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TRIP POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
TRIP purchases gift certificates in large quantities at a discount and sells them at face value. The discount earned is credited to individual tuition accounts. TRIP retains an administrative fee of 20% of total credit earned to cover the program’s operating expenses.
All families, friends and future families of GRCS may participate. To get started, please complete a registration form and return it to the TRIP office. An account number will be assigned to you. Please use this account number for all orders. You may designate your TRIP credits to be applied to your own account, another family’s tuition account, a church’s Christian education account, or a tuition assistance fund.
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Gift cards/certificates for more than 100 vendors can be purchased on a cash-and-carry basis at either Instant TRIP location. Instant TRIP is available at the TRIP office (Grand Rapids Christian Elementary School/Alexander St.entrance) on Wednesdays from 7:30am-5pm and at Rockford Christian School on Tuesdays from 8:30-10am and 3-3:30pm. If school is canceled on a Wednesday, Instant TRIP will be available at the TRIP office on Thursday.
You may also place orders for many additional vendors, denominations and quantities not available at Instant TRIP. Orders may be dropped off at either Instant TRIP location during operating hours, mailed into the TRIP office or placed online. Orders received by 5:00pm on Wednesday will be available for pick-up the following Wednesday. If you would like an order to be mailed back to you, please include a self-addressed envelope and sufficient postage. All weekly orders must be accompanied by full payment in cash or check (made payable to PACE-TRIP). Online orders must be paid for online using Presto Pay.
Any check returned by the bank for non-sufficient funds (NSF) will incur a $20 fee. You will receive a letter from the TRIP office informing you of the returned check and requesting that another check be written for the original amount plus the $20 fee. The TRIP office has the right to hold all future orders until all of the NSF balance has been cleared.
TRIP credits earned for each participating family’s account will be accumulated and remitted to GRCS on April 30 and November 30 of each year. Statements for each account will be available for pick-up at the TRIP office after those dates. If your tuition is paid through FACTS, your TRIP credit amount will be deducted from your payment twice per year (usually in December and May). If you pay directly to GRCS you may deduct your credit amount from any future payment.
ALL GIFT CARDS/CERTIFICATES ARE THE SAME AS CASH. Neither TRIP nor the Grand Rapids Christian Schools can be held responsible for any lost or stolen cards/certificates.
PLEASE DOUBLE-CHECK ALL ORDERS. Gift cards/certificates cannot be returned or exchanged. If TRIP makes a mistake in filling an order, please notify us as soon as possible and we will do our best to correct the error right away.
GIFT CARDS/CERTIFICATES ARE PURCHASED AT YOUR OWN RISK. Please read all terms printed on the card/certificate. We suggest that they be used in a timely manner. TRIP is not responsible for unused cards/certificates from a retailer that has gone out of business or a card/certificate that has expired. When using paper certificates, do not expect to receive change back.
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