Opportunity Wales
Client Aid

Client Aid is the name of the funding package that Opportunity Wales provides to its clients. If you intend to purchase items defined as fundamental in improving your business through eCommerce, we can provide financial assistance towards them.

Having received your first eCommerce review you will then be able to qualify for Client Aid. Items suitable for Client Aid, are those that will facilitate a step up the eCommerce ladder.

The ladder is a simple methodology that Opportunity Wales uses to distinguish levels of eCommerce adoption, and provides a realistic goal for business to achieve in order to ensure that eCommerce can work for them. Qualification is also subject to the Opportunity Wales adviser working with the client, to agree that the products and services will facilitate advancing up a step.

Following or during a visit with the client, it will be agreed with the Opportunity Wales adviser the expenditure that will turn the report’s findings into reality.

How much is available?

County	Maximum Client Aid available	Based on a client spend of
Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Newport, Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham	£750 per eCommerce Review	£5,000 before VAT

For Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Newport, Powys, the Vale of Glamorgan, and Wrexham: Businesses in only certain parts of these counties are eligible to receive Opportunity Wales services. To check whether your business is eligible, please contact us.

What can Client Aid pay for?

It’s up to the eCommerce report that your adviser will provide to you. We don’t impose limits on the types or nature of products and services that Client Aid will pay for, as every business has different needs, requirements and potential implementation.

Your adviser will also work with you to ensure that your return on investment is maximised; that you will enter the “marketplace” of eCommerce products and services with confidence, satisfied in the knowledge that your adviser has given you in what would work the best for your business, both for now and in the future.

Terms and conditions apply to the Client Aid process. Further information is available from your Opportunity Wales adviser, or by contacting us directly.