TRIP coordinator: – Alli Brinkmeyer – stcatharinetrip@yahoo.com
Simply – you buy gift cards & you receive a rebate into your tuition account. This program, provided by Great Lakes Scrip Center, distributes a prescribed rebate offered by retailers who participate in the Scrip program, which is accumulated throughout the program’s fiscal year and applied against your tuition fee for the upcoming school/religious education year.
Scrip Website: www.shopwithscrip.com
St. Catharine Organization #: 168A39F61LL94
Family Ordering User Guide: This document is a detailed guide to Scrip’s website.
Program’s Fiscal Year: March 1 – February 28
Frequently Asked Questions:
How Do I Benefit From Buying Gift Cards from Scrip?
How Do I Enroll in the Scrip Program?
How Do I Order?
Are Orders Accepted Every Week?
When Is The Order Deadline?
What is PrestoPay & How Do I Set It Up?
Where Do I Turn In My Order?
How Do I Pay For My Order?
When & Where Do I Pick Up My Order?
What Kind of Gift Cards Can I Buy?
How Do I Receive My Gift Card Rebate?
What Happens To My Rebate If I Leave St. Catharine?
What Happens To My Rebate If I Only Have An 8th Grader At St. Catharine?
How Do I Benefit From Buying Gift Cards from Scrip?
When you purchase a gift card or an e-gift card (ScripNow!) or reload a gift card on the Scrip website, www.shopwithscrip.com, your family tuition account will be credited for the rebates offered from each of the retailers from which you purchased. For example, if you buy a $100 gift card with a 10% rebate, you will receive your $100 gift card that week and earn a credit of $10 that will go toward the upcoming school year tuition fee.
How Do I Enroll in the Scrip Program?
Visit the “Join Your Existing Program” page on the Scrip website. When prompted for the “Enrollment code”, enter the following St. Catharine organization #: 168A39F61LL94. You will then be asked to enter typical account registration information.
How Do I Order?
Orders can be submitted online at www.shopwithscrip.com.
Are Orders Accepted Every Week?
Scrip orders will be accepted on the 1st Friday of the month when school is in session. To check a specific date, please see the school Calendar.
When Is The Order Deadline?
If ordering online and using PrestoPay for payment, your order must be processed on the Scrip website, www.shopwithscrip.com, by Friday, 12am of an order week. If additional time is needed, please reach out to coordinator. For online orders with check payment to St. Catharine TRIP, please contact coordinator in advance. If you process an online order when orders are not being accepted, your order will be processed during the next order cycle.
What is PrestoPay & How Do I Set It Up?
PrestoPay is a payment option offered on the Scrip website, www.shopwithscrip.com, which allows you to pay for your gift card purchases electronically from your bank account. While signed into your Scrip account, go to the PrestoPay page by either clicking on the “PrestoPay” link on the Dashboard page or go to Account Settings, Family Functions, PrestoPay. Once you are on the PrestoPay page, follow the steps to link your Scrip account to your bank account and a PIN that you will use each time you checkout.
Where Do I Turn In My Order?
Online orders using PrestoPay need only to be completed online. Online orders with a check payment to St. Catharine TRIP can be turned into the school or parish offices.
How Do I Pay For My Order?
There are two (2) payment options: 1) Check payable to St. Catharine TRIP and 2) PrestoPay. There will be a $25 service fee assessed on all returned checks.
When & Where Do I Pick Up My Order?
Orders can be sent home with a student in the family or alternate arrangements will be setup with the coordinatior. You can indicate your delivery preference in your account settings on the Scrip website, www.shopwithscrip.com. Traditional plastic gift cards are delivered on Friday of an order week, based on your requested method of delivery. Reloaded gift cards & ScripNow! paid for with PrestoPay are typically available for redemption within 24 hours or sooner. Once an order is delivered to the student or picked up from the school office, the St. Catharine TRIP program and its volunteers cannot be held responsible for lost/stolen/misplaced orders.
What Kind of Gift Cards Can I Buy?
Scrip offers three options: 1) traditional plastic gift cards, 2) reloadable plastic gift cards, & 3) e-gift cards (ScripNow!). There are several categories of retailers that participate on the Scrip website, www.shopwithscrip.com; however, not all retailers offer all three options for purchase. Traditional plastic gift cards are delivered on Friday of an order week, based on your requested method of delivery. Reloaded gift cards & ScripNow paid for with PrestoPay are typically available for redemption within 24 hours or sooner.
How Do I Receive My Gift Card Rebate?
100% of the reimbursement from each of the gift card retailers will be assigned to the purchaser’s family tuition/religious education reduction account unless the purchaser chooses to apply these funds toward the St. Catharine General Tuition Assistance Fund or another participating St. Catharine Parish family. Each Scrip participant can access their earnings report anytime on the www.shopwithscrip.com website from the Reports page by going to Account Settings, Family Functions, Reports. The TRIP fiscal year runs from March 1 through February 28 (29). The total reduction accumulated at the end of the fiscal year will be applied to the following school/religious education year’s tuition statement. Final earnings reports are sent to families in late March/early April to review.
What Happens To My Rebate If My Family Does Not Return to St. Catharine?
Families withdrawing their child(ren) from St. Catharine School/Religious Education program between school years can have their accumulated TRIP funds transferred to another participating St. Catharine Parish family or the St. Catharine General Tuition Assistance Fund. Families that leave during the school year will forfeit their earnings to the General Tuition Assistance Fund. Any family earning the entire religious education fee or school tuition through the TRIP program will have any additionally earned reimbursement applied to either another participating St. Catharine Parish family or the General Tuition Assistance Fund.
What Happens To My Rebate If I Only Have An 8th Grader At St. Catharine?
Families with 8th graders will be able to take their accumulated reimbursement and apply it to either St. Charles or Bishop Hartley’s tuition freshmen year. OR Families with 8th graders can have their accumulated reimbursement applied to the St. Catharine General Tuition Assistance Fund or another participating St. Catharine Parish family of their choice.