What is a ZZP'er?

ZZP stands for zelfstandige zonder personeel — literally "independent without staff". A ZZP'er is a self-employed, one-person business: no employees, no boss, just the person doing the work billing you directly for it.

It's an extremely common status in the Dutch trades. Painters, plasterers, electricians, movers — the klusser who quotes you is very often a ZZP'er running their own one-person operation under their KvK registration, not an employee dispatched by a bigger firm.

What this means for you as a client

• You're dealing with the owner. There's no account manager layer — the person who quotes you is the person doing the work (or personally responsible for whoever is).
• Price reflects that directly. No corporate overhead on top of the trade rate, which is part of why independent klussers are often cheaper than a large contractor for small jobs.
• The same checks still apply. Being a ZZP'er doesn't exempt anyone from needing a KvK registration or AVB liability insurance — if anything, as a one-person business there's no company safety net behind them if something goes wrong, which makes the insurance check more important, not less.