Smart Design is a web design agency that builds websites and webshops for UK businesses: prices in pounds, payment methods British customers know, forms built with UK GDPR in mind and a .co.uk domain.
We are based in Haarlem, one hour ahead of London. Your working day and ours overlap almost completely, so you talk to us during normal office hours, with one dedicated contact and a fixed quote up front.
Custom-built in Laravel and Vue · English, Dutch and Arabic
British customers compare carefully: they want clear prices, quick delivery and a business they can check. A site that shows all of that earns trust.
Consumer prices in GBP including VAT, clear delivery charges and invoices your accountant can process straight away.
A fixed place for your registered company name, Companies House number and registered office, so customers see who they are dealing with.
A cookie banner with a genuine choice, as the ICO expects, a privacy notice and forms that only ask for what is necessary.
Debit and credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Klarna, plus Direct Debit for recurring payments.
Delivery rates for Royal Mail, DPD or Evri, next-day delivery as an option and a tracking link by email.
British English in copy and keywords, local pages per town or region and a fast site that performs well on mobile.
UK business owners considering an agency abroad often picture waiting for replies from another time zone. With the Netherlands that does not happen: the difference is one hour all year round, because both countries change their clocks on the same dates.
A 9.30 call in London is 10.30 for us. You send feedback in the morning and often see the change on the test site the same afternoon. You have one contact person who knows your project, and messages are answered within one business day.
How we work together:
London ↔ Haarlem
Since Brexit, UK clients often ask whether working with a Dutch agency is complicated. It is not. You receive a written quote and agreement in English, pay per milestone and get invoices in euro; your bank or payment service converts them to pounds. Your accountant will confirm how VAT is treated on your side.
Privacy is straightforward too. UK GDPR is closely aligned with the EU GDPR we work with every day, and the UK allows personal data to flow to the EEA, so hosting in Europe works well for a UK site. Have the legal wording itself checked by an adviser; we build websites and do not give legal advice.
Legal
✓ Company name and Companies House number
✓ Privacy notice linked
✓ Cookie banner: reject possible
Webshop
✓ Prices in GBP incl. VAT
✓ Returns and delivery terms
Have legal wording reviewed
In the UK most online payments are made with a debit card, more and more often through Apple Pay or Google Pay on a phone. PayPal and Klarna are popular for bigger purchases, and for subscriptions or regular services Direct Debit is the norm.
We connect your webshop to Stripe and PayPal, so all of those methods sit in one checkout and payouts arrive in pounds. Does your accountant use Xero or QuickBooks? Then we pass orders and invoices on automatically, so nobody has to retype figures.
A .co.uk or .uk address tells British customers straight away that you serve their market. We handle registration or transfer, DNS, SSL and business email.
London, Manchester and Birmingham are home to large Arabic-speaking communities. Do you also sell to them, or to visitors from the Gulf? Then we add an Arabic version with a true right-to-left layout.
British searchers type "optimise" and "colour", search by postcode area and check reviews first. We write and structure your site in British English, create pages per town or region where it makes sense, and make sure your Google Business Profile and website support each other.
On the technical side every site gets fast load times, structured data, a sitemap and submission to Google Search Console, so you can measure what works from day one.
Example searches
A standard website is usually live within 10 to 20 working days. A webshop with integrations gets its own schedule.
We discuss your business, your UK customers and what the site needs to achieve. You then get a fixed quote with a schedule.
You approve the design, we build on a test site and set up payments, delivery and the legal pages.
The site goes live, we submit it to Google and walk through the admin panel together. A three-month warranty follows.
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You get custom work in Laravel and Vue, your own admin panel and one dedicated contact, with only a one-hour time difference. And if you also serve Arabic-speaking customers, we can discuss and build in that language.
No. The Netherlands is one hour ahead of the UK all year. We meet during your office hours and answer messages within one business day.
Our invoices are in euro and your bank or payment service converts them. Your own webshop, of course, sells in pounds and receives payouts in GBP.
We build the technical side along UK GDPR principles and the cookie rules: a genuine cookie choice, no tracking before consent and lean forms. Have the legal texts checked by an adviser.
You do. The .co.uk domain is registered in your name and you get access to the source code. There is no mandatory maintenance contract.
You get a three-month warranty on bugs and daily backups. After that you can choose ongoing maintenance and development, or help on request.
That depends on the number of pages, languages and integrations. After a short video call you receive a fixed quote with no hidden costs.
Tell us about your business and your plans. You will get a personal reply within one business day, in English, Dutch or Arabic.
