How do you divvy up sales from a cookie booth?

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From LR:
This is how we decided to do it. It’s not a girls fault if their booth sold less than others. Some locations are great and others are meh. We did total cookies sold in booths. And then split per time worked over booths. So if we sold 100 boxes total and four girls worked but one girl worked 5 hours and three girl worked 1. They don’t all get 25 boxes. Three would get 12.5 boxes and the one working 5 hours got 62.5. If that makes sense.

From Miranda
 we typically have 2 girls per booth. a few of us have 2-3 kids, so we kill that average. But it’s still only two adults & their kids. My booths were: 5, 3, 4, 3 and other booth was 3 this weekend. The 6- we both have 3 kids, I was only one available to work it with her, and since during the day, two of mine were with me.

We sold 72 over 2hours yesterday  slower the next 4 hours. But we also did 236 in 2.5 hours.

From Kayla
If anyone could ring how much passes directly from one kid into the hands of a customer, they’re missing the whole point of booths. It’s teamwork to sell cookies, not individual competition.

From Ali
Our girls are kindergarten daisies; they participate, and they participate a lot, but I wouldn’t do it specifically by girls. We do total because some are still stranger shy and don’t want to speak, but they’ll grab the cookies and pass them to the girl who is doing talking or pass them to their mom, you know, because it can be scary when you’re 5 1/2, they’re there and they’re present, and they’re participating.

From Kayla
And at the end of the season, I balanced the cookies between the kids anyway so that everybody gets max return.

When we did prizes, if kid A had 205 boxes and they weren’t going to hit the next prize level for another 45 boxes, I would take those extra five boxes and put them on a kid who was just below the limit of their next prize level, to boost them up.

Now that they are older, we make sure everybody has enough boxes to cover the patch and then we put all of the remaining boxes on one kid so we can get those bonus cookie credits. We decided this with the girls and they all agree that having one person in the 500 club but getting a couple hundred extra dollars back is way more important than knowing that you sold exactly 107 boxes.

From Crystal
Prizes are very different from council to council. Our council doesn’t have the 500 club, but I do the same thing to max out prizes. Right now, we have an extra 100 to distribute (sold by our coleader who does not have her own scout), and if I give it to our lower-selling girls, then they get a mini backpack keychain, but if I give it to our highest-selling girl, then our troop gets $65 on our Amazon GS shop.

From Laura
 We do allocate at the end to bump people up (never taking away anything). In our council, putting it all on one girl wouldn’t give us any benefit, and even though our girls are teens, they still vote for the rewards. 5 have already hit the custom Converse shoe level of 700.

From Missy
Why would you pick who sold what? You take total number sold divided by girls working booth. Done. 6 at a booth is a lot. Our council states no more than 4. 6 is just too many. It gets too crazy. Unless your dividing them in to one hour slots. 3 at a time.

From Traece
We’ve never ever kept a tally. We divide. Just assign whatever type makes sense if you need to select a specific cookie.

I attempted a tally for a personal booth, I did pretty well! But with 3-4 people taking money, it’s really impossible!

From Dottie
Whichever cookie management system you use should have the ability to equally distribute cookies at each cookie booth. You just need to know which girls were at which cookie booth.

From Janelle
We don’t keep a tally besides what was sold at the booth itself. We don’t even use smart cookie until the very end of the season and divide the cookies in there. We use a personal tracker as the season goes along. Keeps things much cleaner.

All Booth cookies are totaled at the end of the season and then how many hours each girl worked and then those cookies are all divided by an hourly box rate.

From Heather
After the booth, I go into eBudde, click on record booth, put in our totals sold of each cookie(which you should know if you counted what you had beforehand), then click on distribute. I already know how many boxes each so I just go in order of varieties. If each girl is supposed to get 30 boxes, then I give them 30 of the first varieties (so for us that would be Adventurefuls, lemon upside, and trefoils), if I’m halfway through trefoils and that girl already has 30, then the next girl also gets trefoils, and so on. If there’s an uneven number of boxes sold, usually like a couple left over, I will give them to the girls who were more into the booth than others. But I do the same in the end, too. If someone is a couple of boxes from the next level, and another is not even close to it, I’ll move those 2 boxes.

From Erin
Don’t divvy up boothing cookies until the end of the season. If you have a really great spot one day and a lousy one the next, the girls should ultimately get the same credit, because it’s the effort that matters.

So let’s say you end up selling 500 boxes at boothing sites, total. And then let’s say you have a troop of 6 girls:-
Girl 1 – boothed 3-hour-long shifts
Girl 2 – boothed 2 hours
Girls 3: boothed 1 hour
Girls 4 – boothed a total of 5 hours
Girl 5 – boothed 2 hours
Girl 6 – boothed 7 hours.

That’s 20 boothing hours total.
500 boxes divided by 20 hours = 25.
Your boxes per hour rate is 25.

So girl one with 3 hours gets credited 75 boxes.
Girl 2: 50 boxes
Girls 3: 25 boxes
Girl 4: 125 boxes
Girl 5: 50 boxes
Girl 6: 175 boxes

Then, once you have all the raw numbers, you can adjust them as needed. If one girl sells 243 boxes and another sells 260, take some boxes away from Miss 260 to boost Miss 243 to 250.

Boothing is about effort. What if a girl stands out in the rain and cold for 2 hours and sells a dozen boxes? And then what if another booth has a guy walk up and buy out your entire booth of 66 boxes?. (This happened to us this season.) They should be rewarded equally at the end of the season. Because it’s the effort and participation that matters, not the luck of how well you did.

Only difference is Mommy & Me booths. All those sales go straight to the girl and shouldn’t not be added to boothing totals.

From Katie
I divide them evenly, the only time I haven’t done this is when someone is at the booth but refuses to participate, then they get a few boxes, but the majority go to the girls actually working and participating.

From Red
We do 2 girls to a booth and split it between the 2, that way its equal. Some locations are amazing, some suck it’s luck of the draw. Last year we put too much faith in booths. This year, she’s up to 500 in just presales, hoping to sell at least 700 in presales before booths, so she can hit that 1500