Start your onboarding with NetherStart Partners
One questionnaire covers the legal form, the people, the services you need and your timing. We read it and reply by the channel you choose. The form takes no payment, and our prices are given on request.
How it works
- Send the questionnaireYou describe the business, the people and the services; an undecided choice can wait for the conversation.No official time is published
- We review it and replyWe check what your legal form requires, may ask a follow-up, then send the scope of the work and our offer.No official time is published
- Documents, identification and the startIdentity documents by secure link. Sole proprietors and VOF partners register at the KVK themselves; a BV starts with a notary's deed.No official time is published
Send the questionnaire
Tell us about the business, the people behind it and the services you want. Where you have not decided something yet, say so: that choice can wait for the conversation.
We review it and reply
We check what the legal form you chose requires and may ask a follow-up question. Then we send you the scope of the work and our offer.
Documents, identification and the start
We ask for identity documents through a secure link. Sole proprietors and VOF partners then register at the KVK themselves, with our preparation; a BV starts with a notary's deed.
One questionnaire, read by our team before the first reply.
Enquiry
Your onboarding questionnaire
Required fields are marked. Sending the questionnaire places no order, and nothing is charged.
What we will need from you
These are the KVK's and the notary's requirements, not ours. We ask for the documents only after our first reply, through a secure link.
What the KVK or the notary asks for, by legal form, as their pages and the statutes stood in September and October 2026. Sources: KVK, registering a new business; KVK, registering an eenmanszaak; the KVK pages on valid proof of identity, the VOF and the BV; the Civil Code; the Notaries Act; the Trade Register Act 2007.
| Legal form | Who files or signs | Identity | Address | A founder who lives abroad |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak), freelancers included | The owner, online with their own DigiD, then at a KVK appointment; we prepare and accompany | A valid, unexpired passport, EEA identity card or Dutch residence document, never an emergency passport; a BSN and a DigiD | A Dutch visiting address; from abroad, a copy of the agreement for it, signed by both parties | The original population-register extract, no more than 2 months old, in Dutch, English, French or German or translated; legalised if the address is outside the EU |
| General partnership (VOF) | The partners, online, then at a KVK appointment | Valid, unexpired proof of identity for every partner who is a person, with a BSN and a DigiD each | A Dutch visiting address; the VOF contract brought to the appointment | The same extract rule for each partner who lives abroad |
| Private limited company (BV) | A civil-law notary draws up the deed and registers the BV, its directors and its UBOs | An identity document for every person who appears before the notary (Notaries Act, art. 39 lid 1); a written power of attorney for a founder who does not appear (Civil Code, art. 2:176 lid 1) | A Dutch business address, and a postal address where the KVK's letter with the KVK number arrives | Further documents are for the notary to request under the anti-money-laundering checks (Wwft) |
| Buying an existing BV (buyer-side assistance) | A civil-law notary executes the share transfer deed (Civil Code, art. 2:196) | An identity document for every person who appears before the notary (Notaries Act, art. 39 lid 1) | A new address is filed at the KVK within one week (Trade Register Act 2007, art. 20); a new name or seat needs an amendment of the articles by notarial deed (Civil Code, art. 2:234) | The notary decides on further documents; none is published as a requirement |
Privacy and security
Your answers go by email to info@starting-a-business-in-the-netherlands.com, with the context of your visit: IP address, city-level location, internet provider (network operator), browser, language, referring page, path through this site, visit number, time spent, device, screen and cookie state. Cloudflare hosts the site and runs the spam check; Resend delivers the email.
This page asks for no passport scan, no upload and no payment details. Identity documents come later, through a secure link, and any payment is made against our invoice on our payment page. Microsoft Clarity loads only after you accept analytics and masks what you type; Google Analytics sets no cookie before that. The Privacy Policy names every recipient.
Frequently asked questions before you send
Can you register my sole proprietorship for me?
No. The KVK states that only the owner can register an eenmanszaak, logging in with their own DigiD, and that an intermediary may help but cannot register it (KVK, checked on 8 October 2026). We prepare the file, check your documents and accompany you through the registration.
Does sending the questionnaire commit me to anything, or cost anything?
No. This form takes no payment, and sending it is a request, not an order. Our reply sets out the scope of the work and our offer, price included. If you decide to go ahead, any payment is made later, against our invoice, on our payment page.
Why can I not combine the business address with other services?
Our business address is a separate service: a client who takes it takes no other service from us. Dutch law (the Wet toezicht trustkantoren 2018) treats an address combined with certain other work for the same client as a licensed trust service, so we keep the two apart.
Do I send my documents now?
No. This page takes no upload. After our first reply we ask for identity documents through a secure link. The table above shows what the KVK or the notary asks for, by legal form, so our request comes as no surprise.
My legal form or service is not listed. Can I still send the form?
Yes. Choose the nearest option, or Not sure yet, and describe your plan in the message field; that is also the place for a service the list does not name. We read every questionnaire and reply, by the channel you chose, whether and how we can help.