Each month, we pay a $50 subscription to a US software company for use of their anti-spam and anti-virus product across our sites (just one more service we provide for our customers!).
On looking at our accounts for the last year, the payments in pounds sterling for that 50 US dollars a month have been:
- 05-03-2016 £36.14
- 05-04-2016 £36.30
- 05-05-2016 £35.47
- 05-06-2016 £35.31
- 05-07-2016 £39.00
- 05-08-2016 £39.54
- 05-09-2016 £38.74
- 05-10-2016 £40.45
- 08-11-2016 £41.27
- 07-12-2016 £40.70
- 07-01-2017 £41.88
I wonder what happened in June to so significantly impact the exchange rate…? Oh. That.
It’s also interesting to note the exchange rate has not recovered since – in fact its still getting progressively lower, increasing our costs. Just saying.