While rapt with this week's return to a daily life permit, Albury Northside Chamber of Commerce and Business NSW frontmen want a clearer picture about the full reopening of the border.

Chamber deputy chair Barry Young said he would like to see a "road map" from the NSW government to "give some sort of clarity".

"Whether that's based on (coronavirus) numbers in regional Victoria or numbers in Melbourne it would be a nice step," Mr Young said.

Business NSW Riverina-Murray manager Andrew Cottrill echoed Mr Young's view and said he had raised with NSW Small Business Commissioner Chris Lamont who visited Albury on Friday.

"I know he's had those same discussions with the Premier," Mr Cottrill said.

IN OTHER NEWS:

"Unfortunately we're at the behest of what happens in Victoria, it's out of control a little bit, but businesses do want certainty and if they have that certainty they can start to invest back in their staff and their businesses and growth."

Mr Lamont said he would "absolutely" be taking those concerns to the government.

"We're in a much better position now to start planning for the next three to six months, businesses are saying that they want that surety so they can invest, so that they can hire...that's a message I will be taking back," Mr Lamont said.

He believed that reopening the border was a "week-by-week proposition".

Mr Lamont urged businesses to apply for grants put up by the government to assist traders in the southern Riverina left out-of-pocket because of the border closure.

There's been over 600 bids for the $5000 and $10,000 handouts since applications opened on September 8.

It is hoped thousands of enterprises seek the grants, with requests through Service NSW closing on October 18.

"The grant is easy to apply for, particularly the $5000 grant, we heard from a business that applied for the grant and got acknowledgment of the receipt in five minutes," Mr Lamont said.

"An accountant is required to vouch for the $10,000 grant, that's...a two-page form but it's a very simple electronic process."

The subsidies rely on businesses showing a comparative 30 per cent or 75 per cent drop in turnover since the July 8 border closure.

Mr Cottrill said there "are many thousands of businesses who have yet to apply and we do know that businesses have suffered, so really it's putting A and B together, getting people to go through the process and get the money that you well deserve".

The grants are part of a $45 million government package set up to help southern border businesses.