The procedures described here are the ones Etowah District of the Northeast Georgia Council, Scouting America, uses. They appear as examples, not rules. Your council and district will have their own service center, sign-up system, and paperwork habits. What stays the same from place to place is the national policy in the Guide to Advancement, which this site quotes word for word. When this site and the Guide disagree, the Guide wins.
The scheduler software was developed for Etowah District’s board events and is free under the Apache 2.0 license.
Corrections and suggestions are welcome as issues or pull requests on GitHub.