Going Merry

Create scholarships using the Scholarship Wizard, download applications, select winners, and invite other members in your Provider Portal.

[Providers] Overview of the Provider Portal

You will receive periodic emails updating you on the status of your scholarship.

[Providers] What email notifications will I receive about my scholarship?

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Learn how to create scholarships using the Scholarship Wizard, download applications, evaluate applicants, select winners, and invite other admins in the Provider Portal.

Scholarship Providers - Scholarship Management 

Read more about the Home page in the Provider Portal.

[Provider] What information is displayed on my Home dashboard?

Home page

Learn how to view and download applications, select a winner, extend scholarship deadlines, and more.

My Active Scholarships - View/Download Applications

Download a single student's application or download all applications in bulk on the Evaluate Applications page in the Provider Portal.

[Providers] How do I download applications?

Learn about how Going Merry gives you more visibility on your application numbers

[Providers] How can I track applicants on my scholarship?

The Evaluate page offers many features that make reviewing applications easy.

[Providers] How do I review my applications online?

See what a Going Merry student application PDF looks like.

[Providers] How do I access my scholarship applications and what do they look like?

Providers can view applications online or printed.

[Providers] What does an application look like online vs. printed?

Providers can not change a student's application back to draft.

[Providers] An applicant made a mistake on their application, how do I change their application back to draft?

The Provider Portal is not currently supported on the mobile app. Login using a desktop computer or an internet browser on your phone.

[Providers] Can I log in to the Provider Portal using the Going Merry mobile app?

[Provider] I was invited as an Administrator/Reviewer, do I need to create a scholarship?

No, an application is final once it is submitted.

[Providers] Can a student attach additional documents to their application after they submit it?

Find out how to view and download applications.

Reviewing and Downloading Applications

Preview your scholarship page on the Evaluate page of the Provider Portal.

[Providers] How do I preview my scholarship page?

Preview scholarship questions on the Evaluate page of the Provider Portal.

[Providers] How do I preview my scholarship questions?

Providers and other scholarship administrators can easily change the deadline, award amount, or number of recipients in the provider portal.

[Providers] How do I change the deadline,  award amount, or number of recipients on my scholarship?

Filter and arrange scholarships in the provider portal.

[Providers] How do I filter or arrange my scholarships?

General Scholarship Questions

Contact information is provided in a student's application.

[Providers] How do I contact an applicant?

Set evaluation criteria in the Evaluate page of the Provider Portal.

[Providers] How do I set Full Evaluation criteria?

Use the quick evaluation rating to quickly screen or shortlist applications.

[Providers] How do I use the Quick Evaluation feature?

[Providers] How do I see a full breakdown of all reviewers' scores?

Learn how to select scholarship winners using the Select Recipients button on the Evaluate page of the Provider Portal.

[Providers] How do I select scholarship winners in the Provider Portal?

Learn about next steps on how to disburse your scholarship

[Providers] What do I do after I've chosen who my scholarship winner is?

Yes, all applicants are contacted after the recipient(s) are selected.

[Providers] Does Going Merry contact applicants after we select the recipient(s)?

How to set evaluation criteria, select winners, contact winners.

Scholarship Winners

Export a summary report of applicant information on the Evaluate Applications page.

[Providers] How do I export a summary report of applicant information?

Data

[Provider] How do I change the timezone in my Provider Portal?

The Scholarship Wizard in your Provider Portal allows you to quickly renew your scholarship program.

[Providers] How do I renew my scholarship from last year?

[Providers] How do I create a scholarship using the Scholarship Wizard?

Find out how to list your scholarships on Going Merry.

Draft Scholarships - Scholarship Wizard

Yes, we highly suggest that you choose to accept applications directly through Going Merry's platform!

[Wizard] Should I accept applications directly through Going Merry?

[Wizard] How do I know if my scholarship is a “duplicate”?

[Wizard] What if I don’t know the “Open Date” for my scholarship yet?

View your scholarship application and listing page before launching.

[Wizard] Can I review my scholarship before setting it live?

[Wizard] What if I need help with creating a scholarship?

For example, if it's only for students at my school, how do I know that students from other schools won't apply?

[Wizard] How can I be sure nobody who's not eligible will apply?

Yes! You are always able to extend your deadline.

[Wizard] Can I extend the application deadline, if it turns out I didn’t get enough student applications?

[Wizard] Why can’t I set my scholarship to open now/tomorrow? Why do I need to wait?

Basic Info

[Wizard] Can I give specific directions to the recommender for a Letter of Recommendation?

[Wizard]  How many essay questions should I ask?

Review and download applications in your provider portal.

[Wizard] How do I receive the information from a student’s application form? In what format is it?

For instance, what if I want to make GPA optional?

[Wizard] Can I make a mandatory profile item optional, or vice versa?

[Wizard] What types of documents can I request?

[Wizard] Can I set GPA to be weighted or unweighted?

[Wizard] For rec letters, can I set specific instructions for the student on who to ask for the LORs?

Find out how to set up your scholarship application.

Application

Find out what Eligibility Requirements you can add.

[Wizard] What kind of eligibility criteria do you support?

[Wizard] What do I do if I can’t find my school for the location requirement?

[Wizard] Can students submit a weighted GPA?

[Wizard] How do I remove a requirement?

For example, maybe I prefer to give the scholarship to a low-income student, but this isn’t 100% required?

[Wizard] What if something is a preference but not a hard requirement?

[Wizard] How does matching for “Miscellaneous eligibility requirements” (or niche eligibility requirements) work?

It's important that you add all requirements in the Eligibility Requirements section.

[Wizard] What if I already listed the eligibility criteria in the scholarship description? Why do I need to list them here again?

Eligibility Requirements

[Wizard] It won’t let me upload my icon. What should I do?

[Wizard] How do I make my icon into a square?

Find FAQs about adding your custom banner or logo

Design - Logo and Banner

Yes, we recommend that you review your scholarship listing page and application before submitting the final version.

[Wizard] Can I preview my scholarship before it opens? What will the listing page and application look like?

View your scholarship listing page and application before launch.

Review & Submit

Use the Scholarship Widget page to display scholarships on your website.

[Providers] How do I display my scholarships on my website?

Add a widget to your organization's webpage.

Share Scholarships

Invite new members or edit member permissions on the Manage Members page.

[Providers] How do I invite additional administrators or reviewers?

Invite other administrators to access applications.

Manage Admins & Reviewers

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