Girl Scout Daisies (in kindergarten and first grade) may be involved in council-sponsored product sale
activities, but they cannot collect money in any other way except through group dues or parental
contributions.
Girl Scout Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Girl Scout
Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors who participate in door-to-door sales must be supervised by
(but do not need to be directly accompanied by) an adult. Girls of all grade levels must always use
the buddy system.
Money due for sold products is collected when the products are delivered to the customer. Girls will
need to know whether they can accept checks and to whom customers should write checks—find
out from your council staff.
Personal customer information should remain private. Customer credit card information should not
be collected by girls and should not be asked for on any form collected by girls.
A girl’s physical address, social media page address, IM name, Skype name or number, email address,
or cell number should never be revealed to anyone outside her immediate circle of family and
friends. You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating.
Girls can market cookies and other products by posting on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter
or sending emails to friends, family members, and former customers, as long as they use a group
email address, the account or address of a parent/guardian or adult volunteer, a blind email address
(in which the recipients cannot see the sender’s email address), or the online email tools provided by
cookie vendors. Girls 13 and older can also use their social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, or
Pinterest) to do the same to her immediate circle of family and friends. Be sure each girl’s account
uses the tightest privacy settings and doesn’t reveal information about her or her location to anyone
outside her circle.
Sales may not be transacted on the Internet (for example, through a site that has an electronic
shopping cart), except for Girl Scout magazine subscriptions, nut and candy product sales and the
Digital Cookie Program that are through the MagNut (Nut-E) and Cookie (eBudde) companies
provided sites. Girls can also receive order commitments for cookies sales via email or the Internet.
In other words, potential customers can relay (via email or a Facebook post, for example) that, “Yes!
I’d like four boxes of Thin Mints and three boxes of Shortbread cookies.”
Please also keep in mind:
Volunteers and Girl Scout council staff do not sell cookies and other products; girls sell them.
Girls can participate in no more than two council-sponsored product sale activities each year, and
only one of these may be a cookie sale.
Before beginning any cookies or other product sales with your group, refer to the cookies section of Girl Scout
Central and www.girlscoutcookies.org.
Cookie booths, or temporary sales set-ups in areas with lots of foot traffic, are a popular way for girls to sell
cookies as a team. Your council may have established cookie booth locations; contact the council befo ɔ