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25 Jan 2024

With more than 500 cycle businesses having now signed up to its campaign for change to the Cycle to Work scheme, a delegation from the Association of Cycle Traders has met with All Party...

24 Jan 2024

The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is taking enforcement action and warning consumers about a brand of e-bike battery – UPP – that has been linked to a number of...

16 Jan 2024

Walton Street Cycles, one of Oxford’s oldest bike shops, has been trading in the city since 1975.
 

16 Jan 2024

ACT Gold Member ICE Trikes has announced a new partnership announcement with British Cycling’s Limitless disability and para-cycling programme. This partnership will help to support the...

15 Jan 2024

An interesting article has appeared in Forbes reflecting many of the issues that ACT members will be experiencing – the challenges and opportunities that are currently...

15 Jan 2024

The Guardian has reported that ministers decided to prioritise driving over active travel because of worries about “15-minute cities”.

15 Jan 2024

Go Outdoors, which operates 75 stores across the UK, has announced an apprenticeship scheme involving Cytech training with the aim of addressing what it terms a nationwide shortage of...

3 Jan 2024

gogeta, the new tax-free cycling platform that offers a better deal for retailers and bigger savings for customers, has published further details of its new Flexi Voucher, an industry first...

3 Jan 2024

Bike for Good, the Glasgow-based cycling charity and social enterprise, which delivers Cytech training in Scotland, has announced a Young Bike Mechanic Programme designed to create opportunities...

3 Jan 2024

With the UK economy set to tread water in 2024, the KPMG/RetailNext Retail Think Tank (RTT), an independent board of retail experts, expects this will impact growth within the retail sector.

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Save a third on all stationery and POS!

Posted on in Cycles News

An early Merry Christmas to all our paying subscribers!

From Monday 10th of December until 31st of January 2019 all paying ActSmart subscribers can save a third on all in-store workshop stationery and POS materials.

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With the most popular resolution in the New Year being ‘to get healthy', now is the perfect time to start promoting Ride it away or Take it outdoors retail finance in-store.

It's also a great time to get your business ready for the new season and stock up on workshop and cycle hire forms.

Order stationery and POS now by logging in to My ActSmart and look for the ‘Stationery & POS' box. Discounts are automatically applied to the price when you login.

ORDER NOW

To see the retail finance POS avaliable click on the links below, all prices are listed exclude the 33% discount:

Don't forget there are also a range of web banners and a calculator to download for free to boost your online sales or drive more customers in-store, see the downloads box in My ActSmart.

Not yet a Ride it away or Take it outdoors retailer?

There are currently over 900 retailers offering finance through ActSmart's Ride it away and Take it outdoors retail finance scheme, accounting for £100m of sales last year.

If you aren't currently offering finance, you are missing out!

Ride it away and Take it outdoors is available to any cycles or outdoor recreation business who will benefit from:

  • Free V12 set-up worth £495
  • Personal support throughout the application and FCA authorisation process
  • No minimum finance turnover requirement
  • Payment issued by V12 same day and in your bank within 4 days
  • National promotion on the Ride it away and Take it outdoors consumer websites
  • Access to FCA compliant POS material
  • Access to web banners for use on your own website

What next?

Click here to find out more and request your free application pack, or contact us on 01273 427 700.

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