Packnet Blog

With Alistair Darling’s pre-budget report (PBR) due out at some point today one of the most expected changes is the reduction in VAT from 17.5% to 15%. Whilst this is one of a range of matters put forward by the government to stimulate the countries economic growth, in practise how will this effect systems which companies have had in place and working practises.

If you have come looking at the Packnet website for VOIP, then chances are that you have seen our advertisement in the Comms Business magazine directory. We offer a range of services to Resellers including the following.

Packnet are based in the Greenheys Business Centre of Manchester Science Park. If you are a tenant on the Science Park or looking to move to the science Park we offer a FREE voip setup should you take up our hosted voip service. In addition to this we’ll provide you with 2 geographic voip telephone numbers on the 0161 prefix.

PackNet offer VoIP in Manchester and the surrounding areas, providing businesses with an affordable and scalable business telephone system.

Being a Manchester based comapny we thought it would be helpful to have a page dedicated to voip in Manchester. Our offices are located on Manchester Science Park, behind the University, “see location map” which is Manchester version of Silicon Valley. Somewhat smaller but packed with technology businesses.

Thus today officially became a Cable and Wireless company. As stated on the new splashcreen of the thus.net website, “THUS is now a Cable&Wireless business. Together we have the opportunity to spark the beginning of a great new era in telecoms; one that’s defined by unparalleled excellence in customer service…”

Packnet have been working with our good friends over at Webpraxis to create a new online booking system for the leisure industry. The system allows owners of Health Centres and Gym’s to setup all their classes online and in turn allow their customer to book classes directly from the web.

We have been asked by many customers if the can setup their mobile phones to make SIP calls. The answer we have given them has been both yes and no. The main UK operators don’t really like the idea of voip/sip calls being made from your mobile handset. If you have received a mobile phone from your chosen supplier then chances are that the firmware has been altered in some way and that the ability to use the inbuilt internet phone application has been removed.

We recently launched an in house venture and decided to use Paypal and Google Checkout for the payment gateway options. Having integrated with other gateways previously we thought…HOW HARD CAN IT BE??

At Packnet, one of our systems has to generate invoices that should be sending to customers on a monthly basis. The system was written mainly in Perl – so we decided to use some Perl library from CPAN to generate these invoices. After considering a couple of modules, we found that PDF::API2 is one of the most popular and feature-rich module available for this purpose.

Packnet are very happy to announce the partnership with whosintown.net in what we see as a very exciting and progressive project. Whosintown is the brainchild of David Henderson, Paul Stayner and our very own Andrew Montgomery, and seeks to become the worlds foremost networking site for the business traveller.