The Grow Digital Voucher offers up to €5,000 in funding to help small and medium-sized businesses with up to 50 employees enhance their digital capabilities.
Why Apply for the Grow Digital Voucher?
Expand your reach by selling online, adding an online booking system to connect with a broader audience, or adding a CRM (customer relationship management) system to help with your customer engagement.
How Can Your Business Benefit?
The Grow Digital Voucher supports businesses with digital projects such as websites, digital marketing, and investing in new software like CRM systems, stock management, or specialised cloud platforms. It also provides funding for expert assistance with software setup and training to ensure a smooth implementation.
Have you received a trading online voucher in the past?
Whether you have received one or two Trading Online Vouchers (TOV), or none at all, you are still eligible to apply for the Grow Digital Voucher.
What’s the next step?
Book a call with one of our Grow Digital Voucher experts, and they’ll walk you through the process and check if you qualify. We’ve helped deliver over 900 Trading Online Vouchers, so our team knows how to support your business.
Questions
Get in touch if you have any more questions about the Grow Digital Voucher or if you would like to discuss your project.
Eligible Businesses
The Grow Digital Voucher is available to small businesses (with up to 50 employees) that meet the following criteria:
- Have completed a “Digital for Business” project within the last two years.
- Are not clients of Enterprise Ireland or IDA.
- Have been established and trading for at least 6 months, are registered, and operate within the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) area.
- Are financially solvent, as evidenced by their submitted financial statements.
- Businesses eligible for this scheme can be companies, self-employed individuals, or partnerships engaged in trade or profession, with profits taxable under Case I or II of Schedule D as per section 18(2) of the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 (TCA). Pay As You Go (PAYG) businesses are also eligible.
Additionally, sporting bodies subject to tax under Case I or II of Schedule D (but exempted under section 235 TCA) and charities with trading income exempted by section 208 TCA can apply.
Businesses must have valid tax clearance from Revenue and must provide both a Tax Reference Number and a Tax Clearance Access Number for verification through Revenue’s online portal.
Ineligible Businesses
The following are not eligible for the Grow Digital Voucher grant:
- Companies with charitable status, commercial semi-state entities, and “not-for-profit” organisations that do not meet the specified criteria.
- Trade associations, industry representation bodies (e.g., Chambers of Commerce), and sporting bodies that fail to meet the eligibility requirements.
- Businesses operating in the coal or steel sectors.
- Enterprises involved in primary agriculture, fishery, or aquaculture.
- Businesses engaged in activities deemed ineligible or posing unacceptable reputational risks by the Local Enterprise Office. Examples of ineligible activities include, but are not limited to:
- The gambling sector, including activities defined as ‘gaming’ under the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956.
- Adult entertainment.
- Tobacco and related products.
- Cannabis-based products are not authorised as medicines.
Please note: This is not an exhaustive list, and Enterprise Ireland regularly updates its policy on eligible activities. For specific eligibility queries, the Enterprise Ireland Policy department will review and assess individual cases.
Ineligible Expenditure
- Custom or bespoke software is not eligible for grant support.
- Systems for regulatory compliance do not qualify.
The small print
Business must be located in the area covered by the LEO (Local Enterprise Office) to whom they make their application i.e. LEO cannot accept applications from businesses located outside their jurisdiction. All prices exclude VAT. Further eligibility, terms and conditions apply.
Can I apply for two vouchers?
Businesses can receive approval for up to two Grow Digital Voucher projects, with a total combined grant value capped at €5,000.
How quickly do I get paid once I submit the paperwork?
It varies in every Local Enterprise Office, we typically say around 10 days to our clients as a benchmark.
What else do I need to know?
- Voucher approval must be gained prior to incurring any expense
- Third-party costs only will be considered. Own labour is not an eligible expense (labour of spouse or children also considered own labour)
- Claims can be made in either one or two instalments and only made in respect of actual work completed (i.e. in respect of the components of the project works completed at the time the claim is being made). Expenditure on the various project components can only be claimed once.
- All third party/supplier invoices must contain proper business details (e.g. tax or business registration details or proof that the supplier is a registered business in the territory in which the supplier is located)
- Applications must be accompanied by written or emailed quotes for project works from three suppliers
What do I need to claim my Grant?
When you have paid your supplier in full, you can claim your grant from the Local Enterprise Office by sending them the following documents:
- Your Tax Clearance Cert – a grant cannot be paid unless you supply this evidence of your tax compliance
- All invoices from your supplier(s), clearly showing the VAT breakdown
- All proof of payment – i.e. your bank statement that clearly shows the payment going from your account to your supplier(s), whether by EFT or cheque
- Receipt from your supplier
- Declaration of project completion.
- Summary of the work complete and how it will impact on your business
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