Chocolate Indulgence

Your group raises money when participants take catalog orders.

Yes. Every participant receives a chocolate brochure, order form, and money envelope.

Yes. Supporters can pay by check, cash, money order, or cashier’s check.

There are no setup fees or supply costs to start a Chocolate Indulgence fundraiser.

Yes. Our prize programs are optional but encouraged. You can boost sales by offering prizes to your participants. It’s important to discuss our incentives at your kickoff meeting. Then, continue to remind your participants about them throughout your sale. This will keep your group motivated.

If your group has 100 or more participants, a prize flyer is placed in each seller’s packet. For smaller groups, the sponsor receives a PDF with their ‘fundraiser supply kit’ email.

There is no cost to the group for our incentive plans.

Learn about our prize programs

After you submit our ‘start a fundraiser’ form you’ll receive an agreement to sign. It will then take at least 7-10 business days to process your order and pack and ship out your supplies.

Learn about our timeline

Your sale lasts for 2 weeks. You can always change your end date. Simply let us know before your sale is over.

Yes, selling online is an important part of your Chocolate Indulgence fundraiser. Before your sale, you’ll receive registration instructions to pass onto your participants. Once registered they’ll be able to invite friends and family to shop at your store.

Raising money online adds a 2^nd revenue source to your fundraiser.

Registration is the best way to make Chocolate Indulgence sales online. It's also a great way to get your participants engaged in your cause. Once registered, participants invite people to your store by sharing their unique link. They can do this using text, social media, and/ or email.

The link takes customers to your store where the participant’s name appears at the top of the page. This helps make it identifiable to friends and family. For example, “Purchases from this page will be credited to John Doe in support of ABC High School Band.”

Registered sellers will also be eligible to earn credit towards prizes. We encourage groups to supplement our prize program with their own rewards. This can help bring in more sales. Here are some incentive ideas.

There are 2 ways to promote your store:

1. Registration: By default, your group will receive a unique program ID number. Participants will need it to register and share their store link using social media, text, and email.
2. Direct Link: Or, you as the sponsor can register and obtain your unique link first. Then share that link with your entire group. Participants would be able to share your link with their friends and family.

Yes, your store will be set up to accept donations. You make 70% of the donated amount.

There are no order requirements for a Chocolate Indulgence fundraiser.

You’ll need to know your group size as well your participants goal. Here’s how you can estimate your profit:

Calculation Steps

1. Participant Count x Participant Item Goal = Items Sold
2. Items Sold x Average Retail Price = Gross Sales
3. Gross Sales x Profit % = Group Profit

Example

1. Let’s say you have 60 participants and you set your participant item goal at 10. The items sold would be 60 participants x 10 Items / participant = 600.
2. Next, determine your gross sales. The average retail price is about $10 so your gross sales would be 600 Items x $10 = $6,000.
3. Since your profit is 40%, your group profit would be $6,000 x 40% = $2,400.

Keep in mind that our example is only an estimated profit. In reality, participants probably won’t sell the same number of items. In addition, the average retail dollars sold per seller will vary.

Brochure: You probably won’t know how many orders you get until you collect your order forms. Yet there are strategies that can give you a ballpark idea. Learn how to track your fundraising progress

Online: You'll receive up-to-date sales information whenever you log into your dashboard. You'll see participants who’ve sent emails to friends and family as well as the latest sales activity.

Brochure Sales: Money and order forms are turned in at the end of the sale. The money gets deposited in your group account and the order forms are sent in for processing.

Once orders are processed, the group receives their sales reports and invoice. The group sends a check for the invoice amount and keeps the rest as profit.

Online Sales: Once we receive your brochure invoice payment, we’ll send your online sales profit check.

Donations: Any profits from donations are included with the online sales check.

Groups make 40% off all Chocolate Indulgence items.

You receive 70% of online donations.

(Use the ‘Calculate Your Profit’ calculator at the top of the page to determine your profit)

We deliver brochure orders to your group 3-4 weeks after receiving your order forms. Online orders generally ship to customers within 2 business days after purchase.

Product ships out of our Texas warehouse to all lower 48 states.

Orders deliver prepacked by seller.

Brochure Sales:

Shipping is free if certain order minimums are met:

Groups with fewer than 100 participants

Sell 150 or more items. A $100 shipping and handling fee is charged for orders with fewer than 150 items sold.

Groups with 100 or more participants

If the group averages 2 or more items sold per enrolled participant, there is no shipping charge. For example, if you have 100 participants in your group, you will need to sell at least 200 items.

If your group averages less than 2 items sold per enrolled, you will incur the following fees:

• Average from 1 to 1.99 items: 80¢ per enrolled participant
• Average less than 1 item: $1.50 per enrolled participant

Minimums include combined sales made from the brochure and online store.

Online Sales:

Customers pay a shipping fee at checkout to have their order shipped direct to them. Shipping is free on orders over $75.

Buyers also have the option to ship their order to the group. In this case there is no shipping fee.

Yes this is an option. Instead of shipping Chocolate Indulgence brochure orders to your group, we’ll ship them to each participant. Sellers would then need to distribute items to their customers.

Home delivery fundraisers go by the following profit margins:

Orders under $1,000 in gross sales will be shipped to the group.