Join our frozen yogurt community and connect with others in the frozen yogurt industry. A basic membership for trade members and frozen yogurt fans is free. Trade members are current and prospective frozen yogurt store operators, frozen yogurt store employees, and frozen yogurt store industry suppliers.
Benefits for basic trade members [FREE]:
- Exclusive member discounts
- Special group insurance rates and HR/payroll services in some areas
- Members only contests and giveaways
- Access to members only sections of the IFYA website
- Manage online IFYA member profile, including:
- Creating and managing IFYA ad campaigns
- Applying to the Swirl of Honor program
- Creating and managing supplier directory listings
- Writing supplier reviews
Benefits for premium trade members [$50/year]:
- All the benefits of the basic membership + additional premium member only savings from preferred IFYA vendors
- Credit card processing from Green Payment Solutions
- $20 off the Swirl of Honor application fee
Benefits for frozen yogurt fan members [FREE]:
- Access to members only areas of the IFYA website
- Manage your IFYA user profile
- Be eligible for exclusive offers and contests
IFYA Premium Members Save on Credit Card Processing
The IFYA has selected Green Payment Solutions (GPS) as the association’s exclusive partner for credit card processing. Green Payment Solutions’ new program includes a low rate guarantee and a wide range of other valuable savings, available to IFYA premium members. Green Payment Solutions has provided top quality credit card processing services to local and national merchants for more than 10 years and is recognized with A+ status by the Better Business Bureau.
The new IFYA Froyo Pricing Program includes the following benefits:
- Exclusive pricing for IFYA members (Backed by a Low Rate Guarantee)
- Interchange-plus pricing for full transparency
- New American Express pricing for lower Amex fees
- Multiple value-enhancing fee waivers
- No early termination fee
- Free POS software
- Supplies at cost
- Next day funding available
- Prioritized customer and technical support for IFYA members
- Complete data security
- Complimentary 1 year IFYA Premium membership (a $50 value)
* Note, this offer is only available in the United States.
Contact Steve Walsh from Green Payment Solutions at (888) 339-8808 or [email protected] for a no-obligation rate review of your merchant account. Learn more about Green Payment Solutions online at
www.GreenPaymentSolutions.com.
Special Offer for IFYA Members: Save on Workers’ Comp Insurance in California
IFYA is pleased to partner with California’s workers’ comp experts, Preferred Connect Insurance Center (formerly Select Marketing Insurance Services), to offer California frozen yogurt shop owners special group rates. Preferred Connect’s special group rates are significantly lower than rates small frozen yogurt shops can get on their own. They are known for offering frozen yogurt shops the best combination of price, stability, and coverage with A+ rated Preferred Employers Group (PEG).
Preferred Connect Program Highlights:
- The lowest rates for Frozen Yogurt Shops currently available in the state of CA.
- Access to professional claims handling & fraud fighting. All suspected fraud is thoroughly investigated.
- Direct access to A+ rated specialty workers compensation carrier, Preferred Employers Group
- Free safety and health services, including assistance with completing your own Injury & Illness Prevention Program
Please contact Jena Johnson, Association Advisor at Preferred Connect, at (888) 656-5678 or via email at [email protected] to get started.
Valuable Members Only Savings With ADP, the Leader in Payroll, Compliance, Workers’ Comp, & HR
IFYA is pleased to partner with ADP to offer your business the opportunity to save on ADP’s trusted, turnkey solution for all your payroll, compliance, workers’ compensation, and HR needs. With over 50 years as the payroll, compliance, and HR leader, ADP has partnered with thousands of businesses to help them better manage their cash, their people, their risk, and their time. ADP currently supports more than 650,000 clients in more than 110 countries, helping organizations of all types and sizes unlock their business potential.
Special IFYA member savings:
- 25% discount on payroll processing costs
- Free months of payroll processing or ADP’s current promotion
- Waived implementation fees
ADP benefits:
- Low rates on health benefits, workers’ compensation, and retirement plans due to ADP’s economies of scale
- Discounted bundled solutions with transparent pricing – no “nickel and diming”
- Access to HR suite of services, including unlimited sponsored ZipRecruiter job postings, fully compliant employee handbook, HR consulting, and background checks
- Ease of compliance, with proactive updates and push notifications on a local, state, and federal level
- Integrated back office services together under one umbrella for ease of use
- Cloud-based payroll processing that can be used anywhere in the world with internet access
- Streamlined timekeeping with payroll and accounting software for seamless entry
- Complete full level tax filing ability – including every tax from local through quarterly and year-end
- Single stateside point of contact for service and 24/7 customer support
Please contact Sawyer Hobbs, Association Advisor, at (502) 649-9345 or [email protected] today to get started.
IFYA Member Discounts
- Get 15% off your first non-custom order at FrozenDessertSupplies.com! We’re the #1 online supplier for frozen yogurt cups, spoons, and more. We specialize in custom-branded cups with your logo—made in the USA—including frozen yogurt cups, clear plastic drink cups, and coffee cups, with MOQs as low as 5 cases. Choose from hundreds of unique styles and our popular Crazy Color Changing Spoons and Cups—all with fast, free shipping and unbeatable customer service. For products and discounts visit www.FrozenDessertSupplies.com, or call (480) 428-1999 and provide your IFYA username
- First-time clients of Frozen Solutions can save 25% off the web price for MAGIC Color Changing bowls (used the discount code IFYA25) and 10% off MAGIC Color Changing spoons, spoon straws, boba straws and cow print pints and quarts (use discount code IFYA10)
- 5% off machines from Electro Freeze of Nor Cal when you mention IFYA and your username
- 15% off your first Nanci’s Frozen Yogurt purchase when you mention IFYA and your IFYA username (new Nanci’s customers only)
- 15% off your first order at FrozenYogurtParts.com. FYP has created a more efficient and affordable way for frozen dessert businesses to get the parts they need for their soft serve machines. To get the FYP discount code, please contact us at [email protected] with the subject line, FrozenYogurtParts.com
- Free shipping on all Spaceman USA equipment when you mention IFYA and your IFYA username
Supplier Directory Reviews
IFYA’s reviews are meant to provide useful information to the public about frozen yogurt industry suppliers. Registered members are welcome to submit a user review on our Site. We created review guidelines to help promote fair, accurate reviews. By submitting a review, you agree to IFYA’s guidelines.
- IFYA reserves the right to moderate or remove reviews deemed to contain inappropriate content or that violate the review guidelines.
- By submitting a review to the Site, you grant IFYA and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, publish, adapt, translate, distribute, create derivative works from and display such content throughout the world in any media.
- Submit one review per company. Multiple reviews of the same company by the same user will be deleted.
- Your review must not contain bad language, threatening dialogue, obscene or sexually explicit language.
- Your review must not contain language that would be considered harassment of another person.
- Your review must be true based on your own experiences and must not include misleading or false information.
- You cannot post a review for a company that you are employed by or have a direct or indirect financial relationship with, or for a family member or friend’s company. You must not have received payment, credit or other compensation or inducement in exchange or in connection with posting the review.
- Your review must not contain advertisements or any hyperlinks of URLs to other websites. These will be removed.
- We reserve the right to email the reviewer at the email address provided during the review submission to request further verification information. If we do not receive a response within five (5) working days, we reserve the right to consider the submitted review as false.
- Submitted reviews and information provided in connection with submitted reviews shall be used in accordance with the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of this website.
IFYA Experts
IFYA’s distinguished panel of frozen yogurt experts are on hand to answer all your questions about frozen yogurt. IFYA experts provide informative blog posts on their areas of expertise. If you have a question for one or more of our experts, please send it to [email protected]
IFYA’s experts:
- Tyler Allison, Vice President of Operations, FrozenDessertSupplies.com
- Jeff Resnick, Founder & CEO, Forte Supply
- Jason Rhoades, Regional Territory Manager, Dannon YoCream
- Rhian Williams, Director, Plas Farm
- Dave Wudel, President, Nanci’s Frozen Yogurt
Tyler Allison
Tyler Allison is the Vice President of Operations at FrozenDessertSupplies.com and an expert in the packaging space. He has worked in nearly every aspect of the business, from warehouse management and sales to business development and HR. Over the years, he has consulted with thousands of frozen dessert shop owners, helping them find the perfect cups, spoons, and lids for their shops. FrozenDessertSupplies.com is committed to helping you find the ideal cup, spoon, and lid combo for your shop.
Jeff Resnick
Jeff Resnick is the Founder and CEO of SpacemanUSA and IFYA’s US frozen yogurt machine and store operations expert. Jeff has an extensive background in the frozen yogurt business. He has contributed to the frozen yogurt review, local newspapers, and Yahoo News, as well as personally helped over 500 entrepreneurs enter and successfully open self-serve frozen yogurt stores. Jeff has worked tirelessly to develop the best program for soft serve machines in North America – with exceptional service, training, and support, you can rest assured that Spaceman USA equipment comes with the best user experience in the industry.
Jason Rhoades
Jason Rhoades is a Regional Territory Manager for Dannon Foodservice representing YoCream Frozen Yogurt. Jason has many years of experience in the frozen yogurt business. He started with Southwest Traders Distribution Company in California selling and managing many brands of frozen yogurt. During the frozen yogurt boom in CA starting in 2005, he consulted with hundreds of shops opening and became in expert in not only frozen yogurt but everything to do with opening a yogurt shop. Jason moved on to work directly for Yocream as a manufacturer’s rep working with several distributors specializing in frozen yogurt sales. Not only a product specialist, Jason spent over two years in the soft serve equipment industry working for Electro Freeze. He returned to Dannon earlier this year to his current role.
Dave Wudel
Dave Wudel is the President of Nanci’s Frozen Yogurt/FroCup.com and IFYA’s expert in frozen yogurt mix, smoothie mix, international trade and business strategy. Dave has been in the frozen yogurt and ice cream business since Nanci’s started in 1979. Under his leadership, Nanci’s Frozen Yogurt received the President’s Export “E” Award – the highest honor a U.S. business can receive from the U.S. Department of Commerce. This award is bestowed upon an elite group of U.S. companies recognized for outstanding contribution to export expansion. Only companies with at least 4 consecutive years of significant annual export growth are even considered for the award. Dave is a great resource for all aspects of the frozen yogurt business — from exporting and importing to machines and mix.