Every rank sign-off, merit badge, board of review, and Eagle packet — tracked in one place, entered in a fraction of the clicks, and still exported to Scouting America when your council needs it.
| Job | Scoutbook (a real session) | TroopPlanner |
|---|---|---|
| Load the advancement dashboard | ~720 ms | 91 ms |
| Load the unit roster | ~1.0 s | 260 ms |
| Load the adult roster | ~855 ms | 240 ms |
Scoutbook figures are observed server response times from a real advancements.scouting.org session; TroopPlanner figures are p95 from its nightly load test on the production server. Compared the same way — time for the server to return the page's data.
The Requirement Matrix — select one or more requirements and one or more scouts, and sign off exactly what happened.
In Scoutbook: its one mass option marks every selected scout as passing the same requirement — all-or-nothing.
The full blue-card lifecycle without the paper shuffle.
In Scoutbook: badge progress is buried and slow to update.
Outside merit-badge counselors sign off without ever creating a login.
In Scoutbook: connecting an outside counselor is a well-known headache.
From tracking the trail to printing the official application.
In Scoutbook: the Eagle packet is assembled by hand from scattered data.
The committee-facing side of advancement, organized.
In Scoutbook: BOR prep and POR credit are manual bookkeeping.
The recognition workflow, from earned to presented.
In Scoutbook: no Court of Honor planning — it's a spreadsheet and a script.
Bring ranks, merit badges, and requirement sign-offs in from a Scoutbook CSV — duplicate-safe, with a dry-run preview. Then export a Scouting America Internet Advancement upload file, with a divergence view showing exactly what differs from what's been reported.
Free for troops with 15 or fewer Scouts. Import from Scoutbook — your advancement history comes with you.