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Ice cream fundraising questions, answered

Short answers for creamery owners, PTA volunteers, and coaches comparing The Giving Scoop to donation apps, popcorn catalogs, and paper forms.

The Giving Scoop is fundraising software for ice cream shops and creameries. It runs branded campaign pages, online pint ordering, seller tracking, and automatic Stripe payouts for school and nonprofit fundraisers.

Only in the broad sense that money is raised online. Givebutter is donation, event, and peer-to-peer software. The Giving Scoop is product fundraising software for a creamery’s own ice cream catalog.

Free to join with no monthly fee. A 1% platform fee plus Stripe processing (typically 2.9% + $0.30 per card charge) is taken when an order is paid.

There is no universal number. Many shops land near a third of the sale for the organization after covering ice cream cost and processing. Set a split you can repeat every semester.

No. You sell your flavors at your prices. The platform does not substitute a national ice cream SKU.

Organizations need a creamery partner on the platform. Ask your local shop to create a free company account, or contact us and we will help make an introduction where we can.

Pint sales pre-order take-home product and scale past a single evening. Scoop nights donate a share of in-store traffic. Socials are events. Many groups run a pint pre-sale and a social on pickup day.

Usually not. Pints are fulfilled by the local shop. If you need ship-to-home snacks, a popcorn or cookie dough catalog is a better tool.

Each seller gets a unique link and QR code. Orders placed through that link credit that student, player, or volunteer on the live leaderboard.

Card payments are collected at checkout through Stripe. Revenue splits are calculated by the platform and paid out to the connected Stripe accounts after the fundraiser according to your settlement settings.

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