Follett Software is a K-12 educational technology company focused on helping schools and districts run core academic and operational workflows with greater consistency and less manual work. Its portfolio spans library management, instructional materials, student information, enrollment, fee collection, fundraising, technology operations, and facilities management, giving educators and administrators connected systems for managing information, resources, and day-to-day processes.
The company’s offering is anchored by the Destiny and Aspen product families and supported by cloud hosting, implementation, inventory, training, and managed services. Follett Software is built for district-wide use but also supports individual schools and role-specific teams, including librarians, curriculum staff, teachers, registrars, finance teams, IT departments, and facilities leaders.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Follett Software organizes its portfolio into library, student information, technology, finance, and facilities suites. Across those areas, it provides tools for circulation and cataloging, instructional materials accountability, enrollment and student records management, fee and fundraising workflows, device and help desk operations, and maintenance coordination. It is also extending embedded AI capabilities into operational workflows to help teams surface insights, automate routine work, and act on district data more efficiently.
Its platform is designed to fit into existing district environments rather than operate in isolation. Follett Software supports integrations through partner programs, APIs, standards-based rostering, and SSO, with verified connections across LMS, assessment, business and HR, food and health, special education, transportation, MDM, and identity systems. Verified integration examples on its site include OneRoster, REST APIs, Jamf, Intune for Education, Mosyle, Google MDM, Microsoft Azure, Google, ClassLink, and Okta.
Products and Services
- Destiny Library Manager: K-12 library management software for circulation, cataloging, inventory, discovery, reporting, and district-wide library operations.
- Destiny Resource Manager: Instructional materials management software that helps districts track, distribute, recover, and report on textbooks, novels, kits, and other shared resources.
- Destiny District Classroom Library Manager: A classroom library management solution that gives teachers and districts tools to catalog, check out, audit, and monitor classroom collections.
- Work Orders: Facility and maintenance work order software for managing requests, assets, inventory, labor, and preventive maintenance schedules.
- IT Asset Manager: A K-12 technology operations platform for tracking device lifecycles, assignments, repairs, audits, and reporting in one system.
- IT Help Desk: K-12 IT support ticketing software for centralized request intake, SLA tracking, workflow management, and support visibility across the district.
- Aspen SIS: An integrated student information system for enrollment, scheduling, attendance, grading, reporting, portals, and district-wide student data management.
- Aspen Online Registration: Online registration software built within Aspen SIS for digital enrollment, data collection, approval workflows, and parent communication.
- Destiny Fee Manager: A fee and payment management solution that supports secure school payments and works across Aspen SIS and multiple Destiny products.
- Destiny Fundraising Manager: School fundraising software for campaign management, donation tracking, approvals, reporting, and community engagement.
- Accessit Library: Library management software for schools and districts that supports cataloging, circulation, discovery, and asset tracking, particularly for smaller districts and global deployments.
- Follett Software AI: Follett Software’s embedded AI capability for K-12 operations, used to deliver policy-aware insights, guided actions, and workflow automation within supported products.
- Destiny Cloud Hosting: Cloud hosting for Destiny environments on Follett Software’s Azure-based infrastructure, designed to reduce IT overhead and simplify updates and maintenance.
- Implementation Services: Structured onboarding and launch services that cover project planning, system setup, data preparation, training, and rollout support across multiple suites.
- Inventory Services: Operational services that help districts with barcoding, weeding, resource distribution, collection, and physical inventory work across school assets.
Target Customers
Follett Software primarily serves K-12 school districts and schools that need better control over student information, library collections, instructional materials, payments, devices, and facilities workflows. Its products are positioned for district administrators, librarians, curriculum and instruction teams, teachers, registrars, finance leaders, IT leaders, technicians, and facilities staff.
Its solutions are designed for both centralized district teams and site-level users. Parent and guardian-facing workflows also appear in the portfolio through enrollment, portals, notifications, and payment experiences, while district technology and operations teams use the platform to connect school-facing systems and reduce manual coordination across departments.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Azure Marketplace: Follett Software has verified Microsoft Azure Marketplace listings for products including Destiny Library Manager, Destiny Resource Manager, and Aspen SIS.
- Microsoft Azure: Follett Software also uses Microsoft Azure in its cloud delivery model, including Destiny Cloud Hosting on Azure SQL, and supports Microsoft Azure as an authentication option in its product ecosystem.
Key People
- Chris Porter: Chief Executive Officer
- Kevin Gacek: Chief Finance Officer
- Shane Foster: Chief Product and Technology Officer
- Monica Morrell: Chief Customer Officer
- Amanda Shea: Chief Marketing Officer
- Bill Slackman: Senior Vice President of Sales
- Samantha Nahra: Senior Vice President, People and General Counsel
- Natalie Screen: Accessit GM and New Zealand Country Manager
Key Facts
- Headquarters: McHenry, Illinois, United States
- Employees: Approximately 575
- Annual Revenue: $250M-$500M
- Parent Company: Francisco Partners
- Subsidiaries: Access-It Software Ltd.; Access-It Software International Ltd.
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
