What is QSP?

The QSP program is the fall product sales program which runs from October 14 through November 3. Girls sell magazine subscriptions, nuts, and candy to earn money for their troop. Girls will be able to communicate the components of the QSP sale to their family and friends through online ordering, through hand-written order forms, or through address booklets. Girls will receive incentives based on their total sales (or Junior, Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador troops, can choose to earn a higher percent of proceeds instead of receiving incentives.) 

This year's theme is Investing in Today = Success for Tomorrow! As part of the QSP Program, girls learn five essential skills including:

• Goal Setting
• Decision Making
• Money Management
• People Skills
• Business Ethics

How can I help?

• Review with your girl the information she receives from her leader, including the Parent Letter and the ordering information for nuts and candies or magazines.(Para la Carta a la Familia en Español, haga clic aquí.)

• Help your girl develop her customer list.

• Accompany your girl when she is selling her products.

• If your girl will be marketing online, read and sign the Internet Safety Pledge.Then supervise her as she visits the QSP/Nut Online Program site to send emails to friends and family. 

• Remind your girl of important deadlines for the program.

• When it is time to turn in your materials, please enclose in your Girl Scout’s envelope the following items: magazine order forms, nut and candy order form, completed address booklet, print-out of QSP Online Ordering Detailed Order Report, and payments. Payment must be received when orders are taken. Checks are written to “Girl Scouts of Connecticut” with the troop number in the memo area and customer’s phone number written on the check.

• Congratulate your girl on doing a great job in the QSP Program!

Four ways for customers to show their support

Online Magazine Orders
Ordering magazines online helps to “Go Green,” and they arrive at the subscriber’s home quicker than those ordered on paper. Girls, with parent/ guardian supervision, send emails to family and friends inviting them to shop online for magazines. Customers order magazines through the online site and pay QSP directly via credit card.

Catalog Magazine Orders
Families and friends browse through the catalog and complete the Magazine Order Form(s) with their selections.
Girls collect the completed forms and full payment at the time the order is placed.

Nut and Candy Orders
Customers choose from a wide selection of nut and candy treats, and fill in order card with their selections. Girls collect payment at this time and turn it in with their order card.

Address Booklets
Address booklets allow family and friends who live away to support a Girl Scout by purchasing and/or renewing magazine subscriptions.
QSP mails the coupons from the booklets by first class mail to each address.
Names and addresses are not sold or shared by QSP. Ordering information is sent directly to the person listed on the coupon.

QSP/Nut Online Program

For more information about the QSP Program please contact us at productsales@gsofct.org or (800) 922-2770 ext. 3350.