Small Business Digital Adaptation Program

Applications are closing

Applications for the Small Business Digital Adaptation Program will near at 23:59  on Wednesday 30 June 2021.

Program evaluation

This application affords $1200 rebates so small companies can get right of entry to a range of digital business gear.

The Victorian Government has partnered with 14 providers that will help you build or improve your website, improve your coins glide, start on-line advertising and marketing, manage your jobs and projects, and maintain better music of stock.

Here’s the way it works:

take unfastened product trials and workshops

choose one or greater of the digital products

purchase your product and begin the usage of it

apply for the rebate to cowl up to 365 days get entry to

declare your $1,two hundred.

There are most effective a limited quantity of rebates and you will need to pay ongoing prices for the product after the rebate runs out.

Read the data in this web page, this system hints and regularly requested questions (FAQs) first.

See the Small Business Digital Adaptation Program in languages apart from English.

Guidelines

Small Business Digital Adaptation Program Guidelines (PDF 309.Sixty three available version (DOCX 1548.Forty eight KB)DOCX icon

Applications are open till price range are exhausted or until 11.59pm on 30 June 2021, whichever is earlier.

Businesses gets a hyperlink to the software form after validating their ABN for this program using the ABN Checker.

ABN Checker

To test in case your ABN is legitimate for this software, please input your Australian Business Number (ABN) inside the ABN Checker under. If you're unsure what your ABN is, you can use the ABN Lookup tool.

If your ABN is legitimate for this program, you will get a hyperlink to the software shape.

What aid is available?

Products to be had via the Small Business Digital Adaptation Program can assist sole traders, micro and small organizations enhance their cashflow, increase productivity, appeal to clients, and help them to inform their tale. Eligible corporations can apply for a rebate of $1200 to assist pay for access to a new product or upgrade a present day product.

Eligible organizations can get admission to unfastened product trials to help them determine on one or greater accepted merchandise. Businesses can also take part in unfastened training and workshops.

Businesses also can observe for Business recovery and resilience mentoring.

Which merchandise can I choose from?

The Victorian Government is partnering with 14 providers for this application. Learn approximately each dealer and their merchandise by watching a brief video.

Australian Good Food Guide — meals and beverage

Ecwid Inc. — stop-to-stop retail

Intuit Australia (QuickBooks) — business management

Lawpath — legal offerings

Mr Yum — meals and beverage

MYOB — business management

Reckon Limited — commercial enterprise management

ServiceM8 — trades job control

Shopify — give up-to-quit retail

Square — quit-to-give up retail

Squarespace — website advent

Trade Trak — trades task control

Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) — automobile services

Xero — enterprise control

What are the eligibility requirements for this software?

The Small Business Digital Adaptation Program is for sole dealer, micro groups and small corporations. To be eligible for this system an applicant have to:

perform a commercial enterprise positioned in Victoria

hold an Australian Business Number (ABN)

have held that ABN on thirteen September 2019.

Applicants have to meet the eligibility criteria and agree to the conditions mentioned in the program hints.

Applicants also need to attest that they're currently working their business and intend to adapt their commercial enterprise to a virtual operating environment.

Businesses can be ineligible for the program if any facts of their software is located to be deliberately fake or misleading.

An eligible business, as defined by way of its ABN, can simplest acquire one buy rebate of $1,200 to cover three hundred and sixty five days’ get admission to to one or more accepted virtual product available under this software.

What does this system cover?

Products selected through eligible groups must be:

a brand new product not currently utilized by the business, or

an upgrade of an existing product with extra product features offering unique virtual model functionality (for instance, upgrading an existing website to an e-commerce website online), or

a product available under the program that has been utilized by the enterprise earlier than (more than 12 months ago) that it would love to resume using.

The Small Business Digital Adaptation Program will now not cover the fee of:

renewals of present product or software licences purchased earlier than 15 November 2020, or

minor updates to present merchandise (as an example, a software program model update), or

merchandise that are not to be had from the supplier listing.

Businesses can take part in training and workshops proven in the education calendar at the program page. This page might be displayed in your screen as soon as you've got confirmed your ABN is valid for this application the use of the ABN Checker.

Businesses who have present merchandise and software bought outside of this software are also able to attend workshops promoted through the Business Victoria website.

How does this system work?

Read this system suggestions and frequently requested questions (FAQs) then use the ABN Checker to test whether or not your ABN is valid for this software.  Businesses can trial products and attend workshops earlier than lodging an software. Businesses can attend unlimited workshops and whole a couple of digital product trials till 30 June 2021.

Sign up and purchase your selected virtual product/s through one of the companion providers. You might be required to provide a supplier receipt or paid supplier bill as part of your software — see FAQs for greater details.

Apply for a rebate of $1,200 to cover one year’ access to your product/s.

After six weeks, permitted corporations can be requested to complete a survey confirming they may be nevertheless using the approved product/s.

Businesses may be required to reply to quick surveys at six and twelve months to help Business Victoria understand how agencies have benefitted from this system and the product/s.

How do I progress via the program?

This is a purchase rebate software. You have to join up for and buy an available virtual product earlier than you follow.

Complete the net rebate application shape. Ensure you solution all questions and provide all the required records, which includes proof of your purchase.

You will be contacted through electronic mail six weeks after eligibility is showed to verify you are still using the product/s you got.

You will be contacted to take part in an assessment survey after six and 365 days to help us understand the program impact.

The application handiest covers get admission to all through the primary 12 month.

Key application dates

The application may be open from 15 November 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Applications for purchase rebates to cowl 365 days’ product get right of entry to may be open from 1 December 2020 to eleven.59pm on 30 June 2021, or till finances are exhausted.

More data

The $1,two hundred buy rebate is same to 12 months’ get entry to to a mid-range digital device to be had underneath this application. Access expenses for foreign currency and income percentage products will vary relying on alternate costs and use.

The Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions reserves the proper to amend these guidelines and application phrases at any time.

If you have questions on this program, please talk to the Small Business Digital Adaptation Program regularly requested questions (FAQs).

For similarly help please contact us or call 13 22 15.

Guidelines

Small Business Digital Adaptation Program Guidelines (PDF 309.Sixty three available model (DOCX 1548.48 KB)DOCX icon

Small Business Digital Adaptation Program in languages other than English

Arabic – العربية

Hindi – हिन्दी

Punjabi – ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Simplified Chinese – 简体中文

Somali – Soomaali

Traditional Chinese – 繁體中文

Vietnamese – tiếng Việt