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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

You are probably already aware that here at Reality Solutions we are Sage business partners, but we thought it might be useful to explain why we partner with Sage, and the benefits we can bring to your business. Accounting and managing cash flow can be...

‘Digital transformation’ seems to be the buzzword that everyone is talking about at the moment. The pandemic has caused us to rethink how we run our businesses, and those who haven’t adapted quickly have been left behind. Digital transformation doesn’t just mean switching over to...

If you work in an office today, our guess is you don’t see as much paper as you used to. Over the last 2 decades, computers have finally removed much of the need for paper. It took a long time to get there. The advent...