Canada Digital Adoption Program

CDAP

The CDAP Grow Your Business Online grant helps SMEs:
  • get online
  • increase sales
  • adopt security software
  • connect with customers
  • improve social media marketing
  • improve user experience for online customers

Grow your Business Online Grant

Get up to $2,400 to grow your business online
Looking to implement e-commerce capabilities to remain competitive? Need to serve existing customers more effectively and attract new customers? With a grant of up to $2,400, we can help with the costs related to adopting digital technologies.

$15,000 Grant

$100,000 Loan

0% Interest

5 Years Term

Participant Requirements

Applications can only be submitted by a small business that meets all of the following criteria:
  • Is a for-profit business (including for-profit social enterprises and co-operatives)
  • Is a registered or incorporated business
  • Is a consumer-facing business
  • Can be accessed by end use consumers or provides in-person services to consumers
  • Business that are not considered consumer-facing are those that focus primarily on wholesale trade or sell only to other businesses. Businesses that engage in drop shipping or online reselling are also not considered consumer-facing.
  • Has at least one employee on payroll that isn’t the owner or a contractor (full time or part time, but for at least three months prior to application) or have had at least $30,000 in annual revenue in the most recent tax year.
  • Must commit to maintaining digital adoption strategy for six months after participation in the program
  • Must consent to participating in follow-up surveys, sharing information with the Government of Canada (ISED and Statistics Canada), and having the name of the business published as a recipient of funding
  • The following types of small businesses are ineligible:
  • Corporate chains, franchises or registered charities
  • Representatives of multi-level marketing companies
  • A brokerage firm and their agents (real estate, investment, insurance, etc.)
  • Businesses that engage in online reselling or drop-shipping businesses reliant on third party suppliers
  • Wholesale or distribution businesses and manufacturers (unless their business model includes direct sales to the end consumer)

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Boost Your Business Grant

As your dedicated expert resource for transforming your business, we empower your business with digital advisory services, and ensure that small and mid-sized brands like yours can compete and thrive in the digital economy. With our team of digital marketing and sales experts, we’ll identify business areas that benefit from new digital technologies, key challenges, and your data-driven roadmap to success.

Get up to $15,000 to boost your business technology

Looking to increase productivity? Need to consolidate your back office software? Need better cybersecurity tools? With a plan tailored to your business, we can help with your digital transformation.

The CDAP Boost Your Business Technology grant helps SMEs:

  • Reduce overhead costs
  • Speed up transactions
  • Respond to clients more quickly
  • Manage inventory more efficiently
  • Improve supply chain logistics

the Canada Digital Adoption Program

Doing business in the digital age just became a lot more affordable and accessible. The Government of Canada is investing a total of $4 billion in the digital transformation of businesses like yours. Through the Canada Digital Adoption Program (Boost Your Business Technology grant), you can get $15,000 in funding.
We help Canada’s SMEs accelerate their digital transformation to fuel economic recovery. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that qualify will be able to consult our experts with their digital transformation journeys through CDAP.

The grant covers up to 90% of the eligible cost of retaining the services of a digital advisor, up to a maximum grant value of $15,000 per SME, to develop a digital adoption plan.

Businesses who complete a CDAP plan also have the opportunity to secure a zero% interest loan, up to $100,000, from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) to facilitate the acquisition of new technology.

Check your $15,000 CDAP eligibility

Grow Your Business Online Grant

Get up to $2,400 to grow your business online

Looking to build a website, establish social media presence, run an ad campaign ? Need to serve existing customers more effectively and attract new customers? With a micro-grant of up to $2,400, we can help with the costs related to adopting digital technologies.

Is your business Eligible?

Business Eligibility

 

    • Is a for-profit business (including for-profit social enterprises and co-operatives)
    • Is a registered or incorporated business
    • Is a consumer-facing business. Can be accessed by consumers or provides in-person services to consumers
    • Has at least one employee (full time or part time, but for at least three months prior to application) that isn’t the owner, OR had at least $30,000 in annual revenue in the most recent tax year (2021)
    • Must commit to maintaining digital adoption strategy for six months after participation in the program
    • Must consent to participating in follow-up surveys, sharing information with the Government of Canada (ISED and Statistics Canada), and having the name of the business published as a recipient of funding

Check your $2,400 CDAP eligibility

CDAP - FAQs

What is included in a CDAP plan?

At a minimum, your plan will include a review of your businesses current state, digital adoption analysis and recommendation, implementation roadmap, employee technology comfort levels, cost-benefit analysis, and any other custom characteristics of your business.

Who benefits from the program?

Canadian business. It allows your business to recover 90% of the cost for an approved digital advisor prepared adoption plan (up to $15,000) through a GRANT. Additionally, businesses with a digital adoption plan are qualified for a $100,000 INTEREST-FREE loan payable over six years to help with the execution of the project.

What types of projects qualify?

Any business process that technology can help optimize qualifies. Examples include: CRM, ERP, accounting, operations, digital media, data, spreadsheets, forms, workflows, approvals, supply chain & logistics, manufacturing, and much more!

Why do I need to select an approved digital advisor to create the plan?

Only approved digital advisors from the CDAP marketplace [← this where you will find us] are eligible to complete digital adoption plans for companies seeking a grant under the program.

When should I apply?

The program is first-come, first-serve, so our advice is that the sooner, the better. Approved applications have nine months to claim their grant.

Where do I apply?

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