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Creating a Direct Grants Round

This page will walk you through deploying a Direct Grant Round on Grants Stack Manager.  This walkthrough assumes that you have already completed the steps on 🌱
Creating a Program
.

Video Walkthrough 📽️

Detailed Walkthrough 🛣️

For starters, select the program from which you would like to deploy a Direct Grant Round.  For this test, I’m going to hop into Sov’s Playground.

Once under the program, you can create either a Direct Grant or a Quadratic Funding Round if you haven't yet created a round.  Just select Direct Grants and then click + Create Round.

Even though we are focused on Direct Grants for this walkthrough, you should also check out our Quadratic Funding (QF) functionality.  QF is our claim to fame, and Gitcoin Grants Stack is the only product in the market today that offers you the ability to do either and manage from the same interface; just saying 😎

Round Details 📜

On the next screen, you can enter details for the round.  There are a few important moving parts to this page, so we’ll tackle each to ensure you understand them well.

First, you will want to name the round and provide the Support Input.  The name is self-explanatory.  For Support Input, this is how applicants applying to your round will contact you for questions, concerns, status, etc.  Once you have selected the kind of input, you can add the contact info (links, email address, website form link, etc) in the Contact Information field.

Next up, set the dates for your round, including the start and end dates.  Most teams using direct grants prefer not to have a strict end date, so we decided to denote no end date if that’s your jam.

The last step on this page is denoting if you want your round to show up on the Gitcoin Explorer site.  We find that programs that wish to have open and transparent community-focused programs desire this visibility, whereas other programs may have reasons for keeping things a bit more private.  Whatever your preference, we can accommodate 🤝 

Round Eligibility ☑️

Once you have completed all these steps, click Next at the bottom of the page.  You will be directed to the next page, which focuses on Round Eligibility.

From here, you can enter a description of your round (this is what applicants will see when applying) along with any requirements you want to make sure and call out any criteria applicants must meet.  You can see the round criteria I have laid down are very specific 🤓

Once done click on Next ✅

Review Information 📝

The next page is where you will denote what information applicants must share when submitting their application.  It has three sections: Project Information, Project Socials, and Application Questions.  It is important to note that some personally identifiable information would be public on Explorer. 

Starting with Project Information, you can see that general details such as Project Name, Website, Logo, Banner, and Description are available.  A few of these details are required, while others are optional.

Next up, Project Socials.  This is where you can indicate if applicants must link a valid Twitter (X?) or public Github profile.  It's optional on both fronts but a handy feature you can easily enable.

Last, Application Questions.  Round Operators can denote all kinds of information from this page and see what info is shown or hidden on Explorer.  You can see that some of the questions are default and required, while others can be edited or removed.

This page also allows the option to create custom questions.  Just click on the + Add question button on the page, and you will be presented with options for various fields.  Select the field that makes the most sense for your purposes. 

You will notice slightly different options for customization with each field type.  Of note on all fields is that you can denote if optional, encrypted (i.e., totally hidden from 👀) and Hidden from Explorer.  Choose the option(s) that make sense for you, and when done, hit Add.

Once you have completed all these steps, it’s time to Launch.  Just click the Launch button at the bottom of the page.  You will see the on-chain magic start to occur and be prompted to confirm a transaction.

That’s it!  You should see a page like this if the round is deployed correctly.  You are now in business, anon. 

Now that the round is deployed, you can manage the different aspects of it in the same interface.  Check out  for more info on that front.

Creating a Direct Grants Round

This page will walk you through deploying a Direct Grant Round on Grants Stack Manager.  This walkthrough assumes that you have already completed the steps on 🌱
Creating a Program
.

Video Walkthrough 📽️

Detailed Walkthrough 🛣️

For starters, select the program from which you would like to deploy a Direct Grant Round.  For this test, I’m going to hop into Sov’s Playground.

Once under the program, you can create either a Direct Grant or a Quadratic Funding Round if you haven't yet created a round.  Just select Direct Grants and then click + Create Round.

Even though we are focused on Direct Grants for this walkthrough, you should also check out our Quadratic Funding (QF) functionality.  QF is our claim to fame, and Gitcoin Grants Stack is the only product in the market today that offers you the ability to do either and manage from the same interface; just saying 😎

Round Details 📜

On the next screen, you can enter details for the round.  There are a few important moving parts to this page, so we’ll tackle each to ensure you understand them well.

First, you will want to name the round and provide the Support Input.  The name is self-explanatory.  For Support Input, this is how applicants applying to your round will contact you for questions, concerns, status, etc.  Once you have selected the kind of input, you can add the contact info (links, email address, website form link, etc) in the Contact Information field.

Next up, set the dates for your round, including the start and end dates.  Most teams using direct grants prefer not to have a strict end date, so we decided to denote no end date if that’s your jam.

The last step on this page is denoting if you want your round to show up on the Gitcoin Explorer site.  We find that programs that wish to have open and transparent community-focused programs desire this visibility, whereas other programs may have reasons for keeping things a bit more private.  Whatever your preference, we can accommodate 🤝 

Round Eligibility ☑️

Once you have completed all these steps, click Next at the bottom of the page.  You will be directed to the next page, which focuses on Round Eligibility.

From here, you can enter a description of your round (this is what applicants will see when applying) along with any requirements you want to make sure and call out any criteria applicants must meet.  You can see the round criteria I have laid down are very specific 🤓

Once done click on Next ✅

Review Information 📝

The next page is where you will denote what information applicants must share when submitting their application.  It has three sections: Project Information, Project Socials, and Application Questions.  It is important to note that some personally identifiable information would be public on Explorer. 

Starting with Project Information, you can see that general details such as Project Name, Website, Logo, Banner, and Description are available.  A few of these details are required, while others are optional.

Next up, Project Socials.  This is where you can indicate if applicants must link a valid Twitter (X?) or public Github profile.  It's optional on both fronts but a handy feature you can easily enable.

Last, Application Questions.  Round Operators can denote all kinds of information from this page and see what info is shown or hidden on Explorer.  You can see that some of the questions are default and required, while others can be edited or removed.

This page also allows the option to create custom questions.  Just click on the + Add question button on the page, and you will be presented with options for various fields.  Select the field that makes the most sense for your purposes. 

You will notice slightly different options for customization with each field type.  Of note on all fields is that you can denote if optional, encrypted (i.e., totally hidden from 👀) and Hidden from Explorer.  Choose the option(s) that make sense for you, and when done, hit Add.

Once you have completed all these steps, it’s time to Launch.  Just click the Launch button at the bottom of the page.  You will see the on-chain magic start to occur and be prompted to confirm a transaction.

That’s it!  You should see a page like this if the round is deployed correctly.  You are now in business, anon. 

Now that the round is deployed, you can manage the different aspects of it in the same interface.  Check out  for more info on that front.