Freelancers
You invoice, you have costs and you file VAT every quarter. That's all you need, and that's all you get.
Bookkeeping in the Netherlands — in five languages
Your books in order. In your own language.
Dutch accounting software for entrepreneurs who keep their own books. Invoices, receipts, bank and VAT — and it isn't only the buttons that speak your language, but your ledger, your invoices, your email and the help you get.
Free plan, permanentlyNo payment method neededCancel monthly
Ledger accountAmount
Omzet uit dienstverlening (8000)€ 4.250,00
Revenue from services (8000)€ 4.250,00
Przychody z usług (8000)€ 4.250,00
Szolgáltatásból származó árbevétel (8000)€ 4.250,00
Venituri din prestări servicii (8000)€ 4.250,00
- Dutch RGS chart of accounts
- VAT boxes as the tax office asks for them
- XAF audit file
- MT940 and CAMT
- Peppol e-invoices
- iDEAL and SEPA direct debit
Bookkeeping in the Netherlands — in five languages
What is it?
Booxx is a Dutch accounting package for freelancers and small limited companies that works fully in five languages: Dutch, English, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian. Fully means more than the screens: your ledger accounts, your outgoing invoices, the app's emails and the assistant are translated too. You create and send invoices, process purchase invoices and receipts, import bank statements and prepare your VAT return under Dutch rules — RGS chart of accounts, VAT boxes, EU sales list and audit file. The free plan costs nothing and allows five invoices a month; €19 a month gets you everything. It is built for entrepreneurs who keep their own books, and in particular for Polish, Hungarian and Romanian business owners in the Netherlands, for whom the Dutch language of bookkeeping is the real obstacle. Several sets of books run under one login and stay strictly separate; an accounting practice runs them from a single work list. It all works on your phone, as a web app on your home screen.
From nothing to books that balance
No implementation project and no sales call. Three steps, and you're keeping up with the quarter you're in.
Set up your books
Pick your legal form and your start date, and you get a complete Dutch chart of accounts in your own language. Coming from another package? Import its audit file and your opening balance is already there.
Let the work come in
You send invoices from the app. Purchase invoices you forward to your own inbox address; supplier, amount and VAT are read out of them. Your bank connects automatically, or you upload the statement.
Close your quarter
Your VAT worksheet is ready with the boxes exactly as the Dutch tax office asks for them. You check it, file it, and the period locks — with a balance sheet, profit and loss and audit file underneath.
What you do with it
Everything a Dutch set of books needs, in one package. Not an invoicing tool that ends with "export it for your accountant".
Create and send invoices
Clean invoices in your customer's language, with VAT that adds up — including reverse charge, EU supplies and the small business scheme. You see straight away who hasn't paid, and reminders go out by themselves.
- Invoice language per customer, independent of yours
- PDF with a payment QR code, or a Peppol e-invoice
- "Paid" follows from the reconciliation, not from a checkbox
Receipts and purchase invoices
Forward your purchase invoices to your own inbox address, or drag them in. The supplier, the amount, the VAT and the invoice date are read out and the entry is waiting for you. Correct something once and it remembers that for that supplier.
- Your own email address per set of books
- PDFs and photos of till receipts
- Recognised suppliers post themselves
Import and reconcile your bank
Connect your bank, or upload your statement as an MT940 or CAMT file. Payments that belong to an invoice get matched by themselves; recurring debits are posted using the rule you set up once.
- Automatic connection or file upload
- Customer and supplier payments reconcile themselves
- SEPA batch to pay your suppliers in one go
VAT return prepared
Every quarter your worksheet is ready with boxes 1a through 5b exactly as the Dutch tax office asks for them. You click through to the entries behind every amount, so you never file anything you haven't seen. EU sales list and corrections included.
- Boxes with the entries underneath them
- EU sales list for supplies within the EU
- Supplementary return when something needs correcting
Real bookkeeping underneath
Double-entry bookkeeping on an RGS chart of accounts: balance sheet, profit and loss, ledger cards, aged debtors, fixed assets and annual accounts. Plus the audit file (XAF) your accountant or the tax office will ask for.
- Balance sheet and profit & loss, current at any moment
- Year-end close and annual accounts
- XAF audit file in and out
Five languages, down to the ledger
For most packages, multilingual means the menus. The moment you reach your ledger accounts — where a wrong choice skews your return — you are back in Dutch.
| Languages of the application | Of which the ledger too | |
|---|---|---|
| Moneybird | 3 | 0 |
| Jortt | 1 | 0 |
| e-Boekhouden.nl | 1 | 0 |
| Here | 5 | 5 |
- Languages of the application
- Of which the ledger too
On your phone
On your phone as well
No separate app from a store, and no stripped-down mobile version. The same application, fitted to your screen.
You open the site on your phone and add it to your home screen — on an iPhone through Share, on Android through your browser's menu. After that it sits among your other apps as an icon and opens without an address bar. What you get is not a smaller version with fewer options: it is the same application with the same bookkeeping underneath. A navigation bar appears at the bottom, tables turn into cards, and forms go from two columns to one. If your connection drops, whatever you already had open stays readable instead of turning into an error page.
- On your home screen without an app store
- Photograph a receipt and mail it in from your phone
- Stays readable when the connection drops
Not just the buttons — the whole application
Translated accounting software usually means the menus are in your language and nothing else is. The moment you do something that matters, you're back in Dutch.
| Item | Usually | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Menus and screens | Translated | Translated |
| Your ledger accounts | Dutch | In your language |
| The invoice your customer receives | Dutch or English | In your customer's language |
| The email the app sends | Dutch | In the recipient's language |
| The explanation of a VAT box | Dutch | In your language |
| An answer about your own figures | Dutch | In your language |
That is why it works for someone who doesn't speak the Dutch language of bookkeeping. It isn't about the number of languages — it's about how deep the translation goes. A ledger account called "Vooruitontvangen bedragen" isn't a button you press wrong once; it's the reason your entry lands in the wrong place and your return doesn't add up.
Who it is for
For the business owner who keeps their own books — and for the practice that keeps them on their behalf.
Entrepreneurs who don't read Dutch
Polish, Hungarian, Romanian or English — the whole set of books is in your language, including the terms where things go wrong.
Small limited companies
Director's current account, fixed assets, year-end close and annual accounts. Several sets of books under one login.
Seasonal businesses
If your business is quiet for a few months, park the books at €4 a month: see everything, post nothing, and still meet the retention requirement.
Accounting practices
All your client books in one work list, sorted by what is most urgent. Your client works alongside you in the same environment, in their own language.
What it costs
Per set of books, per month, excluding VAT. Cancel any month.
Free
€0 per month
Permanently free, no payment method
- Up to 5 sales invoices a month
- Purchase inbox and receipts
- Customers and suppliers
- Manual bank entry
- Balance sheet, profit & loss, audit file
- All five languages
Standard
€19 per month
Everything included
- Unlimited invoicing, Peppol included
- VAT return, EU sales list and corrections
- Automatic bank connection and SEPA batch
- Payroll journal and fixed assets
- Year-end close and annual accounts
- Automatic reminders
Pause
€4 per month
For books that are dormant
- View and export everything
- Post nothing
- For seasonal work or a business that stopped
- Meets the retention requirement
- Switch back on at any moment
Next to the other packages
Moneybird, Jortt and e-Boekhouden.nl are good packages — for people who read Dutch. Here's what the difference is per package, and when you're better off there.
Next to Moneybird
The most widely used package for freelancers, strong on ease of use. Interface in Dutch, English and German; the price scales with your transaction volume.
CompareNext to Jortt
Strong on automatic posting and tax reporting, including help with income tax. Fully Dutch-language; an entry cap on the freelancer plan.
CompareNext to e-Boekhouden.nl
The cheapest of the three and the most complete on the bookkeeping side. Dutch-language; English support is limited.
CompareFrequently asked questions
Can I use it for free?
Yes. The free plan is permanently free and allows five sales invoices a month, along with the purchase inbox, your contacts, manual bank entry and the balance sheet, profit and loss and audit file reports. No payment method is requested as long as you're on the free plan.
Can I do my Dutch VAT return with this?
Your return is calculated here using the Dutch boxes, including the EU sales list for supplies within the EU and supplementary returns for corrections. You file it yourself through Mijn Belastingdienst Zakelijk. VAT support is part of the Standard plan at €19 a month.
Do I need an accountant?
Not necessarily — this is built for entrepreneurs who do it themselves. If you do want guidance later, an affiliated bookkeeping firm can take over your books; you grant that access explicitly, and you can withdraw it.
Can I bring my old bookkeeping across?
Yes. You import the audit file (XAF) from your previous package, including your chart of accounts and your open items. Almost every Dutch accounting package can produce that file, and they are legally required to be able to.
I work seasonally. Do I pay in the quiet months too?
No. That's what the Pause plan is for: €4 a month, which lets you view and export everything but post nothing. That way you meet the seven-year retention requirement without paying the full price, and you switch it back on whenever you like.
Where is my data stored?
On servers inside the European Union. You can export your entire set of books as an audit file at any time — including when you leave. There is no export lock on your own figures.
Can an accounting practice use this for its clients?
Yes. A practice gets its own environment with every client's books in one work list, sorted by urgency: the VAT deadline for the last closed period, the number of bank lines still to be matched, the documents waiting to be validated, and the reconciliation checks showing red. You enter a client with your own login — no shared passwords, every action carries a name — and you set per staff member which clients they see. The chart of accounts, the journals and the VAT codes are configured once at practice level; every new client starts from those, and a client who needs something of their own deviates without the rest shifting along. Meanwhile your client keeps access to their own books and works there in their own language.
Is there an app for my phone?
Yes, as a web app. You open the site on your phone and add it to your home screen; after that it sits among your other apps and opens without an address bar. There is no separate, stripped-down mobile version: it is the same application with the same bookkeeping underneath, with a navigation bar at the bottom, tables that turn into cards, and forms in a single column. Whatever you already had open stays readable if your connection drops. Nothing has to be fetched from an app store and there is no separate version to keep updated.
Start with the quarter you're in right now
Create a set of books, send your first invoice and see whether it works for you. The free plan asks for no payment method, so there is nothing to cancel later.
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