Working document
The booth weekend runbook
Every step a cookie manager has to hit from two weeks out to the final deposit, in the order the weekend actually happens.
Free resources
Resources for running a booth season
Everything here is built for the eight weeks when cases, shifts and cash are all moving at once.
The pages in this section are the working documents, separate from the reporting in our magazine. The calculators do the arithmetic that decides your season plan: what a shift returns at your council terms, and how many shifts and screened adults your case goal actually demands. The comparisons answer the tool question honestly, including the cases where a spreadsheet or a general signup link is the right answer for your troop.
The booth weekend runbook is the one to print. It covers site approval, case sign out, cash custody at every handoff and the settle up with families after the last booth, in the order a weekend really unfolds. Take what fits your council paperwork and change the rest, because no two councils run a season the same way.
Free tools
Booth season calculators
Two working calculators for the arithmetic every cookie manager does on the back of an envelope in January.
Comparisons
TroopBooth compared with the tools troops already run
Three straight comparisons for the leader deciding what will carry her troop through eight weeks of booths, cases and cash.
Main guide
How much does a two hour booth shift actually bring in for our troop?
It settles what a single two hour booth shift is actually worth to your troop and how to build that figure from your own council terms.
Magazine
Booth Season
Practical reporting for volunteer troop leaders on youth fundraising seasons: permits, inventory, money handling and parent accountability.
About
Who writes all of this
Meet the person writing Booth Season, and see why every figure on this site starts from your own council proceeds per package rather than a benchmark borrowed from somebody else's troop.
The downloads are free, the cookie season is the work
Print the runbook, run the calculators and take the comparisons as written, with nothing owed in return. When the case sign out and the family balances need one home instead of a group text and a shoebox of receipts, that is the job TroopBooth does. A demo runs on your own council terms and your own booth calendar.