Our Fall Product Program takes place in Sept. and Oct. It is a “friends and family” sale through which girls can sell nuts, chocolate, and magazines. The average troop earns nearly $150 in funds early in the program year.

The Fall Product Program is a great jumping-off point before the Girl Scout Cookie Program. It gives new troops the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of product programs before the cookie program begins.

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Training

Training of Troop Fall Product Managers |
For Girls

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How to Participate

Send an email to our su402 Fall Product Program Manager to let us know your Troop # and how many girl packets your troop will need. We will notify via email when packet is ready to be picked-up from a volunteer’s home. Give us about 24-48 hours to prepare and respond back. 

• Leaders packets will be labeled with troop number and will include girl packets.  

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Ways to Participate

Troops and families can choose between or do both nuts/candy and magazines. 

ONLINE – Girl Delivery & Direct Ship Options

• Direct Ship: Customers can purchase from a full assortment of Girl Scout products and gift items or magazines, and pay with a credit card.
  • These items will be directly sent to the customer, with no money to collect or product to deliver. 
  • Customers will have access to all items available online.
• Girl Delivery: These items will also be paid for online, and then delivered by the Girl Scout who received the order. 
  • No money should be collected for any online orders. 
  • Customers will only get to choose from the 16 options that are on the order card.
  • Girls will need to deliver products to customers.

IN-PERSON – Sell in Person

• Girls can take orders using the traditional paper order card. 
• Payment is collected at the time of order taking.
• Girls will need to deliver products to customers.

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Important Dates

• SEPT 11
  • Early-Access for Troop Volunteers
  • Add or update family email addresses to queue the Parent Adult Email Campaign for your troop; emails will not send until the start date of September 18.
• SEPT 18 – Program Begins
  • Girls to set up their online site
    • Only if the troop leader has triggered the parent/guardian email blast through the M2 system
  • Girls can begin selling nuts & candy plus Gift of Caring (Care to Share) from their paper order card
• SEPT 30
  • ACH form due from each troop participating
• OCT 16
  • Last day for in-person(paper order card) ordering
  • Families deadline to enter in-person orders (paper card orders) into M2OS by 11:59 pm CST
    • Online girl-delivered items should NOT be re-entered
• OCT 17
  • Troop deadline to enter any nut/chocolate order card sales into M2OS that haven’t been previously entered by parents. (by 11:59pm)
• OCT 17
  • Last day for girl reward choices to be made in the M2 site.
• OCT 18
  • Last day for online sales
• OCT 23
  • Council ACH Sweep – 100% of amount due to council
    • Troops with an unpaid balance will be sent to collections on December 20, 2021
• NOV TBD
  • Troops to pick-up in-person & online girl-delivered orders
• DEC TBD
  • Troops to pick up rewards
  • Troops MUST report any missing or damaged rewards immediately to the Fall Product Program Manager 
    • Troops must report any missing or damaged rewards immediately to the Service Unit Fall Product Manager with 2 weeks of receipt
    • Unclaimed rewards will be returned to council by December 18

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Resources

Additional resources can be found on Council’s website.

• Troop Fall Product Manager Guide
• Troop Fall Product Manager Agreement Form
• Girl Permission/internet Responsibility Form

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Rewards

Watch for email for date, times, location, and additional information.
Depending on rewards, some are picked up at council or sent directly to the families. 

• Avatar Patches will be mailed directly to families.
• Electronic rewards must be picked up at a Gathering Place. Parents will be notified directly from Council’s Product Program Team.

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In the Know…

Additional Fundraisers & Money-Earning Projects
Troops that participate in both the Fall Product and the Cookie Programs may have extra Fundraisers. Money-earning projects cannot take place during the blackout months of October, January, February, and March. Those dates are reserved for Council Fundraisers.

Highest Awards
Girl Scouts who need to earn funds to support their Bronze, Silver or Gold Award Projects must participate in the Fall Product and Girl Scout Cookie programs, selling the minimum number of cookies and fall product (see below) as their first money-earning activity.
There is no minimum required level of participation unless the individual, troop, or group is asking for financial assistance and/or wants to do another money-earning activity. In these cases, the minimum each girl must sell is defined as:

• a minimum of 12 candy/nut products OR 
• a combination of both for Fall Product AND four magazine subscriptions 
• AND a minimum of 30 packages of cookies 

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Contact

Please be sure to add the following e-mail addresses to your personal e-mail.

Council’s Product Program team: 
855-456-8347 or productprogram@girlscoutsgcnwi.org

Service Unit’s Product Program team:
Fall Product Program Manager