Category: eCommerce




In-house Payroll

Since 2014, the RTI initiative has meant that PAYE payroll information must be submitted electronically to HMRC. This can be achieved by utilising a cloud based payroll service (such as KashFlow Payroll), or  by accounts software, if HMRC approved. Having decided to investigate returning to processing our own payroll (rather than employing the services of an […]

Region specific Power Plugs

There are 15 different electrical outlet plugs commonly used for connecting appliances to the domestic mains supply (https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets). When it comes to smaller electrical appliances, non-captive cables are often chosen by the manufacturer, allowing them to bundle the cable-with-mains-plug appropriate to the region. The three most common (see IEC Connectors) are:  C13 line socket C7 […]

Updating stock in WooCommerce

The problem Once you have thousands of products in your WooCommerce store, you usually need an automated mechanism to periodically update the stock levels and prices. The usual way to achieve this is via a CSV file (perhaps exported from a spreadsheet ) which contains the changes. A typical example (assuming unique SKUs in your shop) […]

A WYSIWYG html editor

Background We often prefer to edit our HTML pages and templates using text editors, such as gedit, Vim, or Bluefish. However when it comes to creating more complex HTML tables, handcrafting becomes rather error-prone and it is preferable to be able to design/modify tables in final form (like a WYSIWYG word-processor does). A decent current […]

Product Codes

This is a general article about the different kinds of product codes used in business. It’s a subject that looks unimportant from the outside. From within a business getting codes right is vital. Every trade historically had its own way of doing things, tea, coffee, wines, cheeses, auto spares and the military. American gun-makers like […]

Why Spares is so Hard

    A customer with a HP LaserJet M375nw multi-function printer was having paper-feed issues with the automatic document feeder which passes A4 sheets through the scanner.             They replaced the 5851-3580 ADF Pickup Load Arm and Bogey (which contains the ADF paper pickup rollers), but this did not improve ADF […]