Your Local Enterprise Office will pay back half the cost of new digital tools for your business, up to €5,000. I took more than 30 businesses through the old Trading Online Voucher, and can tell you in one call whether your project fits the new rules.
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The Trading Online Voucher closed on 13 December 2024. The Grow Digital Voucher replaced it, with a bigger grant and different rules about what it pays for.
The voucher is for established small businesses. The one most people miss is the first: you need a Digital for Business report before you can apply.
This is where most agency pages get it wrong. The voucher funds off-the-shelf software that is new to your business, not a custom-built website.
You pay the full cost first, then claim half back. Setup and training can make up no more than half the project, so the size of your grant depends on the software you choose.
A worked example
First year of new software
Setup and training
Eligible project cost
Your LEO pays back
Your cost after the grant
Figures exclude VAT and are for illustration. Your LEO decides what counts as eligible.
The order matters. Starting work before approval is the most common way people lose the grant.
Book the free review with your LEO. A digital expert spends one to three days on your business and writes the report you need.
We match the report’s recommendations to the right software and give you a written quote that fits the rules.
You send the expression of interest and application to your LEO with our quote. We help with the wording.
Wait for the letter of offer. Nothing is bought or built until it arrives.
We set everything up and train your team. You pay the invoices and claim your 50% back from the LEO.
I have delivered more than 30 Trading Online Voucher projects for Irish businesses, so I know how the LEOs look at these applications. The new voucher favours ready-made platforms set up properly, which is exactly the kind of work we do every week.
If your project won’t qualify, I’ll tell you straight on the first call, and we’ll look at what will.
Kieran, Grange Web Design
A new Shopify subscription, set up with your products, payments and delivery, and your team trained to run it.
Online booking, deposits and appointment reminders, connected to your website.
A CRM set up so every enquiry from your website is tracked and followed up.
Hands-on sessions so you can run the new system yourselves, not ring us for every change.
You apply to the LEO for the area your business is in. Every county has one, and they can book your Digital for Business review.
Outside Cork City? Find your office at localenterprise.ie.
Tell me what you want to do online. I’ll tell you honestly whether the Grow Digital Voucher can help, and what a project that fits the rules would look like.
Scheme details from the Local Enterprise Office, checked November 2026. Your LEO makes the final decision on every application.
