How do I sell into the EU from the UK after Brexit?
Post-Brexit EU VAT schemes, customs paperwork, an EU 3PL and multiple currencies each add their own admin, and together they turn EU sales into a drag that spreadsheets were never built to carry. What you need is a back office that handles VAT schemes, landed cost and multi-currency without someone reconciling it all by hand. We build the system; we are not tax advisers, so the scheme decisions stay with your accountant.
Why selling into the EU is not the same problem as the UK
VAT stopped being simple after Brexit
IOSS, OSS, distance-selling thresholds and country-specific registration all now sit between a UK seller and an EU customer, and getting the scheme wrong is expensive to unwind.
Customs is a new line item, every order
Duties, customs declarations and paperwork that never existed pre-Brexit are now part of every EU order, and a spreadsheet was never built to track it per shipment.
An EU 3PL means a second set of stock rules
Fulfilling from an EU warehouse to cut delivery times and customs friction means a second location, a second stock feed and a second set of numbers to keep straight.
Multiple currencies blur the real margin
Selling in EUR alongside GBP means FX movement between the sale and the payout, and a Shopify-plus-spreadsheet stack rarely tracks that cleanly enough to trust the numbers.
EU VAT, landed cost and currency, handled by the system.
Your chosen VAT scheme is applied correctly at the point of sale, landed cost including duty is tracked per order rather than estimated, and each sale is booked and reconciled in the currency it was actually made in. EU trade becomes a configured part of your operation, not a manual exception process run alongside it.
We build the system; the Netherlands is a market we already serve
We build your accounting and fulfilment on Odoo, the open-source commerce ERP, with EU VAT treatment, multi-currency and landed cost configured against your chosen schemes. This is not a market we are guessing at: the Netherlands is a served market for us, and we run production systems there, including an EDI pipeline processing thousands of invoices a day, which is the same reconciliation discipline EU trade needs at any real volume.
We are not a tax adviser and will not tell you which VAT scheme to register under, that decision sits with your accountant, but once it is made, the system applies it correctly, every time, without someone checking it by hand.
See how the pieces fit
Odoo for Netherlands/EU ecommerce
How we handle EU VAT, e-invoicing and marketplaces like bol.com as a served market.
Multi-currency ecommerce accounting
How multi-currency sales get booked and reconciled correctly, in the currency they were sold in.
Packaged commerce build
One system for your operation, from £20,000, live in 8 to 10 weeks.
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