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Welcome to Backed

What Backed is, who uses it, and where to start reading as an administrator.

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Backed is where your organisation runs its grants: you set up a grant round, applicants apply through your portal, assessors score the applications, you record the decisions, and the funded work is tracked through contracts, milestones and reporting.

Who uses Backed

  • Administrators work in the Administrator portal. They set up the organisation, its grant rounds and templates, manage users, and move applications through assessment, decision and contract. These guides are written for them.
  • Assessors score the applications they are assigned, in the Assessor portal.
  • Applicants register, apply and report back through the Applicant portal.
  • Verifiers check applications and milestones for an applicant they are linked to.

One person can hold more than one role. An administrator who is also an assessor switches between them from View as… in the account menu, under Your roles. See View as another role.

The words Backed uses

Backed uses default words for the things it manages: a grant round is a Grant, and you will also see Application, Assessment, Assessment Round, Decision, Contract, Milestone and Program. Your organisation can rename any of them under Settings > Profile and terms > Terminology, so the screens may show your organisation's own term if you've renamed it. These guides use the default words.

Where to start

  1. Read Getting started as an administrator for a tour of the portal.
  2. Read Understanding the typical grant workflow for how the pieces fit together.
  3. Set up your organisation: Organisation settings.

See also

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.