Fall Popcorn Fundraiser: Where?

Popcorn Fundraiser: Overview

• Why? Helps kids. Funds activities.
• Who? Returning Scouts.
• What? Popcorn and More.
• When? Fall. Important dates.
• Where? Storefront (Show & Sell). Online Direct. Wagon Sales.
• How? Sales guidance.

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Where?

Multiple Ways to Sell

Fundraising Covers 3 distribution channels:

Show & Sells (Store Fronts)

• For Fall 2025, we are not having any store-front sales.
• Involves coordinating booths in high foot traffic locations throughout your community. Scouts with an adult volunteer sign up for hour-long shifts on Saturday and/or Sunday. We generally have shifts starting at 9AM and going to 3PM.
• We generally have shifts starting at 9AM and going to 3PM.
• Pack 735 Store Front Sales Overview (PDF)
• Store Front Sales Guide for Trail’s End App

Online Direct

• Online Direct sales are easier than ever for Scouts to sell virtually to friends and family and face-to-face with the new functionality to record an Online Direct order in the app.
• Online Direct Sales Guide for Trail’s End App

Wagon Sales

Door-to-Door Take Orders.

• Each Scout collects orders in the Trail’s End App and delivers on hand product or marks product as “undelivered” to be delivered at a later date*.

• This can be taken through neighborhoods, friends, and family.
• The Pack prefers that money be collected up front because The Trail’s End App only tracks paid orders.
• Paper order form is available from the Popcorn Kernel, or can be printed from here.
• Scouts can take orders on their own time. With a mid-October deadline, we will place an order for delivery in mid-November.
• In mid-late-October, the Popcorn Kernel will calculate the Wagon Sale orders from the App and from paper order forms. The Kernel will then generate a Trail’s End order for the Pack which will be delivered in mid-November. Scout families will pick up their orders from the Kernel’s home.
• Wagon Sales Guide for Trail’s End App

Door-to-Door with Product (for available inventory following Show & Sell sales)

• For Fall 2025, we are not having door-to-door sales with product.
• Involves the Scout bringing product door-to-door to customer residences to ask for support.
• This method is preferred for neighborhoods close to home. A large percentage of home-owners say that no one has ever come to their door, missing this great opportunity.
• Product is carried along in a wagon or vehicle, making it a quick and easy process for the customer.
• Wagon Sales Guide for Trail’s End App

Submitting Wagon Sales payment and paper order forms to Popcorn Kernel

• If your Scout sold popcorn through paper order forms, the paper order forms PLUS payment are due Friday, October 24^th.
• If your Scout sold popcorn as undelivered Wagon Sales through the Trail’s End App and received cash or check payment from customers, payment is due Friday, October 24^th.
• Consider either of these 2 ways to get your payment and paper order form, if applicable, to the Popcorn Kernel:
  • Drop off payment and paper order form in an envelope to the Popcorn Kernel. (address in e-mail to Pack)
  • Scan/photograph paper order form and e-mail as attachment to Popcorn Kernel (popcornkernel@readingpack735.org)
• Preferred payment methods:
  • Check made out to Pack 735. Please include memo: Popcorn for [Scout First and Last Name].
• Cash not preferred but will be accepted.