Kit Digital: Getting Your Website Paid For in Spain

If you run a small company in Spain, or you are a Dutch business with a Spanish entity, there is public money on the table for your website. Kit Digital has been running since 2021, funded by Next Generation EU and managed by Red.es, and the 2026 round is still open.

This is a practical guide, not a sales pitch. We are a web agency, so the incentive here is obvious — which is exactly why the useful parts of this article are the ones about when it is not worth it.

What it is

Kit Digital hands out a digital voucher, a fixed amount you can spend on approved digital solutions from an authorised supplier. You do not receive the cash. The supplier does the work, invoices against your voucher, and Red.es pays them.

The amount depends on your headcount:

• Segment III (0 to fewer than 3 employees): up to 3,000 euros
• Segment II (3 to fewer than 10): up to 6,000 euros
• Segment I (10 to fewer than 50): up to 12,000 euros
• Segment IV (50 to fewer than 100): up to 25,000 euros
• Segment V (100 to fewer than 250): up to 29,000 euros

A website with basic search visibility is one of the eligible categories, alongside e-commerce, social media management, customer management, business intelligence, e-invoicing, secure communications, cybersecurity, and more recently AI and advanced cybersecurity solutions.

The important change for 2026: there is no longer a hard closing date. The scheme stays open until the funds run out. That sounds relaxed but works the other way in practice — there is no deadline forcing a decision, and no warning before the money is gone.

Who can apply

Broadly: small and medium companies, micro-companies and self-employed people registered in Spain. You need to be up to date with tax and social security, be registered in the Censo de empresarios, not be considered a company in difficulty, and not exceed the de minimis state aid limits.

The self-assessment on the Acelera Pyme platform takes a few minutes and determines your segment. Do that before you talk to anyone about a website, because the segment sets the budget and the budget shapes the project.

The catch people discover late

The voucher is a maximum, not a payment for whatever you want.

Each category has a defined scope. The website category specifies things like a minimum number of pages, responsive design, basic search engine indexing, accessibility criteria, and a hosting period. If you want more than the defined scope — a custom booking system, a complex catalogue, deep integrations — the voucher covers the defined part and you pay the difference. That is fine, as long as nobody pretends otherwise.

You must use an authorised digital agent. Not any agency: one registered in the official catalogue. Check the register yourself rather than taking someone's word for it.

The maintenance period is binding. The solution has to stay live and supported for a set period after delivery. That is part of what you are agreeing to, not an optional extra.

Tax is yours. The grant covers the base amount. The VAT is not funded, so budget for it.

It is a subsidy, with paperwork. Justification documents, deliverables, evidence. A competent agent handles most of it, but you will sign things and you should read them.

When the voucher is genuinely worth it

It is excellent value when what you need is close to what the category defines: a professional, responsive, indexable company website with proper hosting, for a business that does not have one or has something badly outdated. In that case the funding covers most or all of the project and the answer is obvious.

It also works well as a first phase. Use the voucher for the site, then invest your own budget in the things the category does not cover — content, ongoing SEO, conversion work.

When it is not

Be honest with yourself in three situations.

If your requirements are far beyond the category, the voucher pays for a fraction of your project and the paperwork overhead is real. It still helps, but it is not "free website".

If you are being pushed towards a template you would not otherwise choose, stop. Some suppliers optimise for volume: the fastest route to invoicing the voucher is a standard template with your logo dropped in. That is legal and it is sometimes fine, but you should know that is what you are getting. Ask to see three sites they delivered under the scheme.

If you are not going to maintain it, the grant funds a site that will be out of date in two years and unpatched in three. A website that nobody updates is not an asset.

What to ask a supplier

Five questions that separate the serious ones:

1. Are you in the official catalogue of digital agents? Verify it independently.
2. What exactly falls inside the voucher, and what would I pay for separately? You want this in writing before you sign.
3. Who owns the site afterwards — the code, the domain, the hosting account? If the answer is anything other than "you", think hard.
4. What happens when the mandatory maintenance period ends? Can you move the site elsewhere, or is it locked to their platform?
5. Will it meet accessibility requirements? Since June 2025 the European Accessibility Act applies to most business websites in the EU. A publicly funded site that does not comply is a strange outcome.

A note for Dutch and other EU companies

Kit Digital is for entities registered in Spain, so a Dutch company cannot claim it for its Dutch site. If you have a Spanish subsidiary or a permanent establishment there, that entity may qualify on its own account.

It is also worth checking what exists at home. The Netherlands has run various SME digitalisation and innovation schemes, and regional programmes come and go. The specifics change often enough that the only reliable advice is to ask your accountant, or your local chamber of commerce, what is currently open.

The bottom line

Kit Digital is real money and the scheme works. The businesses that get the most out of it are the ones that treat it as funding for a project they had already decided to do, rather than a reason to do a project they had not thought about.

Work out what you need first. Then find out how much of it the voucher pays for. Doing it the other way round is how companies end up with a funded website that does not do what their business actually needed.

Amounts, segments and conditions change between calls. Check the current terms on the official Red.es and Acelera Pyme sites before you commit to anything.