Douglas turns on Klarna at Dutch checkouts
The beauty retailer has added Klarna as a payment option in the Netherlands, online and in store, taking the partnership to thirteen markets.

What changed
The beauty retailer has added Klarna as a payment option in the Netherlands, online and in store, taking the partnership to thirteen markets.
What changed
Douglas customers in the Netherlands can now choose Klarna at checkout in both the retailer's stores and its e-commerce channel, using the same integration pattern Douglas already runs in its other European markets. The Netherlands is the thirteenth market in the partnership. Neither company published transaction volumes, uptake figures or commercial terms, and no additional product tiers such as in-store financing were described beyond the standard checkout options. For the Dutch market this adds another buy-now-pay-later option at a large beauty chain rather than introducing a new rail.
What merchants must do
Dutch retailers competing with Douglas may want to review whether their own checkout offers a BNPL option, and to check that any BNPL they add complies with Dutch and EU consumer credit rules.