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Terminology

Choose the words your organisation uses for grants, applications and the rest, and reword the headings applicants and assessors see.

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Settings > Profile and terms > Terminology sets the words your organisation uses for each thing in Backed, and rewords some headings and buttons applicants and assessors see. Changes apply everywhere at once.

Before you start

You can view the page with access to the organisation's settings. If you can only view it, the page says You can view these words. Changing them needs edit access.

Terms

The Terms tab lists every term with its Default and the words In use. The defaults are:

Term Default
Funding round Grant / Grants
Application Application / Applications
Applicant Applicant / Applicants
Entity type: organisation Organisation / Organisations
Entity type: individual Individual / Individuals
Assessor Assessor / Assessors
Assessment Assessment / Assessments
Assessment round Assessment Round / Assessment Rounds
Verifier Verifier / Verifiers
Institution Institution / Institutions
Funding decision Decision / Decisions
Offer Offer / Offers
Condition Condition / Conditions
Contract Contract / Contracts
Milestone Milestone / Milestones
Payment Payment / Payments
Payment batch Payment Batch / Payment Batches
Fund Fund / Funds
Program Program / Programs
Funding category Funding Category / Funding Categories
Collaborator Collaborator / Collaborators
Referee Referee / Referees
Eligibility Eligibility
Registration Registration / Registrations
Sign-in link Sign in here

To change a term:

  1. Select Edit on its row.
  2. Enter the Singular and the Plural. The two entity types show Plural (optional), and Eligibility and the sign-in link have no plural.
  3. Select Save. You see Term saved.

A word can be up to 40 characters and cannot contain double square brackets. A term with your organisation's own words shows Custom. To go back to the default, select Reset to default on its row; you see Term reset to its default.

The Preview beside the list (below it on a narrow screen) shows your unsaved words, and unsaved interface text, on an applicant dashboard card, an email subject and a report header. Nothing is saved until you save it.

Interface text

The Interface text tab rewords individual headings and buttons, grouped by where they appear: Applicant dashboard, Landing pages, Application form, Submission confirmation, Registration pages and Assessor dashboard. Each text shows its default under its name, and Default in use until you change it.

To change one, select Edit, enter the text (up to 80 characters) and select Save. It replaces the heading or button exactly as you write it. Select Clear, or save an empty box, to show the default again.

What changes and what does not

Navigation, list titles, page headings and the emails Backed sends follow your words. Letters already generated, audit entries and stored email logs keep the words they were written with.

If someone else changes the terminology while you are editing, the page says Someone else changed the terminology and shows the latest words; your unsaved change stays open so you can check it and save again.

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.