Also, most portable devices on the market won't provide you with enough power for charging electronic devices in cloudy conditions.
My ideal combination to cover about 80-90% of power needs whilst camping/hiking/cycling would be a combination of water turbine (for rivers or tiny streams) and solar.
In case I'd be hiking in an area with no water supply, I'd consider something like a wind turbine. Yet, I wouldn't know why I would want to hike in an area with no water supply ;-)
Doesn't that just increase resistance to your walking, thus is equivalent to you converting calories to battery energy? Wind and solar would be additional energy over what you brought as stored calories or food.
... bank transfers is one of the feature requests already in our pipeline!
Due to limited time (fruits was built within a few days), we reduced the product to the most simple MVP we could come up with. We will now be adding features on a daily basis :-)
Fruits is a pivot for fanbase.com which sadly didn't make it. Within a few days, we managed to build fruits and launched it as the quickest MVP we could come up with. That's what you're seeing today.
The imprint still points towards the current legal entity (fanbase GmbH). A new legal entity is currently under registration by the founders. Once the paperwork is done, the founders will move all assets to the new company and align the imprint accordingly.
Concerning taxation: this seems to be a clear improvement we need to work on communicating. Taxation is hard and we tried to break it down in a pricing calculator (which does not yet seem to do all that good of a job, point taken).
Disclaimer - as mentioned below/above in some of the comments: not the tax attorney ;-)
We are working with a tax office that helped us figuring out international taxation and will be able to answer all legal taxation questions in detail for each single country we're in business with.
Taxation for fruits essentially means:
- fruits charges the buyer and applies tax applicable for fruits (company in Germany) and the buyer in country XYZ
- each buyer will receive an invoice (issued by fruits)
- the seller will receive a single credit note for all sales performed within a month targeting a German company (fruits)
As someone who builds multiple products in this space, make sure you check if a credit note is valid for your purpose. It's not in NL, and it would get you in trouble with the tax authority.
The proper solution is a self-billed invoice (though perhaps you're using that and just calling it a credit note!)
After a quick browse of the Tax Jar website I got the solid impression that they were US only. I saw mention of 'sales tax' but nothing about VAT, GST, HST, etc. No mention of international or shipping. And their pricing page which I normally find to be useful for this type of thing was actually totally confusing to me.
The one thing on the pricing page that jumped out at me was, "AI-driven product taxability recommendations"
AI recommendations and dealing with the tax authorities doesn't really seem like a sound choice.
Our connected tax office figured out taxation concerning international transactions. Why and how different taxation rules apply depends on a couple of instruments and setups such as reverse tax charges, MOSS and others.
It basically burns down to fruits:
- charging the buyer with the applicable tax between fruits (company in Germany) and the buyer in country XYZ
- each buyer receiving an invoice (issued by fruits)
- the seller receiving a single credit note for all sales within that month targeting a German company (fruits)
We will have to clarify taxation as I can see from comments in this thread - thanks for your input!
VATMOSS would seem to be the way to go, note that you may not have visibility on all of the transactions of a party so you won't be able to determine when they cross the limit for VAT liability for their country.
- charge the buyer with the applicable tax between fruits (company in Germany) and the buyer in Country XYZ
- each buyer will receive an invoice (issued by fruits)
- the seller will receive a single credit note for all sales within that month targeting a German company (fruits)
As I can see from the comments (above and below), we need to come up with a way explaining intl taxation more thoroughly.
Disclaimer: I am the developer and not the tax attourney. In case you do have any questions, feel free to contact us (or me) and we will set up a meeting with our Tax-Daniela which will be able to explain taxation-related tasks in detail with a proper legal background :-)
That's due to rules and regulations here in Germany.
We need to have our outgoing and incoming invoices being handled properly to not run into tax fraud issues.
By talking to creators from e.g. OnlyFans, the biggest issues they faced was explaining their earnings to the tax authorities with no proper invoices at hand.
By further automating those tasks, we will be able to reduce costs dramatically and might get rid of the bookkeeping fee alltogether.
Maybe you want to just include it in the fee itself. It feels silly to have a separate fee when you advertise with 7%. At the very least it’s 7%+0.49. It’s not my problem that you have to hire an external accountant, and not something that I think is relevant for your customers.
Hi,
one of the devs here - happy to answer any questions :-)
We're currently working exactly on that feature - been requested a few times yet.
To keep the product as simple as possible for the MVP, we stripped all initial features and will add them step by step in the coming days.
Sounds like a good idea. The "advertising" can be done in so many other ways on other platforms - I like that you only try to do one thing and do that well.
I'd like to add a type of bike which is tiny but not foldable: a Minivelo.
I recently ordered a frame on AliExpress [0] equipped with internal cable routing and disc brake mounts, 2.25'' tire clearance. My build looks like a gravel bike. A gravel bike on 20'' with an 11 speed cassette, a drop bar and SRAM derailleur. Of course, not to miss a great carbon sear post. Including pedals and tires, the bike accounts for 10kg.
In order to take it on flights, I did sew myself a backpack to fit the bike. Taking the bike apart takes me 10 minutes. It is a tiny bit too large for hand luggage but ideal for being checked in.
For me the frame is a great compromise between size, stiffness and maintainability.
Velo orange [1] does offer a lovely frameset, too. It's just hard to get by in Europe (at a reasonable price point).
My ideal combination to cover about 80-90% of power needs whilst camping/hiking/cycling would be a combination of water turbine (for rivers or tiny streams) and solar.
In case I'd be hiking in an area with no water supply, I'd consider something like a wind turbine. Yet, I wouldn't know why I would want to hike in an area with no water supply ;-)