“When I took over institutional calendaring, I knew we needed to change our process away from Calendar Creator to something more modern, but I was skeptical that I could get the institution to make such a big commitment when other companies were quoting us 20k – 60k and a years-long implementation process. Then we had a Propared demo with Ryan where he said we were looking at a fraction of the price of similar systems, and I could be set up in a day. I knew we had a solution everyone in the company would be happy about. It was a dream to work with Ryan and the Propared team as we got started. Initial conversations were helpful in getting my GM excited about the program and laying out the basic structure for other key stakeholders. Onboarding was painless. The program is user-friendly so there’s not much need for onboarding anyway, but the video tutorials were a helpful guide to starting up and the articles about rolling the program out to our staff were invaluable. Now that we’re up and running, we’ve saved immeasurable time by having a central set of data. One change in Propared and countless calendars are updated for easy viewing and distribution. We used to get an email every week with a new calendar. There was very little information about what had changed in each calendar, and it was for the full year. Many people printed out that calendar, wasting tons of paper and toner each week. Now, with our staff working from home due to the pandemic, we see even more value of having Propared as a central, web-based calendar keeping our staff aligned as we try to figure out a new way to work. The reliability of Propared being a web-based system and not tied to a local server has also proved valuable with power outages during our recent winter storm. Ongoing support is very personal. I almost always get immediate attention from someone at Propared to answer my goofy questions. They always answer my questions quickly, and I usually have a solution or I know that it’s something that’s in the works.”