Publish a defensible merit list — no spreadsheet war room.

Yes — there is no fixed formula. Choose weighted scoring across multiple fields, rank on a single field, or enter scores by hand, and bulk-import from Excel where marks come from elsewhere. Individual entries can be corrected. Merit Lists is a configurable part of the admission engine, enabled per institute and switched on for the courses that need ranked selection.

By ordered rule groups you define, combined with AND / OR — for example higher aggregate first, then older date of birth. Because the rules are ordered and applied deterministically, two candidates on the same score resolve the same way every time the list regenerates, which is what makes the ranking defensible if it is challenged.

Yes. The engine builds a ranked draft snapshot of paid applicants — one working draft at a time — and nothing is visible to candidates until you publish. Filter by category, correct any entry and export to Excel or PDF for internal sign-off first. You can also unpublish a live list, correct it and re-publish, with every action landing in an activity log.

Only confirmed-paid candidates. The draft snapshot is generated from paid applicants, and results are gated by payment, so half-finished applications never turn up in the ranking. That keeps the list clean without anyone manually stripping out unpaid rows before publishing.

Whatever your display flags allow. You control per-course whether each candidate sees their rank, their score, their category rank or the full breakdown, with a "declared, contact institute" fallback when you'd rather they came to your office. Category-wise ranks are supported alongside the overall list.

Yes — export to Excel or PDF for notice boards, affiliating bodies and internal records. The same export serves the internal sign-off step before publishing, so the file the committee approved is the file you circulate. Exports run from the same screen as the draft review.