Trails End Popcorn System for Unit Leaders

Is it hard? How does it work? 1. Log In 2. Add your Scout List (optional but good!) 3. Approve Scout Orders (also optional) 4. Enter Unit Order 5. Submit to Council Easy. You can also view your Unit commissions, order Trails End prizes and see a variety of information for your Unit in reports available in the Popcorn System!

1. Go to and Click the LEADERS Tab. 2. Click the Popcorn System link to log in with the Username and Password given by your Council, District or existing Unit Administrator.Popcorn System 3. The first time you log in, confirm your address and create your new password. 4. Answer the Confirmation and youre on your way! (If you have trouble getting the confirmation , check spam filters.) The first time you log in…

1. Record Scout sales and progress toward goals 2. Create Scouts logins for the Trails End Popcorn System for SCOUTS 3. Orderforms appear online for Scouts (If Council selects this option for Units to use) 4. Packing slips for each Scouts order (if Scout orderforms are used) 5. Scout Accounts Receivable reports (if Scout orderforms are used) 6. Key codes for transfers and orders (if your Council participates in this program) Create a Scout list… Why?

Create your Scout list 1. Click Scouts from the Popcorn System Menu Bar 2. Click Edit Scouts to add to or make changes to your Scout list As you save the Scouts first names and last initials, the Popcorn System generates Usernames, Passwords, and Key Codes automatically for each Scout! 3. The Scout Indicator Checkbox The column heading will tell you which Scouts to check

Sales credit for your Scouts If you have Scout Order Forms give your Scouts credit for Sales by entering their orders online. If you see Allocation Boxes (instead of order form links) enter the total dollar amount of Scouts retail sales. sales only count toward prize goals if your Council is able and allows them to be added to sales totals. Entries on Order forms and in Allocation Boxes give Scouts credit toward goals and prizes! Using Allocation boxes or Orderforms is a selection made by your Council

If you are using Scout Order Forms 1. Approve all filled order lines on all of your Scout order forms. Any unapproved lines that are filled with order selections will prevent submission of your Unit popcorn Order. 2. Total lines from Scout orderforms may be entered on the order form lines, to save time and effort. You do not have to enter every customers order detail to give Scouts credit. 3. Make sure you save your changes! 4. Approved Scout orders automatically begin adding to your Unit order page as total Scout Need.

Submitting your Units Popcorn order to your Council 1. When you have approved all Scout orders (if you are using Scout orderforms in the Popcorn System), 2. Go to your Unit popcorn order screen to enter the order, or make adjustments. Orders menu bar option, Click on the Order you wish to place from the resulting list of options Add or subtract in the Order Adjustment column to make the Actual Order to Council column what you need 3. When your order is ready, click the Submit to Council button to send your Unit order to your Council. Order approval will be done by them. 4. You can continue making adjustments to your Unit Order until your Council submits a total Council order with Trails End. 5. Once you have submitted a Unit order to Council, adjustments to Scout orderforms no longer change Unit orderform totals.

A closer look at the Unit Order screen 1. What your Scouts need appears in the first column, only if you are using the Scout orderforms in the Popcorn System. 2. Enter, add or subtract quantities as needed, accounting for inventory you have from previous orders, or extra product you would like to add to your order. 3. Save your work to finish later 4. Or, Submit to Council if the order is complete.

View your Unit Commission detail Click Orders from the Popcorn System Menu Bar, and choose Unit Commission 1. Your Council decides what Unit Commissions are (not Trails End) and checks the boxes for any extra incentives earned. 2. This is also where you can choose cash instead of prizes, if your Council is using the Trails End Prize Program and offering a cash incentive option.

Submitting your Trails End Unit Prize Order 1. Click the Orders menu bar option 2. Choose Scout Prize Order, if you are choosing or viewing Scout prize choices 3. Choose Unit Prize Order, if you are ready to place your Units prize order 4. Enter address information and Unit prize choices. The Scout Quantity Needed column will total Scout prize choices, only if Scout level choices were entered. 5. If you include a valid address, you will receive progress notifications about your prize order submission, shipment and expected delivery. 6. Submit to Council, but you can only submit once! Your Unit Prize order can only be adjusted by your Council once submitted. Additional prizes must also be ordered by your Council once your Unit prize order has been submitted.

A better look at Order Status Confirmations and Order Tracking If you include a valid address, you will receive progress notifications about your prize order submission, shipment and expected delivery

The Programwww.Orderpopcorn.com 1. Order Keys are generated automatically for Units and for Scouts as they are added to the Popcorn System. An Order Key Report can be run to learn what your Unit and Scout order keys are, from your Unit Leader login. 2. If your Council has chosen to use the program, the order keys allow access to the online popcorn sale selections. If Council has not, order keys will not work on the site. 3. Consumers can use your Unit and Scout order keys to place credit card orders at earning additional commissions from distance and year round sales for your program! 4. Orders for your Unit and Scouts can be viewed by clicking the Orders menu bar option. Choose the Orderpopcorn.com Orders selection to see order details. 5. Commission is paid monthly to participating Councils, which is then paid by Councils to Units where order keys were used to make purchases. 6. Beginning Fall 2007, some single container shipping will be available with added charges. Full case quantities will continue to be offered free of shipping charges. 7. Chocolate items are seasonal and are offered on the website from October until Chocolate inventories are gone.

Web-based Popcorn Sale Training at For Scouts and for Leaders

Reports for Unit Leaders ( this list may change with system updates )

There is Help if you need it 1. Click the HELP menu bar option Task specific help documents in html or *.pdf formats Full Popcorn System manual for Unit Leaders in *.pdf format PowerPoint presentations to help you learn and use for meetings 2. Or, to the helpdesk with your question or