DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

The YMCA of Greater Brandywine has worked with Five Jars for a long time on our Open Y Drupal Website. Five Jars was able to quickly step in and stabilize our site. They then immediately began implementing improvements that had long sat dormant with our old vendor. The team at Five Jars treats our site with the same care and fervor that we expect from our own employees and that is a rare find in a vendor. In short, I could not imagine partnering with any other vendor for our development needs.

The YMCA of the North, and the Open Y core team have been working with Five Jars for more than a year. Our relationship with many current Five Jars employees extends long before Five Jars existed, as we worked with many of them at prior agencies before following them to Five Jars. For the YMCA of the North, we have partnered with Five Jars on multiple enterprise-scale initiatives, such as integrations between Drupal, MINDBODY, and our CRM system (Personify) to bring our Personal Training Booking, Sales, and Management system online with Single Sign On capabilities. For Open Y, we have partnered with Five Jars on building the initial Open Y distribution, and they led the Open Y 2.0 release effort. We have also partnered with Five Jars on innovative prototyping such as voice assistive technologies, and inline content editing capabilities. We love that Five Jars strives to understand our business objectives and that they think through long-term sustainable solutions. Five Jars has very fair rates, and provides excellent, proactive, service. What sets Five Jars apart from many agencies is their digital strategy acumen, digital execution, and a community centric drive to engage with their clients. Five Jars has always felt more like a part of our team than just an agency, and we hope our relationship will continue for a long time to come.

We have a strong development partner in Five Jars. No matter how small or large the challenge the team always comes up with great solutions that help advance our organization’s mission. The team goes beyond basic development to really understand and challenge our business practices to deliver quick results and a high-quality product.

The Council for Exceptional Children intended to “redo” our website, but by working with Five Jars we have done so much more — we are now a much stronger, digital-first, member-friendly association. Five Jars came to the table with us ready to learn about CEC and, most importantly, our members before they started down the process of guiding us on our digital makeover. Despite every curveball we threw them with our single sign-on (to multiple platforms), they didn’t let those technical nuances hold us back on any of our ideas. Their intense knowledge of Drupal allowed them to guide us in opening doors we didn’t even think possible and to ultimately create a much stronger website. When we finally hit our launch date, we were so excited to have the project done. At the same time, because of how Five Jars taught us to think about our web presence, we will continue to engage with them on additional upgrades and features that we couldn’t have dreamed about without their help.