Sage

Software that automates the supplier-invoice side of the ledger: capture of incoming supplier invoices, auto-coding to nominal and VAT, approval workflow, and payment posting. Distinct from expense management, which handles employee-initiated spend.

The annual Corporation Tax return filed by Irish resident companies through ROS. Trading income is taxed at 12.5% (or 15% for large groups in scope of Pillar Two); passive income and certain non-trading profits are taxed at 25%.

Ireland's official public procurement portal. All contracts above EU and national thresholds must be advertised here. Source data for Tenderwatch.ie and any procurement-aware vendor selection.

Software that ingests a photographed, emailed or scanned receipt and uses optical character recognition to extract structured fields - supplier, date, net, VAT rate, VAT amount, currency - so the receipt can be posted to accounting software without manual keying.

Vendors.ie term for the integrated four-layer workflow that moves an Irish SME from a business spend transaction to a Revenue-compliant VAT reclaim line without manual data entry: card or bank feed, receipt capture, VAT extraction, and accounting integration.

The mandatory structured electronic invoicing regime being rolled out by Revenue, aligning Ireland with the EU ViDA (VAT in the Digital Age) package. Invoices must be issued in a machine-readable format (UBL or CII) and transmitted via the Peppol network.

The SEPA Direct Debit scheme variant for business-to-business collections. Faster settlement than SDD Core and no eight-week refund right once the debtor's bank has authorised the mandate, making it the standard for predictable B2B receivables.

Mentor-led digital transformation programme for businesses with 11-50 employees, with a follow-on grant of up to EUR9,000 (50:50 cofunded) for implementation.

Income tax relief for investors who put new equity into a qualifying SME, letting founders raise capital from private investors at preferential after-tax cost.

State-backed long-term loans of EUR25,000 to EUR3 million for SMEs and small mid-caps investing in growth, productivity or sustainability projects, on preferential terms via participating lenders.

Unsecured business loans of EUR2,000 to EUR50,000 for microenterprises that have been declined credit by a bank.