Software developer for companies in the Netherlands and Belgium: wholesale, growers and verandas

If you run a company in the Netherlands or Belgium and you're looking for a software developer, chances are your office already works in English and you've worked with remote people before. That's where I fit: I build custom software, ordering portals, websites and 3D configurators, remotely from Buenos Aires.

Businesses in both countries tend to be direct and practical. They want to see something working early and decide based on that. That's how I work too, with progress you can open from a link starting in the first week. Here's where it pays off most.

Wholesalers and distributors: let customers order on their own

With ports like Rotterdam and Antwerp, trade and distribution run deep in the region. Plenty of mid-sized wholesalers still take orders by email, phone or spreadsheet, and someone in the office types them into the inventory system. Every typo is a wrong shipment.

A wholesale ordering portal gives each customer their own login, with their prices, their order history and a two-click reorder. If you also need warehouse and store stock to match, that's an inventory system for distributors. And so customers can check where their order is without emailing you, an order tracking page.

Growers, flowers and plants: a catalog that changes every week

Horticulture is one of the best-known Dutch industries: greenhouses, nurseries, flower and bulb growers selling to buyers across Europe. The usual headache is availability. It shifts constantly, and the PDF catalog is out of date the day it goes out.

A wholesale online store, or a catalog with availability you update from your own dashboard, takes care of most of that: buyers see what's in this week, in which sizes and minimum quantities, and send you the order. You upload photos and product details yourself, without waiting on anyone.

Verandas, patio covers and garden buildings

Lots of Dutch and Belgian gardens have a veranda or patio cover (overkapping), a carport or a timber garden house. The companies that make or install them sell to measure: width, depth, roof type, side panels, frame color. Every inquiry turns into a back-and-forth of measurements and photos.

With a 3D configurator, the buyer designs their veranda and sends you a complete order. I covered it in pergola and deck configurator and carport configurator for dealers. If you're weighing up hiring this kind of work from Europe, I wrote about hiring a remote 3D configurator developer from Europe on the Estructuras 3D blog.

Belgium and multilingual websites

Belgium has three official languages, Dutch, French and German, and a small business selling nationwide needs its site in more than one of them. I build the structure (each language as a complete version Google can index on its own) and write the English version if you need one; your team provides the Dutch and French copy. More on that in bilingual website for small business.

Where to start

Working with me remotely

The Netherlands and Belgium are 4 to 5 hours ahead of Argentina, depending on the time of year. When I start at 9 a.m. in Buenos Aires, it's 1 or 2 p.m. in Amsterdam or Brussels: we talk during your afternoon and I keep building after your office closes.

First a video call to understand the business, then a written proposal, then short deliveries you open from a link and approve before we move on. You send your catalog, pricing rules and how you work today; you get working software and a dashboard to run it. I explain the process in working with a remote developer.

Data protection, invoicing and accessibility fall under EU and national rules. Check with a professional in your country and I'll build the software around their advice.

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