here’s How To Get Back On Track

It happens… whether you have had big financial pressure on your business, staff members have been off with illness, or various other reasons. Unfortunately, sometimes the payroll gets missed and you end up with some slightly disgruntled employees. Paying staff on time is obviously very important in order to keep morale high and they could […]

November 1 2021
Lottie Perrelle

The Importance Of Password Managers For Employees

With more and more employees working from home now, it is important that as a business owner you have all the correct policies and procedures in place to keep data secure. Password managers are a great way to improve business security and remove the need for having shared documents with passwords on display for everyone […]

October 18 2021
Lottie Perrelle

Cloud Software Is More Common Than Ever Before

Cloud software is becoming a more popular solution for business owners, particularly since the pandemic causing businesses to operate from home. Migrating to the cloud can be a challenge for any business, and without careful planning and preparation things could go very wrong. It is always best to have help from an experienced technical team […]

October 5 2021
Lottie Perrelle

How VAT Reverse Charges Will Affect Your Business – CIS

There have been lots of changes regarding VAT for businesses this year, and in a recent blog we explained how eCommerce VAT in the EU has changed. Today we are going to look at how the changing VAT rules could impact the cashflow of businesses within the construction sector, many whom are covered by the […]

September 17 2021
Lottie Perrelle

Microsoft 365 Product Price Increase

You may have heard on the grapevine that Microsoft have recently announced a price increase to their Microsoft 365 products. This is the first substantive pricing update since Office 365 was launched over a decade ago, so you could say it has been on the cards for a while! What does this mean for your business […]

September 14 2021
Lottie Perrelle

Ecommerce VAT In The EU Has Changed

With Brexit and the pandemic, the past year has been incredibly hard for a lot of businesses. You may have heard that on the 1st July 2021 the way that VAT is handled for online sales from businesses worldwide to consumers in the EU has changed. Understanding exactly what this means can be a minefield […]

August 26 2021
Lottie Perrelle

Why You Should Be Concerned About Data Breaches

We don’t want to alarm you, but every business owner should be concerned about the possibility of data breaches. Since the pandemic cybercriminals have been more active than ever, and it isn’t just the multinational corporations they have been targeting. Of course we all tend to hear about the likes of Facebook and Gmail being […]

August 11 2021
Rosie Garmston

What Is SharePoint? An Introduction.

Think of Microsoft SharePoint as the ultimate meeting room. It’s one of several programs within the Microsoft 365 office suite for businesses. In a previous post we looked at many of the oft forgotten programs and apps that Microsoft users have access to. SharePoint was one of the ones we mentioned but it’s actually been […]

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