BUSINESS ENHANCE

The E-Commerce Grant Scheme, financed by Business Enhance, is aimed at encouraging and supporting enterprises to increase their competitiveness, addressing this gap by adopting e-commerce through online sales in their daily operations.

To be eligible for the E-Commerce Grant Scheme in Malta, financed by Business Enhance, must be a micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, irrespective of their legal form.

Undertakings that are not vested with a legal personality acquired through the law applicable to their establishment, need to be registered under the Second Schedule of the Civil Code.

To be eligible for the E-Commerce Grant Scheme in Malta, financed by Business Enhance, recipients must carry out at least one of the following activities:

- design, development, implementation and delivery of an e-commerce website and/or mobile application to meet the needs of the beneficiary SME;

- development, implementation and delivery of all technical elements to enable the function of the website and/or mobile application including a CMS for users to upload content, secure online payment integration, including an online graphical product or service catalogue;

- development, implementation and delivery of all technical elements to allow the successful integration of a payment system including appropriate electronic communication channels;

- integration of appropriate web analytics software, to allow SMEs to generate data reports on web traffic to and from the website and/or mobile application;

- the creation of a design for the website and/or mobile application, that is in line with the brand identity of the SME;

- registering and hosting of the site on secure servers;

- compliance with all website and/or mobile application, design and development with at least W3C Level A accessibility guidelines.

The call for the E-Commerce Grant Scheme, financed by Business Enhance, expires on 2023-12-31.

The costs eligible for the E-Commerce Grant Scheme in Malta, financed by Business Enhance, are:

- domain name registration (fee for the extent and duration of the project);

- hosting (fee for the extent and duration of the project);

- Content Management System (CMS), software including required licenses for the extent and duration of the project;

- e-commerce website and/or mobile application design in line with the brand identity of the organisation;

- 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 going live).

The maximum amount of aid that may be provided by the E-Commerce Grant in Malta Scheme, financed by Business Enhance, to an undertaking shall not exceed €5,000 part-financing eligible costs up to 50%.

The type of financing provided by the E-Commerce Grant In Malta Scheme, financed by Business Enhance, is a non-repayable grant.

The funding body for the E-Commerce Grant in Malta Scheme is Business Enhance.