Eden Prairie Fastpitch Softball Scrip Program Change the front icon picture Users Guide

What is Scrip? From the shopwithscrip.com website: “Scrip is Fundraising While You Shop®. This amazingly successful fundraising program works for any school, church, team, club or other non-profit! Scrip turns everyday shopping into cash for your organization when families use retail gift cards to pay for everyday purchases (like gas and groceries) instead of the usual credit/debit card or other money. Scrip works equally well for onetime fundraising goals or year-round programs. Great Lakes Scrip Center® has helped thousands of organizations earn more than 500 million dollars over the last 20 years.”

Top Fastpitch Association Benefits Our fastpitch association gets a regular source of revenue to continuously improve our program. Potential extra money to update existing fastpitch association supplies. For example, new 8U bats to replace dead or dented ones. Potential extra money to obtain more coaching supplies. For example, whiffle balls or weighted balls to improve teams. Potential extra money to offer more off season clinic sessions. Potential extra money to offer more off season open hitting sessions. Potential extra money to cover costs for incentives of an off season hitting program. Potential extra money to allow extra tournament fees to be covered. I’m too new to know what the city grant amount is, whether or not the grant is consistent amount each year, and what it is used for. I also don’t know how our budget is at the end of the year through all fees.

Top Family Benefits You get a powerful fundraising alternative that involves no selling… No unnecessary spending, you spend your planned household budget at stores you already frequent. Works with any budget. Shop in-store or online with participating retailers, while earning money to cover softball fees. Use gift cards to pay at checkout, just like you would use a credit/debit card, but without the fraud risk. Scrip program earnings are much greater than credit card rewards. Buy groceries, gas, and other household expenses with Scrip gift cards that are dollar for dollar from Scrip. You can decide how you want the rebate funds applied by selecting an option within your fundraising parental agreement. Friends and family can also signup under your account and earn extra money for your account. SCRIP fundraising is available 24x7 all year.

Possible Program Options Rebates earned can be used in the following ways but must equal 100%: _5_ % is a pre-determined percent for administrative fees to EPFPA to cover running Scrip program (NOT tax deductible). This percentage is not allowed to be modified at this time but should be included when adding up to 100%. ___% as a charitable contribution to EPFPA, including but not limited to, scholarship fund, coaching supplies, etc. (THANK YOU!!) (Potentially tax deductible) ___% is a cash rebate to the family to be used for uniforms, equipment, softball tournament travel expenses (hotel, gas, travel), etc. and are NOT tax deductible. Our scrip program distributes the rebates two times a year in the months of April and October. • Uniforms are bought new each year. There will be different jersey options each year. • Helmets and bats are suggested to be bought new every other year. • If 60 days after tryouts you have not contacted the fastpitch association with your intentions regarding continuation with the program, the fastpitch association will consume any funds remaining in your family account.

Scrip Example Actual Numbers will Vary   Monthly Spending Avgerage Rebate *** Total Rebate Admin % EP Fastpitch Monthly Scrip Rebates Annual Scrip Rebates Annual EP Fastpitch Grocery Store* $426.00 5% $21.30 10% $2.13 $19.17 $230.04 Gas** Clothing* $163.00 $8.15 $0.82 $7.34 $88.02 Entertainment* $92.00 $4.60 $0.46 $4.14 $49.68 Dining Out* $310.00 $15.50 $1.55 $13.95 $167.40 TOTAL ANNUAL REBATES $765.18 $85.02 * Numbers were taken from www.finance.yahoo.com ** Based on 2 cars spending $2.19/gallon (11 gallon tank twice/week) *** Only an average percentage of potential rebate percentages to be offered.

Getting Started www.shopwithscrip.com Visit the website and there you will find all the information you need to get familiarized with the program. Once you are familiarized, just simply follow these steps: On the homepage click on the “Register” button in the upper right quadrant. Fill out your personal information and use the enrollment code for our fastpitch association which is 98C2942955836. In the “Student Name” field enter your athlete’s name and leave the “Classroom/Group” field blank. Sign up for PrestoPay, as this is the method we are going to use for collection of money generated by this program.

Getting Started (cont)…. (Presto Pay) Login to your shopwithscrip.com account, checking the PrestoPay hyperlink on the left side. Input your banking info - it will tell you to expect two small deposits in your checking account in the next couple of day to verify they are linked to the right account. Check your account for those deposits which will appear in a couple of days and go back to presto pay and confirm those amounts. It will then generate a 4 digit code. Please email this code on to the fundraising coordinator at epfastpitchwebmanager+scrip@gmail.com. *NOTE* Each Scrip Order charges $0.15 as a processing fee to your bank account. That is per ORDER, not per ITEM. So if you order 10 cards from different merchants, the total processing fee is only $0.15.

How to Shop With Scrip Let’s say I want to find a restaurant which I can use a Scrip product for dinner tonight. What I would do is sign in and click on shop in the upper right quadrant. You then can select a category such as dining and card type as Scripnow. This yields a screen similar to the following restaurants that have Scripnow which has an immediate “card” available which you can print at home.

Example (cont)….. I hover my mouse over the Chili’s Logo and find that it has Physical Card (with the ability to re-load) and Scripnow and that Chili’s rebates 11% (this varies from store to store). You then just select the amount and add to cart for checkout. As a bonus I see that it is also accepted at Macaroni Grill, On the Border, etc.

Example (cont)….. As you can see, in the checkout section, it shows the contribution to our program to be $5.50 (11% of the $50 value). Eden Prairie Fastpitch Association You would be charged $50.15 for this transaction from your PrestoPay which debits your checking acct. You print the “card” and that’s it, quite simple! Now the amount toward your individual family account depends upon which option you select in the parental agreement.

Mobile website for your Phone! Myscripwallet.com is the website you can use with your smartphone when out in town. You can purchase Scripnow eCards and/or reload previously purchased re-loadable cards. Look at the re-loadable cards. If you find one of those you use often and have presto pay, you can reload your card from home. No shipping cost or waiting for the next order of physical cards.

Food (or Drink) for Thought: Scripnow gives you instant access to your printable cards and there are 722 participating retailers (and growing) on the shopwithscrip program including Walmart (2.5%), Dominoes(8%), Applebees (8%) Itunes (5%), and hundreds more. You can also purchase re-loadable cards. After you receive your initial card which takes just a few days, you can reload yourself online and basically have a running gift card which again applies the % of what you reload to offset your players fees! Stores like CVS pharmacies, AMC Movie Theatres, Starbucks, Home Depot/Lowes and many hotel chains participate. You can get family and friends in on this too. They can sign up themselves and name your player on the initial form, or you can buy the cards for them and they can reimburse you. There is a “gift” option which makes it easy!

Going Forward Please sign up at shopwithscrip.com and get started. There is no cost to your family other than the 15 cent transaction fee for each order. This is offset by the direct reduction of your player’s fees for spring and summer ball! This will benefit both your family and the Eden Prairie Fastpitch Softball program! We will plan on placing an order for those who want physical gift cards and re-loadable cards (great for your kids to have for subway and other restaurants)! Questions?- Send email to the fundraising coordinator at epfastpitchwebmanager+scrip@gmail.com