Create and sell online courses in the Netherlands

What creators sell here

The Netherlands is a highly digital, entrepreneurial market where buyers expect efficient, no-nonsense courses and the local payment methods they use every day.

The Netherlands has one of Europe's highest rates of self-employment, so entrepreneurship, freelancing (the ZZP economy), and small-business courses sell strongly, alongside digital-marketing, e-commerce, and web-development courses that power online ventures. Finance and investing courses are popular with a financially literate, internationally minded population, and English-language and other language courses serve a country where multilingualism is the norm. Sustainability, energy, and circular-economy courses reflect Dutch priorities, and wellbeing, fitness, and personal-development courses enjoy a loyal audience. Creative categories like design and photography perform well. Dutch buyers are pragmatic and value-conscious: they prefer clear, efficient sales pages, expect Euro pricing, and overwhelmingly transact with the local methods they use daily, so a checkout that accepts those is decisive. Many are comfortable in English, but Dutch-language content signals genuine local commitment and converts better. Coursify.me lets you publish in Dutch, price in Euros, and accept the payment methods Dutch students expect, so enrolment is fast and friction-free. The Netherlands' enormous ZZP freelance population means a huge share of buyers are effectively running their own one-person business, so courses that combine a marketable skill with the practicals of Dutch self-employment — invoicing, the BTW, finding clients — convert especially well. The Dutch are famously direct and value-conscious, so they reward clear, honest sales pages that state exactly what a course delivers and skip the inflated promises. High English fluency means Dutch buyers can consume English content, but Dutch-language courses signal genuine local relevance and reduce friction for less confident speakers. Sustainability and logistics expertise reflect national strengths and create distinctive niches. A branded school with Euro pricing and the local payment methods Dutch buyers use every day removes the last hesitation for an audience that decides quickly when the value is obvious.