Cookie - Troop

Information for the Cookie Program

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!




in the 2024 Cookie Program

Every year, thousands of girls across our council get ready to participate in one of our most anticipated times of the year - Girl Scout Cookie Season! The Cookie Program is about so much more than cookies. It’s about the girls and supporting their leadership journey. It’s about providing troops with funds to pay for activities or service projects that make our world a better place. And for our council, it’s about ensuring Girl Scouting continues to thrive in our community. 

As a troop cookie manager, we hope you will use this site as a resource and find everything you need to make your experience as positive as possible. We also encourage you to sign up for Cookie Program announcements by texting "Join" to 281-324-8760. The council will send updates, reminders, and tips to TCMs throughout the cookie season if they have opted-in to receive text messaging.

Thank you for giving your time and talent so girls can participate in this wonderful tradition. Together, we can make her future brighter! 

Key Dates

December - "Be a Digital Cookie Rockstar" recorded webinar available on Webinars page

January 12 - Starting Inventory Orders are due

January 29 - Be a Digital Cookie Rockstar Q&A

January 31- February 10 - Cookie deliveries begin

February 1 - Girls receive registration link email for Digital Cookie

February 10 - Cookie Program begins!

February 16 - Cookie booths begin!

February 16-18 - National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend & Walkabout Weekend

March 24 - Cookie sale ends 

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