1.   UNIT KICKOFF: Units who have a kickoff and get their Scouts excited are likely to sell almost twice as much popcorn as those who don't have a kickoff. The Popcorn Kickoff sets the tone for your entire Popcorn Sale. Motivated Scouts and, more importantly, motivated parents are the key to a successful sale. Have fun! Give away prizes and more.

Downloads: 

Unit Popcorn Kickoff - Best Practices 

More flyers at www.danbeard.org/popcorn-resources/. Need us to print copies for your kickoff? Submit a free order online.

2.   HAVE SOME FUN: Make the evening fun. Have Scouts sample popcorn, learn about prizes and even give out some dollar store prizes for your Scouts to win. Create an incentive for everyone to participate in popcorn through a pizza party or ice cream social. Help explain your units expectation and get parents commitment. For example, we'd like each family to help cover 3 storefront shifts, or 3 evenings out in their neighborhood.

3.   STOREFRONT SALE: Schedule a storefront sale at local community retailers.  Login to start scheduling on your kernel dashboard.

1) Use your leader dashboard to send an invite to Scout families rather than having parents sign-up on their own. This will ensure Scouts get linked directly to your unit.

2) Look over your Scout tracking roster on your Unit Dashboard. Do you notice a Scout missing? They might accidentally be connected to the Troop or another unit.

3) View the full Leader Dashboard Tutorial for additional insights and information.

4) If you have a Scout in the wrong unit, notify us at popcorn@danbeard.org and/or Trail's End at support@trails-end.com and we'll help get the Scout moved to the proper unit.

The Popcorn App (Trails End) App is a fancy term for an electronic Order Form. Scouts collect orders here rather than on a paper order form. This helps keep things organized, gives you visibility on how the sale is going, and means less number crunching.

A wagon sale is basically any sale that takes place in the app that is not at a storefront. This is basically the equivalent of your order form. You can mark an order either Delivered or Undelivered when checking out. Each Scout can auto set their preference for new orders to be marked as "delivered" or "undelivered" depending on if they have the product in hand at the time of the sale or are planning to deliver it later. It's important to explain this to parents and Scouts especially if you are distributing popcorn out to families.

Online direct is the same as an online order through the Scouts online store. In this case, the product will be shipped directly to the customer with no need to deliver, however, online shipping rates will apply, so most units elect to deliver the product later if they do not already have the popcorn in hand. This feature in the app gives Scouts a simple way to place an online order for a customer right from within the app.

Feel free to check out some of the training videos available here. If you still can't find the answer to your question, check out our FAQ or reach out to us at popcorn@danbeard.org and we will be happy to help you.

To manage the storefronts you've signed up for, login to your dashboard and select "Storefront Management" from the left menu. From here you will see a list of storefronts that you have booked for your unit.

For these to populate for your Scouts/families to see, you will need to go in and edit any details, such as breaking a 6 hour shift into smaller shifts, and publish them to allow your Scouts/families to start signing up for them.

As the kernel, you can assign your overall inventory out to specific storefronts. This will give you a live look at how much popcorn is remaining at that storefront location. To do this, click on one of the storefronts you've reserved on the Storefront Management page. Click the > right arrow at the far right for additional options for that storefront. Click on inventory. Edit the quantity for each product. Under action, click "Transfer from Unit Inventory". This will temporarily move the product from your overall Unit Inventory (al the product you have), to that storefront. When the storefront ends, go to the same place and update the quantities to reflect the amount of popcorn coming back to you at the end of the shift. Then click "Transfer to Unit Inventory" to move the remaining items back to your overall inventory.

No worries! We got you covered over at our Popcorn Resource Page! We have copies of extra fliers available for download. Or you can order them for free on the store page and we can print them out for you!

For more valuable popcorn sale resources, please visit: danbeard.org/popcorn

Questions? Contact us at: Popcorn@Danbeard.org