Is your Council entering the Advancements into the BSA Advancements system for you? As far as I know in order to be officially recorded with BSA the Unit needs to enter or upload the advancements into BSA’s systems. While it is not as necessary at the Pack level but if a Scout goes on to Scouts BSA and eventually gets Eagle all of their Scouting accomplishments from Cubs through Scouts are there. This would also take care of your Reported to Council question. Here is the TT instructions for uploading to IA2.0: