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Customer Portals in Canada: Where Your Data Actually Lives

Hiring a developer outside Canada to build your customer portal? Your data's location is a hosting setting, not a nationality. Here's what to specify, verify and own.

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Oct 15, 20266 min read

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Building a UK Online Shop With a Remote Developer

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Building a UK Online Shop With a Remote Developer

A UK shop can be built well by a team in another country. Here is what to agree first: VAT and delivery rules, time zones, GDPR questions, ownership and handover.

Oct 13, 20266 min read

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