Public Website

Design your home page and create as many additional pages as you'd like. 

Use our WYSIWYG editor to build each page, or insert your own CSS, HTML and Javascript to create a unique look.  Drag and drop photos into your page and resize them by pulling on the corner.

Insert "widgets" to display information from your database, like recent photos or current announcements and upcoming events.

You can choose to make your photo gallery public, or limit it to members of your troop after they log on.  Any number of photos may be linked to each event on your calendar.

Membership

Create membership records for scouts, parents, adult leaders, outside merit badge counselors, and alumni.  Link parents to their scouts so they can access their information.

Members log on to the site to keep their contact information up to date.  Parents can view their scouts' advancement status, account balance, transaction history, and sign them up for campouts.

Track all completed training and identify leaders who need to complete or renew specific training courses.

Enter leadership history for scouts and adults.  Current adult leaders can be displayed on your public site, along with their photos and bios.

Create dynamic member lists based on rules like "all First Class scouts and above, and their parents" so you can send them e-mails and create events that are just for them.

Maintain Order of the Arrow advancement dates and Mic-O-Say tribal membership.

Advancement

The requirements for every rank and every merit badge are already in the system, updated for you as new versions are released.

Quickly sign off on requirements for a group of scouts.

Identify requirements that are still needed for scouts working their way toward First Class, and for those working their way up to Eagle.

Identify scouts who are not advancing and those who just need a Scoutmaster Conference and Board of Review to complete their next rank.

Produce reports and labels to prepare for your next Court of Honor.

Transfer recent advancement data electronically to the BSA Internet Advancement page and - later this year - to Scoutbook Lite.

Calendar

Add events to your calendar for every upcoming campout, meeting, community service, fundraiser, or other troop activity.

Select from the pre-defined event types or create your own to meet your needs.

Maintain detailed information on each event location, including a map, directions, and link to its website.

Let parents and scouts sign up for events.  Confirm their participation by taking attendance.

Automatically credit attendees for camping nights, service hours, hiking miles, cycling miles, and paddling miles.  Use this information to sign off on rank and merit badge requirements.

Create shifts for fundraisers - like Christmas Tree sales - and allow members to sign up for those shifts.  Shifts can also be used for potluck dinners to sign up for particular types of food.

Accounting

Makes your treasurer's job a piece of cake!

Tracks balances for member accounts, troop checking account, and every event, with a minimum of effort.

Reserve accounts can track advance payments for summer camp or Philmont.

Group transactions make it easy to charge dues, and to charge event participants for their share of the costs.

Adult leaders can request reimbursement for expenses incurred on campouts, which the Treasurer reviews and approves.

Quickly create annual budgets and measure actual performance against budget.

Scouts and parents can view their balances and transaction history on-line.

Parents can make payments to the troop on-line via PayPal, which are automatically posted to their account.

Balancing your troop checkbook is a breeze - just check off the deposits and withdrawals from each statement.

Fundraising

Manage every aspect of your fundraiser, from orders to inventory and product delivery.

Download photos, descriptions and pricing of the current Popcorn fundraiser items.

Scouts can enter their own orders on-line and the system consolidates all orders so you know exactly what you need to buy.

Customers can order merchandise on-line directly from a scout, using that scout's personal URL at the ScoutSales.org website.

Accept credit cards when selling direct from a retail location and track all sales.

When you're ready to distribute product, reports show the quantities going to each scout.  Scouts can print out their own orders to organize their deliveries.

Sales campaigns can also be created to sell merchandise - like troop t-shirts - directly to your members.  Members can pay for items via PayPal or by deducting from their personal account.

Communications

Send mass e-mail and SMS messages to your entire troop, or selected members or subgroups.  Messages can be sent from the site, or they can be sent from any e-mail client using our new e-mail relay addresses.

The system automatically generates a weekly electronic newsletter that is e-mailed to every member of the troop.

The newsletter includes current announcements, upcoming events, and is personalized to each recipient with their sign-up status, medical forms that are about to expire, training that is about to expire, troop equipment and library materials that are checked out to family members, account balances, recent transaction history, merit badges in progress, and requirements that are needed for the scout's next Boy Scout rank or Venturing rank.

Members can log on to the site to view all messages they've received or sent, and to reply to any message.

Security

Your information is secure with TroopWebHost.

Role-based security allows you to assign each user one or more roles.  Roles determine what items they'll see on their menu when they log on, and can also restrict access to particular fields.

Use the predefined roles, or create your own to fit your troop's requirements.

Users can change their own passwords and must create "strong" passwords with a mix of upper and lower case letters and special characters.

Your site resides on a dedicated server in a secure data center managed 24/7 by LiquidWeb.   All access is secured via 2048-bit SSL encryption.

Data is stored on fault tolerant mirrored SSD drives, with hourly backups to a secondary drive and an off-site location.