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Girl Scout Cookie Program Resources

Want to know about all the benefits of selling Girl Scout Cookies? Looking for a one-stop shop with the latest safety guidelines, information on earning the Cookie Entrepreneur Family pin, and tips for parents and volunteers working with Girl Scout Cookie professionals? Look no further than the info, links, and downloads below!

Tools for Cookie Program Success 

Digital Cookie®
Cookie sellers, log in to your Digital Cookie® account here. Access for caregivers opens on March 1, 2026.

Smart Cookies
Volunteers, log in to your Smart Cookies account here.

Girl Scouts of the USA's Cookie Resources Page
Here you'll find handouts, posters, videos, and other materials to help you have fun and stay safe as you build your cookie business.

Start the cookie season off right—explore resources and information tailored just for you!

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Volunteers

Explore key information tailored for troops and service units.

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Caregivers & Sellers

See resources & info put together specifically for Girl Scout sellers and their caregivers.

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Juliettes & Caregivers

Find need-to-know information just for Juliettes!

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Troop cookie volunteers primarily use Smart Cookies, where you will track your troop’s sales, inventory, schedule booths, and allocate packages of cookies to each member of your troop. 

Digital Cookie® allows you to set up a Troop Cookie Site, which will support your troop during their booth sales and sales for the public who use GSUSA’s Cookie Finder to locate a troop to support. You’ll also be able to monitor your troop members' pending delivery orders and send them cheers to celebrate milestones. 

Girl Scouts will use their personal Digital Cookie® site to supercharge their cookie business; they’ll be able to take Girl Scout Cookie orders, track purchases and deliveries, and forge a more direct digital connection with their valuable customers.

Learn more about Digital Cookie® here.

Important resources:
  • Important dates
  • Troop Volunteer Guide (PDF)
  • Cookie Family Connection Guide (PDF)
  • Ways to Sell
  • Social Media Guidelines
  • Proceeds
  • Adventure Challenge (PDF)
  • FRIDA Cookie Bingo (PDF)
  • Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
  • Patches (PDF)
  • Share Program
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2026 update coming soon:

  • Smart Cookies Guide for Troops (PDF)
  • Smart Cookies Guide for Service Units (PDF)
  • Smart Cookies Guide for Cupboard Users (PDF)
  • Smart Cookies Quick Bites (PDF)
  • Planned Orders
    • Troops needing additional cookies should place a planned order through their cupboard. Orders must be entered into Smart Cookies by 7:00 p.m. each Sunday, starting March 15, 2026. Troops can submit two planned orders per week. 
    • Troops may place planned orders in cases and packages.
    • Cupboard planned orders should be emailed to Lisa Kennie each Sunday by midnight. 
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  • Troop Bank Account Form (PDF)
  • Parent Collection Form (PDF)
  • Digital Cookie® Help Site for Volunteers
  • Printable Tools for Selling
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Digital Cookie® lets you and your Girl Scout manage her cookie business online. Through her personal site, she can take orders, track deliveries, and have a more direct digital connection with her customers.

With fun, easy-to-use tools, Digital Cookie® offers more ways to participate, sell, buy, and learn. Studies show girls who combine Digital Cookie® with traditional sales often sell more and reach their goals faster.

Bonus: Set goals, upload a pitch video, track progress, and earn cookie business badges and pins. This year, the app supports card, PayPal, and Venmo payments—and now tracks cash payments too, so she always knows what’s due to her troop volunteer.

Learn more about Digital Cookie® here.

Girl Scouts can boost their cookie sales with Cookie Palooza—a fun way to connect Girl Scouts with local businesses. Use our handy flyer, customize with your links, and share with restaurants, cafés, etc.

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  • January 30-February 1: Cookie Rally Weekend
  • March 1: Cookie sales begin, and Digital Cookie® access for caregivers
  • March 3-13: Cookies delivered to service units and Girl Scouts
  • March 15: First day of Cookie Booths and Cookie Carts
  • April 21: Final day for customer orders for in-person delivery via Digital Cookie®
  • May 3: Last day for Cookie Booths, Cookie Carts, and online orders for Direct Ship
  • May 14: Emails to Adventure Challenge earners go out
  • May 31: Deadline for Adventure Challenge earners to choose their adventure
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  • Digital Cookie Help Site for Parents and Girl Scouts
  • Digital Cookie Tip Sheets for Caregivers (PDF)
  • Practical Tips for Parents and Caregivers (PDF)
  • Printable Tools
  • Ways to Sell
  • Social Media Guidelines
  • Proceeds
  • Adventure Challenge (PDF)
  • FRIDA Cookie Bingo (PDF)
  • Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
  • Recognitions (PDF)
  • Share Program
  • Troop Family Guide (PDF)
  • Cookie Allergen Guide (PDF)
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Digital Cookie® lets you and your Girl Scout manage her cookie business online. Through her personal site, she can take orders, track deliveries, and have a more direct digital connection with her customers.

With fun, easy-to-use tools, Digital Cookie® offers more ways to participate, sell, buy, and learn. Studies show girls who combine Digital Cookie® with traditional sales often sell more and reach their goals faster.

Bonus: Set goals, upload a pitch video, track progress, and earn cookie business badges and pins. This year, the app supports card, PayPal, and Venmo payments—and now tracks cash payments too, so she always knows what’s due to her troop volunteer.

Learn more about Digital Cookie® here.

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2026 Important Dates:

  • January 18: Juliette Caregiver Cookie Info Session
  • January 28: Juliette Caregiver Cookie Info Session 
  • January 30-February 1: Cookie Rally Weekend
  • February 8: Juliette Girl Scout starting inventory order due
  • March 1: Cookie sales begin, and Digital Cookie® access for caregivers 
  • March 3-13: Cookies delivered to service units and Girl Scouts
  • March 14: First cookie restock order due (Saturdays by midnight). A fund deposit from your starting inventory must be made before additional cookies can be picked up.
  • March 15: First day of Cookie Carts 
  • April 8: Balance due from starting inventory orders
  • April 21: Final day for customer orders for in-person delivery via Digital Cookie®
  • May 3: Last day for Cookie Carts, and online orders for Direct Ship
  • May 9: Final cookie balance due
  • May 14: Emails to Adventure Challenge earners go out
  • May 31: Deadline for Adventure Challenge earners to choose their adventure
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How your Juliette Girl Scout sells is up to your family.

Door-to-door
Girls sell cookies they already have by visiting neighborhoods and contacting friends and family. Each sale can be entered in the Digital Cookie® app to track card, digital, and—new this year—cash payments. This helps you keep an accurate record of inventory and money owed to GSME.

Leave a business card, printed via Digital Cookie®, to encourage repeat customers!

Cookie Carts
Cookie Carts (formerly known as Lemonade Stands) are a great way for Girl Scouts to flex their entrepreneurship muscles. They are held during the same time frame as traditional Cookie Booths.

  • Cookie Carts (new 2026 PDF coming soon)
  • Digital Cookie Mobile App Guide for Caregivers and Girl Scouts (PDF)

Online Sales
Set up your own Digital Cookie® website! This new tool allows girls to personalize their page, set goals, and send emails to friends and family to increase sales through online orders. Customers are invited to shop from your girl’s very own website and cookies will ship directly to them.

See our social media guidelines here.

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Juliette sellers earn a tiered amount per box of cookies sold.

Funds earned from cookie sales are deposited to the Juliette Fund where she can request funds to help cover uniform costs, event costs, and even camp!

  • Adventure Challenge (PDF)
  • Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
  • Recognitions (new 2026 PDF coming soon)
  • Share Program
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Juliette Cookie Letter (PDF)

  • Juliette Annual Permission Form (PDF)
  • Digital Cookie® Help Site
  • Digital Cookie Tip Sheets for Caregivers (PDF)
  • Practical Tips for Parents and Caregivers (PDF)
  • Juliette Girl Scout Cookie Program Guide for Caregivers (PDF)
  • FRIDA Cookie Bingo (PDF)
  • Printable Tools
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The Maine-ly Sweet Treats Cookbook is ready for you to enjoy! Be sure to check it out and have fun trying out the delicious recipes!

Looking for a way to promote the cookbook at your cookie booths? Check out our flyer, which you can print and display at your booths.

Find important dates, ways to participate, patches to earn, and so much more!

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2026 Important Dates:

  • January 30-February 1: Cookie Rally Weekend
  • February 1: Smart Cookies access for volunteers
  • February 11: Troop starting inventory orders due
  • February 13: Cupboard starting inventory orders due
  • February 26: Digital Cookie® access for volunteers
  • March 1: Cookie sales begin, and Digital Cookie® access for caregivers 
  • March 3-13: Cookies delivered to service units/girls
  • March 15: First day of Cookie Booths and Cookie Carts
  • March 15: First planned orders due (Sundays by 7:00 p.m. for leaders and midnight for cupboards)
  • April 8: First ACH (50% of starting inventory order, less digital payments)
  • April 21: Final day for customer orders for in-person delivery via Digital Cookie®
  • May 3: Last day for Cookie Booths, Cookie Carts, and online orders for Direct Ship
  • May 6: Parent collection forms due to GSME
  • May 12: Last day for leaders to make transfers in Smart Cookies
  • May 12: Recognition orders due by troops
  • May 13: Second ACH for full balance due
  • May 14: Emails to Adventure Challenge earners go out
  • May 30: Last day for NSF (non-sufficient funds) checks to be turned into GSME 
  • May 31: Deadline for Adventure Challenge earners to choose their adventure
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Remember, how your troop sells is up to you! If you’re a first-year troop you may not be ready to do all the things that that’s okay! Check out our Troop Progression Chart.

Door-to-door
Girls sell cookies they already have by visiting neighborhoods and contacting friends and family. Each sale can be entered in the Digital Cookie® app to track card, digital, and—new this year—cash payments. This helps you keep an accurate record of inventory and money owed to GSME.

Leave a business card, printed via Digital Cookie®, to encourage repeat customers!

Cookie Booths
At booth sales, girls work together at local retailers to achieve troop sales goals. Starting March 15, troops can set up tables outside local retail locations such as restaurants, grocery stores, and hardware stores to sell directly to customers. Talk with your troop leader to learn if your troop wants to participate in booths this year!

  • Cookie Booth Inventory Sheet (PDF)
  • Drive Thru Booths Diagram (new 2026 PDF coming)
  • Drive Thru Booth Tips (PDF)
  • Cookie Booth Essentials (PDF)
  • Digital Cookie Mobile App Guide for Troop Volunteers (PDF)
  • Digital Cookie Mobile App Guide for Families at a Cookie Booth (PDF)

Cookie Carts
Cookie Carts (formerly known as Lemonade Stands) are a great way for Girl Scouts to flex their entrepreneurship muscles. They are held during the same time frame as traditional Cookie Booths.

  • Cookie Carts (PDF)
  • Digital Cookie Mobile App Guide for Caregivers and Girl Scouts (PDF)

Online Sales
Set up your own Digital Cookie® website! This new tool allows girls to personalize their page, set goals, and send emails to friends and family to increase sales through online orders. Customers are invited to shop from your girl’s very own website, and cookies will ship directly to them.

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There is a tiered earning program for cookies. The more you sell, the more you earn! Proceeds are based on a troop’s average (total number of packages sold divided by the number of selling girls in your troop).

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*Tier ranges are based on the Per Girl Average (PGA) of a troop, not based on individual girl sale totals.

We still will be providing $.07 a package to service units to support activities, provide girl opportunities, and fund community service and leadership projects!

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This year, Girl Scouts of Maine will be donating cookies to provide support to local food pantries in Maine.

Customers can purchase cookie shares through a girl either online or in person, giving consumers an option to support Girl Scouts without needing to deliver the cookies to food pantries themselves.

Each cookie share purchased is credited to the girl they’re purchased from, so it helps them reach their goals. It is another way that Girl Scouts can give back to their communities.

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Troop Cookie Program Manager Position Description and Agreement (PDF)

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Use this guide to estimate how many cases of cookies will fit in your vehicle. The amounts listed below are for a tightly packed, empty car except for the driver. This means there should be no items in the trunk or rear storage area, such as strollers, groceries, lawn chairs, empty car seats, etc.

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Digital Cookie’s shipping fees have been reduced this year. The minimum order for shipping is 4 packages. The base shipping price is $11.99 for 4-8 packages and $13.99 for 9-12 packages. Below is a list of shipping costs for cookie orders at different levels.

Price for Cookie Delivery
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The above pricing is calculated as follows: 

  • 13 packages of cookies: tier B (12) + tier A (1) = $25.98 
  • 25 packages of cookies: tier B x 2 (24) + tier A (1) = $39.97

Use this method to calculate shipping for orders larger than 52 packages

$5 surcharge to orders shipping to Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, APO/FPO/DPO, Guam, and US Virgin Islands

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Please remember that marketplace sales via Facebook Marketplace, Amazon, Ebay, Next Door, Craigslist, etc are not allowed.

Girls participating in traditional cookie sales may call, text, and send email messages to alert friends and family to product sales and accept customer commitments via email, text, or telephone. All girls should have a hands-on role in marketing their cookie business. Girls of all ages should partner with their parents, guardians, or caregivers to develop a plan to safely market their business online.

Parents/guardians should do the posting for girls under the age of 13. Girls who are 13 or older may use social networking sites to market products but must follow council and GSUSA guidelines. When girls are marketing online, members should only use their first names, their troop/group number or name, and their council’s name. Personal emails or street addresses of girls should never be used for contacting or responding to customers.

  • Digital Sales Platforms (PDF)
  • Digital Marketing Tips for Cookie Entrepreneurs and Families (PDF)
  • Supplemental Safety Tips for Online Marketing (PDF)
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A Cookie Rally is a pre-season event hosted by service units to kick off the Girl Scout Cookie Program. Along with generating excitement about the upcoming sale, a Cookie Rally helps prepare new and returning Girl Scouts and their families by teaching them how to engage their community, work together, and gain information on recognition items, promotion strategies, and seller resources. Think of it as a pep rally, practice run, training camp, and celebration all-in-one!
 
This year's Cookie Rally Weekend runs from January 30-February 1, 2026.
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As a reminder, we are unable to post cookie booth locations on the GSUSA Cookie Finder for any booth location that has the following verbiage in the location title: Liquor, Dispensary, Residence, Home Address, Gun Show, Gun Range, Gun Club, Rifle, or Pistol.

These locations may be inappropriate for Girl Scouts based on the standards of your local community, may negatively impact the cookie program experience for participants, and may negatively impact the Girl Scout brand in your community.

  • Booth Inventory Sheet (PDF)
  • Cookie Booth flyer (PDF)
  • Drive Thru Booths Diagram (new 2026 PDF coming soon)
  • Drive Thru Booth Tips (PDF)
  • Cookie Booth Essentials (PDF)
  • Cookie Carts (PDF)
  • Digital Cookie Mobile App Guide for Families at a Cookie Booth (PDF)
  • Sharing booth sale information on social media
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  • Thank You Note Cards (Avery 8387–PDF)
  • Order Card (PDF)
  • Mini Order Card (PDF)
  • Door Hanger (PDF)
  • Bold Flavors flyer (PDF)
  • Cookie Booth flyer (PDF)
  • Maine Favorites flyer (PDF)
  • 2026 Mascot Coloring Pages (PDF)
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See our flyer to learn how you can earn a free summer adventure!

If you didn’t participate in the Fall Product Program or missed the minimum of 35 during the program, email customercare@gsmaine.org to learn how you can earn an adventure through cookie sales.

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See our 2026 patches here and set your cookie goals.

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Have questions about Girl Scout Cookies®? See our Cookie Q&A page to get your questions answered!

Here are some other great resources to check out:

  • Find quick answers to your questions about Girl Scout Cookies on GSUSA’s Cookie FAQs page.
  • Check out ABC Bakers Cookie FAQs here.
  • Find fun facts from ABC Bakers here.
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Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin

Make Girl Scout Cookie season a family affair. Earning Cookie Entrepreneur Family pins makes spending time with family even sweeter.

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Thank you to our sponsors for making the Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin program available to all of our families at no cost!

Families, submit your form by May 1, 2026, to get your free patch.
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