Development of the new ‘Fuel Included’ business progresses. I have registered the company as Fuel Included Limited with Companies House.
More significantly – in terms of the masses of paperwork required – I have registered both myself and the company with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the regulatory organisation that has replaced the FSA. This is because I will be providing leasing contracts to the general public, and since leasing involves giving credit, the business is considered to be involved in activities that require registration. Fortunately I have no criminal record so the process went through smoothly!
However, getting a simple business bank account through my usual Northampton branch of Barclays became a nightmare (with major delays and cancelled appointments). Finally the online account came through this week thanks to the intervention of my (local to work) Milton Keynes branch.
Fuel Included Limited is now fully up and running!
In parallel with all the admin required to start up a new business, I have been working hard on creating a good Fuel Included website. Obviously I have the experience of working on MyRenaultZOE.com, and in fact I have also created a number of other websites over the years, so I had a pretty good idea how I wanted it to go.
Having said that, as a commercial enterprise the site has to be of a particularly high quality and so I have taken on external advice and help. For example, I originally made a Fuel Included logo myself but was persuaded to have a new one created commercially – and I’m now very pleased with the outcome.
The main site is at FuelIncluded.com and is about half complete. It’s useable, but I’ll continue to develop and complete it over the next few weeks. I hope to have it finished by the end of November.
Sales are conducted through a separate domain site at Deals.FuelIncluded.com. This uses commercial car leasing software and I’ll write up more about how this works in my next post.
While I remain convinced that the British public can be persuaded to move over to electric cars – and may one day even embrace them – I still really look forward to having it confirmed!