Kit Digital: what it really covers and what it doesn't

Kit Digital, Spain's public digitalisation grant, is probably the funding scheme that generates the most questions for me, almost always for the same reason: it has been sold as "free money for your website", and it is not quite that. It is real, usable help, but with specific rules worth understanding before applying.

What Kit Digital really is (and what it is not)

Kit Digital is a grant scheme co-funded with European funds (Next Generation EU), run by Red.es, that subsidises hiring digitalisation solutions for small businesses and freelancers through a digital voucher. The important part many people are not clear about:

• It is not money you receive. The voucher is granted to your company, but the money is paid directly to the technology supplier (the "digitalisation agent") that provides the service, not into your bank account.
• It is not free money. You can only spend it on the digital solution categories the scheme has catalogued, contracted through a registered digitalisation agent.
• It covers a set period, not an indefinite one-off payment: usually 12 months of the contracted solution (some categories have extended that period in later calls).

Who can apply and how much voucher they get

The voucher amount depends on the company segment, mainly by number of employees. The reference amounts have varied between calls, so treat them as a guide and confirm the current amount in the active call:

Segment	Company size	Guideline voucher
III	Freelancers and companies with 0 to 2 employees	up to €3,000
II	Small companies with 3 to 9 employees	up to €6,000
I	Small companies with 10 to 49 employees	up to €12,000

Validity note (August 2026): the Segment III amount (€3,000) corresponds to Order TDF/39/2026. The call for this segment closed on 31 October 2025 and, as of today, there is no new resolved call. The next opening is expected between September and December 2026; confirm exact dates and deadlines at sede.red.gob.es before starting any procedure.

Beyond headcount, you are usually also required to be up to date with tax and social security obligations, not be classed as a company in difficulty, and not have received aid exceeding the de minimis limits.

The solution categories it covers

The catalogue is organised by digital solution category, each with its own maximum eligible amount. The most common ones for small businesses and freelancers:

• Website and internet presence: design and development of a website with basic SEO included.
• E-commerce: creation of an online shop.
• Social media management.
• Customer management (CRM).
• Business Intelligence and analytics.
• Process management: digitalisation of internal workflows (invoicing, projects, HR).
• E-invoicing.
• Secure communications and cybersecurity.
• Virtual office and, in more recent calls, marketplace and artificial intelligence categories.

Each category defines the minimum features the solution must include to be eligible: not just any website or any CRM will do, it has to meet the technical specification for that specific category.

What Kit Digital does not cover

This is where most expectations break:

• It does not cover hardware (computers, tablets, physical card readers) except for very specific exceptions added in later calls for particular categories; the general rule is that it funds software and service, not equipment.
• It does not cover advertising or marketing spend beyond what is strictly included in the contracted social media category (it is not a Google Ads or Meta Ads budget).
• It does not cover work already done before signing the service agreement with the digitalisation agent: if you already have the website built and invoiced, you cannot "regularise" it afterwards with the voucher.
• It does not cover indefinite maintenance: once the subsidised period is over (usually 12 months), the client and the digitalisation agent negotiate continuing the service as a normal contract, now with no public aid.
• It does not cover custom development outside the catalogue: if you need a very specific application that does not fit any category (for example, a complex custom build with particular requirements), Kit Digital is not the right vehicle, even if part of the project could fit a standard category.

How the process works in practice

1. You register as a beneficiary in the scheme (Acelera pyme) and get your voucher according to your segment.
2. You choose a registered digitalisation agent for the category you are interested in (for example, website or e-commerce).
3. You sign a solution provision agreement with that agent: it sets out the exact scope of the service.
4. The agent provides the service (builds the website, the online shop, etc.) and invoices directly against the voucher, not against you.
5. When it is finished, there is a justification period in which both you and the digitalisation agent confirm that the service was provided as agreed.

Common mistakes that lose the grant

• Signing the agreement with the agent before the voucher is firmly granted.
• Contracting a solution that does not meet the category's minimum requirements (and finding out in the justification phase, when it is too late).
• Not reading exactly what the provision agreement includes: limited scope, number of pages, number of languages, specific features. What is not in the agreement is not covered.
• Assuming the "leftover" voucher from one category can be moved to another without a procedure: usually it cannot.

My recommendation if you are considering applying

Kit Digital makes sense if you need one of the catalogued solutions and it fits what you were going to do anyway: a new website, an online shop, a CRM. It does not make sense to force a project so it "fits" a category when what you really need is something else. Before signing anything with a digitalisation agent, ask them to spell out the exact scope of the service in writing and compare it with what your business actually needs: that is what avoids surprises in the justification phase.

For the exact amounts and requirements of the current call, the official source is acelerapyme.gob.es, because the rules have been updated several times since the scheme launched.

Whether or not you have a voucher granted, the underlying technical question is the same: what your business really needs and whether the scope on offer matches that. It is exactly what I review in the free assessment, with or without Kit Digital involved.

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• Your website doesn't meet GDPR or LSSI-CE: the 5 most common failures — Before launching the website you will fund with Kit Digital, check it does not carry the most common compliance failures.
• Verifactu: what it requires from freelancers and SMEs, and from when — If your business issues invoices, the software you use also has to keep up with the anti-fraud regulation.