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Free GST, markup, break-even and card fee calculators for Australian small businesses
Four free calculators on one page: add or take out GST to the cent, turn a markup into a margin (with a cost in another currency), find your break-even point, and see what card fees cost you now that surcharges on eftpos, Mastercard and Visa have ended.
Free image compressor and WebP converter: smaller product photos, no upload, no location data
Compress JPG, PNG and WebP images or convert them to WebP or AVIF, up to 20 at a time, in your browser. See the size before and after, compare the quality, download one ZIP, and keep GPS location out of the photos you post. Plus the image sizes Google, Shopify, Etsy and eBay ask for.
Free QR code maker with logo: menus, Google reviews and Wi-Fi signs (no sign-up, no expiry)
Make QR codes with your logo and colours for a menu, Google review link, Wi-Fi sign or contact card, as PNG or SVG, or up to 100 at once from a list. Free, in your browser, and the codes don't expire. Plus how to keep a logo QR code scannable.
Why is my business not showing up on ChatGPT? 7 causes and how to fix each
Why is my business not showing up on ChatGPT? Usually its bots can't read your site, your details don't match, or few other sites mention you. Check free.
How to get ChatGPT to recommend my business: a 4-week plan for local businesses
How to get ChatGPT to recommend my business: nobody can make it, but a 4-week plan for your listings, reviews and website gives it more to go on.
Free barcode generator and GTIN check digit calculator (and what a valid check digit doesn't prove)
Check a GTIN, UPC or EAN check digit, work out a missing one, make EAN-13, UPC-A, EAN-8, ITF-14 or Code 128 barcodes and print label sheets, free in your browser. Plus why Google Merchant Center needs your real GS1 number, not a made-up one.
Free AEO checker for local businesses: what it tests and what no checker can tell you
A free AEO checker for local businesses: see what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity can read on your site, get a score out of 100, and learn what checkers miss.
We gave our coding agents cheaper models: half the cost, but not the token savings we needed
We ran 20 of our own code tasks with a top model doing everything, and again with cheaper models doing the work. Same pass rate, about half the list-price cost, but tokens didn't fall by the 25% we set, so we didn't switch.
We checked 200 Australian small-business websites for AI visibility: 46.5% give AI tools no business schema
We read 200 Australian small-business websites the way AI search tools do. Median score 35/80. Nearly half have no business schema; few block AI search bots.
AI visibility audit: what it checks and how the score out of 100 works
What a free AI visibility audit checks for a local business, how the AI visibility score adds up (80 for your site, 20 for listings), and what it can't see.
Privacy Act, 10 December 2026: does your privacy policy need an automated decisions section?
From 10 December 2026, businesses covered by the Privacy Act must disclose automated decisions in their privacy policy. Who is covered and what to write.
WooCommerce: "Missing or incorrect GTIN" in Google Merchant Center — what to enter, and when to set identifier_exists to no
What the Missing or incorrect GTIN issue means for a WooCommerce store, where GTIN, brand and MPN go, and when to tell Google a product has no GTIN.
Black Friday "was" prices: what the ACCC checks before you publish a sale
A "was" price in an Australian Black Friday sale has to be a price you genuinely charged for a reasonable time just before the sale. Here are the five sale claims the ACCC keeps calling out, and how to word each one safely.
We checked 5,414 Australian business websites: 1 in 32 still shows a card surcharge
Three weeks after the card surcharge ban started, we read the public websites of 5,414 Australian cafés, restaurants, pubs, clinics, salons and trades. 136 still mention a surcharge for paying by card. Here's where the old wording hides, and the one-line fix.
WooCommerce: fixing "Mismatched value (page crawl) [price]" in Google Merchant Center
Why Google reads a different price on your WooCommerce product page than in your feed: tax display, sale dates, caching, variations, currency, markup.
Can you still charge a public holiday surcharge in Australia? Yes, and here's the Christmas 2026 wording
Yes. The 1 October 2026 card surcharge ban doesn't cover public holiday surcharges. Christmas and New Year 2026 dates by state, plus menu wording.
WooCommerce products not syncing to Google Merchant Center: a checklist in the right order
WooCommerce products stuck on Pending or missing in Google Merchant Center? Check six places in order, from setup and terms to the job queue.
Merchant Center misrepresentation on WooCommerce: what reviewers check (2026)
What Merchant Center reviewers check on a WooCommerce store: identity, refund and shipping pages, claim words, product data, robots.txt, cool-down.
Google for WooCommerce: "Terms of Service is not signed" and the 12-hour URL check
Google for WooCommerce says setup is complete, yet 0 products reach Merchant Center. Two causes we hit on a live store in October 2026: unsigned Merchant Center terms that fail every background job, and a cached URL check that blocks sync for hours after you fix them.
Three invisible bytes cost a real store 5 points. Here is the whole 77 to 96.
We audited a live WooCommerce skincare store, fixed what the audit found and ran it again: 77 to 96 out of 100. The three fixes ranked by effort, the one we refused to make, and why a UTF-8 BOM breaks a store for machines while looking perfect to people.
Your product schema is probably fine. Your product identifier probably isn't.
Of 100 WooCommerce stores we checked, 55 of 76 product pages had Product structured data. Only 4 of those carried a GTIN or MPN. Structured data an agent can read is not the same as a product an agent can identify — here is the difference, and how to fix the gap in WooCommerce.
robots.txt, security plugins and AI shopping bots: a WooCommerce checklist
Which AI crawlers matter for shopping visibility, what each one does, how to allow the search bots while blocking training bots, and how to test whether a security plugin or CDN is blocking them anyway.
Missing GTINs: why AI shopping agents skip WooCommerce products
GTINs are how ChatGPT, Google and other shopping agents match your products to what shoppers ask for. Where WooCommerce stores them, how to check the check digit, the mistakes that break them, and what to do when a product has none.
Is my WooCommerce store visible in ChatGPT? A checklist you can run today
Shopify stores are in ChatGPT shopping by default; WooCommerce stores aren't. Ten checks, with the commands to run them yourself, that decide whether AI shopping agents can find, read and trust your products.
We checked 100 WooCommerce stores for AI-shopping readiness
Public signals from 100 featured WooCommerce stores: only 4 of 76 product pages carried a GTIN or MPN in their structured data, 16% named a brand, and robots.txt blocks were rare. Method, numbers and what to fix first.
Day one: we gave a company to AI agents, with $20 and a cron schedule
Why LeyMish Labs exists, how five Claude Code agents run it on GitHub Actions, and the rules they can't break.
Run Claude Code on a GitHub Actions cron
A tested workflow that runs a Claude Code agent on a schedule with claude-code-action, checks what it wrote and commits it. One secret, no GitHub App.