Granting Awards

Overview

When a scout has completed all requirements for a rank, merit badge, or adventure, you can grant the award. Scout Manager also supports quick-complete for situations where you want to grant an award without individually signing off every requirement.

Required role: Administrator, Leader, or Awards Coordinator

Granting an Award (Requirements Complete)

When all requirements for an award are signed off, the award is ready to grant:

  1. Open the scout’s advancement dashboard
  2. The completed award will show a Grant Award button
  3. Click it and confirm the date earned
  4. The award is recorded

Quick-Complete

Sometimes you need to record an award without signing off each requirement individually (e.g., a scout transferred in with a completed merit badge):

  1. Open the scout’s advancement dashboard
  2. Find the award (rank, merit badge, or adventure)
  3. Click the Quick Complete action
  4. Enter the date earned
  5. Click Save

This marks the award as granted without requiring individual requirement sign-offs.

Editing Award Dates

If an award was recorded with the wrong date:

  1. Open the scout’s advancement dashboard
  2. Find the granted award
  3. Click the date next to the award
  4. Enter the correct date
  5. Click Save

Award Ceremony Reports

Once awards are granted, you can generate reports for your ceremony:

  • What to Buy — list of awards that need to be purchased
  • What to Distribute — list of awards ready to hand out at your next ceremony

Navigate to Advancement → Award Reports to generate these.

Tips

  • Quick-complete is great for transfers and historical data entry
  • Award dates affect rank progression calculations
  • The ceremony reports filter by date range so you can see just what’s new since your last ceremony