Companies Eligible for the e-Commerce Grant Scheme

SMEs, exploiting their potential to increase their market share and reach new markets through e-Commerce.

Exclusions for the e-Commerce Grant Scheme

Exclusions include: agriculture, forestry and fishing; processing and marketing of agricultural products; manufacturing, processing and marketing of tobacco and tobacco products; public entities not carrying out an economic activity; energy generation, distribution and infrastructure; the steel sector; the coal sector; the shipbuilding sector; the transport sector; the synthetic fibres sector;financial and insurance activities; undertakings that perform intra group activities whose principal activities fall under legal and accounting activities of head offices or businesses and other
management consultancy activities; real estate activities, gambling and betting activities; and actions not including the integration of an online payment or booking system.

Maximum Grant

50% of eligible expenditure up to €5,000.

Eligible Costs

Services from external service providers registered with the Intermediate Body of the scheme covering domain name registration; hosting; content management system, software including required licences; e-commerce website and/or mobile application design; shopping cart integration; other set-up fees (including setting up and configuration of the CMS system, system design, customisation and development, integration with payment system/s, implementation of the required security features, testing and go live).