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Troop Guide
What is the Girl Scout Cookie Program?
The annual Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led business in the world and is highly anticipated by customers yearly. Since its start in 1917, the Girl Scout Cookie Program has provided millions of young leaders an opportunity to go into their community and make a difference.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program is more than selling cookies and earning money for the troop. Throughout the program, girls learn five key business and leadership skills.
93% of girls who worked on the five skills during the cookie program said they learned new things to help them in school and other areas of their lives, compared to the 63% who did not participate.
5 Skills Cookie Scavenger Hunt
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan has created the 5 Skills Cookie Scavenger Hunt to help guide a Girl Scout throughout the program and build her understanding of these lifelong skills.
Download a copy to print out and then have them complete the steps to color in 20 or more bamboo leaves to receive the limited Girl Scout Cookie Bamboo Dangler & Charm Set. This opportunity runs from December 14 through April 28.
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How to Get Started
Ways to Participate
More Than a Box (Troop Proceeds)
More Than a Box (Troop Proceeds)
Girl Scout Troops earn proceeds based on their Per Girl Selling Average (PGA). Troops with a PGA of 1-224 packages will earn $0.95/package. Troops with an increased PGA of 225+ will earn $1.05/package.
Junior, Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scout Troops may opt out of rewards to receive an additional $0.10/package.
Opt Out of Cookie Rewards
Girl Scout Troops earn proceeds based on their Per Girl Selling Average (PGA). Troops with a PGA of 1-224 packages will earn $0.95/package. Troops with an increased PGA of 225+ will earn $1.05/package.
Junior, Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scout Troops may opt out of rewards to receive an additional $0.10/package.
Junior through Ambassador troops can opt out of girl rewards/cookie cash and earn an additional $0.10/package in troop proceeds:
- Troop per girl average must be at or above 225+ packages.
- Girls must decide, unanimously, to opt out of rewards.
- Caregivers must be notified of the troop decision.
Girl Scouts will still receive:
- Patches earned (theme, action, and package bar)
- Stellar Seller Reward Level for selling 600+ packages
- Super Stellar Seller Reward Level for selling 1000+ packages
- GSHOM Membership Registration for selling 2025+ packages
- Troop T-shirt for having a Troop PGA of 225+ packages sold
My Girl Scout Troop has decided to opt out of rewards; how do I enter this information in eBudde?
While logged into eBudde:
- From the Settings Tab, select edit.
- Check the box to “opt out of rewards.”
- Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan will monitor your Girl Scout Troop’s progress throughout the season to ensure that your troop meets the eligibility requirements to opt out of rewards.
- If your Girl Scout Troop is not eligible to opt out of rewards, girls will receive cookie cash as a reward choice where applicable.
Cookie Mascot & Rewards
Cookie Mascot & Rewards
This year, our Girl Scout Cookie Program is centered around a Girl Scouts opportunity to Embrace Possibility. Through her participation, she will gain five lifelong skills that help her become connected to her community and business leader.
While helping a Girl Scout set goal, each year a mascot is determined by Girl Scouts across the country. This Mascot brings awareness to the forefront, highlighting the importance of global awareness and advocacy for an animal that is facing endangerment.
For Girls, by Girls! Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan uses Girl Scout input every season to help shape the Girl Scout Cookie Program Reward structure. To help keep her engaged, below is a copy of our cumulative reward program for available to EVERY Girl Scout.
Placing Troop Initial Pre-Order (Cookies & Reward)
Placing your Girl Scouts Initial Pre-Orders and Initial Reward
Girl Scout Troop Product Managers will gather their Girl Scouts' Girl Order Cards. Along with the caregiver, they will review the order to ensure that all cookie orders have been tallied and are ready for entry into the eBudde system. Once an order has been received and reviewed, the Troop Product Manager prepares it for entry into the eBudde.
Initial Order Tab
1. Login to eBudde:
- Go to https://eBudde.littlebrownie.com
- Enter your email address and your password and click Log On.
2. Click the Initial Order Tab:
- Click on each girl’s name. An editable table will pop up for you to begin entering the order.
3. GSHOM Hometown Hero order (HTH):
- The orders that a Girl Scout collects for donation will be entered under this column. Your Girl Scout will receive credit, and your Troop will receive proceeds.
- You will NOT receive these cookies at the time of your pickup in February, instead you will be able to reserve and pick up during the month of April to distribute during our Hometown Hero days to local Hometown Heroes.
- Girl Scouts will still be responsible for collecting payment for these orders. Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan will deliver them to Hometown Heroes.
4. Cookies for Purchase:
a. Click on the individual Girl Scout name. Each girl will have three columns on their popup page.
- One is the order card row which allows you to do data entry for the order card order from the girl.
- The next row is the DOC Girl Del. row which is not editable. These are girl delivery orders, approved by the parent and sent from Digital Cookie to eBudde. These orders match the girl delivery approved orders in Digital Cookie.
- The last row is a total of the Order Card and DOC Girl Del. rows. These are the cookies that will be distributed to the girl during the initial order delivery.
b. eBudde will calculate your Troops order from the Total Order Line.
- Once you have entered/verified the Girl Scout’s Initial Pre Order, you will now click save in the upper right corner.
- This will return you to the Main Troop Page.
- Continue with each Girl Scout’s order to be entered.
Note: If your troop has a booth sale scheduled during the first week of booth sales, you may want to consider ordering your booth cookies on your initial order. Unsold booth cookies, ordered with the initial order, CANNOT be returned to a cookie cupboard.
Important! Your initial order will be rounded up to full cases, you will not receive any individual packages of cookies. You will only be picking up cases.
• The Extras line at the bottom of the girl order screen is where you will see the extra packages needed to make full cases of each variety.
Placing your Girl Scouts Initial Pre-Orders and Initial Reward cont’
Submitting Troop Initial Order
- This button is used to submit a troop order to the service unit and will be reviewed by your Service Unit Product Manager..
- Troop Initial orders are rounded up to full cases.Extra packages of cookies remaining from your troop’s initial order and from booths sales, count towards proceeds and girl rewards. However, in order for the girls to receive credit you must allocate the additional cookies sold to each girl in eBudde. You will receive these cookies at delivery and the troop is responsible for selling them. These extra packages can be used for booth sales or to fulfil additional orders placed by the Girl Scout Troop.
- Once you are sure that your initial order is entered correctly, click Submit Order. The eBudde system will confirm that your troop order was submitted and remind you to go to the Delivery tab to submit your delivery choice*.
- To print the order, click the Printable Version button.
Note: You can only submit your order once. After you submit, you will NOT have access to change the order information. If changes need to be made after your order is submitted, you will need to contact your Service Unit Cookie Manager.
Ordering Initial Reward
Placing your troops’ reward order:
1. Click the Reward tab.
2. Select Initial Rewards Order “Fill Out”
3. Review & click Submit
4. eBudde will automatically tally and order this reward
Initial Pre-Order Delivery Location
Initial Pre-Order Delivery Location
Once you have submitted your Troop’s Initial Order, it is now time to confirm your Delivery Location.
The Delivery Tab allows you to select your cookie delivery site and time, and also view your delivery information. For orders that are submitted to a local service unit and not a “drop site” your time for pick up will not be available.
1. Select the Delivery Tab:
2. Select whether you will be picking up more than one order (multiple troops); if yes enter the troop numbers.
3. Answer the questions and the location and time box will display. Select your time by clicking in the box to the right of the time. Click the Submit button. The system will confirm your submission.
4. Click the submit my info button at the top on the screen. The eBudde system will confirm your submission with a pop up box on the screen.
Note: A delivery confirmation page will be available after your Regional Product Program Specialist has verified your order. Click the View Confirmation button. Print this page and bring it with you to your delivery.
Tip: You may select any location (delivery station) convenient to you. If your area is not listed with a delivery site location to sign up for, you will be contacted by your Service Unit Product Manager with your cookie pick-up date and time.
Cookie Delivery Basics
1. Arrive on time for your assigned delivery time.
2. Be sure to use a vehicle large enough to get all of your cases of cookies at once—see the chart below.
3. If you need multiple vehicles, all vehicles must arrive at the same time.
4. COUNT YOUR COOKIES BEFORE THEY ARE LOADED INTO VEHICLES.
5. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COUNTING AND SIGNING THE RECEIPT.
6. YOUR TROOP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COOKIES AND ANY SHORTAGES ONCE YOU SIGN FOR THEM.
7. If your order is incorrect, notify the delivery worker immediately. Recount all cookies and sign for products.
Vehicle Type |
Case Capacity |
Compact Car |
1-35 |
Standard Car |
35-50 |
Standard Station Wagon |
50-75 |
Small SUV |
100 |
SUV/Mini Van |
75-150 |
Standard Van |
150-200 |
Note: This chart is only accurate if the vehicle is free of strollers, golf clubs, dogs and children, and car seats.
Distributing Cookies to Girls
Cookie Delivery to Girl Scout Families
1. Notify caregivers of the date, time and location that they can pick up their girl’s order.
2. Separate all cookie orders for each girl before anyone picks up their order. This will help you identify any mistakes from sorting or delivery before someone takes their order.
3. Caregivers should pick up all cookies as soon as they are ready. Customers are eager to get their cookies.
4. All caregivers must count and sign for their cookies.
- Use the receipt books given to you in your cookie packet anytime cookies or money exchanges hands.
- Parents are responsible for remitting all monies for all cookies for which they signed and picked up.
- If there is more than one caregiver, they should have each signed a parent permission slip and turned in separate cookie orders. Each caregiver should only pick up what is theirs.
Collecting Money
Initial Order & Goal Getters
It is imperative that Girl Scout families turn in cookie payments to their Troop promptly at designated dates and times. Money Collection should always be dual controlled, meaning that a Caregiver is present along with the Troop Product Manager to verify payment. At this time, receipt of payment will be completed and given to the caregiver.
1. All checks should be made payable to Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan (GSHOM).
2. No money should be collected by anyone until cookies are delivered.
3. Distribute cookies promptly to the girls. Initial cookie orders should be completely delivered to customers within 2 weeks. When parents pick up their cookies, the Troop Cookie Manager and parent must sign a receipt for the number of cookies taken.
4. Collect money from girls often. After Initial Pre Orders, Girl Scout can continue with their Cookie Program and collect “Goal Getters” or additional sales. Be sure to collect payment from the Girl Scout after each additional order is fulfilled and before another one can be submitted.
5. Count all the money turned into you, with the parent present. Use a receipt book to record payments. Give parents a copy and retain a copy.
6. Stay in touch with girls and parents to make sure cookies are being delivered and money collected. This will help you address payment problems early.
7. Schedule a final date for all money to be turned in.
8. We suggest that you give parents a deadline for two to three days prior to your deadline to ensure you have time to collect all funds and make your deposit before the troop payment is due.
Outstanding Money
NSF
Cookie Booths
Digital Cookie Troop Site
Stripe through Rallyhood
Other Mobile Merchant Applications
What is a Goal Getter?
Submit a Goal Getter or Booth Order at Cookie Cupboard
How to place an order for Cookie Booths & Goal Getters
Pending Order
Congratulations! Your troop and Girl Scouts are well on their way to reaching their cookie goals this season. Whether you're ready to place an order for an upcoming Cookie Booth or need to fulfill additional Girl Orders (Goal Getters), the steps for placing a pending order are simple.
Goal Getters
After collecting your current batch of additional orders from your troop, tally their orders together by variety. You will place one cookie order for the total number of packages needed to fulfill your Goal Getter.
Once you have placed the order with your local cookie cupboard, you can allocate (or give credit) to each girl from their Girl Order tab. This will also help keep the record of balances due by the girl.
Prior to distributing cookies, you will complete a receipt for each girl's order to be reviewed and signed by the caregiver at pick up. Remember, you will also complete a receipt at the time of payment. Be sure to always double-count with a second person the cookies distributed and monies received; collect signatures.
A Troop Product Manager can schedule a pickup for additional cookie orders through Sunday, at least four days before the pickup/need date.
Cookie Booths
After securing a Cookie Booth for your Girl Scout Troop, you will place a pending order for cookies to be sold at the event. Based on your current on-hand inventory and the length of the cookie booth will determine the number of cookies you will need.
Troops can pick up cookies from a local cupboard of their choice during the cupboard's regular hours, as determined by the Cupboard Manager. Any cookies received by the troop can be returned up to 50% of the original, unsold cookies by the following Monday. Damaged cookies (including, but not limited to, those with smoke, water damage, or markings) cannot be returned and will become the troop's responsibility. Cookies not returned on time will no longer be eligible for return.
A Troop Product Manager can schedule a pickup for booth orders through Sunday, no less than four days from the pickup/need date.
A Troop can place a size order with a cupboard; only 50% of the original order will be eligible for return. Including single packages
Recommendations:
Each case of cookies contains 12 packages.
4 hour/20.5 case
- Adventurefuls 1
- Lemon Ups 1
- Trefoils 1
- Do si Dos 2
- Samoas 4
- Tagalongs 4
- Thin Mints 6
- S'mores 1
- Toffee Tastic 1/2
3 hour/15 case
- Adventurefuls 1
- Lemon Ups 1
- Trefoils 1
- Do si Dos 2
- Samoas 2
- Tagalongs 2
- Thin Mints 5
- S'mores 1/2
- Toffee Tastic ½
The Troop Transaction tab lists all cookie orders, additional cookie pickups, troop-to-troop transfers (council option), and Digital Cookie shipped cookies. You must place a pending order for the cupboard location where you’ll be picking up cookies.
- You must submit a separate pending order for each additional booth or Goal-Getter order throughout the season.
- Pending orders must be entered into eBudde by 11:59 PM on Sunday so the cupboard can have your cookies ready that week.
- Only the cookie cupboard manager can make changes once a pending order is placed.
Getting Started
• Select the Transactions tab
• Select Add
Once Add has been selected, a new pop-up window will appear.
Navigating the Transaction Form
The columns listed from left to right are as follows:
- Receipt: This is the transaction's receipt code. Once you receive your order, this receipt will be updated to the serial number printed on the bottom of your Cookie Transaction form.
- Type: Troops can select one of two options for their order. While not mandatory, the Cupboard Manager can prioritize Goal Getter orders to fulfill certain limited varieties. (Smores & Toffee Tastics)
- Normal: This will identify Girl Orders to be fulfilled for Goal Getters.
- Booth: Cookies to be sold at upcoming booths.
- 2nd Party: Troop Product Managers can only select the Cupboard Option.
- Select Location: The Cookie Cupboard to which your troop will be picking up cookies from -- A Complete list of cupboards can be found on your Troop Dashboard
- Date: Once a cupboard is selected, eBudde will display the available calendar days this location is open.
- Time: Only available times will appear once a date is selected.
- Cookie Order: If picking up, the Add Product option is selected. If scheduling a Monday return, the troop will select Remove Product.
- Troop can now place orders for cookies by the case or individual package. - Press SAVE once the entire order has been entered.
Once an order has been saved, the Transaction Page will refresh, and the Pending Order will now be displayed.
Exchanging Cookies
Allocating Girl Scout Cookies to Girls
Allocating Cookies to Girls
Allocating cookies to each Girl is essential to ensuring girls receive credit for their cookies and are eligible for rewards. This includes cookies picked up at the cupboard, sold at booth sales, or filled through Goal Getter orders. The allocation must be done for the cookie totals to be correct, rewards to be ordered, and girls to qualify for events.
Tracking Package Totals
Please keep track of each Girl's total packages (not by variety) and when they were sold. The best way to track all non-shipped cookies is to utilize the receipt booklets. The system will show how many cookies you have ordered through the initial order and cupboard pickups and display the difference that hasn't yet been allocated to the girls. This helps ensure you allocate all received cookies to your girls.
Girl Orders: Allocating Cookies
Girl Order Tab
The Girl View will show detailed transactions for each Girl. The first row typically displays the initial order, which is locked and cannot be edited from this screen. If changes need to be made, you'll have to adjust them on the initial order tab. Contact your council staff or volunteer for assistance if the initial order tab is unavailable.
- +Order: Click this button to add cookies or payments to a girl's account. You can add multiple orders or payment transactions in one entry.
- +Payment: Use this button to add payments only. You can add as many payment transactions as needed.
- Save: Be sure to click Save after entering any transaction. Otherwise, the data will be lost.
- Switch to Girl: This feature lets you enter transactions for another girl without returning to the troop view. Click the dropdown menu to select a different girl.
- All Orders: This dropdown lets you see all records for the Girl, including the initial order recap, inventory items (if applicable), and delivery records (if applicable).
- Cancel: Click here to return to the girl orders summary view. Any entered transactions will automatically appear in the summary.
Adding Additional Cookie Orders
Click the +Add button to add cookies. The system will show the add screen. Enter a comment and the number of cookies using the tab key to move through the columns. You can also add payment at the same time. Check the INV box to send the transaction to the Digital Cookie system if relevant. For booth sales, check the Booth box. Don't forget to click Save once the transaction is complete.
Adding Only Payments
To add a payment, click the +Payment button. The system will display the payment entry screen. Enter a comment and check the INV box if you wish to send the payment to the Digital Cookie system. Click Save to save the payment. Payments can be added even after the season closes.
Digital Cookie Orders
Shipped Orders
Shipped orders, including the customer's order and payment, will automatically appear in the Girl Order Tab. No further action is required for these orders.
Girl Delivered Orders
Only the customer payment will automatically populate for Girl Delivered orders in the Girl Order Tab. Since the system doesn't know whether the troop has inventory on hand or if an order needs to be placed, it cannot automatically allocate these orders to the Girl Scouts.
A Troop Product Manager (TPM) can review the Girl Order summary to determine if additional Girl Delivered orders must be fulfilled or allocated.
- Since the system automatically records payments from Digital Cookie, a TPM can see when a new order has been placed and the order number.
- The TPM can use the dropdown menu in the Girl Order Screen to select Girl Delivery (After IO). This will display all delivery orders placed after the Initial Order (IO), which must still be allocated to the Girl Scout.
Allocating cookies for Troop Site
How to Submit Final Girl Rewards and Distribute
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan ACH & Payment Schedule
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan ACH & Payment Schedule
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan follows the payment schedule outlined below for the 2024-2025 Cookie Program.
Digital Cookie
Cookie Booth & Goal Getter
Girl Rewards
Treats & Reads
Product Program Manager
Treats & Reads Resources
Nut Hut & Goal Getter
Treats & Reads Resources
Online Store M2 How-To Videos
Service Unit Product Manager
Entering & Updating Delivery Sites
Using Troop Product Pick-Up Scheduler
Troop Product Manager
Launching Parent Adult Email Campaign Emails
M2 Dashboard Tour
Your Personalized Patch
Entering Paper Order Card Items
M2 Dashboard - No Order Card
Reports
Reward Earners
Reward Opt Out
Choosing Pick Up Time & Location
Girl Rewards
Product Office Hours
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