Nowhere do two countries run into each other the way they do here. Business owners in Baarle deal with it every day: customers from both countries, two VAT systems and two ways of doing business. Your website should solve that instead of ignoring it.
Fifteen minutes from Weelde. I work for Dutch and Belgian businesses and invoice both.
In Baarle you sell to two markets almost automatically. Yet most sites only reflect one of the two: Dutch prices including VAT next to Belgian prices excluding it, or opening hours that are wrong on a Belgian public holiday.
That can be solved with clear choices on the site. Separate your audiences where needed and combine them where you can, and you save time and questions.
I work for Dutch and Belgian businesses. I invoice Dutch companies with VAT reverse-charged.
Fifteen minutes' drive from Weelde. Not an agency from Eindhoven or Antwerp that doesn't know the area.
Flemish or Netherlands Dutch, depending on who you want to reach. The difference is small on paper and big in how it reads.
Yes. I am based in Belgium and invoice Dutch companies with VAT reverse-charged, so you account for the VAT in the Netherlands.
Rarely. Usually one site is enough, with a page per market where the difference really matters, such as prices and delivery.
Gladly. It's fifteen minutes' drive, so coming by is no trouble.
Half an hour in Baarle. We look at which of your two markets brings in the most and what your site is missing for it.
