Digitization is a fundamental and priority process for any company. We wanted to apply to the program because it was an option for the future and it helped us defray the economic cost that Tecout did not have…in a couple of hours we had the requested voucher.
The first solution has allowed us to improve the web and we have contracted the web positioning service for 12 months. The second option is social media management. And the third is an aid in the management and automation of the recruitment and selection phases of the company.
We are very satisfied with the implementation of Digital Kit, because all this procedure that we are implementing helps us to improve. First in performance, we save economic costs and we can spend more time doing other things that are more important to the company.
I would recommend the Digital Kit program to other companies because I think it is a necessary step to be able to develop and be able to be within the sector in which it operates in a very short time.
Kit Digital is an initiative of the Government of Spain, managed by Red.es, an entity attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, which aims to promote the digital transformation of small companies, micro-enterprises and freelancers with less than 50 employees.
It is financed by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and has a budget of 3,067 million euros through NextGenerationEU funds. It has the Spanish Chamber of Commerce as a collaborating entity.
To date, more than 150,000 bonds have been granted, which is equivalent to more than 800 million euros of European funds in the hands of Spanish SMEs for digitization. This data is very relevant if we take into account that the largest bond management began in the last quarter of 2022, at which time the three calls for the Program were active. Red.es has exceeded expectations at the end of 2022 with more than 700 million euros in digital bonds granted, 40% more than initially planned.
Companies and freelancers can opt for up to 12 categories of digital solutions that include: website and basic internet presence, social media management, electronic commerce; customer management; virtual office services and tools, business intelligence and analytics, process management, electronic invoicing, secure communications, cybersecurity, advanced internet presence and marketplace. These last two solutions are only included from the second call.
Under the motto 'zero paperwork' and thanks to robotization tools, it has been possible to reduce the processing time of a file from three hours on average to three minutes.
The objective is to simplify bureaucratic procedures as much as possible, the SME can authorize Red.es to consult ex officio the required requirements and obligations, thus safeguarding the transparency and legal certainty of the process. In addition, there is the figure of the "voluntary representative" so that a third person, physical or legal, can request the subsidy on behalf of the company, provided that it is duly authorized.
Once it is verified that the company meets the requirements, the digital voucher is granted. The vouchers will be assigned in order of arrival of the applications. At this time, 100% of the companies that met the requirements and have successfully submitted the application are receiving their digital voucher within 3-4 weeks. The beneficiary must select one or several digitization agents with whom to develop the digitization solutions that best suit the needs of their business and sign the "digitization solution provision agreements."
The beneficiary can consult at www.acelerapyme.es both the catalog of digitization solutions offered by the Kit Digital program, as well as the catalog of digitization agents.
The Program has wanted to give a leading role to ICT SMEs to ensure that digitalization is maintained over time and improves the productivity of beneficiary companies and digitizing agents. Kit Digital currently has more than 10,000 affiliated agents throughout Spain, of which 98% are small ICT companies.
The payment of the aid will be received by the digitizing agent once it has correctly justified the implementation of the solutions and the provision of the service to the SME. In this sense, if the justification is carried out correctly, the payment term is made in less than 60 days.
If you have a company with less than 50 employees, find out on 900 909 001, or at www.acelerapyme.es
