Online management of BV’s for professionals

When you create an account through Firm24 Premium, have completed the intake interview and set up a BV through Firm24 Premium, you will obtain access to the leads. In your dashboard you will see how many 'lead fees' you have received for the services purchased through Firm24 Premium. If you have not yet purchased a service such as setting up a BV or foundation, you will only be able to purchase leads.

As an advisor, you can easily submit the application through Firm24 Premium. When you arrive at the Firm24 Premium page, choose 'Incorporate BV’. Subsequently, you will enter a new screen where the incorporation funnel starts. In this funnel, all necessary questions for the incorporation of the BV will be asked.

Clients residing in the Netherlands can use our online identification tool. Clients not residing in the Netherlands are requested to go to the office of Firm24 or one of our notary offices. After the BV has been paid, all founders of the BV or the foundation can identify themselves digitally if they live in the Netherlands. This is done through the Onfido application, which is also used by Dutch major banks to meet their WWFT obligations. The power of attorney can also be signed digitally using the SignRequest programme. Digital identification via Onfido works as follows. The identification can be done via a smartphone or laptop. Your client scans his or her proof of identity and this document is checked by Onfido for characteristics such as validity and document number. Next, the person needs to be linked to the proof of identity. This is done by taking a selfie and a liveness photo (a photo of several sides of the face). Finally, each founder makes a transfer from his or her personal bank account of €0.01 to Firm24. Because the founder is already identified by the bank in connection with its WWFT obligations, there is an extended WWFT verification.

Yes, you certainly can. As you may have already read or seen on our website, Firm24 Premium nowadays allows you to set up a BV completely digitally. The identification and signing of the power of attorney is also done digitally. Therefore, as a founder or advisor, you no longer need to leave your home or office to set up a BV or foundation.

Once a BV has been applied for, the BV will appear in your dashboard. You will then see which steps still need to be taken until the incorporation is completed. After the incorporation, the BV remains in the dashboard. When you click on the BV, you will enter a new screen. This is the environment of the digital shareholders register. Here you can see, for example, who the current shareholders and directors are, how many shares the shareholders hold and you can request new changes. Whenever a change is made by the notary, this will also be done via this digital shareholders register. The amendment is immediately visible in the digital register of shareholders. If you have any further questions on the digital register of shareholders, please do not hesitate to contact us.

An overview of our notaries can be found at: our locations

As an advisor registered with Firm24 Premium you have a choice. You can either contact Firm24 Premium directly or contact the notary directly. Please note that the latter option of course only applies to notarial matters and questions. If there are any problems with the Firm24 Premium software for example, please call us and not the notary. The notary can not help you in such cases.