INITIAL STEPS TO MARKET OPENING FOR WEBSHOPS
Our company Ronexus is a partner for Hungarian webshops entering the Romanian market.
Here are the important initial steps to get started in the Romanian market:
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Contracting with a local partner - The first and most important step is to find a partner who is familiar with local regulations, bureaucracy, and consumer culture, and who can smoothly guide the processes. We offer this to our clients as follows:
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Localizing the webshop - It's not enough to just translate, as Romanian customers will sense the artificial, template-like taste of translation. To ensure 100% success, it's worth using the language that locally-owned webshops use, and a specialist translator can do it right.
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Providing a Romanian phone number - Romanians love to call, chat, which is not surprising coming from a Latin people. A Romanian customer service representative will have much more to do compared to a Hungarian one. Therefore, we pay special attention to:
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Selecting and supervising the customer service representative - This is crucial as they must speak Romanian and Hungarian perfectly. It is important to know, that only a very small percentage of Hungarian Romanians speak Romanian at a native level, and having a customer service representative struggling with accents is a sure way to lose customers.
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Ensuring low shipping rates - Our company offers fleet rates to its partners, starting from 2.80 eurocents per package between Hungary and Romania.
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We help you open a Romanian bank account - A foreign company can only open a bank account in Romania if it has a registered address in Romania or a contract with a local company.
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We provide tax guidance - For the beginning the OSS system can be convenient, allowing for billing with the destination country's VAT among EU member states, which in this case is 19%. Above a certain turnover, it is worth setting up a Romanian company, which will gain the confidence of customers even more, and in this case the entrepreneur will also benefit from lower Romanian corporate tax (1%) and dividend tax (8%).
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We assist in marketing - Marketing can be run by having us continuously translate Hungarian marketing texts, and posting them. Or by recommending a local marketing company and working with them.
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And most importantly, we are still an ongoing partner:
The local partner company is essential for achieving 100% success. We will organize and solve the above first steps in a professional manner as quickly as possible for you. Just as Hungarian businesses constantly have things to handle, issues to solve, the same applies abroad. As a partner company, we handle and manage these situations according to your company policy.
For example:
- We handle returns, lost or misdirected packages together with the customer service representative.
- We continuously consult with the Hungarian company, providing suggestions and ideas to overcome evolving market situations.
- The customer service colleague is employed by the partner company, i.e. by us, so you don't have to worry about payment distribution, leaves, or finding new staff.
- We represent you in any other administrative or official matter or in any request from public authorities.
For further questions, we are at your disposal:
Zoltán Baki
HU: +36 70 294 2941
RO: +40 741 245 460