# Netherlands

What you need to send to Netherlands on each channel: what is asked for, who files it, how long it takes and what happens if your sender isn't approved.

**Language:** en
**Audience:** platform
**Translation key:** platform.channels.countries.netherlands
**Search keywords:** Netherlands registration, send sms to Netherlands, Netherlands requirements, Netherlands rcs, sender Netherlands, Netherlands, NL, +31
**Docs index (every page):** https://docs.instasent.com/llms.txt
**This zone's index:** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/llms.txt
**This page:** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/channels/countries/netherlands/ (HTML) · https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/channels/countries/netherlands.md (Markdown)
**Other language (es):** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/es/channels/countries/netherlands.md

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## What this country needs

### SMS

- **Your sender** — Your alphanumeric sender is accepted as it is.
- No registration needed — creating the sender is enough.

### RCS

- **What they ask for** — Email to the operator
- **Who acts** — You send the email to the operator yourself.
- **Have this ready** — A named brand contact with a corporate email address; The logo and banner we provide, to attach to the email
- **Without an approved registration** — Nothing is sent to this country until the registration is approved.

The Netherlands requires a **proactive brand authorisation**: you send the email, not us.
Availability is partial and can vary by operator.

Once the request is ready we give you the recipients, the current template, the agent identifier
and the attachments. **Don't send anything before we tell you to.**

The operator may later ask for an additional signed document. If that happens, we provide the
current template and the instructions.

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