Guarantor statuses
A guarantor’s status updates as they progress through onboarding:- Pending approval: The guarantor has provided their details and is awaiting your approval.
- Awaiting signature: The guarantor’s contract has been generated and is waiting to be signed.
- Accepted: The guarantor has signed their contract.
- Complete: The guarantor is complete and the application can progress.
Accepting a guarantor
When a guarantor is pending approval, you have two options from the guarantor page:- Generate: Accept the guarantor and generate their contract. Select a guarantor contract template, then choose whether to Send contract to guarantor — when enabled, the guarantor is emailed a link to review and sign. Once they have signed, the guarantor becomes
Accepted. - Complete: Mark the guarantor as complete without generating a contract. Use this when no guarantor contract is required. This advances the application accordingly. If you later need a contract, you can revert the guarantor.
Reverting a completed guarantor
If you marked a guarantor as complete without a contract and later need one, you can move them back to pending approval. Revert appears on the guarantor page when the guarantor isComplete and has no contract. It is not available if a contract already exists.
To revert a guarantor, follow these steps:
- Open the guarantor page.
- Click Revert.
- Confirm in the Revert guarantor dialog. This moves the guarantor back to Pending approval so you can generate a contract.
- Click Generate, select a guarantor contract template, and continue as usual.
After you revert, the guarantor is no longer complete. Generate and sign their contract before the application can treat them as finished.