# Kit Digital Spain in English: the subsidy guide nobody translated > Kit Digital explained in English for foreigners running a business in Spain: who qualifies, what the voucher covers, why you cannot apply today and how to get ready. - Author: Yurii Skyba, Skyba Tech (https://skyba.tech) - Published: 2026-11-06 - Category: kit-digital - Reading time: 6 min - HTML version: https://skyba.tech/en/blog/kit-digital-spain-english-guide --- Marieke runs a physiotherapy practice near Ruzafa. In September she sent us one line on WhatsApp: "My gestor says the government pays for websites. Is that real, and can I use it with you?" It is real. It is also, right now, closed. Type "kit digital spain in english" into Google and you get phrasebooks, a British Council PDF and a listing for an agent in Marbella, so here is the version we sent Marieke: what the programme is, who it was for, what it paid, why you cannot apply this month and what to do while you wait. ## What Kit Digital is Kit Digital is a voucher scheme run by Red.es, a public body under the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation, paid for with EU Next Generation funds. The idea is simple. A small business or an autónomo applies, gets a "bono digital" worth a fixed amount, and spends it with an approved provider (an agente digitalizador) on one of a dozen catalogue categories: a website, an online shop, a CRM, electronic invoicing, cybersecurity and so on. The provider does the work and invoices Red.es. You do not get cash. You get the work. The amount depends on headcount. For the smallest tier, Segment III, which is autónomos and companies with fewer than three employees, the voucher was raised to a maximum of 3,000 EUR. For three to nine employees it was 6,000 EUR, and for ten to forty-nine it was 12,000 EUR. The category that matters for most of our readers is "Sitio web y presencia básica en internet": a domain, hosting, a site of several pages, basic SEO and twelve months of the provider keeping it running. ## Where the programme stands in November 2026 This is the part most English pages skip or get wrong. The last application window for Segment III closed on 31 October 2025. Since then Red.es has not opened a new call. On 28 January 2026 the BOE published Orden TDF/39/2026, which changed the programme's rules: it removed the fixed end date, told Red.es to reinvest leftover funds in the programme, and said that applicants who were turned down only because the budget ran out should be picked up from the waiting list without reapplying. What the order did not do is open a window. A ministerial order sets the framework; an actual call, with a budget, a deadline and a procedure, has to be published separately by Red.es on its electronic office and extracted in the BOE. As we write this, that has not happened. Any page telling you to "apply now" is either out of date or collecting names for a waiting list. So, two situations. If you applied in 2025 and were denied for lack of funds, you are the one group with something to watch: the order says your file should be reviewed without a new application. If you never applied, there is nothing to submit today. ## Who qualified in the last calls The next call may change details, but every previous one asked for the same things, so this is what to have ready. You had to be registered as an autónomo or a company with a Spanish tax base, with at least six months of activity before applying. You had to be up to date with Hacienda and Social Security, not be in a crisis situation under EU rules, and not have exceeded the de minimis state aid ceiling. Before applying you completed the digital maturity test on acelerapyme.gob.es, a questionnaire of about fifteen minutes that produced a report. The application itself went through sede.red.gob.es with a digital certificate or Cl@ve. Note the six months. A lot of foreigners find out about the voucher in their first weeks in Spain, when it cannot help them yet. If your alta as autónomo is from last month, the subsidy is a 2027 conversation, not a 2026 one. ## What the website voucher actually paid for Read the catalogue literally and you will avoid disappointment. The website category covered the domain for a year, hosting for a year, a site of around five pages, responsive design, basic positioning in search engines, accessibility basics and a year of upkeep by the agent. It did not cover an online shop with stock and returns (that is a separate category), paid advertising, or a year of SEO reports promising rankings. Two mechanics surprised people. First, the voucher paid the provider, not you, so you never saw the money; you paid the provider the IVA, which the subsidy does not cover, and nothing else if the quote fit the voucher. Second, you were tied to that provider for the twelve months of the agreement. Choosing the agent was therefore the real decision, and most of the bad stories we heard in Valencia came from agents who registered the domain in their own name and treated the twelve months as a lease. ## What to do this month, whether or not you ever use us Get a digital certificate or Cl@ve if you do not have one; every Spanish public procedure runs on it and your gestor can walk you through it in an afternoon. Check that you have no pending debts with Hacienda or Social Security, because a single unpaid quarterly return blocks the application. Do the Acelera Pyme maturity test now; it is one less step when a window opens. Bookmark sede.red.gob.es and the Acelera Pyme news page, or ask your gestor to flag the BOE extract the day it appears. Calls in the past were first come, first served, and the Segment III budget was the one that ran dry. And if you applied in 2025 and got the "agotamiento de crédito" denial, keep the resolution and your file number. That document is what the review under the new order hangs on. ## When waiting for the voucher is the wrong move We work with Kit Digital and would happily build your site through it when a call opens. We will also tell you plainly when it is not worth waiting. If your business is younger than six months, you are not eligible and the next call will not change that. If you are losing bookings this month because your only presence is an Instagram grid with no prices, a landing page at 290 EUR goes live in seven days and will have paid for itself long before any resolution arrives. If you want a site but do not want to be contractually tied to one provider for a year, the voucher is the wrong instrument by design. And if you do not yet have paying customers at all, do not buy a website from anyone, subsidised or not; set up a Google Business Profile and WhatsApp Business and come back when people are already paying you. ## How Skyba Tech does it when the window is open We are a small studio in Valencia. We build on Next.js rather than WordPress, which is why a landing page takes seven days instead of a month and why there is nothing to patch every week. Whether you pay us directly or through the voucher, the code, the domain and the hosting are registered in your name from day one. Our prices without the subsidy are 290 EUR for a one-page landing with a WhatsApp button and a form, 690 EUR for a longer bilingual landing with analytics, and from 1,290 EUR for a corporate site of four to six pages in several languages. A deposit of a third to a half, the rest after launch, prices without IVA. If a call opens, we handle the test, the paperwork and the justification with Red.es, and you deal with one person on WhatsApp. Want to know whether you would qualify, or whether you should just build now? Ten minutes on WhatsApp, no form with twelve fields, and a fixed price before any work starts.