TRIP coordinator: Allison Brinkmeyer – stcatharinetrip@yahoo.com
St. Catharine School’s Tuition Reduction Incentive Plan (TRIP) includes the following two (2) programs:
SCRIP Gift Card App – RaiseRight
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
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 coordinator. 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.
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.
This program involves shopping at Columbus area Kroger stores with your Kroger Plus Card that is registered to St. Catharine School’s account. Simply, Kroger contributes a rebate on the items you purchase at their stores. Rebate contributions are accumulated quarterly and applied toward your tuition fee for the upcoming school/religious education year. Please contact the TRIP coordinator for questions or assistance with this program.
TRIP coordinator: Jeni Cooke – stcatharinetrip@yahoo.com
Kroger Website: www.kroger.com
St. Catharine Organization #: 81633
St. Catharine Kroger Quarterly Earnings Form – Read how to find & report earnings below.
Annual Re-enrollment: April
Program’s Fiscal Year: March 1 – February 28
How Do I Enroll In The Kroger Community Rewards Program?
Visit Kroger’s website, www.kroger.com, and create an account by clicking on the “Register” button. If you have already created an account, sign into your account by clicking on the “Sign In” button. Once you have registered your Kroger Plus Card to your account and are signed into your account, click on the “Community” menu item. Then click on the “Kroger Community Rewards” item in the Community menu. Click on the “Re-Enroll Now” button on the Kroger Community Rewards page. Check each section and verify the accuracy of the information. Each section can be edited by clicking on each section’s “Edit” button. Scroll down to the “Community Rewards” section of the Account Summary. Add “St. Catharine Parish/School- Columbus” to your account with the Organization #: 81633.
How Do I Earn Kroger Community Rewards?
By assigning St. Catharine’s Organization # 81633 to your Kroger Plus Card via your account on Kroger’s website, www.kroger.com, Kroger will credit your Kroger Plus Card with dollars based on rebates of purchases made at Kroger stores with your Kroger Plus Card.
Do I Need to Enroll Every Year?
Yes. Re-enrollment in the Kroger Community Rewards Program occurs annually in April.
How Do I Receive Credit For My Kroger Community Rewards Into My Tuition Account?
You must report all earnings from Kroger Community Rewards on a quarterly basis for all those individuals that are earning for your family tuition account using the St. Catharine Kroger Quarterly Earnings Form. Read how to find & report earnings below. 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.
How Do I Find & Report My Quarterly Kroger Community Rewards?
On a quarterly basis (Mar 1, Jun 1, Sep 1, Dec 1), visit Kroger’s website, www.kroger.com, and sign into you Kroger account. Click on the “Savings & Rewards” menu item, and choose the “Kroger Community Rewards” option. Once you are on the Kroger Community Rewards page, click on the “View Your Rewards Details” button. This button will take you to your Account Summary page. At the bottom of your Account Summary page, you will find the “Community Rewards” section. Copy and paste this section into the requesting field on the St. Catharine Kroger Quarterly Earnings Form (see the following example):
Organization Name: ST. CATHERINE PARISH/SCHOOL- COLUMBUS
Organization Number: 81633
Enrollment Date: 04/19/2016
Last Quarter Kroger Donation: $10.31
Complete the remaining fields on the form – only one (1) form per family necessary. If you have multiple Kroger accounts for which you earn rewards, please complete one (1) form and copy/paste the Community Rewards section for each Kroger account into the same requesting field, separating each account’s information with once line of space. When your form is complete, click on the “Submit” button at the bottom of the form.
What Happens To My Earnings 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.
Special Notes & Reminders:
100% of the reimbursement from each of the two (2) TRIP programs 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 School or Parish family.
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. Each Scrip participant can access their earnings report anytime on the www.shopwithscrip.com website. Earned Kroger rewards are reported quarterly by participants with the St. Catharine Kroger Quarterly Earnings Form.
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.
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.