The Business Grants Portal (businessgrants.gov.sg) is the single government site where a Singapore company applies for almost every enterprise grant: the Productivity Solutions Grant, the Enterprise Development Grant, the Market Readiness Assistance grant and 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, the real funding rates by grant, and the EDGE merger that will fold three grants into one later this year.
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, the Gov Assist e-Adviser on GoBusiness asks a few questions about your sector and goal, then points you to the grants worth opening.
The portal is the plumbing, not the grant. Approval, funding rate and eligibility are set by the grant programme itself (EnterpriseSG for PSG, EDG and MRA; 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 EDG 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 |
Nine grants run through the portal, but three carry the bulk of SME applications: the PSG, the EDG and the MRA grant. The funding rates below are the published EnterpriseSG figures and were checked as of June 2026; rates and caps are reviewed regularly, so confirm yours on the grant page before you commit spend.
The Productivity Solutions Grant is the easy entry point. You pick a pre-approved IT solution or piece of equipment from the GoBusiness Gov Assist catalogue, get a quotation, and apply. It funds up to 50% of qualifying cost, capped at S$30,000 per company per year. The Enterprise Development Grant is the heavyweight: it co-funds bigger transformation projects (consultancy, software, internal manpower) at up to 50% for local SMEs, rising to up to 70% for sustainability projects. The MRA grant helps you enter a new overseas market and pays up to 70% of eligible cost for SMEs, capped at S$100,000 per company per new market (effective 1 April 2026).
| Grant | Funds | Support rate (SME) | Cap | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSG | Pre-approved IT solutions, equipment | Up to 50% | S$30,000 / company / year | POS system, accounting software, robotics |
| EDG | Consultancy, software, internal manpower | Up to 50% (up to 70% sustainability) | Per project, no fixed dollar cap | Process redesign, branding, automation |
| MRA | Overseas promotion, business dev, set-up | Up to 70% | S$100,000 / company / new market | Trade fairs, market entry, in-market partners |
The flow is the same across grants, 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 SME-rate grants (PSG, MRA) add an SME test: group annual sales no more than S$100 million, or no more than 200 employees. For MRA there is a further gate, the market must be genuinely new to you (sales there under S$100,000 in each of the prior three years).
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 the application, applying for a solution that is not on the approved PSG list, weak or missing financial statements on an EDG application, and a project that is really business-as-usual rather than a defined upgrade. The portal also expects projects to be completed within the stated window (12 months for many grants), 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.
The biggest shift is the EDGE framework (Enterprise Development and Growth for Enterprises), due to launch in the second half of 2026. EDGE folds the EDG, PSG and MRA into a single application flow on the same Business Grants Portal, so instead of learning three sets of rules and three forms, you describe what you want to do and the system routes the funding. Until EDGE goes live, all three grants stay open and you apply for them separately exactly as today.
What this means in practice: if you have a transformation project sitting in the pipeline, there is little reason to wait for EDGE. The existing grants are accessible now, the rates above still apply, and a Letter of Offer issued under the current schemes is honoured. EDGE is about removing friction, not raising the payout. If anything, getting comfortable with the portal and your Corppass roles now means you are ready the day the merged flow switches on.
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 PSG, EDG and MRA. 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 grant. PSG decisions for pre-approved solutions are relatively fast, while EDG and MRA applications typically take around 8 to 12 weeks because they involve project assessment. Disbursement happens after you complete the project and file a claim with invoices and proof of payment.
EDGE (Enterprise Development and Growth for Enterprises) is a new framework launching in the second half of 2026 that merges the EDG, PSG and MRA into one streamlined application on the Business Grants Portal. Until it launches, the three grants remain open and you apply for each separately.
No, and this is the most common reason applications fail. You must apply and receive approval before you pay any deposit, sign with the vendor or start the project. Retrospective claims for work already underway are not accepted, so apply first and transact second.
This is general financial information for Singapore, not personal financial advice. Figures change — verify current rates against the official sources above before acting. See our full disclaimer.