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Girl Scout mobile commerce quadruples sales of cookies this year

06/28/201206/27/2012 Andrew Hobbs

Smartphone credit card swipers encourage people to buy. The Girl Scouts have now released their mobile commerce results after having sold cookies using this technology for the first time, and the outcome was exceptionally promising. Four times more cookies were sold with smartphone sales than a year ago without the tech. Thirty councils of Girl Scouts – representing over 40,000 troops – announced earlier in 2012 that they had entered into a partnership with Sage Mobile Payments, which provided the children with the ability to sell their cookies using smartphones…

Girl Scouts partner with Sage Mobile Payments to offer additional cookie purchase option

03/03/201203/02/2012 Stephanie Beck

Troops of Girl Scouts in 23 states are now able to accept payments over mobile devices for their cookie sales now that they are using Sage North America’s Mobile Payments platform. The mobile payment platform company announced its partnership with a number of Girl Scout Councils across the United States in order to allow their troops to offer mobile payments as an option while the girls sell their cookies. So far, there are 32 Girl Scout Councils among those 23 states that are using this option. This translates to approximately…