eBUDDE

=Using eBUDDE After the Initial Sale Period=

First off, congratulations! You've successfully inputted your initial orders into the "initial order tab." What I’m about to explain may sound complicated, but once you get the hang of it it’s relatively straightforward. Don’t get discouraged...if you have any questions I can help or another volunteer can help.

From now on, the initial order tab is closed and you'll use the "Girl Orders" tab. (This is true for both additional individual boxes and booth sale cookies.) On the girl orders tab, you’ll be able to add boxes for girls so that her total is accurate (this determines her final incentives and helps you track the $ she owes). It doesn’t really matter what cookies types you enter...you could put them all as lemons, for example, just be careful not to enter them as HTH cookies unless they’re really for Hometown Heroes.

By the end of the sale, the bottom of the girl orders tab should have a difference of 0. That will mean that all of the cookies you’ve sold have been allocated to girls and are being counted toward their incentives.

The “troop order” line at the bottom of the girl orders tab comes from the “transactions” tab. When you pick up or drop off cookies from the cupboard, I will do an entry that will magically appear on your transactions tab. The numbers that appear at the bottom of this page should correspond to the # sold + your inventory. (With a day or two of lag time for me to enter the data.) You'll never input anything on this tab, but it's a good source of information.

A few additional tips:
To help with your record keeping, __ALWAYS COUNT IN BOXES__. Never, ever count in cases.

When it comes to allocating booth sale cookies to girls, the easiest way is to take the total sold for the entire shift and divide them based on how many hours each girl worked. You could try to painstakingly determine the exact number each girl is responsible for, but quite frankly, it’s probably not worth it.

Hope this helps, feel free to contact me with any questions!