Remind your troops about the fantastic Cookies4Heroes program and encourage the promotion of cookie shares at their cookie booths. Encourage parents to check how many cookies have been donated from their Girl Scout’s home page under Online Sales and Marketing. The Online Sales by Delivery chart will total how many cookie shares were sold, or donated, so the girls can track how close they are to earning the opportunity to deliver cookies to their local heroes!
If your troop received cash donations at a booth, there are two options on how to handle the donation.
Option 1. Participate in the Cookies4Heroes Program
Key the donation into Smart Cookies as a virtual cookie share, which supports our Cookies4Heroes program. The benefit of this choice is that Council will take care of the donations from the cupboard stock and the girls will be eligible for the Cookie Share patch at 12 donations, and eligible for the Cookies4Heroes patch at 30 donations. Also, when a girl receives 30 or more donations, her troop is eligible to help personally deliver donated cookies from Council.
Option 2. Troops' Own Donation
Record the cash donation as part of your booth purchases like any other cash purchase and then put those cookies aside to deliver to your local hero of choice. The benefit of this choice is that it helps with unsold inventory, but the girls will not be eligible for patches.
If your troop or girl received in-person credit card donations, here is how to handle the donation.
Check the All Order Data Report on the troop dashboard in Digital Cookie to view any cookie share orders that need to be entered for a girl. Cookie share cookies can be found under order type In-Person Delivery with Donation or Donation.
In ABC Smart Cookies, navigate to the Orders tab and select Virtual Cookie Share. Enter the number of packages of Cookie Share cookies sold be each girl. The unit of measure is packages. Click Save. Cookie Share cookies will display on the Girl Dashboard and financial responsibility for these packages will be assigned to the girls. Since the sale is paid for by credit card, the girl receives financial credit for the transaction.
Still need assistance with Cookie Share transactions? Download the attachments detailing the different types of cookie share transactions to assist with your reconciliation process!