




Under Article 5 of the Dutch quality requirements decree for guardians, protective administrators and mentors (Besluit kwaliteitseisen curatoren, beschermingsbewindvoerders en mentoren), you must be reachable by phone at least four working days a week. If a client contacts you in another way, they receive a response within two working days. Outside working days you are reachable for emergencies. With RippleCom, calls, WhatsApp and SMS come together on your office number, so no message gets lost. Read more about the legal reachability requirements.
Yes, if it is set up for business use. With a private phone or the free WhatsApp Business app, conversations are stored on an employee's device, without a data processing agreement. RippleCom works through the official WhatsApp Business API on your office number, with a data processing agreement and storage within the EU.
Every WhatsApp message arrives in your mailbox, just like an email. You reply from your email and your client receives the answer via WhatsApp. Email stays your record, and every contact is documented for your annual account to the court. See how WhatsApp and email work together in financial administration.
Yes. Many clients who find reading and writing difficult can still use WhatsApp. Writing an email is a barrier for them, a short WhatsApp message is not. More than 12 million people in the Netherlands aged 15 and over use WhatsApp every day (Newcom, National Social Media Survey 2026).
Yes. Your client sends a message to the office number and the request arrives in your mailbox, including the amount and the reason. You handle it the way you always do, and your client receives the answer via WhatsApp.
No. You keep your office number, your mailbox and your administration software. RippleCom adds WhatsApp and SMS to the number your clients already know, and your team simply keeps working from their mailbox.
RippleCom works through your mailbox, so you can start without connecting it to your software. If you want messages to appear directly in your software, we will look together at which integration is possible.
All messages run through your office number. Employees no longer use their own phones for clients. During illness or holidays a colleague takes over the conversation, because the whole team sees the same messages.