Follow these tips to help you pack up the Fair and finalize your financials.
Wrapping up the Fair
Final call for shopping
Make the most of last-minute shopping opportunities at the Fair.
Redeem Scholastic Dollars™
Take time to shop with Scholastic Dollars before you pack up the Fair. Select “Scholastic Dollars” as the tender type on your Payment System and you can:
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Make sure every kid takes home a book.
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Give gifts to volunteers.
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Stock classroom and school libraries.
Keep the Fair going online
Every Book Fair includes a 14-day online shopping opportunity. After your in-person Fair ends, send families to your homepage to continue their shopping online. They’ll find thousands more items for kids—and more benefits for your school.
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Families can use unspent Book Fair eWallet funds to shop your school’s Fair online.
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25% of every purchase directly benefits your school.
Pack up the Fair
Ready to close up shop? Prepping your Fair for pickup is simple:
Case Fairs
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Confirm your pickup date in Fair details and settings.
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Leave unsold items in cases.
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Table covers, character standees, and the banner from the Set-up Kit are yours to keep. Pack up everything else in the original boxes and stack them on top of the cases.
Tabletop Fairs
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Return book display trays and easels, along with the register, to their original shipping boxes.
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Follow the directions in the “Important Instructions” envelope you received in your Setup box and scan the QR code to schedule your UPS pickup.
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Print your shipping labels and apply them to your boxes.
Complete your financials
Review your financials from the Fair, and get the biggest bang from every buck spent by your shoppers.
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Let us know if you completed three or more bonus reward activities. Tell us what you did.
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Consider your profit options. When you choose Scholastic Dollars™, you’ll get up to 50% extra value for your Fair earnings (does not apply to BOGO fairs).
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Finalize your financials. Your sales totals will be added to your Financial Form within 24 hours of closing out the Fair on your Payment System. View FAQs.
Say thanks
Thank everyone who helped make this Book Fair a success.
Tell us what you think
Your feedback helps us improve and evolve the Fair experience for every school—and we want to hear it all. (Really. Tell us everything.)