# Applications

> Forms for staff applications and ER:LC ban appeals, with reviews, quizzes, staged decisions and file uploads.

<Info>
  Applications are part of <Badge color="grape">Jellyn+</Badge>. See [Plans and Jellyn+](/get-started/plans).
</Info>

People apply on the Jellyn website. In Discord, `/apply` lists your server's open applications and links to them.

## Making a form

On the **Applications** page, press **New form**. A form is an **application** or an **ER:LC ban appeal** (pick it under Settings, or start from the *ER:LC ban appeal* template). Build it from questions:

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Words" icon="type">
    Short and long answers, and a Roblox username or ID.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Choices" icon="list-checks">
    Multiple choice, dropdowns, checkboxes, scales, ratings, dates and times.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Files" icon="upload">
    1 to 5 pictures or PDFs, 4 MB each.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

### Who can apply

Besides the roles a form is for, you can ask for:

- a number of **days in the Discord server**,
- no **roles that block** applying,
- at most a number of **punishments logged** against their Roblox account,
- and membership of a **Roblox group** (checked with Roblox when they open the form).

### Quizzes

Multiple choice, dropdown, checkbox and short answer questions can have **correct answers and points**. The score is kept with the application, and shown to the applicant at once or once it is decided. Applicants never see the correct answers.

## Reviewing

New applications show on the form's **Responses** tab. Filter by Waiting, Staging, Accepted, Denied and Withdrawn.

- **Response presets**: up to 25 named notes. Typing a preset's name as the note or reason sends its text.
- **Editors and reviewers**: Discord roles a form lets edit it, or review and publish its applications, without the server's Applications permission. They see only those forms.
- **Hints of pasted or AI-written answers** (on by default): which written answers had text pasted in, how long the form was open, and phrases common in AI writing. They are hints, never a verdict, and applicants never see them.

### Staging decisions

With **Stage decisions** on, **Accept** and **Deny** put an application in **Staging**: nobody is told and no roles change until someone **publishes** it, one at a time or every staged one at once. **Back to review** takes a staged decision back.

### When a decision goes out

- Roles are **given and taken away**, on acceptance and on denial, as you set them.
- The decision is posted in the form's channel (or your server's applications channel).
- Accepted applicants can be added to your **team on Jellyn** (they show as *Joined by: Application*).
- For a **ban appeal**, accepting runs `:unban <player>` in your linked ER:LC server, and the DM and the decision card say whether it worked.

## Deleting

**Delete every response** (type `DELETE RESPONSES` to confirm) keeps the form. **Deleting a form** deletes its responses with it: every application sent with it and their files, everywhere. Both wait a few seconds with Undo.

<Note>
  What Discord already has stays: the card in the applications channel (it says who applied, never the answers), and a copy an applicant asked for in their DMs.
</Note>