> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/administrator/milestones/commitments.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.

A commitment is what the grantee said they would do or spend: an answer from their application or
a Request More Information form, or a fact of their contract. Bind a deliverable of a milestone
template to a commitment, and every milestone made from the template shows the grantee the
committed value beside the field they complete. Reviewers then see commitment, actual and variance
side by side.

`Application`, `Contract` and `Milestone` are your organisation's own terms if you've renamed them.

## Before you start

- Tag the application fields you want to report against. A Field Tag marks a field, and a Cell Tag
  marks one column of a Table. See [Form builder](../applications/form-builder.md).
- Editing a template's commitments needs permission to edit templates.

## Show commitment from

1. Open the milestone template under `Plan > Form templates > Milestones`.
2. Under `Show commitment from`, each field of the deliverables form that can carry a commitment has
   a row: Currency, Number, Date and text fields, each Table column, and each whole Table.
3. For each row, choose where its commitment comes from:
   - a Field Tag or Cell Tag on an application or Request More Information form, or
   - a contract fact: `Funding amount`, `Contract start date` or `Contract end date`.
4. Select `Save commitments`.

Each row offers only the sources that hold its type of value. A Currency field takes a currency tag
or the `Funding amount`; a Date field takes a date tag or one of the two contract dates; a Table
column takes a Cell Tag on a column of the same type. Fields on assessment and decision forms, and
internal-only fields, are never offered. If a source no longer matches, saving says
"That source holds a different type of value from this field" at its row.

A binding whose tag was deleted shows `Source removed`. Choose another source or `No commitment`,
then save.

Commitments are read when a milestone is published, and kept with it. A later change to the
application or the template changes nothing on milestones already published.

## Refresh commitments

On a milestone's page, `Refresh commitments` reads its commitments again from the application and
contract. It is offered until the milestone is first submitted, to anyone who may create
milestones. The milestone's `History` records each value that changed, with its old and new value.

## Review commitment, actual and variance

When you review a milestone, the `Commitments` table under the deliverables shows each bound field
and each committed budget line with its `Source`, `Commitment`, `Actual` and `Variance`, then the
total of each amount column. For example, `Venue hire` committed at $2,000.00 and reported at
$2,200.00 shows `+$200.00`.

- "Not stated in the application" means the source was left blank, or hidden by the form's logic.
- A field bound to an outcomes indicator shows the grant's target as its commitment, with the
  indicator's unit and baseline. See [Outcomes frameworks](outcomes-frameworks.md).

`Export to PDF` prints the same table after the deliverables.

## See also

- [Milestone templates](milestone-templates.md)
- [Reviewing a milestone](reviewing-a-milestone.md)
- [Milestones and batches](milestones-and-batches.md)