My husband helped me put our order form into an excel spreadsheet, double column double sided paper. If someone wants me to I can e-mail it to them, but we haven't tried posting it on-line.

If you have more questions or would like to see any of my forms give me your e-mail address and I will be happy to send them to you.

Good Luck.
Robin [/QB][/QUOTE]


Robin,,, I'd like a copy of your excel spread sheet, we are starting SCRIP first of FEB.

thanks
Pattyk

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Robin --

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Thanks!

Hi, we are just getting one started ourselves.. I too am trying to get a system down, it's pretty tough. The only bad thing I have to say is that New England Scrip has a very hard time keeping up with their orders during the holiday season. We stopped orders this week and next week because they are so backed up. We're resuming in January.. I have a question though, has anyone met resistance in starting a scrip program? We have encountered such serious resistance to it. If you have, how have you dealt with it?

Sean,

I took over doing our scrip program last year. So far it is going well and I enjoy doing it. We are a public school of around 500 with staff. We have maybe 50 people who participate, that really bums me out, but I keep trying to market.

We use GLSC, that is the only company we have used, but I can only say good things about them. We have never had any problems.

We take orders weekly, they are to be turned in by Friday, I process them over the weekend, I usually get my order by Tuesday or Wednesday of the next week and send it home. We only accept checks.

At the beginning of the year, I send a home packet with an order form, enrollment form and an explaination of how the program works. Last year I sent everything home in a 10x13 envelope, this I year I sent just the paperwork and when I got the enrollment form back I sent the envelope home (I did this as an effort to save money on the envelopes and labels (I use Avery 2x4 labels to put the students name, family name, teacher and grade level, the school and scrip envelope). I also only put the name of the highest grade level student a family has in the school.

If you look on GLSC website, they have promotional tools that you can download and print (you may have to be a customer first to get to those things).

My husband helped me put our order form into an excel spreadsheet, double column double sided paper. If someone wants me to I can e-mail it to them, but we haven't tried posting it on-line.

Depending on where you are located you may want to check with you local grocery chain to see what they offer. We have Kroger here which does a community rewards program, with reloadable gift cards, when our acct reaches $5000 we get a 4% rebate check. Also, check into Kohl's, they have a fundraising gift card program as well. I offer both of these on my scrip order form (even though I don't order them from GLSC, I give my families the option of getting them that way.

If you have more questions or would like to see any of my forms give me your e-mail address and I will be happy to send them to you.

Good Luck.
Robin

Hi All-

Our school is looking at running a scrip program in the new year and I have been given the task of looking into more info...not sure where to start?

A couple questions in particular:
1. I know of a couple scrip companies (GLSC, new england etc), Any feedback/comments on each?

2. How do most groups run their program- weekly orders, keep in-stock GC.

3. Do you send forms home or do the families order online through a website?

4. Do families pay with a credit card or only cash/cheque?

5. Any best practices tips/suggestions

Thanks

Sean