Thin 造幣局s are now just a click away! Girl Scouts enter the 数字表示式の age as they begin selling cookies online for the first time ever

  • More than one million scouts are 推定する／予想するd to start using a?動きやすい app and personalized websites to sell cookies later this month
  • 数字表示式の sales are ーするつもりであるd to 高める, not 取って代わる, the paper spreadsheets Girl Scouts have 伝統的に used

By Associated 圧力（をかける） and MailOnline Reporter

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Watch out world, the Girl Scouts are going 数字表示式の to sell you cookies.

After nearly 100 years of selling door to door, Girl Scouts of the USA will 許す its young go-getters to 押し進める their wares using a 動きやすい app or personalized websites - but only if their scout 会議s and 後見人s say 承認する.

'Girls have been telling us that they want to go into this space,' said Sarah Angel-Johnson, 長，指導者 数字表示式の cookie (n)役員／(a)執行力のある for the organization covering about two million girls. 'Online is where entrepreneurship is going.'

Going digital: Girl Scouts Bria (left) and Shirell (right) practice selling cookies on a tablet now that the organization has allowed online sales?

Going 数字表示式の: Girl Scouts Bria (left) and Shirell (権利) practice selling cookies on a tablet now that the organization has 許すd online sales?

And the best news for these 数字表示式の natives: They can have cookies shipped 直接／まっすぐに to your doorstep.

More than one million scouts, from 幼稚園-age Daisies to teens, were 推定する／予想するd to 選ぶ in as cookie-selling season cranks up this month and the scouting organization gets 数字表示式の sales 進行中で. But 数字表示式の sales are ーするつもりであるd to 高める, not 取って代わる, the paper spreadsheets used to 生成する an 概算の $800 million in cookie sales a year - at anywhere from $3.50 to $5 a box, depending on scout 会議.

There are important e-lessons here, scout 公式の／役人s said, such as better articulating and 跡をつけるing goals, learning to 扱う 顧客s and money in a new way, and more efficiently 過程ing credit card （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）.

'A lot of people have asked, "What took you so long to get online?" We spend a lot of time thinking how do we make this 安全な, scalable and smart,' Kelly M. Parisi, 長，指導者 communications (n)役員／(a)執行力のある for Girl Scouts of the USA, said at a 最近の demonstration for select マスコミ.

会議s were 申し込む／申し出d one of the two 壇・綱領・公約s but not both. For web-based sales, scouts customize their pages, using their first 指名するs only, and email 見込みのある 顧客s with links to click on for orders. They can also put up ビデオs explaining who they are and what they 計画（する） to do with their proceeds.

The 動きやすい 壇・綱領・公約 申し込む／申し出s tabs for 跡をつけるing sales and 許すs for the sale of bundles of different 肉親，親類d of cookies. It can be used on a phone or tablet.

Screen time: Girl Scouts are seen learning how to sell cookies on the organization's website using laptops

審査する time: Girl Scouts are seen learning how to sell cookies on the organization's website using laptops

'They can get them quicker than waiting for me to 配達する them because いつかs it takes me a long time to 配達する,' 申し込む／申し出d 11-year-old Priscilla at the preview. The adults at the event asked that only first 指名するs of scouts be used.

追加するd seven-year-old Anna: 'My favorite part is that now I can sell more Girl Scout Cookies.' She pulled 負かす／撃墜する about 200 boxes last year and has upped her goal to 600. Girl Scouts use their cookie money to 支払う／賃金 for community service work or 軍隊／機動隊 activities such as （軍の）野営地，陣営ing and other trips.

The websites will not be accessible without an email 招待, 要求するing the girls to build （弁護士の）依頼人 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）s. And personal （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） is as 保護するd as any digits out there, for both the scouts and 顧客s, using encryption in some 事例／患者s.

Much of the 責任／義務 to 限界 identifying 詳細（に述べる）s about scouts online 落ちるs on parents.

軍隊／機動隊 Leader Karen Porcher of the Bronx has an 11-year-old scout and is 特に psyched about the 数字表示式の 選択s. They live in a house rather than an apartment, and she and her husband work at home, 除去するing at-office cookie and neighborly building sales.

Sweet news: Customers can now have Thin Mints (pictured) and other Girl Scout cookies shipped directly to their doorstep

甘い news: 顧客s can now have Thin 造幣局s (pictured) and other Girl Scout cookies shipped 直接／まっすぐに to their doorstep

'During cookie season my daughter is wearing her (scout) vest on the subway and people are so excited to see a Girl Scout,' Ms Porcher explained. 'Strangers 現実に will buy a 事例／患者 of cookies and wait for her to call. This is going to be amazing because now she can just say "Give me your 商売／仕事 card," or "I'll take your email 演説（する）／住所," send the email and they can be 配達するd. This is gonna be 甘い.'

Girls have been telling us that they want to go into this space. Online is where entrepreneurship is going

Ms Porcher also sees word-of-mouth value in getting cookies 配達するd quickly.

'People are going to be walking around with cookies and others are going to say, "Whoa, how did you get those already?"'

Zack Bennett of Manhattan has a nine-year-old scout who sold more than 1,000 boxes last year. She hopes to 増加する her goal to 1,500 this season and went through training to learn how to 始める，決める up her new cookie website.

But dad won't be letting her loose alone.

'I'll be sitting in the backseat to help her, certainly when it comes to credit cards, things of that sort,' he said. 'But it makes perfect sense to have it be on the computer. It's definitely time the Girl Scouts （機の）カム into the 21st century.'

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