Setting Up an Account

By creating a Black Pug account, you will be able to save your activity data and register more quickly. If you are a Committee Chair, register with the email address on file in my.scouting.org so that it automatically syncs your unit and allows you to access your unit's roster.

Click here to create an account or log into your existing Black Pug account. This account is not tied to your my.scouting or Scoutbook login credentials. We cannot reset your Black Pug account password.

Accessing Your Unit Roster

Once a month we update the Atlanta Area Council membership roster in Black Pug to assist you in registering on behalf of your unit and to validate that participants' memberships are current and in the correct unit.

Using the roster function allows you to register without typing in the full details for youth and adult participants who are registered in your unit. Anyone in your unit with roster access will be able to see the roster and use it when registering.

We cannot update rosters for out-of-council units.

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Adding Participants and Changing Participant Types

If you need to add another participant to your registration or change a participant type (from a youth to adult, for example), you can do that in your registration. Click the Additional Actions dropdown menu found in the Registration Contact section.

When adding a participant, you must complete the Checkout process, through the payment step. If you are adding to the waitlist, you must still complete the Checkout process through the payment step (there will be no fees due) in order to put the participants on the waitlist. If you do not complete the Checkout process, the participants (including those who are waitlisted) are not actually registered or included in your registration.

You will need to do this before registration for the event closes. Typically, these changes cannot be made after that date.

Selecting and Changing Participant Classes

Several events like summer camp, merit badge summits, University of Scouting and others will require you to register for classes.

In your registration, click the Update Information button for the participant. Click the Select Classes button on the pop-up window.

To add a class to the participant's schedule, click a class from the right side of the screen (Available Classes) to add it to the participant's schedule on the left side of the screen.

To remove a class from a participant's schedule, click the class on the left side of the screen ([Name's] Classes). The right side of the screen will now show classes to choose for that period.

Class enrollment and removal happens in real-time. There are no waitlists for classes; however, you can view real-time class enrollment in the Class Attendee Counts report found in the Attachments section of the event's registration page.

You can typically edit a participant's class schedule until the registration closes for the event.

Changing Participant Information

If you need to change participant details, you can do that in your registration. Once you access your registration, click the Update Information button for each person whose registration form you need to edit.

You will need to do this before registration for the event closes. Typically these changes cannot be made after that date.

Accessing Reports

To access reports associated with your event registration, you'll need to access your registration, then click the Reports tab.

You will only be able to access reports if your registration's balance is paid in full. If you have a balance due, reports will not be available until the outstanding fees have been paid or any discrepancies have been resolved.

Reports include:

• Invoice
• Participant roster
• Participant schedule and prerequisites
• Summer camp merit badge class completions, including Scoutbook Import file