Our Story

To best understand Purple Martin, you'll need to know the story of how it evolved.

In 2012, Healthy Hands Cooking was a local business in Irmo, SC started by Jan Pinnington to teach kids about healthy cooking and nutrition through fun classes, camps, and birthday parties.

She wondered what kind of effect she could have if there were hundreds or thousands of cooking instructors across the U.S. and beyond teaching kids to cook healthy foods.  After all, it's impossible to teach onsite cooking classes in California, when you live in South Carolina!  (...Until now).  :)

You see, there were no software solutions to support all of her needs without trying to piece together 5 or 6 unrelated and complicated apps that didn't play nice with each other.

After 6 years in persistent development, testing, and actual use, Purple Martin was born and is now available to help other service, class, or event style businesses to scale.

Healthy Hands Cooking has trained, supported and implemented more than 550 cooking instructor businesses across the U.S. and 6 other countries using Purple Martin Software to run it all.

7 systems in 1 effectively and efficiently run any multi-location service, class, or event style business.