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Terence Eden | 7 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 If you run a small business in the UK, what are your *must have* subscriptions?

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Interpipes 💙 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 
* A decent Internet connection with SLA, domain & webhosting (though we use ourselves for all this as we're in this space)

* Xero for accounting

* Regrettably, M365 for email/contacts/calendaring/office apps/file sharing cos we need groupware of some sort and gsuite is.. no.

Sector specific;
* some sort of e-commerce front for the self-serve services like domain registrations (we currently use WHMCS for this)
* Halo (PSA/CRM/Helpdesk/etc)
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Interpipes 💙 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 
and;

* some sort of backup software/service configured so as to take your data somewhere it is not trivial for some ransomware weenie to erase it
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Paul | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Separate phone contract (phone number + physical phone) so that business calls can be switched off easily.

Microsoft 365 so I can open macro-laden spreadsheets that LibreOffice can't manage.

DeployHQ for auto-deploying code on git push.

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