Kit Digital in 2026: applications are closed, and this is what's still live
If you came here looking for how to apply for Kit Digital, the short answer is that you can't. The programme closed its application window on 31 October 2025, and as of today there is no open call.
That sentence belongs in the first line of any page about Kit Digital in 2026, and almost none of them say it. A good share of the results you'll find still walk you step by step through submitting an application that can no longer be submitted, or announce that the grant "is back" on the strength of a Spanish Official Gazette order that, read in full, does not say that.
Here's what is verifiable — and, more to the point, what actually matters now. If you're one of the roughly 850,000 businesses that did receive the voucher, you have live obligations that can end in a clawback.
What happened on 31 October 2025
Red.es, the public body that runs the programme, closed the last two open calls that day: the one for self-employed workers and companies with 0 to fewer than 3 employees, and the one for comunidades de bienes, civil partnerships and jointly owned agricultural holdings.
The numbers the programme left behind, per the official Red.es statement:
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Grants awarded | More than 848,000 |
| Amount distributed | More than €3.4 billion |
| Programme budget | €3.067 billion |
| Municipalities reached | More than 90% of Spain's |
| Jobs indirectly benefited | More than 2.5 million |
Red.es also put something in writing that's worth holding onto: although the calls have ended, the support channels remain open for beneficiaries and digitalisation agents, precisely because the justification stage continues. The phone number is 900 909 001 and the form is at acelerapyme.gob.es/contacto.
What changed in January 2026 — and what didn't
On 28 January 2026 the Boletín Oficial del Estado published Order TDF/39/2026, amending the programme's governing rules. It took effect the next day. This is the order many agencies have read as the return of Kit Digital.
It touches three articles:
| Article | What it now says |
|---|---|
| Art. 4 – Time scope | The rules apply "until the total exhaustion of the Kit Digital Programme's funds", with no fixed end date |
| Art. 6.3 – Funding | Red.es "will reinvest any unexecuted budget remainder, even after 2026" within the programme itself |
| Art. 28.8 – Resolution | If funds remain unassigned after a call is resolved, the instructing body shall issue new award proposals |
The detail that changes everything sits in Article 28.8. Those new award proposals are made, in the text's own words, "in favour of those applicants whose applications could not be granted because the credit available in the call had been exhausted at the time of processing".
In other words: the leftover money goes to people who had already applied and missed out because the budget ran dry. It does not open a new window for anyone who didn't apply in time. The order does additionally allow the budget to fund future calls, but that's a legal possibility, not a calendar. Until a specific call is published with its own deadlines, there is nothing to apply for.
Why the order was made is also in its preamble, and it carries a very near expiry date. The European Commission, in its communication "NextGenerationEU – The road to 2026", proposed that execution of these instruments counts as achieved by August 2026 if the aid has been resolved and awarded by then, leaving the physical delivery of projects for later. The January order exists so that not one euro of the Next Generation funds assigned to the programme goes uncommitted before that milestone.
The amounts, corrected
This guide previously carried a table showing €2,000 for Segment III and no Segments IV or V. That was the table from the original 2021 rules, and it had been out of date since May 2024.
Order TDF/435/2024 raised Segment III "from €2,000 to €3,000" and brought medium-sized companies in as beneficiaries. The digital voucher amounts that order sets are:
| Segment | Headcount | Digital voucher |
|---|---|---|
| Segment I | 10 to fewer than 50 employees | €12,000 |
| Segment II | 3 to fewer than 10 employees | €6,000 |
| Segment III | 0 to fewer than 3 employees | €3,000 |
| Segment IV | 50 to fewer than 100 employees | €25,000 |
| Segment V | 100 to fewer than 250 employees | €29,000 |
The per-category caps (website, e-commerce, CRM, cybersecurity, e-invoicing and the rest) vary by segment, and the full table runs to several annex pages. If you need the exact figure for one category, it's in the text of that same order. We don't reproduce it in summary form here, because a miscopied figure about public money is worse than no figure at all.
Worth stressing: these amounts now matter only for files already awarded. They are the ceiling on what a beneficiary can collect if the justification is done properly — not an open offer.
If you already hold a voucher, this is the part that can cost you
Here's what almost nobody covers, and the only piece that carries real financial consequences in August 2026.
The digital voucher is not money that lands in your account. It's a right to payment that gets assigned to the digitalisation agent, and it only becomes effective if it is properly justified. Red.es sets out the process in two phases:
Phase 1 — Implementation. Starts when the service agreement is validated. From that point the digitalisation agent has 3 months to deploy the solutions you chose. Within that window it must issue the invoice and justify the work, because it is the agent that collects the amount for this phase. If the justification is correct, Red.es makes the first payment; the body said in January 2025 that it was doing so within a maximum of 60 days.
Phase 2 — Service provision. Begins when the invoice is validated. From then the agent must provide the service for 12 months and, once those twelve months are up, justify that provision. With that justification accepted, the second payment follows.
Both common traps come from the same asymmetry: the digitalisation agent is the one who files the justification, but you are the one on record as the beneficiary of a public subsidy. If Phase 2 goes unjustified because the provider vanished, stopped delivering or simply never filed the paperwork, the file stays open. And the rules expressly state that awarded grants continue to be governed by them "until the completion and closure of the corresponding files, including any clawback proceedings".
A concrete and common case: you contracted an e-commerce solution in 2024, the store went live, Phase 1 was paid, and you haven't spoken to the provider since. The twelve months of service provision have elapsed. If nobody justified Phase 2, that does not resolve itself.
How to check where you stand
- Log in to the Red.es electronic office with a digital certificate or Cl@ve and find your file. The procedure status tells you whether phases are outstanding.
- Find the invoice validation date. Add twelve months: that's when the Phase 2 service provision period ends.
- Email your digitalisation agent and ask for written confirmation of which phases it has justified and when. Being told over the phone is worth nothing to you six months from now.
- If you get no reply, use the Red.es channels: 900 909 001 or the Acelera pyme form. They're free and still open for exactly this.
- Keep everything: the service agreement, invoices, screenshots of the solution working. The burden of proving the service existed rests on the file, not on your memory.
If you never applied
There's no honest way to tell you there's still time, because there isn't. What you can do:
- Check your autonomous community. Several run their own digitalisation aid lines on calendars independent of Kit Digital. Amounts and deadlines vary by region and by year, so the reliable source is your regional government's electronic office, not an article.
- Visit an Acelera pyme office. They're free, spread across the country, and orientation like this is precisely their job. The directory is at acelerapyme.gob.es.
- Watch the BOE. If a new call is issued under these rules, it will appear there before it appears on any blog.
- Separate the subsidy from the project. If a digital investment only makes sense when someone else pays for it, the subsidy probably isn't the problem. It's worth working out what it costs and what it returns without one.
Where we stand, so there's no confusion
Dynasty DX is not a registered digitalisation agent for the Kit Digital programme. We cannot process applications, we cannot redeem vouchers, and we are not paid by Red.es. We explain the programme because we're asked about it constantly and because the information in circulation is out of date — not because we have something to sell you inside it.
If what interests you is the technical work itself — a store that works, an integration that doesn't break, a site that loads — we do that outside the programme and you pay for it directly. It's a simpler relationship and we can explain it in ten minutes: tell us about your situation.
The concrete step for this week
If you hold an awarded voucher, log in to the Red.es electronic office today and check your file's status. Put the twelve-month mark from the invoice validation date in your calendar and, if it has already passed, email your digitalisation agent asking in writing for the Phase 2 justification.
If you don't hold a voucher, Kit Digital is no longer a route. The next dated obligation that does affect you is electronic invoicing: start with our guide to Verifactu for online stores.
This article is informational and does not replace legal or tax advice. Every date, amount and legal citation was verified against the BOE and official Red.es publications on 4 August 2026. If you're reading this much later, reconfirm: this programme's governing rules have been amended five times.
Sources
- Red.es — Kit Digital closes the last two remaining open calls (31 October 2025)
- Red.es — The importance of completing and justifying each phase of the Kit Digital programme
- BOE — Order TDF/39/2026, of 26 January (BOE no. 25, 28 January 2026)
- BOE — Order TDF/435/2024, of 9 May
- BOE — Order ETD/1498/2021, of 29 December (governing rules)
- Acelera pyme and the Red.es electronic office
