For Cookie Entrepreneurs
For Cookie Entrepreneurs
When you participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, you're doing more than just helping your customers stock up on delicious treats (and having lots of fun). You're doing it with a goal in mind. Whether that goal is a pizza party, a community project, or your first overnight trip with your troop, you know how many packages you need to make it happen.
Save the date! The 2026 Girl Scout Cookie Program begins on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026.
About the Cookie Program
The Girl Scout Cookie Program® prepares girls with the business smarts
they need to take on the world! Find out more about our cookies, how the
cookie crumbles, cookie recipes, and more on our About
Girl Scout Cookies page
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Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
The year-by-year collection is the latest addition to the Girl Scout Cookie Program; created my families just like yours!
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Key Program Dates
Forms and Resources
Ways to Participate
Up Your Cookie Game
Cookie Program Rewards
Getting Started
Girl Scouts: to get started, make sure your membership is active, and learn more about the Girl Scout Cookie Program by exploring the resources on this webpage. Connect with your troop cookie manager for support on goal-setting, building a marketing plan, placing your cookie cupboard orders, training, and more!
Troop leaders: you can find information on how to prepare your troop to participate in the cookie program at our Quick Start webpage.
Individually Registered Members: open the drop down below to learn more and get started.
Individually Registered Members
Supporting Your Girl Scout
Service Unit Cookie Kickoffs
Family Cookie Guide
Digital Cookie
Digital Cookie is the customizable order-taking website for Girl Scout Cookies. Girls personalize their individual pages with their goals and share their pages with potential customers. Customers can either pay for shipping or have the Girl Scouts they purchase from deliver their orders. After setting up their profiles from their web pages, girls can use the Digital Cookie mobile app to check their goal progress, access safety and selling tips, place new orders for customers, and share their site URLs via email.
Digital Cookie Features
Online Safety
Tips for Online Advertising
Sharing your Digital Cookie Link
How Customers Purchase Cookies
Tip Sheets
Cookie Finder
Social Media Graphics
Get excited for the Girl Scout Cookie Program! Let everyone know that cookies are coming up by sharing one of these graphics.
DOWNLOAD AND SHARE!Money Matters for Caregivers
A brief overview of what caregivers need to know about the cookie program.
Rights
Responsibilites
Requirements
Caregivers should:
- Safeguard all money collected immediately and do not send money to school with Girl Scoutss.
- Submit payments to the troop in their original form within five to seven days of receipt. If a customer pays $20 in cash, the same $20 must be given to the troop cookie manager. Do not write a check to the troop or use a third-party app like Venmo to send $20 to the troop.
- Not accept payment from a customer using personal credit card readers or any third-party apps like Venmo, Paypal, or Zelle.
- Not deposit any funds into personal bank accounts (this includes using personal credit card readers); cookie funds deposited in personal accounts can be viewed as taxable income by the IRS.
Safety Consideration: Each troop has its own policies for money and package drop-offs, pick-ups, and exchanges. Connect with your troop cookie manger to see if families can make troop bank deposits directly, or if they’ve chosen to give caregivers access to pick up cookies at cupboards (access must be given by troop cookie manager only).
Cookie Resources for Volunteers
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CEO Letters of Recommendation
Letters of Recommendation
High schoolers who have earned a cookie program participation patch every year they have been a Girl Scout are eligible to request one personalized letter of recommendation from Girl Scouts San Diego’s CEO, Carol M Dedrich.
Coming Soon...
Additional recommendation letter resources for Girl Scouts, including outreach tips, letter templates for volunteers, and more, will be available on our website in 2026.
