Bocholt sits in the western Münsterland right on the Dutch border; the Achterhoek begins just beyond the town boundary. The town grew with the textile industry; today mechanical engineering and drive technology, retail, logistics and services also shape the economy, and a university of applied sciences has a campus here. In everyday life the border is barely noticeable: Dutch shoppers come to the town centre, employees commute in both directions, firms deliver to both sides as a matter of course. For a company's digital presence this leads to a simple expectation — a business based in Bocholt has to work online in two languages and two markets without maintaining two systems.
This location changes what a website has to do. A Bocholt manufacturer supplying dealers in the Achterhoek and Gelderland needs Dutch product pages that appear in Dutch search results — with their own domain or directory and hreflang tags, so the language versions do not compete with each other. A retailer with customers from both sides needs prices, delivery terms and legal texts per country; the latter you clarify with your legal advisers, and we implement them technically. All of this works best in one system with clearly separated markets rather than in two sites maintained in parallel.
Shopware 6 is designed for this case: one catalogue, several sales channels, each with its own language, domain, payment methods, shipping and tax rules. On that basis we build B2C shops for customers from both countries and B2B portals with customer prices, order approvals and an ERP link for companies in Bocholt. What happens afterwards matters just as much. Every additional sales channel is one more checkpoint for updates, so in maintenance we test each channel individually on a staging copy before an update goes live. Add security patches, plugin upkeep and monitoring of imports and logs. The framework is a maintenance contract with an SLA and a response time of 24, 8, 4 or 2 hours.
For company websites, associations and institutions in Bocholt we use TYPO3 when structure counts: many pages, several editors, German and Dutch on an equal footing in one installation. If you are also recruiting across the border, you get a Dutch careers page that carries the same job ads in a second language version. We move older TYPO3 versions to v14 LTS along a planned upgrade path, matched to your extensions and custom code and tested alongside the live system. In maintenance we assess security bulletins, apply patches via staging, keep PHP current and check that backups can actually be restored. After each cycle you get a short report: done, should be done, can wait.
Bocholt is about 2 hours 30 minutes from Oldenburg. That is why we plan on-site meetings deliberately: a kick-off at the start, workshops when shop structure or site concept are worked out together, and the sign-off — each by arrangement. Everything else runs remotely: development and maintenance in Oldenburg, check-ins by video, tasks in the ticket system, interim builds on a staging environment. We host your shops and websites on our own Proxmox servers in the Hetzner data centre in Falkenstein, Germany. By phone you can reach us Monday to Thursday, 9:00 to 16:00, and Friday, 9:00 to 13:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0.