> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/applicant/after-you-submit.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.

Once you submit, the organisation reviews your application. Before you receive a decision, you may
receive a request for more information. Everything about the application is on its page: select
`View` on its row under `Applications`.

Labels that name `Grant`, `Application`, `Decision` and `Verifier` use your organisation's own
term if you've renamed it.

## The application page

The page shows the application's number (if your funder shows numbers), status, grant and
`Applying for`, the read-only form and its `Actions`. While the organisation is considering it,
the status may carry the date to expect a decision by, such as `Decision expected by 14 March
2027`; once that date has passed it adds `taking longer than expected`.

`Download PDF` is always beside the main action: the application as a PDF, or as a PDF with its
uploaded files. On a smaller screen the other actions are behind `More actions`. Depending on where
the application stands, they include:

- `Edit Application` — while it is still open to changes.
- `Request to edit Application` — after it is locked.
- `Provide More Information` — when the organisation has asked for more.
- `Withdraw Application` — it moves to `Withdrawn` and can't be changed or submitted again. This
  cannot be undone.
- `View Conversation` — messages with the organisation, when it uses them.
- `Manage Collaborators` — on an application you own, while its grant allows collaborators. See
  [Collaborating on an application](collaborating.md).

`Notes` holds private notes for your organisation, its collaborators and any assigned verifier.
Administrators and assessors never see them. Type in `Add a note`, attach a file if you need to,
and select `Add Note`.

## Provide more information

When the organisation asks for more information, the application shows `More information requested`
and a task appears in `My Tasks`.

1. Select `Provide More Information`.
2. Answer the questions. Your answers save as you go.
3. Select `Submit`. You see `Your response was sent.`

Please respond as soon as possible to avoid delays or rejection.

## If the page says your application will be withdrawn

Some organisations withdraw an application automatically when it is left untouched. Seven days
before that happens, you receive `Your application will be withdrawn`, and the application page and
its form show a banner with the date and the reason:

- `… because it has not been edited` — the draft has not been changed for a while. Save a change
  to the application and the countdown stops.
- `… because an information request has not been answered` — the organisation asked for more
  information and is still waiting. Respond to the request (`Provide More Information`, then
  `Submit`) and the countdown stops.

If the date passes without that, the application moves to `Withdrawn`.

## Ask to edit a submitted application

1. Select `Request to edit Application`.
2. Under `Message`, tell the funder what you want to change and why.
3. Select `Send request`.

The page shows `Edit request sent — waiting for a decision`. If it is approved, the page says
`Your edit request was approved`: edit the application, then select `Resubmit`. If the organisation
unlocks your application itself, the page says until when you can change it. Approval is more
likely before your application is reviewed.

## Your decision

When a decision is made, the application page shows `Decision Letters`. Select
`View Letter of Offer` or `View Letter of Decline` to read it. `Download PDF` saves a copy; if the
PDF is still being prepared, read the letter on the page meanwhile and select `Check again`.

## Accept or decline an offer

A Letter of Offer asks you to accept or decline.

1. Read the letter.
2. Select `Accept` or `Decline`, then confirm. Once you respond, you can't change your response.
   Declining moves the application to `Declined`.

If your application goes through a verifier, they may review your acceptance; the page says so.

## Complete your conditions

An offer can come with conditions. `Decision Conditions` lists each one with its due date and
status: `To complete`, `Submitted`, `Approved` or `Resubmission requested`.

1. Open the condition.
2. Answer its questions. They save automatically.
3. Submit the condition when every required question is answered.

If the organisation asks you to update a condition, change your answers and submit it again.

## Appeal a decision

Some grants let you appeal when your application is declined. When yours does, the `Appeal` part of
the decision on the application page says `You can appeal this Decision until` a date: the
organisation sets how many days after the Letter of Decline is sent you have.

1. Select `Submit Appeal`.
2. Under `Grounds for your appeal`, tell the organisation why the decision should be reconsidered,
   in up to 4,000 characters. If the organisation uses an appeal form, answer its questions instead;
   your answers save as you go.
3. Select `Submit Appeal`. You see `Your appeal was submitted.` and return to the application.

You can have one appeal open at a time. Only the application's owner and members of its
organisation can submit one. A collaborator sees the appeal but not `Submit Appeal`.

The application page then shows the appeal's status: `Submitted`, `Under review`, `Upheld` or
`Dismissed`. You're emailed when it's resolved, and the page shows the organisation's `Outcome`. An
upheld appeal doesn't change the decision by itself: the organisation tells you about any new
decision.

If `Submit Appeal` isn't there, the page says why: the grant doesn't accept appeals, or the time to
appeal ended on the date shown.

## See also

- [Contracts](contracts.md)
- [Collaborating on an application](collaborating.md)
- [Applying for a grant](applying-for-a-grant.md)
- [Frequently asked questions for applicants](faq-applicants.md)