We accept personal and unit checks. Please include S/H (VA residents add 5.0% sales tax) and make your check payable to Troopmaster Software. Send that along with a written or printed copy of the products you would like to order. To generate a printed copy of your order from our website, simply add the selected products to your shopping cart, select the 'Printable Order Form (Postal Mail)' option at the bottom of the screen and click 'Check Out Now' to print out your order for submission.

Although we don't develop software specifically for the Mac, there are several options that Mac users can choose to work with our software. If you also have PC users with the unit, using one of these options also provides a significant advantage. Since our software comes with a site license for the whole unit, running our software using an emulator (or with Windows directly) enables everyone with the unit (PC and Mac users) to use the same program and to share the data files between the separate machines.

Web-based Solutions

We now offer a web-based interface to our software that can be accessed by any internet-connected machine. This can allow Mac users to connect to the unit database and either view or update data which can be synchronized with the main program database by the database administrator. Please click here for more information on either our TroopMaster Web or PackMaster Web solutions.

Windows Emulators

We also have a number of Mac users who run our Windows products under various Windows emulators. Also, many of the new Mac's can run the Windows O/S directly in addition to OSX.

For more information on these options, please visit the following sites:

Bootcamp (dual boot system by Apple) - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818

Parallels (Windows emulator) - http://www.parallels.com/

VM Ware Fusion (Windows emulator) - http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html

Virtual PC (Windows emulator) - http://www.parallels.com/landingpage/dskd77-1/?source=g_us&gclid=COjNjZzVw68CFcXc4AodO22dZg.

CrossOver (Windows emulator) - http://www.codeweavers.com/.

Although we don't develop software specifically for Linux, there are several options that Linux users can choose to work with our software. If you also have Windows users with the unit, using one of these options also provides a significant advantage. Since our software comes with a site license for the whole unit, running our software using an emulator (or with Windows directly) enables everyone with the unit (Windows and Linux users) to use the same program and to share the data files between the separate machines.

Web-based Solutions

We now offer a web-based interface to our software that can be accessed by any internet-connected machine. This can allow Linux users to connect to the unit database and either view or update data which can be synchronized with the main program database by the database administrator. Please click here for more information on either our TroopMaster Web or PackMaster Web solutions:

Windows Emulators

Although we don't develop software specifically for Linux, we do have a number of Linux users who run our Windows products through an emulator. The following emulators have been reported to work properly with our program:

Wine - Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. For more information on Wine, please visit their website at: http://www.winehq.org/. You can also click here for more details of implementation under Wine.

VirtualBox - VirtualBox (by Oracle) is another Open Source application which allows you to host several different versions of Windows and will allow you to run our software in a Linux environment. For more information, please visit their website at https://www.virtualbox.org/.

CrossOver (Windows emulator) - http://www.codeweavers.com/.

ScoutNET 2000 is a nationwide computer system being implemented by BSA that ties all of their council offices together on a wide-area network (not the Internet). Data on scouts and adult leaders can then be tracked nationally. If a scout or leader moves to a new area, his data will already be there. Troops and packs using BSA certified unit-level software will be able to submit recharter, additional enrollment, and advancement reports electronically--initially on diskettes. TroopMaster and PackMaster were the first programs to pass ScoutNET certification testing.

It's very easy to download and install a program update, and it's very important that you learn to do it because that's how most software companies are making the latest version available to their users. In the past, users just had to live with whatever bugs were present until the next major version of the software was released. Program updates allow users to always have the cleanest possible version of the software.

First, compare the version on your program's Help>About dialog to the current update number for your program shown on our web site. If the update is newer, you should install it.

The recommended method is to click on the update and then open/run it from our web site instead of saving a copy to your hard drive. The update will automatically find your existing program and update it.

If you prefer to download the update, select the Save option. Your browser will ask you where you want to save it--we recommend that you NOT save it to your main program folder because if you choose that folder and you point it to the main program file, you will REPLACE the program with the update. Instead, save it to a temporary folder on your hard drive. Then, locate the update via Windows Explorer or My Computer, and double-click on the update to run it. The update will automatically find your existing program and update it.

Many of our program updates can also be saved to a single diskette. If the single-file update is too large to fit on a diskette, you may need to copy the file to a CD or you can use WinZip or a similar program to split the file across multiple diskettes. Having the update on CD or diskette(s) makes it easy to give copies to other leaders who are using the software.

Each leader using the software must install the program update. Simply giving another leader a set of backed up data files will not update that leader's program.

Yes, we do offer presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint format that you can download directly from our site at: