The Business Grants Portal (businessgrants.gov.sg) is the single government site where a Singapore company applies for almost every enterprise grant: the EDGE Grant, which took over from the Productivity Solutions Grant, the Enterprise Development Grant and the Market Readiness Assistance grant on 30 September 2026, plus a handful of sector funds. One Corppass login, one company profile pulled from ACRA, one place to track approvals and file claims. It sounds tidy, and mostly it is. What trips owners up is the part before you ever see a grant form: the Corppass role you were assigned, the quotation you accepted too early, the project you already started. This guide walks through how the portal works in 2026, what EDGE pays, and what changed when it folded three grants into one.
The portal launched in January 2017 as a joint build by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and GovTech. Before it existed, each agency ran its own grant site with its own login and its own forms. Now most enterprise grants sit behind one address, and your company profile (revenue, headcount, shareholding) is auto-populated from ACRA so you are not retyping it for every application.
You reach it two ways. The application engine lives at businessgrants.gov.sg, and EnterpriseSG also routes you in from apply.gov.sg/grants/business. Both land on the same place. To browse what you might qualify for first, EnterpriseSG points you to its BizSG grant recommender, which matches support to what your business needs.
The portal is the plumbing, not the grant. Approval, funding rate and eligibility are set by the grant programme itself (EnterpriseSG for EDGE; the Singapore Tourism Board for the tourism funds, and so on). The portal just collects the application and moves it to the right desk.
Everything starts with Corppass, the corporate identity layer you log into using your personal Singpass. No personal Singpass, no Corppass, no portal. Your company's Corppass Admin then has to assign you the ApplyGov / Business Grants Portal role, and the role you get controls exactly what you can do. This is the step most first-time applicants skip, then wonder why the submit button is greyed out.
There are three roles, and they stack in privilege. Get this wrong and your finance manager can fill in a flawless EDGE application but cannot accept the Letter of Offer, which only the boss is allowed to do.
| Role | What it can do | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| BGP Viewer | View application details only, no editing | Auditors, accountants checking status |
| BGP Preparer | View, create, edit and submit applications | The staff member running the grant |
| BGP Acceptor | Everything a Preparer can, plus accept the Letter of Offer | MD, CEO or equivalent authorised signatory |
Update, 14 October 2026: EnterpriseSG closed the PSG, EDG and MRA to new applications on 29 September 2026. From 30 September the EDGE Grant replaces all three, with one cap of S$100,000 a company a year. Applications sent in before 30 September are still assessed under the old rules, and approved projects run to their claim as normal.
EDGE covers 8 business areas and over 150 activities, from shop-floor automation to setting up overseas. You pick the activity that matches your project and apply for that one alone: one application per activity, and for overseas work, one per market. SMEs get up to 50% of qualifying cost, or up to 70% for internationalisation and sustainability activities. Non-SMEs get up to 30%, or up to 50% in those two areas. Each activity page sets its own cost cap and project window.
The cap is shared. Every activity you claim draws on the same S$100,000, which resets on 1 April each year. Within it, single-function digital solutions, integrated enterprise systems and pre-scoped equipment can take no more than S$30,000, the same ceiling the PSG had. Grants you got under the PSG, EDG or MRA do not count against EDGE's caps, but EDGE will not fund a project those schemes already paid for.
| Business area | SME support | Non-SME support | Cap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automation and digitalisation | Up to 50% | Up to 30% | S$30,000 a year for digital solutions, enterprise systems and pre-scoped equipment |
| Business strategy, financial management, innovation, standards | Up to 50% | Up to 30% | Within the S$100,000 yearly cap |
| Internationalisation (one application per market) | Up to 70% | Up to 50% | Within the S$100,000 yearly cap |
| Sustainability | Up to 70% | Up to 50% | Within the S$100,000 yearly cap |
The flow is the same across EDGE activities, only the supporting documents change. Treat the order as fixed, because two of these steps cannot be undone if you rush them.
Two eligibility rules apply to nearly every grant on the portal: the business must be registered and operating in Singapore, and it must have at least 30% local shareholding held directly or indirectly by Singapore citizens or PRs. The higher SME rates add an SME test: group annual sales of no more than S$100 million, or no more than 200 workers. The group counts any company that owns more than 50% of you and any company you own more than 50% of. Each activity can add rules of its own, listed on its page.
The rejections rarely come from the funding rate. They come from sequence and proof. The big four: starting the project or paying the vendor before you submit, picking a solution or vendor the activity does not allow, asking EDGE to fund a project the PSG, EDG or MRA already paid for, and a project that is really business-as-usual rather than a defined upgrade. Each activity also sets a completion window (18 months from approval for a carbon management solution, for example), so do not apply for work you cannot finish on time.
If your project is partly about freeing up cash flow rather than pure capability, model the numbers first. Run the spend through a budgeting calculator so you know what the 30% to 50% you still pay out of pocket does to your runway, and read our guide to government payouts and support schemes to see what else your business and household can stack.
EDGE launched on 30 September 2026 and folds the EDG, PSG and MRA into one grant on the same Business Grants Portal. The name is not an acronym; EnterpriseSG says it is about giving firms an edge over their competitors. Instead of learning three sets of rules, you find the activity that fits your project and apply for it, and every activity draws on one S$100,000 yearly cap.
What this means in practice: an application sent before 30 September is still assessed under its old scheme, and an approved PSG, EDG or MRA project runs to its claim as normal. If one of those projects used the SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit, the final claim is due by 30 November 2026, and EDGE itself cannot be paired with the credit. Anything new goes through EDGE, where grants you had before do not use up your cap, though EDGE will not pay for the same project twice.
Before you fund a project on grant money, sanity-check the financial logic the same way you would a personal decision. Our tax guide covers how grant-funded spend interacts with what you owe IRAS, and the GST glossary entry is worth a look since the GST treatment of co-funded purchases trips up a lot of new applicants.
It is the single government website (businessgrants.gov.sg, also reached via apply.gov.sg/grants/business) where Singapore companies find and apply for enterprise grants such as the EDGE Grant, which replaced the PSG, EDG and MRA on 30 September 2026. You log in with Corppass, your company profile auto-fills from ACRA, and you track approvals and file claims in one place.
Yes. You log in to the portal with Corppass using your personal Singpass, and your Corppass Admin must assign you a role first. A Preparer can submit applications, while only a BGP Acceptor (usually the MD or CEO) can accept the Letter of Offer that releases the grant.
It depends on the activity. Under EDGE, an ERP package from a pre-approved vendor takes about 1 week to process, while the same activity with your own vendor takes about 10 weeks. Each activity page states its own processing time. Disbursement happens after you complete the project and file a claim with invoices and proof of payment.
EDGE launched on 30 September 2026 and replaces the EDG, PSG and MRA with one grant on the Business Grants Portal. SMEs get up to 50% of qualifying cost, or up to 70% for overseas expansion and green projects, within a cap of S$100,000 a company a year.
No, and this is the most common reason applications fail. Any deposit, signed order or work started before you submit makes the application retrospective, and it will not be supported. Under EDGE you may pay after you submit and before approval, and that cost can be covered if the grant is approved, but you carry the risk until then.
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