What changed on 30 September
Until 29 September 2026, a Singapore company looking for help with a digitalisation project had three Enterprise Singapore schemes to choose between: the Productivity Solutions Grant for pre-approved, off-the-shelf solutions, the Enterprise Development Grant for larger capability projects, and Market Readiness Assistance for going overseas. Each had its own rules, its own caps and its own form.
From 30 September 2026 there is one scheme, EDGE, with one application on the Business Grants Portal. EnterpriseSG describes it as support for companies starting new projects to upgrade capabilities, improve efficiency and expand overseas, and says the name does not stand for anything. Applications made to the old schemes before the cutover are assessed under the old rules, and approved projects run to completion.
If you had a PSG purchase in mind, the closest equivalent sits inside EDGE's automation and digitalisation area, under a sub-cap we come to below. If you had an EDG project in mind, the consultancy and capability activities are there too, with the same requirement that consultants be SS 680-certified.
Who can apply
The eligibility is stated plainly and is worth checking before anything else. The applicant must be a business entity registered in Singapore, with at least 30% of its shares held by Singaporeans and/or permanent residents. Non-profit organisations, societies, religious entities, VWOs, statutory boards and government subsidiaries are excluded. Some activities carry conditions of their own.
One change from PSG is that EDGE is open to non-SMEs as well. For the purposes of the support levels, an SME is a company with group annual sales turnover of not more than S$100 million, or group employment of not more than 200.
How much, and the two caps
Two ceilings apply, and it helps to hold both in mind. The first is the annual cap: each company can receive up to S$100,000 in grant support a year across all EDGE activities combined, with the year running from 1 April to 31 March. The second is the sub-cap for digital and automation work: within the S$100,000, up to S$30,000 can go on single-function digital solutions, integrated enterprise systems and selected automation. A company that uses the full S$30,000 on an ERP has S$70,000 of cap left for other activities that year, and the whole cap resets in April.
The share of a project's qualifying costs that the grant covers depends on the activity. For most activities it is up to 50% for SMEs and up to 30% for non-SMEs. For internationalisation and sustainability activities it is higher, up to 70% for SMEs and up to 50% for non-SMEs. For a digitalisation project the figure to plan with is 50%; the 70% that appears on some other pages applies to internationalisation and sustainability activities.
Grant support from the old schemes does not count toward the EDGE cap, so a company that used PSG earlier in the year can still apply for EDGE.
The order of operations
The sequence is strict and reimbursement comes at the end, which is where most of the questions we hear about EDGE come from.
The application comes first. It goes through the Business Grants Portal under the company's Corppass, prepared and accepted by people inside the company holding the BGP Preparer and Acceptor roles. EnterpriseSG does not allow a vendor or any third party to apply on a company's behalf. Three quotations are not required.
Second, and this is the strict part: the application must be submitted before you pay the vendor or start the work. Work or payment before submission is treated as a retrospective application and is not supported. Whether to start after submitting but before the approval letter arrives is a risk the company carries itself; many wait.
Processing comes third. The FAQ gives two examples: about one week for a pre-approved ERP vendor, and about ten weeks for a vendor that is not pre-approved. That ten-week figure is worth building into any project plan that involves a custom build.
The project comes fourth, with deliverables that the claim can point to.
The claim comes last. EDGE is paid on reimbursement, after a single final claim with the invoices and deliverables, and there is no cash advance. The earliest claim dates are 1 December 2026 for single-function digital solutions and pre-scoped equipment, and 1 January 2027 for everything else. So a company pays the full cost first and receives its share back afterwards, which is the same as the old schemes and is worth saying plainly because many owners expect the money to arrive up front.
Pre-approved, or not, and what SS 680 means
Two words in the scheme are easy to conflate. "Pre-approved" describes a vendor or solution EnterpriseSG has already assessed, and for most activities it changes the processing time, with the eligibility unchanged: the FAQ says companies are not limited to a pre-approved list, and that an IT solution that is not pre-approved can still be applied for. The trade is the ten weeks.
"SS 680" is the Singapore Standard for management consultancy, and SAC-accredited certification against it is what EnterpriseSG requires of consultants delivering consultancy under EDGE. It applies to consultancy engagements, such as a strategy or process redesign project, and it is separate from who builds or supplies a digital solution.
We are neither a pre-approved EDGE vendor nor an SS 680-certified consultancy, and we would rather say that plainly here than have it come up in a grant officer's email. Where that matters for a project, we will say so and help you find the right kind of partner for that part.
Where software and AI projects fit
The automation and digitalisation area is where a digitalisation project lands. EnterpriseSG's FAQ lists single-function digital solutions, integrated ERP systems with specified functions, and pre-scoped equipment and automation, all under the S$30,000 sub-cap. It also says data migration and integration costs are assessed case by case, which is relevant to almost any project that connects a new system to an old one.
Where custom software and AI adoption sit is less cut and dried, and we have not found a published rule that settles it. In our experience the useful move is to describe the project as a business outcome with named deliverables, for example an order intake and stock system that replaces three spreadsheets, with the integration work listed, and to put that description to EnterpriseSG before committing. The FAQ's own advice for a project that does not obviously fit a scope is to ask, and that has matched our experience.
A scene, to make it concrete
Picture a forty-person precision engineering firm in Tuas. The finance manager has a quotation from an ERP vendor dated August, a PSG application half-drafted, and a note from the owner asking whether the AI tools the production lead keeps mentioning can go in the same project.
Under EDGE the shape changes a little. The ERP, from a pre-approved vendor, sits in the automation and digitalisation area with the S$30,000 sub-cap and roughly a week of processing. The AI piece, a scheduling assistant over the firm's own job data, sits on top of the ERP as an integration project, and whether and how it qualifies is a question to put to EnterpriseSG with a clear paragraph describing the deliverable. The order of operations means the ERP contract waits for the application to go in, and the finance manager pencils the claim for the new year. The firm is hypothetical; the shape of the conversation is one we expect to have often this year.
Questions to take into your next finance meeting
- What is the project, in one paragraph a grant officer could read without a demo?
- Has anyone paid a vendor, or signed anything, for any part of it yet?
- Who in the company holds the Corppass roles for the Business Grants Portal, and have they logged in since September?
- Is the vendor pre-approved, and if the answer is no, does the ten-week processing time fit the plan?
- Which April-to-March year will the claim fall in, and does the S$30,000 sub-cap leave room for everything in the digital bucket?
If it would help to work through the project itself before the application, that is the part we do: what to build, what to buy, and what the deliverables should say. The application stays yours, and we are glad to say if a pre-approved tool is the simpler route.