Key Players Tips for Selling Cookies 1. Ask friends and family to buy or donate Girl Scout Cookies. 2. Review last year’s order cards and contact your reliable customers. 3. Need more cookies? Contact your troop cookie chair. 4. Do residential door-to-door sales, set up a lemonade stand at your home or at the home of a close relative, booth with your troop, or sell online through Digital Cookie (shipment or Gift of Caring only). 5. Prior to the end of the program, contact your customers again to place another order.
There are several groups of people who will make your cookie business a complete success: 1. GSGLA staff will provide the necessary tools to conduct a successful cookie business. 2. Your troop cookie chair/troop leader will organize and guide your troop through the program. 3. Your troop consists of registered Girl Scouts ready to put their leadership skills into action. 4. Your support team consists of family and friends who will encourage and assist you. 5. Customers are the awesome people who will financially help Girl Scouts reach their goals!
How to Handle Cookie Money— Tips for Parents ⇨ Always count money and only take checks from people you trust. Checks received are to be made payable to “Girl Scout Troop [insert troop number].” ⚬ Accept only preprinted checks with issuer’s address. Write the issuer’s phone number and driver’s license number on the face of check. ⚬ Note the girl’s first name and last initial in the memo line of the check. ⚬ Caution against accepting out-of-state checks. ⇨ Do not accept $50 or $100 bills. These are the most commonly counterfeited. ⇨ Turn in money to your troop cookie chair (TCC) promptly and frequently, as communicated by your TCC. Don’t hold onto the money, as it can get misplaced or mixed with your own funds. Always get a receipt from your TCC for money you turn in for your daughter’s individual orders. ⇨ Money should be submitted in the same form it was received from the customer. Do not deposit cash into your personal account; write a check to the troop; or use Venmo, PayPal, or CheddarUp to pay for cookies. Families are financially responsible for any lost, stolen, or counterfeit money. girlscoutsla.org | 213-213-0123 12