The Cookie Program knowledge base for Girl Scouts, families, and cookie volunteers.
From guides and downloads to links that direct you quickly to your resources, Cookie Central is your one-stop hub for the most up-to-date cookie information. Check out a list of this season's key dates.
Cookie News
The Girl Scouts River Valleys Cookie Program returns February 21-March 30, 2025.
Check out a list of this season's key dates.
Participation Options (Ways to Sell Cookies)
Selling Girl Scout Cookies is one of the most iconic activities Girl Scouts engage in. This program is flexible and customizable to fit the needs of every Girl Scout. Troops and Girl Scouts can choose to participate in one, two, or all three levels of participation: online, hybrid, and in-person. Cookie volunteers can use the ideas below as a guide to get started. Encourage Girl Scouts to check off all the options they want to try this season or have them brainstorm a few of their own!
Select any participation option below to learn more.
Online Cookies: Shipped Cookies
Digital Cookie Online Account
Set up your Digital Cookie site for direct shipped cookie orders, donations.
Phone or Text
Share your Digital Cookie site by text for shipped orders and donation orders.
Call customers to place shipped cookie orders orders through your Digital Cookie site.
Cookie Booths
Create a flier with your troop’s Digital Cookie Troop Shipped Only link or QR code to post online or in the community.
Host an online event with your troop and share the Troop Shipped Only link for shipped cookie orders and donations.
Door-to-Door & Mobile Sales
Add your Digital Cookie site link or QR code for shipped cookie orders to door hangers or business cards to leave at residences.
Workplace Sales
Team with your caregiver to collect email addresses of customers, then send emails through Digital Cookie or share your cookie site link for shipped cookie orders.
Business-to-Business (a.k.a. B2B) Community Sales
Schedule a time to make a virtual pitch to a local business, share the Troop Shipped Only link or your Digital Cookie site for shipped cookie orders and donations.
Share your Digital Cookie site with a community organization for shipped cookie orders and donations.
Hybrid Cookies: Order-Taking & Delivery
Digital Cookie Online Account
Set up your Digital Cookie site for shipped orders, donations, and local delivery orders.
Phone or Text
Share your Digital Cookie site by text for shipped orders local delivery, and donation orders.
Call customers to collect orders for local cookie delivery or to place shipped cookie orders.
Cookie Booths
Share your troop’s Virtual Booth Link to promote upcoming booth/Lemonades™ stand information, take online orders/ payments, then customers pick up their orders on site.
Host an online event with your troop, and share the troop Virtual Booth link to take online orders/payments then pack & deliver orders.
Door-to-Door & Mobile Sales
Go door to door to take orders with a cookie order card and then deliver the cookies later.
Leave door hangers or business cards for customers who aren’t home.
Workplace Sales
Write a personal statement to leave with a cookie order card at a caregiver workplace. Orders are collected, then cookies are delivered at a later date.
Business-to-Business (a.k.a. B2B) Community Sales
Schedule a time to make a cookie pitch to a local business to sell cookies in bulk. Take the order(s) then deliver cookies later.
Set up a time to make a cookie pitch to a community organization to take orders from members, then deliver cookies later.
In-Person Cookies: Cookies on Hand
Digital Cookie Online Account
Set up your Digital Cookie site for shipped cookie orders, donations, and local delivery orders.
Phone or Text
Text customers to set a time/day to visit them with cookies in hand.
Call customers to set a time/day to visit them with cookies in hand.
Cookie Booths
Participate in booths at storefronts or in the community with your troop.
Set up a Lemonades™ Stand at your residence or on private property
Team with your troop to set up drive-thru or pop-up booths in the community.
Door-to-Door & Mobile Sales
Go door to door with cookie inventory on hand.
Leave door hangers/business cards for customers who aren’t home.
Use a wagon or sled to load up cookies to participate in mobile sales in the community.
Workplace Sales
Visit caregiver workplaces with cookie inventory, take payment, give cookies to customers.
Business-to-Business (a.k.a. B2B) Community Sales
Connect with local businesses to set up a time to sell to staff (who doesn’t love a cookie break?).
Connect with a community organization to set up a time to sell cookies on hand to members during a meeting.
Connect with local businesses to purchase cookies as gifts for staff or customers.
Cookie Cupboard Inventory
This is where you'll find information on cookie inventory at our
Cookie Cupboard locations during the cookie sales season.
During the Girl Scout Cookie Program,
Girl Scouts River Valleys opens Cookie
Cupboards to all troops participating in the Cookie Program. If
your initial order of Girl Scout Cookies runs low, visit our Cookie
Cupboards and replenish your troop’s inventory.
Cookie Cupboard locations and hours of
operations will be available closer to the start of the sale.
Have a Great Girl Scout Cookie Story to Share?
Caretakers or troop leaders can submit the Share Your Story Formtoday for a chance
to see their Girl Scout Cookie story featured on our website, social
channels, and more!
Looking to Buy Some Girl Scout Cookies?
Use our Cookie Finder to near you or to have cookies shipped directly to
your door.