A website or online store paid from grant funds: work split by expense category

Yes. Clause 7 of the Procedure for providing grants to start or scale up one's own business (Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 738 as amended on 1 September 2026) lists among the permitted expenses developing or improving a website and/or online store and introducing digital process automation tools, up to 10% of the grant. The condition is that these expenses are in the business plan: missing or mismatched expense categories from clause 7 are one of the grounds for refusal (clause 19). As of 2 October 2026; check the current version of the resolution.

The limits are calculated from the grant amount. With UAH 100,000: website or store up to UAH 10,000; setup, integrations and maintenance up to UAH 20,000; licensed software up to UAH 25,000; marketing and advertising up to UAH 10,000. With UAH 300,000: 30,000, 60,000, 75,000 and 30,000 respectively. With UAH 500,000: 50,000, 100,000, 125,000 and 50,000. This is arithmetic from the percentages in clause 7, not our price; how much of it goes to the website is set by your business plan.

In the Procedure, this is a separate category: payment for setting up, integrating and maintaining digital solutions needed to implement the business plan, up to 20% of the grant. That is why we put this work into a separate stage with its own invoice and acceptance act. Which category a specific job belongs to is decided not by the contractor but by those who approve your business plan and expenses.

Payments from the grant account are made by the authorized bank, based on an invoice or a contract with the supplier that you submit (clause 31). Compliance with the grant agreement, including on-site inspections, is monitored by the State Employment Center through its regional centers (clause 25). Whether an expense meets the grant conditions is decided by the bank and the employment center, not by us.

A contract listing the work, plus an invoice and an acceptance act for each stage. The contractor is a registered sole proprietor, and payment goes to a bank account. For payment, the Procedure names an invoice (invoice, receipt, waybill, etc.) or a contract with the supplier. If your bank or employment center asks for a different document or wording, tell us before the contract is signed and we will adjust.

No. You or your consultant handle the business plan, the application, the interview and correspondence with the employment center. From us you get a list of work by category and an estimate you can use in the section on digital expenses. We do not guarantee the grant and have no influence on the decision.

There are three options. Reduce the first version: for example, launch the catalog without complex filters and add them later. Put whatever really is setup or integration, rather than development, into a separate stage. Or pay the difference with your own funds under a separate invoice. Which of these is acceptable in your case is decided by the bank and the employment center.

Funds not used within three months of being credited to the account are returned (clause 23 of the Procedure). That is why we agree on the invoicing schedule in the contract before work starts. A business card site usually takes 5–14 business days, a store 25–45; we will be more precise after the estimate. Check with your bank how it pays stage invoices.

No. The amount depends on the scope of work, not on where the money comes from. We name it after the free estimate and fix it in the contract.

If you pay part of the amount with your own funds, it can be split into several payments with no interest; the calculator on our "Pay in installments" page (lionex.com.ua/en/pay-in-installments) builds the schedule. This does not affect payment from the grant account, which is made by the bank.