These are the long versions of the calculators. Written for the person running the business rather than for their accountant, and free to read without handing over an email address.
How sole trader, partnership and limited company compare on tax, liability and admin, and why the old rule about incorporating at £30,000 no longer holds.
Read the guide →Find your floor from real costs, understand why margin and markup are not the same, see what a 10% discount really costs, and how to raise prices without losing customers.
Read the guide →The true cost beyond salary, employee versus contractor, the Employment Allowance trap that catches single-director companies, and the legal steps you cannot skip.
Read the guide →How the rolling 12-month test actually works, your registration deadlines, whether to absorb or pass on the 20%, and the schemes that can soften it.
Read the guide →Payment terms that actually work, a chasing sequence that gets results, your statutory right to interest and compensation, and when to escalate.
Read the guide →How Google decides local rankings, why your Business Profile matters more than your website, and the work that actually produces enquiries, in order.
Read the guide →Calculate what a customer costs to win and what they are worth, why lifetime value must use gross profit, and why payback decides how fast you can grow.
Read the guide →Which tasks genuinely suit automation, which quietly waste a year, how to run a first project you can measure, and the one-page policy you need.
Read the guide →How to decide between off-the-shelf, configuring a platform, and building custom. Total cost of ownership, the hidden workaround tax, and when custom genuinely pays.
Read the guide →The fields and workflows that actually matter, automation rules worth setting up, and how to cut the daily admin cost of keeping tickets current.
Read the guide →These calculators are a small, public version of what we do. The Veris Labs suite covers marketing and delivery, and where nothing off the shelf fits, we build it around your business instead.