Run your business from an Estonian OÜ. Keep more of what you earn.
Tax-efficient, EU-resident, fully remote. We set up your company, open your bank account, and handle ongoing compliance — so you can focus on the work.
Setup from €500 · No long-term contracts · Cancel anytime
Certificate of registration
Osaühing · OÜ
Registry code · 14XXXXXX
Issued · Tallinn
Which of these is you?
You bill clients and want a clean EU entity
- — Stop juggling personal-tax invoicing across countries
- — Get a real business bank with SEPA + Stripe
- — Retain profit at 0% until you pay yourself
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Indie SaaS / digitalYou sell software, you need credibility and Stripe
- — EU-domiciled invoicing your customers recognize
- — Reinvest profits tax-deferred
- — VAT-MOSS handled by your accountant, not you
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Small agencyYou're a 2–8 person team running online services
- — Pay contractors across borders without HQ-country drama
- — Keep operations remote-first by design
- — Predictable monthly compliance cost
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How it works, end-to-end
- Day 0
Step 1
Take the eligibility quiz
Five honest questions. We tell you if OÜ is a fit — including when it isn't.
- Day 1–3
Step 2
We register your OÜ
You sign digitally. We handle the registry. Your company is live before the week is out.
- Week 1
Step 3
We open your bank account + set up accounting
LHV, Wise, or Revolut depending on your profile. Accountant onboarded the same week.
- Forever
Step 4
You run your business; we handle compliance
Monthly reporting, annual filings, VAT — all included. You get back to the work.
~45 min
Your time
7 days
Our turnaround
1 BD reply
Avg support reply
0 trips
Trips to Estonia
Every Estonian company needs a contact person — and it can't be you
If your management board lives outside Estonia, the law requires a licensed contact person inside Estonia to receive legal notices on your company's behalf. Delivery to them counts as delivery to the company — it's how Estonian courts and authorities reach a foreign-run company.
Sourcing one yourself runs €200–400 a year, every year — on top of a separate legal address and an accountant. Let the arrangement lapse and your company can be struck off the register.
- ✓ A notary
- ✓ An advocate or law office
- ✓ A sworn auditor
- ✓ An FIU-licensed service provider
Not you. Not a friend in Tallinn.
With Nomad Entity, your licensed contact person, legal address, and accounting are one package.
What you actually pay
€500
one-time setup
€99
/ month
- ✓ Estonian OÜ registration + registry fees
- ✓ Legal address + contact person
- ✓ Bank account opening support (LHV / Wise / Revolut)
- ✓ Monthly accounting + annual filings
If you go alone, roughly:
| Estonian state registration fee | €265 |
| Legal address (3rd party) | €100/year |
| Contact person required | €200–400/year |
| Accountant (independent) | €80–150/mo |
| Your time (research, filings, mistakes) | 20–40 hrs |
Real numbers from the public market in 2026.
See what you might save
Estimated annual saving
€33,600
Back-of-the-envelope only — actual savings depend on how much you reinvest vs. pay out. The full calculator handles your real profile.
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Public write-ups from people who've gone through the OÜ process.
Indie developer
Howard Hsu
Walked through the full e-Residency application and OÜ registration from Taipei — found it surprisingly smooth and useful for selling digital products to EU customers.
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Founder / software entrepreneur
Oliver Eidel
A German software entrepreneur documents his full e-Residency journey — from application to running a remote-first business through an Estonian OÜ with a European legal entity and online banking.
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Freelance iOS developer
Ignacio Nieto Carvajal
Fed up with Spain's mandatory €340/month autónomo fee, he set up an Estonian OÜ via e-Residency and describes it as a liberating reset that let him focus on building rather than paperwork.
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Tech entrepreneur
Yogesh Huja
Co-founded an OÜ through e-Residency and documents the full journey — company live in 30 days — covering practical steps for tech entrepreneurs building and scaling across international markets.
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Freelance developer advocate
Nicole van der Hoeven
Has run her Estonian OÜ since 2018, using it to invoice US and EU clients from anywhere. Covers the full setup process and how it supports a location-independent freelance career.
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Software agency founder
Konstantin Klyagin
Replaced more complex European company structures with a fully online Estonian OÜ — cheaper, simpler, and managed entirely remotely with professional banking and accounting in place.
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Translator & marketing consultant
Ennur Bilgin
A Turkish translator describes how e-Residency let her finally start an EU limited company, walking through every step from the online application to activating the card at the Estonian embassy.
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SaaS founder
Luke Seelenbinder
An American SaaS founder based in Switzerland explains how his Estonian OÜ became the practical backbone for managing salary, taxes, and co-founder structure across three countries.
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Co-founder, digital product studio
Chris Muller
Set up an Estonian company to accept euro payments from European clients. Had his e-Residency card, business registration, and bank account all operational within two weeks of picking up the card in Paris.
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