Question: Shoparoo Earnings worth the trouble?

Hi, We've heard a lot about Shoparoo and wanted to wait a year to see if other groups were earning enough money for it to be worth our while. Can others please chime in with how many kids are in their school and what their total Shoparoo earnings were for last year? Thanks in advance!

Asked by Deborah in NC

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amywalter writes:
Hi Deborah! My kids attend a Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio with about 430 students. We started using Shoparoo at the beginning of last school year. Last year, (August 2013-July 2014) we earned $1724.20 from Shoparoo. $1224.20 was from regular use of the app and $500 was awarded to our school for winning a contest last October. This is a GREAT way to earn money for your school! We love Shoparoo because it provides us a way to fundraise without putting in countless hours per week. While we do write up regular updates for our school communications, this program mainly runs itself!!! The Shoparoo website is filled with FAQ's and flyers and even a PowerPoint presentation that you can use to get the word out to your school families. Whenever I have encountered a problem or have been asked a question that I couldn't answer, the staff at shoparoo@shoparoo.com has ALWAYS answered my questions - usually within just a few hours of me sending the email. I highly recommend giving Shoparoo a chance. It is free money for just taking a few seconds to snap a picture of ANY receipt. You shop as you normally would and earn money for your shcool at the same time. It's a win-win! We have about 30 regulars who always Shoparoo and that earns us about $100 a month. I hope this helps and that you give Shoparoo a try!

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dmack1231 writes:
Deborah, our group started using Shoparoo last November and earned over $2,000 for our school, Mooseheart Child City & School in Mooseheart, Illinois. This was from just our members having fun snapping pictures of receipts. It was almost a competition to see who could get the most points for the month! As everyone else who uses the app will tell you, the program is effortless and does run itself! Any questions you have most likely have been answered already on the website or will be answered swiftly by posting the question on facebook or sending an email to them. We have found that Shoparoo is the easiest way for our school to earn "free" money - there is no clipping, no mailing, just a simple click on your smart phone. And now they accept even more receipts - which means even more of an opportunity for schools to earn money. It has not been a better time for your school to try Shoparoo. We love it.

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elizmontgo writes:
My school is in the suburbs of Philadelphia. We have been using Shoparoo since October of last year. We just received our check for the 2013-14 school year for $1,141 !!! The program runs itself---just needs someone to get the word out to parents. It's even easier now that they added the sweepstakes program----scan all receipts and let your phone sort it out as to which program the receipt will benefit---either the points or the sweepstakes. Good luck!!!!

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chazvgo writes:
We just started this year and we are almost to $400, not as much as everyone else but its FREE money. Use this code and get 100 points
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Nyett writes:
My son's school has 500+ students and have only earn $277 so far for 2015-2016. I am disappointed with Shoparoo, therefore, I give the app 1star. First, you are the only place where reviews for Shoparoo can be written. Second, I see little changes from last year in the app's improvement. Third, Shoparoo is still declining receipts that are clearly readable and don't have the word or words "paid, purchase date, transaction date, store, items purchased". I am starting to think that the system or person or persons accepting or declinin receipts does based on moodswings. Don't get me wrong, I am for school fundraising this is a great idea the company just needs to fix the kinks.

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Mommaknow writes:
This is my first year and I'm snapping pictures for my niece. I've been really disappointed with the lack of participation from the school. I have earned well over 10k POINTS, while the remainder of the supporters (VERY FEW) have together gotten 20k. That to me sucks! They're looking at less than 75 dollars. To me, it's not with it if you don't have a high participation. I mean, you need 50k points to get $100! I don't see myself doing this next year. I can easily give my niece $50 and call it a day !

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sjnboxtops writes:
We have used it at our school for the past two years. The second year we used it the participation dropped by half. We believe it is because we are not really able to track participation in a meaningful way and this hinders us from offering incentives to the families to use the app.

I have contacted Shoparoo with some ideas of how to increase participation by providing the school with more information about the usage of the app by the registered users for the school. They indicated to me that if more schools ask for this type of information then they may include it.

One thing we requested is the ability for families to support multiple grades.

We also are hoping to reward families based on usage of the app so they can get x number of points for submitting a receipt for points and x number points for submitting a sweepstakes entry and possibly accumulate more points for reaching certain levels of submission. In order to do this we have to be able to see how many receipts are being submitted by person and for ALL people not just the top 25. We know we can see this in the feed but we don't have time to go through the feed data on a daily basis.

Just wanted to share these ideas and encourage other groups to contact Shoparoo and ask for them to implement these types of reporting options in order to increase usage of the app by their student families.

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Ptaprezrailranch writes:
We love it. We have abt 6 active users last yr and we got almost $175 last yr. This yr we will prob hit double.

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DD writes:
We just started using it this year and will be lucky to earn $200. It is an extremely intrusive app, asking you every personal question possible...names and ages of all family members, wanting access to all social media, Google, and Amazon accounts, they know everywhere you shop, and everything you buy...if they wanted to steal (or sell) your identity it wouldn't be hard...basically most families are nervous, or extremely against using it because of SERIOUS privacy issues.

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Awilson702 writes:
I was wondering how you submit purchases from Amazon? They don't send actual receipts in the mail so how would I be able to show that I purchased merchandise?