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Like a book fair, but with gifts during the holidays. Tip Top ships everything to your school, your volunteers run the shop, your school keeps the profit, and every dollar sold earns Bars your school can redeem for campus upgrades through the Volunteer Vault.
School Holiday Shop Resource Center
Clear answers for PTAs, PTOs, school administrators, and volunteers planning an in-school holiday shop.
Tip Top Holiday Shop is an in-person school holiday shop program for elementary schools. Tip Top provides the gifts, shop supplies, promotional materials, shipping, and digital tools. The school provides the volunteers, tables, shop location, and time for students to shop.
Tip Top Holiday Shop is an in-person school holiday shop program for elementary schools. Tip Top provides the gifts, shop supplies, promotional materials, shipping, and digital tools. The school provides the volunteers, tables, shop location, and time for students to shop.
Use this Resource Center to review the program before booking, understand the financial model, compare vendors, and get accurate answers about merchandise, inventory, returns, and the School Partnership Agreement.
What Schools Should Know Before Booking
A holiday shop works best when the school understands both the benefits and the responsibilities before signing up.
Review the full program model, including:
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What Tip Top provides
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What the school provides
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The volunteer-run format
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Profit options
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Inventory and return responsibilities
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Agreement and cancellation terms
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Who the program is and is not designed for
Inventory, Shipping, and Unsold Merchandise
Your school does not purchase a starting inventory. Tip Top ships the holiday shop merchandise and supplies to your school, and the school pays for the items sold during the event. Unsold gifts and unused supplies are returned after the shop using Tip Top's return process.
The detailed inventory guide explains what arrives, how reorders work, what volunteers do during closeout, and the normal return deadline.
Gifts and Merchandise
Tip Top provides affordable, student-friendly gifts for family members, friends, teachers, and pets. The assortment includes fun items, useful everyday gifts, keepsakes, accessories, seasonal items, and novelty products.
The Gifts page explains what "quality" means in an elementary school holiday shop, what the program is designed to provide, and what schools should expect from the assortment.
School Partnership Agreement and Cancellation Policy
Tip Top uses a one-season School Partnership Agreement. It is not a multi-year commitment. The agreement documents the shop dates, profit option, responsibilities of both parties, payment terms, returns, and cancellation policy.
Review the plain-language summary before booking. The signed agreement always controls if a summary and the agreement differ.
Comparing Holiday Shop Vendors
Schools often compare Tip Top with companies such as Penguin Patch, Natalie's Holiday Shop, and Lil' Shopper's Shoppe.
Use the vendor comparison guide to evaluate the details that matter most: agreement length, cancellation terms, profit options, inventory obligations, return shipping, processing fees, payment tools, reorders, student assistance, and volunteer responsibilities.
Pricing, Profit, and Fundraising
Tip Top Holiday Shop can be run as a service-focused event or a school fundraiser. Schools select a 0%, 10%, or 25% profit option. The selected option affects the selling prices assigned through Tip Top's code-based pricing system.
The pricing guide explains profit calculations, sales tax, processing fees, price ranges, and the trade-off between keeping prices lower and increasing the school's profit percentage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Need a faster answer? Visit the FAQ page for concise answers about costs, booking, shipping, returns, e-wallet, shop length, profit options, and school responsibilities.