BSA National Scout Shops have gift card capabilities. Why not expand these capabilities to council Scout Shops and camp trading posts? Allowing all scouting retail operations sell and redeem gift cards using a central system could significantly improve our service to our membership.
An additional benefit to using this same technology we could streamline the management Scout accounts and possibly unit accounts in the stores, as well as the council offices. For example, this would enable Scouts to pay camp fees, Jamboree fees and Philmont fees using their Scout accounts and provide for centralized tracking and management of those accounts.