Adopt A Classroom provides flexible and accountable funding for teachers and schools through its proprietary and easy-to-use fundraising platform.

Adopt A Classroom’s web-based application serves as a middleman between the data from several vendors and an ecommerce platform, providing a fundraising platform where schools and teachers can purchase tools they can use in the classroom.

Any new vendor partnerships or changes to an existing partner’s online offering required a new data file to be uploaded to the application. This was a 17 step process which often needed up to 48 hours to complete.

With the upload process cumbersome and technical, AAC had to rely on a specialized contractor to manage it.

With a database containing over 100,000 products, the application frequently struggled to handle large batch files, causing it to go offline from timeout issues.

Right before the bustling back-to-school season, AAC struggled to update listings because the tool kept failing. Because they couldn’t push new product files, AAC was missing out on new product vendors selling critical personal protective equipment (PPE) for schools.

With the back-to-school timeline on the horizon, it was important to stabilize usability and baseline functionality quickly, as well as improve the data intake process so the AAC staff wouldn’t have to spend so much time dealing with it.

AAC felt the challenge of finding a skilled partner within their budget who could work on a tight timeline and produce quality results.

JMG cleaned up the code, organized messy historical data, and rebuilt the tool with added efficiencies like error reporting functionality. Now if the application experiences a problem uploading a file, it can tell AAC where that issue is, making it easy to resolve.

JMG took the headache of a 17-step, multi-day process and simplified it into a single step process which takes 45 minutes to complete.

With all tasks now tied together into one command, a specialized skill set for uploading vendor data files to its application was no longer needed. AAC was able to move management of the process out of the hands of a contractor and into the hands of an internal employee, saving time and, most importantly, money.