Internet Advancement allows you to enter youth advancements, awards, and merit badges and perform the following actions:

Select members from your existing roster,
Review, update, or add ranks, merit badges, and/or awards,
Access an online Review Unit Roster feature and the Unit Advancement Summary,
Print an Advancement Report with a Unit Awards Summary to assist in purchasing.

Before beginning Internet Advancement, collect all member information, including advancement records, award records, and merit badge applications with the appropriate signatures. To complete Internet Advancement, you must be connected to a printer to print the final report.

For assistance, you can consult the help for instructions on using Internet Advancement.

Advancement Reports
For the BSA Unit Advancement Report: Advancement Forms.

Adobe Acrobat Reader
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the final print version of the advancement report. If you do not have it, you can download the Adobe Reader by clicking on the “Get Adobe Reader” image on this page.

TO ACCESS THE SCOUTNET INTERNET ADVANCEMENT SITE
CLICK	GO TO
	Go to Internet Advancement at the following URL: https://scoutnet.scouting.org/iadv/UI/home/default.aspx
	Get Internet Advancement help documentation at the following URL: https://scoutnet.scouting.org/iadv/Help/EndUserHelp/end_user_help.htm.

Internet Advancement Overview

Use Internet Advancement to record awards, ranks, and merit badges to youth from any online location, including at home or at the office. You will be able to add new ranks and awards to your member records and to update existing ranks and awards, should the earned date displayed be incorrect according to the unit’s records.

Internet Advancement allows you to register once as a first time user and then to log in as a returning user to submit ranks and awards for your unit members. If you log out before you submit a report, your data will be saved. Additionally, Internet Advancement will dynamically return you to the Stage you were in when you left. For example, if you have completed Stage 1 of the process, when you return, you will begin at Stage 2.

Unit Advancement Processor

If the unit appoints a new unit processor, contact the council to reset the unit’s profile. The new unit advancement processor registers as a first time user. The council can reset the profile if the current unit advancement processor wants to change information such as e-mail address or telephone.

Submitting Reports

Units set their own schedule for submitting reports. We recommend submitting a report every month. Each December a final report with anything not already recorded for the year should be submitted before month end.