Canada Digital Adoption Program

The Canadian Digital Adoption Program is available to a variety of businesses that meet specific requirements as outlined by the Government of Canada. To qualify, your business needs to be a provincially or federally incorporated entity, or in the case of a sole proprietorship, it needs to be owned by a Canadian resident. Additionally, your business must be privately-owned and for-profit. The size of your workforce should not exceed 499 employees. Finally, over the course of one of the past three years, your business should have generated gross revenue that falls in the range of $500,000 to $100 million.

Yes, we can! As a registered CDAP advisor, we understand how challenging it can be to complete components of the application such as the digital maturity assessment. We are here to provide more information on the assessment, answer any queries you may have, and help improve your understanding of what digital maturity means, so you can answer the assessment accurately and confidently.

In case your business has previously participated in a digital adoption program through initiatives such as Programme Audit Industrie 4.0, Digital Boost 2.0, or the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency: Digital Acceleration Pilot within the past year, you will not be eligible for the $15,000 Canadian Digital Adoption Program. However, the $15,000 grant is not the only funding option available through the CDAP. If your business satisfies all other eligibility criteria, you may still apply for a $100,000 interest-free loan from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).

The Canada Digital Adoption Program operates a list of registered digital advisors. You should refer to the Digital Advisor Marketplace to locate approved CDAP advisors, a list that includes Candybox Marketing, among others.

At Candybox Marketing, we have a team of experts who specialize in digital adoption and enablement. As your dedicated CDAP advisors, they will leverage their vast industry expertise and experience to help develop your digital adoption plan. You will have a dedicated account manager assigned to you as your primary point of contact, who will provide regular updates on progress made, milestones reached, and ensure that you are well positioned to implement your custom digital adoption plan.

If your CDAP deadline is coming up, we can expedite your project quickly. Please contact us directly for more information.

After you select Candybox as your CDAP advisor, we will start assisting you with your application and conducting an assessment of your needs. This will inform the development of your digital adoption plan. The process typically kicks off within a few weeks of signing your engagement contract with us. Our aim is to wrap up the process within two months of funding approval. Within this period, you will need to submit your digital adoption plan and relevant invoices to the federal government.

Your digital adoption plan will be a comprehensive roadmap designed to identify current challenges in your business and opportunities for digital transformation. This roadmap will be tailored to meet your specific needs. It will come complete with expert recommendations, a detailed cost-benefit analysis of industry-standard tools and platforms, and a clear path to implementation through a sustained partnership with Candybox Marketing.

No, the Canadian Digital Adoption Program is designed specifically to provide funding for establishing the groundwork, which includes assessing your business’s digital maturity and developing your digital adoption plan in collaboration with a CDAP advisor. The eligible costs under this grant include advisory fees, associated charges, and applicable sales taxes. That being said, the BDC offers a $100,000 interest-free loan which you can use to implement your digital adoption plan. This could potentially include the purchase of new equipment.

The Canadian Digital Adoption Program covers our services as a CDAP advisor. At the end of this engagement, we will provide you with an implementation-ready digital adoption plan. While our role as your CDAP advisor ends at this point, we are more than happy to continue our work with you, leveraging our deep understanding of your digital adoption needs to help implement your bespoke plan. You can choose to engage Candybox for further consultancy, marketing, and sales services to reach your digital adoption goals.

The funded work placement program under the CDAP offers a wage subsidy of $7,300 to businesses hiring a student or recent graduate to support their digital transformation and adoption initiatives. The eligibility criteria for this subsidy are the same as those for the Boost Your Business Technology CDAP track. We recommend applying for this subsidy once you’re ready to implement your digital adoption strategy, since the $15,000 funding already provides for expert advisory services.

No, Candybox Marketing is a registered CDAP advisor for the Canadian Digital Adoption Program, and we specialize in supporting businesses through digital adoption strategies. The Grow Your Business Online micro-grant offers $2,400 in funding, but it has different eligibility requirements, and other e-commerce advisors may be more suited to offer support for this grant.

Each Canadian Digital Adoption Program of $15,000 is intended for one business entity. If you own or direct multiple businesses that meet the eligibility criteria, you can apply for a separate grant for each entity.

Yes, it does. As an agency that has been included in the Globe & Mail’s Top Growing Companies list for several years, and acknowledged as a Great Place To Work, we have a deep understanding of digital transformation within a business, not just in the marketing sphere.