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'Fill It Up' Weekly Prizes: Win Big!

Get ready to boost your sales with our exciting 'Fill It Up' weekly prize drawings! Every week, Scouts have a chance to win in their district. Find all the specifics on Page 21 of your leader's guidebook. Week 2 (Aug. 9-15) and Week 5 (Aug. 30-Sept. 5) are special "Double Winner" drawings, both the Scout AND their Unit will receive prizes! 

 

 

Question: Our unit wants to accept credit cards, but how do we do this?

      Answer: Consider using the “Square” or “Venmo” apps. Learn more on the Pecationica website  by CLICKING HERE! Or at www.pecatonicariverpopcorn.com/resources/

               Additionally, the app may allow you to pass the 3% service fee onto the customer to ensure more of the sale remains with the unit.

 

Question: Can our unit add a leader to our effort so they can sell at work?

               Answer: a unit can add a leader just like adding another Scout. This will allow the leader/adult to have a unique ID and share out with individuals who may want to make an online purchase or place an order on a paper form on behalf of the unit.

Question: Does the unit kernel need to tabulate and calculate “total sales” for each Scout?

               Answer: Yes, they can ask their families to enter the values in the MYPRPopcorn.com tool and those values will be visible to the Kernel in Kernel Tracker. The Kernel can then validate the entries by cross checking against flyers and adjust as needed. These values would then be visible to the council as well. These totals will be used for prize totals.

Question: Does Kernel Tractor and ScoutBoss talk with one another?

               Answer: The systems talk a little. For a unit to place an order for product that will have to be done in ScoutBoss. Kernel Tracker does not place any Show & Sell or Take Order orders. Online sales will auto be populated with the respective values automatically, no need to include them.

Question: Can we receive a copy of the Popcorn PowerPoint from kickoff?

               Answer: a copy will be added to the council popcorn webpage for a downloadable PDF. Be sure to look in the blue box section on the right for this in the coming days.

Question: I’m having difficult time understanding the ScoutBoss on the Pecatonica website, can you help answer some questions?

               Answer: at this time, please go to the Pecatonica website and review the training videos to learn more [click here]. As this sale process and vendor are new to all, we are all learning together including the council staff.

Question: can our unit still register to participate in the sale?

               Answer: yes, please go to the council popcorn page [click here] and on the home page in the gray box is “Informational Sign-up” to register. Please note the Council Key is 449BSAC.

Question: Do any of Pecatonica’s system track storefront sales? If this is “no”, is there any way to spread the sales evenly over each Scout who participates in the storefront?

               Answer: Pecatonica does not track storefronts. Tracking individuals individual sales will need to be manually calculated. A suggestion to divide storefront sales, if you haven't already considered - total sales for the day and for each hour a Scout works, divide that number to get an hourly rate then multiple by number of hours worked for each Scout. Scout sales will need to be entered by unit’s sold, so do your best to divide the effort.

 

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