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Supporting Storm Lake and St. Mary's
Make money while you shop by using Scrip.
Scrip means "substitute money" and is a program that alleviates the tuition burden for St. Mary's families. You can purchase a variety of gift cards which you use just like cash for the everyday purchases you already make such as groceries, clothes, medication and gasoline. Each purchase you make with scrip generates revenue that is applied toward the St. Mary's tuition fund of your choice.
The St. Mary's Scrip Program began in November 2004 and has had great success in helping participating families pay for tuition costs. The Scrip Committee includes: Karen Murray, Cindy Pudenz, Betty Rohr, Kay Lenhart, Michelle Smith and Scrip Director, Karen Pickhinke.
How does scrip benefit me?
Seventy-five percent of the revenue you generate is assigned to the St. Mary’s fund of your choice. The remaining 25% goes to the St. Mary’s Scrip Program to cover program operating costs, with any remaining profits going to the tuition assistance fund. You may assign your 75% to only one St. Mary’s fund. These funds include:
- your family’s tuition account
- another family’s tuition account
- the tuition assistance fund
Scrip inventory sales profits are attributed to the Parish General Fund, which has a financial obligation to the school. This in turn helps keep the cost of tuition down.
Who can enroll in the Scrip program?
Virtually anyone can enroll - St. Mary’s school and non-school families, general parishioners, non-parishioners, relatives, etc. Or, family and friends can order through your account and have their revenues attributed toward your designated St. Mary’s tuition fund.
How is the revenue generated?
St. Mary’s Scrip Program buys the scrip from local retailers and our national supplier, Great Lakes Scrip. All scrip is purchased at a discount, and is resold to families like yours for full face value. Discounts are provided by retailers and range from anywhere between 2%-15%+. The discount amount set by retailers is the revenue earned for your St. Mary’s fund.
How does St. Mary’s Scrip operate?
1) An enrollment form is completed by the family, which you can find enclosed. Return the enrollment form with your first order. Since scrip is an ongoing program, you may order as much or as little as you want at anytime.
2) Orders must be placed, paid for, and delivered to the St. Mary’s school office, parish office, or a weekend mass by 8:30 a.m. Monday mornings. All scrip transactions must be made in the designated scrip program pouch. One pouch is provided by the St. Mary’s Scrip Program. Replacement pouches are available for a $2 charge.
3) Orders are processed on Monday mornings and scrip will be distributed to you on Thursday. You have the choice to send the orders, payments, and scrip back and forth in the designated scrip pouch through your child’s Panther Pack system, your High School student, or you may personally make these transactions through the school office or parish office, located in the rectory.
4) Revenue credits are tracked in specialized software and applied to your designated St. Mary’s fund twice
a year, in January and July. Status reports are also issued at these times.
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Revenue earned now is applied to next semester’s tuition.
A Scrip Example:
A local retailer is offering a 10% discount for scrip users. When you purchase $200 scrip from that retailer, the revenue earned is $20. Seventy-five percent ($15) goes into the St. Mary's fund of your choice and 25% ($5) stays with the scrip program to cover program costs with any remaining revenue going into the St. Mary's tuition assistance fund. In other words, you receive $200 with retailer plus $15 to the fund of your choice.
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To make ordering Scrip more convenient for you, Scrip can now be ordered online! Another benefit of shopwithscrip, you can check on your own account at any time using any computer with internet access. Card reloads are available as well as ScripNow eCards. Read more about them at shopwithscrip.com.
To set up an online account please follow these instructions.
1. Go to www.shopwithscrip.com
2. Click on Create account green box labeled “Family Sign Up”
3. Enter your email as your username and then a password (both are case sensitive). Fill in other information.
4. Click “I Accept”
5. Select two challenge questions
6. Enter St. Mary’s enrollment code: CBCAA15D75L9
1. Once you’ve registered using the green Family Sign Up box, and are ready to place an order, login using the orange box at the left on the main page. Your email is your username. As always, orders must be placed by 8:30 Monday morning.
2. You can order scrip from both local and national merchants using the “Shop” tab at the top of the page. Our local retailers are mixed in alphabetically with the national retailers. You can see all the merchants in a category, search for a specific store or restaurant, or use Express Add. You can also create a “Favorites” list of retailers. Questions about ordering? Click on “My Account” then on bottom left click “User Guide”.
3. An online ordering option for payment is “Check” – You will send a check along with your Scrip pouch just as you have done in the past. The “Check” option also applies to ACH users already set up with St. Mary’s Scrip. If you are not set up ACH and would like to, go to the scrip page on school website, www.stormlakecatholic.com and download a form and turn in to Karen Pickhinke.
The other payment option is “Presto Pay” – This feature is offered by the Shop with Scrip people. Your checking account will be debited by them. (There is a 39¢ service charge for each use of Presto Pay). See link on shopwithscrip.com for info on how to set up to use “Presto Pay”. If using Presto Pay we still need your Scrip pouch here by 8:30 Monday mornings.
4. Double check those orders! When you order online- you are NOT able to make changes to that order once it has been submitted. If there is an error, call Karen Pickhinke at 661-9417 ASAP.
5. Print your order. Write check number or ACH on it - as well as with either “pickup” or “deliver to child/grade”. Send in with your pouch, needed by 8:30 Monday mornings.
6. As in the past, you will receive your filled scrip orders on Thursdays per your delivery/pickup choice.
7. We still accept paper order forms from those who don’t care to order online or do not have a computer.
***Forward this information to your out of town families and friends***
(If the online orders are coming from them, an enrollment form would have to be filled out with their name, address, etc. --- If you order for them, no enrollment form is necessary.)
***It will be your responsibility to pick up their filled order and get it to them.
Download Family Enrollment Form
Download Authorization for ACH
Download Retailer Enrollment Form
Find Local Scrip Retailers and their Guidelines
List of Complete National Retailers