> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/administrator/getting-started/understanding-the-typical-grant-workflow.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

> This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

Most grants in Backed follow the same path. Each step has its own part of the portal and its own
guides. The words below are the defaults; the screens show your organisation's own term if you've
renamed it.

## 1. Set-up

Set up your organisation, your templates and the grant round itself: its dates, its application
form, its eligibility questions and its landing page. Then publish it.

- [Organisation settings](../organisation/organisation-settings.md)
- [Create a grant round](../funding-rounds/create-a-grant-round.md)

## 2. Application

Applicants register, read the landing page, answer any eligibility questions and fill in the
application form. You follow them on `All Applications`.

- [Applications list](../applications/applications-list.md)

## 3. Assessment

An assessment round assigns applications to assessors, who declare any conflicts of interest and
score them.

- [Assessment rounds](../assessments/assessment-rounds.md)
- [Assignments](../assessments/assignments.md)

## 4. Decision

A funding decision records which applications are approved or declined, and sends the letters.

- [Funding decisions](../decisions/funding-decisions.md)

## 5. Contract and milestones

A contract sets out the terms of the grant, and milestones track the funded work and its
deliverables.

- [Create and send a contract](../contracts/create-and-send-a-contract.md)
- [Milestones and batches](../milestones/milestones-and-batches.md)

## 6. Payment (coming)

Paying grants from Backed is coming. Until it lands, record payments in your finance system.

## 7. Reporting

Report on the portfolio, and, where your organisation uses quarterly reporting, collect returns
from your partners.

- [Portfolio](../reports/portfolio.md)
- [Quarterly cycles and returns](../outcomes/quarterly-cycles-and-returns.md)