What are the key advantages of ScoutTrack.com?

• ScoutTrack.com is Internet-based

Unlike spreadsheets or other standalone PC programs, ScoutTrack.com is an Internet-based service so users can login from anywhere around the world — including the comfort of your home or the convenience of your office! Everyone in your Pack or Troop shares the same system so everyone is kept up to date with the same information at the same time.

ScoutTrack.com supports Pack/Troop Leaders, Advancements Coordinators, Den Leaders, Scoutmasters (and Assistant Scoutmasters), Parents and Scouts. Each user has special capabilities based on their needs and responsibilities within the Pack/Troop. Everyone has their own userid and password so ScoutTrack.com can identify them and present the appropriate capabilities and information.

Of course, privacy and security of your personal information is very important. See ScoutTrack.com's Privacy Policy for details.

ScoutTrack.com makes it incredibly easy to keep people in your Pack/Troop informed of the activities and events with the shared calendar and automatic e-mail reminder capabilities.

• ScoutTrack.com promotes collaboration

All users share the same system. Den leaders and parents update their scout's progress online whenever any activity is completed. The Advancements Coordinator can set deadlines and create up to date reports without needing to maintain separate spreadsheets or other standalone solutions.

Parents tend to get more involved when they can easily see their scouts' progress without having to flip through a lot of pages in a Scout book. Parents can also see what is planned in den meetings so they avoid duplicating activities at home.

With the collaboration capabilities of ScoutTrack.com, it is very easy to send e-mail messages to others in your Pack/Troop.

• ScoutTrack.com educates parents and promotes the various achievements and badges

ScoutTrack.com presents all the achievements and badges that scouts can work on in a format that is simple to understand. As a result parents and scouts understand more of the available activities and what it takes to earn badges and other awards — empowering them to complete activities at home.

• ScoutTrack.com automatically recognizes badges earned

As parents and den leaders mark activities completed, ScoutTrack.com recognizes when all the requirements for a badge have been met and automatically awards the badge to the scout. ScoutTrack.com also handles the complexities of immediate recognition beads, Arrow Points, Webelos compass points, religious emblems, the Cub Scout World Conservation Award and anniversary/service year pins. ScoutTrack.com also ensures that no Scout accidentally receives the same badge twice, or worse, receives it late or never.

• ScoutTrack.com saves time

The Advancements Coordinator doesn't have to collect paper lists, e-mail messages or phone messages to make the list of badges to order. And Den Leaders don't have to give the Advancements Coordinators lists either. As badges are earned, they automatically appear on the Advancements Coordinator's Badges Earned report — the report used for shopping at the scout store and distributing badges at meetings.

ScoutTrack.com can even generate the Advancement Report (form 34403) required by the scout shops and district offices!

Parents don't need to give the den leader the Scout book, and the Den Leader doesn't have to sift through the Scout books looking for what new activities have been completed.

How is ScoutTrack.com different than the PC-based Pack/Troop Management packages?

• ScoutTrack.com is Internet-based

ScoutTrack.com was designed from the beginning to be Internet-based so that you can easily share and communicate with your Cub Scout Pack or Boy Scout Troop. With PC-based Pack/Troop management packages, it is virtually impossible to effectively share information between leaders of the Pack or Troop.

One of the PC-based Pack/Troop management packages has released an "Internet" version of their product. This kludgy solution requires you to setup your own ftp-site as a way to exchange copies of the database. After all that only one person can update records at a time! That is no "Internet" solution..

• ScoutTrack.com is for everyone in your Pack or Troop

All of the other Pack/Troop Management packages are designed to be used by the adult leaders. That completely leaves the parents and scouts on their own for managing their scouting activities and their progress. And those PC-based solutions typically don't help the Advancements Coordinator -- they still have to call all the Den Leaders to find out which badges have been earned.

• ScoutTrack.com guides you through the completion of awards & badges

  Individual activities are shown and summarized, and the system knows when all the requirements have been met. Other Pack/Troop Management packages just give you a screen to enter the date a certain badge was earned.