1. Welcome to the ABC Bakers webinar on How to Enter an Early recognition Order. Your Council will communicate whether or not they offer an early recognition plan, typically these plans are used to encourage sales during the initial order phase of the cookie sale.

2. Smart Cookies – Early Recognition Order
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Once logged on, hover over the Recognitions tab and click on Create Recognition Order

4. Creating the Early Recognition Order
As a Troop user, you will be defaulted to your Troop on the create Recognition order page.
Tab to the plan type field and select the plan called ‘early’ from the dropdown. Then click ‘Create Order”
As a Service Unit, District or Council level user, you will have 2 choices to select the Troop to create the order for:
Click the circle “Select by Filter”- Choose the District, Service Unit, Troop, and tab to the Plan Type and select the early plan from their dropdown menus
Click the circle “Enter Troop Number” – Enter the specific Troop number and then tab to the Plan type field and select the early plan from the dropdown menu
Click “Create Order” button on the far right to begin the order
Click “Cancel” to delete and start over.

5. Reviewing the Girls Early Recognition Items
The Recognition Order header will include Troop summary information on the sales at the time the order is created.
Click the Review button located at the bottom to update ALL the girls sales totals.
All the Girls names should go from a Red status to Blue indicating their orders are all up to date and no further action is required. The Review button will disappear and you can Save and Exit the order.
If Girls names are still showing in red, that indicates those specific Girls need further review before you Save and Exit the Order.
To do that:
Click on the individual girls name in red and make any selections or enter any missing sizes as needed.
The Recognition Range level requiring attention will be highlighted in red and once complete, it will become green.
Once all names are up to date, they will appear in blue
Click Save and Exit to complete the order
Click Cancel if needing to exit out of the review process.

6. View Recognition Order
Once the Early Recognition Order has been saved, the Manage Recognition Order screen appears where it provides the following information:
District (if applicable)
Service Unit
Troop #
Recognition Order Type
Order Date
Order Number
Status –”U” for Uncommitted and no further review is needed or “R” for needing Review.
Pencil Icon is for editing the order
Trash can icon is for deleting the order
Check Icon is to commit the order. Do not commit the order until the order due date. Once Committed, it cannot be updated or edited. A “T” will appear in the Status as a Troop Level Committed order. Please contact your SU or Council member if the order has been accidently committed before the Order due date.
The Search field box can provide an order when entering specific data
If additional packages have been transferred to the girls, the order will show an ‘R’ (needing Review) status indicating the Girl’s sales totals will need to be updated.
To do that, either double click on the line or click the pencil icon to update the order
Repeat the previous steps in reviewing and updating the Girls names from Red to Blue

7. Completed Early Recognition Order
When completing the Order, be sure all T2G Transfers have been conducted to the Girls and all their orders have been reviewed. The order should be in a U status.
Once Reviewed and complete, click the Check icon
Click Yes to commit the order
The status will go from a U status to a T status indicating Troop Level Commitment. If the Service Unit commits the order, it will show as an S, District level commitment will show a D, Council Level commitment will show a C

8. This concludes the PowerPoint on How to Enter an Early Recognition Order. If more information is needed, please contact your Service Unit Cookie Chair or Council.