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Market their business online
NEW Social Media Guide
The Little Brownie Social Media Guide is all new with tips and tricks for volunteers, caregivers and entrepreneurs to reach more cookie customers this season.
Today's consumers average over three hours on social media per day, and more than half of cookie customers say their phone is their most important shopping tool. Whether or not you are social media savvy, the new Social Media Guide will help you Follow, Like, Share your way to cookie season success.
Ready-to-share gifs and reels
Ready-to-share gifs and reels make social media a snap. Fact: When Girl Scout entrepreneurs promote their businesses online it boosts sales. More frequent posts equate to increased sales. Check out the video below to see all the social content Little Brownie has to offer.
• Social Sizzle Reel
Safety resources
Before launching their Digital Cookie site and engaging in online marketing and sales efforts, Girl Scouts and caregivers must read and agree to the guidelines below.
• Safety Tips from GSUSA
• Digital Cookie® Pledge
Market their business in person
Create booth buzz
Having a cookie booth or neighborhood stand? Any way your troop does it, we have lots of resources to entice cookie lovers! Find resources like mouthwatering cookie photography, fun clip art, and attention-grabbing booth signage all in one place.
* For more details on how cookie booths are coordinated, talk to your council and visit girlscoutcookies.org.
• Materials available in English and Spanish.
• Use Digital Cookie® QR codes at booths.
• Bundle cookies to boost sales.
• Remind customers proceeds stay local.
Market their business in person
Ordering made easy
Order materials can help increase sales.
Entrepreneurs can use order materials at booths and encourage customers to scan their QR code to visit their Digital Cookie® site. Customers make a purchase and bookmark their site for future purchases. It's especially handy if booth inventory in a certain variety is running low!
• Fun to personalize.
• Add QR codes for easy online purchasing. Bookmark for later messaging. Encourage customers to bookmark for reorders.
• Order forms available in English and Spanish.
• Order materials are useful and engaging.
Encourage customers to bookmark Digital Cookie link
your Digital Cookie
The printable lanyard makes reorders easy for Girl Scouts on the go!
Leave-behinds make reorders easy
• Leave behind order forms
• Door flyer order forms
• Business cards
• Notecards
• QR code stickers
• Thank you slips
Inspire cookie entrepreneurs
Skills they build
The Girl Scout Cookie Program® helps Girl Scouts develop real-world skills in five essential areas:
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Goal Setting
Girl Scouts learn how to set goals and create a plan to reach them.
How you can help: Encourage them to set incremental, achievable goals. Work with them to break down their goals into small, frequent wins like weekly challenges.
2 Decision Making
Girl Scouts learn to make decisions on their own and as a team.
How you can help: Talk about how they plan to spend the troop’s cookie earnings.
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Money Management
Girl Scouts learn to create a budget and handle money.
How you can help: Build on their interest in learning to manage all facets of the cookie business, like creating a budget to fund a troop experience or figuring out the percentage of customers who chose the donation option.
People Skills
Girl Scouts find their voices and build confidence through customer interactions.
How you can help: Ask them about new marketing ideas they want to try. They can discuss how to tailor their cookie pitch to achieve their goals.
Business Ethics
5 Learn more
Girl Scouts learn to act ethically, both in business and life.
How you can help: Talk to them about the importance of delivering on their promise to customers. They can also consider offering a cookie donation option.
Cookie business badges
Entrepreneurs can earn these official Girl Scouts® recognitions by completing requirements that help them develop new business skills.
Learn more at girlscouts.org.
Getting families involved
You can support your Girl Scout(s) as they learn the five skills and think like entrepreneurs. With the encouragement of from you, there’s no stopping a Girl Scout!
Get inspired by reviewing these resources:
• Cookie Program Family Meeting Guides
• Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pins
Digital Cookie Basics
Get to Know Digital Cookie
Digital Cookie is the online platform in which the Girl Scout can collect orders and payments for cookies. The primary caregiver contact on file with Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will receive the registration email from Digital Cookie. Only one login per family. If contact information needs to change, please contact our customer care team.
Getting Registered Publishing the Site
1. From the registration email, click the “Register Now” Button.
2. Create a password.
3. Watch the online safety video and take the Girl Scout safety pledge.
4. After you accept the pledge, you will be taken to a screen to activate your Girl Scout, and then you can access the site.
Girl Delivery Reminders
• Online girl delivery orders need to be approved within 5 days of the customer placing the order. An email will be sent out around midnight each night if there are orders that need to be approved.
• Find orders for approval under the orders tab. If your Girl Scout is unable to deliver, IE out of state address, please do not approve of the order!
• If an order is not approved within the 5-day time limit, the customer’s second choice of cancellation or donation will go into effect.
• Before approving orders, double check that you have the cookies to fulfill them. If your Girl Scout’s inventory is short on a variety, check with your troop to make sure they can get more.
• Once you have confirmed you can deliver the cookies and that you have the cookies, click the approve button. That order will then move to the section of the page called orders to be delivered.
• Don’t forget to go marks orders as delivered, once complete.
1. Once your Girl Scout is registered and activated, click the “Site Setup” on top of the page.
2. Enter your Girl Scout’s cookie goal for online and offline sales.
3. Enter a statement of what the troop plans to do with the cookie funds and then what she has learned from selling cookies. Click save.
4. Girls can choose to upload an informational or fun video.
5. Click see your site and publish.
6. Preview the site and approve.
7. Once all approved, they are now ready to set up customer emails.
Take her Cookie Biz on the Go!
• Download the Digital Cookie app from your phone’s app store.
• Log in like you would on the Digital Cookie website.
• If a troop site is set up, you will see the troop site and your Girl Scout’s name.
• Make sure you click your girl’s name, unless at a booth.
• Click “New Cookie Order”, then enter in the variety of cookies for the order and click check out.
• Toggle the button on the next screen to “give cookies to customers now”.
• Enter the customers information in the required fields.
• Manually enter the credit card or scan the card.
• Click Place Order.
Build Your Own Cookie Experience
Troop Participation Methods of the Girl Scout Cookie Program
The Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois’ Cookie Program is set up in a direct sales platform. A direct sale means that girls and troops have cookies in hand as soon as the cookie program starts. Girl Scouts and Troops can build their cookie program by choosing the method(s) that work best for them! Check with your troop to see which method(s) they will be participating in.
Simply Sweet Meet and Greet
The Simply Sweet Method of the Cookie Program is Digital Cookie, our online platform.
Troops and girls can do everything online!
Participating in Simply Sweet means girls and troops are reaching out to friends, families, and customers through emails and links to their cookie storefront.
Troops can use cookies from their initial order to fill the girl delivery orders Girl Scouts receive online. Troops can always pick up more cookies at any of our cookie cupboards whenever they need additional stock. Another option is for a troop to place a cupboard order each week for the cookies needed to fill orders, if they prefer not to place an initial order.
Hit the Streets
Troops have two options in the Hit the Streets method:
The Meet and Greet method are the Cookie Booths.
Cookie booths can be set up at any business location within the Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois’ jurisdiction. If the troop wants to have a cookie booth outside of the Service Unit, they must obtain approval from that Service Unit. However, all troops must follow specific guidelines, which are discussed later in this guide.
If a troop decides to do just a Meet and Greet, it is highly recommended to place an initial order to cover the first couple of booths planned, then order additional cookies from a cookie cupboard.
• Girl Scouts take the order cards, go out and take orders with paper order cards. Her troop can fill those orders using their initial supplies, or they can place a cupboard order with what you need to fill the orders. We recommend filling paper card orders weekly to prevent customers from waiting a long time for their cookies.
• Girl Scouts can also have their own inventory, fill a wagon and hit the street with cookies. To keep inventory among the troop manageable, always check in with your troop to let them know what cookies you have in stock.
Build Your Own Cookie Experience
Girl Scout Cookie Supply Methods
Troops can receive their cookies in two ways by either placing an initial order or by ordering through a cookie cupboard.
Troop Initial Order
Troops place an initial order during the designated ordering window in eBudde. These cookies will be picked up at your assigned delivery site on the scheduled delivery day.
Troop initial orders will always be in full cases.
Cookie Donations
Customers can make donations to the Bake it Forward Donation program through the Girl Scouts and Digital Cookie.
Bake it Forward Donations taken in person through a Girl Scouts needs to be allocated in eBudde correctly.
These cookies do NOT come out of your troop's physical inventory but do count toward your troop’s goals!
These cookies stay in a virtual world until the council donates them to the designated organization.
Cupboard Order
Troops can pick up Girl Scout Cookies at our Cookie Cupboards throughout the entire Cookie Season.
These Cookie Cupboards are all volunteer run.
Cookie Cupboard orders must be placed by Sunday to receive them the following week. Orders must be placed in full cases only.
For Cookie Cupboard locations and hours of availability, check eBudde.
Direct Shipped Orders
Customers can place a cookie order through Digital Cookie to have them shipped directly to their house. The customer pays for the shipping cost.
These cookies do NOT come out of your troop's physical inventory but do count toward your troop’s goals!
Any direct ship order will show up under the Girl Scouts' name in eBudde.
Cookie Program Financials
Once a Girl Scout or Troop takes possession of any cookies they become financially responsible for them.
The cookie price for 2026 is $6.50 a box, and troops can earn $1.15 per box for troop funds.
Money Management
Troop Cookie Managers must fill out a receipt every time cookies and/or cookie funds move between the troop and the Girl Scouts.
If your troop is allowing caregivers to check out any of the troop cookies, please follow these steps.
• Always fill out a receipt for you and the caregiver.
• Enter this transaction into eBudde under the Girl.
• To keep your troop inventory under control, always see what is unsold amongst the girls before placing a cookie cupboard order.
• When a caregiver makes any cookie payments to the troop, fill out a receipt and enter the payment in eBudde under the girl.
• If the caregiver has an outstanding balance over $200, do not give them more cookies. This is to protect the troop. Always check eBudde to see the balance for any Digital Cookie payments will lower the balance due.
Troop Cookie Managers must go to the bank as soon as possible to deposit any cookie funds into the troop bank account.
How the Cookie Crumbles
Cookie Program FAQs
What if I didn’t receive a registration email?
• To receive a Digital Cookie registration email, Girl Scouts must be registered for the current Girl Scout year, and Council will need the correct email address on file for the caregiver.
• Check your junk/spam/promotions inbox one more time for an email from Girl Scout Cookies.
• If you do not see the email there, go to Digitalcookie.girlscouts.org and click “Need help to log in” link. You will get a screen of steps you can use to try and get registered for Digital Cookie.
A direct shipped customer received a damaged package, or their order is incorrect, who do they contact?
• The customer will need to contact the email/phone number that is in their Digital Cookie order confirmation email.
My Girl Scout’s total sales in Digital Cookie are not correct. How do I fix it?
• It may be the case of your troop hasn’t input all sales yet for your Girl Scout. Always check in with your troop to make sure package totals are correct on their end. What shows up on the volunteer’s side is what the rewards will be based on.
Can my Girl Scout have more than one login/site set up?
• No, Girl Scouts are allowed one login and site. In the case of separated families, an agreement will need to be made on whose email to use.
• We suggest a joint email account that both sides can access, so both can help approve orders.
Will I get an email reminder to approve girl delivery orders?
• Yes, if your Girl Scout has a girl delivery order to be approved, you will receive an email reminder at the end of each day.
• You will not receive an email for each order, so it is important to make it a routine with your Girl Scout to login to Digital Cookie and check that there are no outstanding orders.
Why do I have access to the troop site in the Digital Cookie app?
• Each time you log into the Digital Cookie app, it will give you the option to choose from your Girl Scout or Troop site, if the troop has a site set up.
• The troop site can be used at booths to accept credit card payments for the troop no login information or transferring of money is required!
• Please ensure you are selecting the correct account for each order.
Why can I not login through the Digital Cookie app?
• At the beginning of each season, all Girl Scouts and their caregivers are required to register and publish their online storefronts through the Digital Cookie web browser.
• Once sites are published, the Digital Cookie app will the be accessible.
• Please be sure to download/update your Digital Cookie app to the latest version.
Cookie Reward Highlights
Membership or Uniform - 500 Level
2027 Girl Scout Membership OR New vest/sash with patches/pins!
• Troop Number
• Flag
• Council ID
• WAGs Pin
• Insignia Tab
• Membership Pin
Adventure Bucks - 800 Level
$125 to use towards all things at GSOFSI
• GSOFSI Program Events
• GSOFSI Overnight Camp
• GSOFSI Shop/Trading Post
• 2027 Girl Membership
Funds will be virtual. An email will be sent with further instructions, if earned.
Expires March 1, 2027
Family Day at the Zoo - 700 Level
May 2, 2026 | No rain out date, no alternative.
Join us at the STL Zoo for a day of fun up to 4 people included Girl Scout + 3 family members!
We will have our own event tent, lunch, adventure passes and more.
Crossover Patch
Girl Scouts who participated in the 2025 Fall Product Program and met the requirements for the first patch ($350+ Total Sales, 18 emails sent, Avatar created, and Share My Site used) are eligible for the Crossover Patch.
Girls who sell 250+ packages plus the requirements above will earn this patch.
Patches will be mailed directly to you, if earned.
10–12-week processing time, once the program has ended.
Amazon Shopping Experience - 500 and 1000 Level and Up
We are offering an exciting, new reward to the Girl Scout Cookie Program lineup. Girl Scouts who reach 500+ (and choose the Amazon experience) and/or Girl Scouts who reach 1000+ packages in sales will get their very own shopping experience.
• Each higher-level reward will offer additional funds to be spent in a personalized storefront set up by GSOFSI.
• Items will include STEM, outdoors, art and more!
• Girl Scouts will receive an online voucher via email at the end of the season to be used.
• Vouchers must be used by July 1, 2026
• More details to come throughout the season and will be shared with those who have earned via email.
Cookie Reward Highlights
Older Girl Options - Cadette, Senior and Ambassadors
Khaki Club - NEW!
Now Girl Scout Cadette, Senior and Ambassador troops can opt in to a new rewards program. Troops who opt in to the Khaki Club will earn Amazon shopping credit for every 100+ packages sold in lieu of the order card rewards.
25-100 601-700 101-200 701-800 201-300 801-900 301-400 901-1000
401-500 1001-1100
501-600 1101-1200
Troops will still earn the base proceed amount. If earned, the following will be available as well:
• 500 level - Membership or Uniform
• 700 level - Family Day at the Zoo
• Final Troop PGA Tshirt
• Patches at the 25, 200, GOC levels
Opt Out
Troops still have the option to opt out of rewards and earn extra proceeds (10 cents per package).
This must be a unanimous vote within the troop. Troops must be the majority Cadette, Senior, and/or Ambassador to opt out.
If earned, Girl Scouts will still earn the following:
• Final Troop PGA Tshirt
• Patches at the 25, 200, GOC levels
