Who can apply

Eligible Businesses:

• Limited or no trading online presence.

• 10 or less employees.

• Turnover less than €2 million.

• Applicant business must be trading for at least 6 months.

• Business must be located in the area covered by the LEO to whom they make their application.

• Previous voucher recipients may apply for a second voucher.

What you can do

Eligible Grant Expenditure:

• IT consultation.

• Development or upgrade of an e-commerce website.

• Implementing online payments or booking systems.

• Purchase of Internet related software.

• Developing an app (or multiplatform webpages).

• Development of a digital marketing strategy.

• Implementing a digital marketing strategy.

• Training/skills development specifically to establish and manage on-line trading activity.

• Purchase of online advertising (this purchase cannot make up any more than 30% of approved Voucher costs and can only be drawn down in one payment phase).

• Professional photography costs (this purchase cannot make up any more than 80% of other (excluding photography costs) approved voucher costs.

What is NOT covered

Ineligible projects include:

• Companies with charitable status, commercial semi-state companies, trade associations and company representation bodies such as Chambers of Commerce are not eligible to participate in the scheme.

• “Not for profit” and social entrepreneurship applicants unless they operate in a commercial domain.

• Professional services specialising in IT type services who are already capable of trading online using existing in-house systems.

• Conferences and Seminars.

• Projects essentially comprising importation and distribution.

Ineligible Grant Expenditure:

• Development of brochure websites*.

• Purchase of non-internet related software.

• Anything other than online trading related activity.