How to buy Kickstool

The price is public: $79/mo or $790/yr per branch, everything included. At most libraries that lands under the purchasing threshold that triggers quotes or bids, so once it fits a budget line, the director can usually buy on existing authority. You will not need a sales call to learn the price, and nobody pays more than the number on the pricing page.

And the 30-day free pilot needs no payment method at all, so your library can be scheduling this week while any paperwork below takes its time.

If your library has a credit card or p-card, checkout takes a few minutes from inside the app. Monthly or annual, and a typical single-purchase card limit clears $790 easily. If your board reviews the card statement, ask us for a quote PDF and a receipt for the packet, so the line item has a paper trail.

This is the path for libraries that buy through a city or county finance office. It works the way your accounts-payable team expects:

• Email support@kickstool.com with your PO, or ask us for a quote on letterhead first.
• We send a W-9 for Kickstool LLC and fill out any vendor-setup forms your finance office requires.
• The invoice references your PO number, on net-30 terms, payable by check or ACH.

We know net-30 often means 45 or 60 days in practice, with a small AP team and a weekly check run in the middle. That is fine. Your schedule keeps working the entire time, because we never pause access while an invoice waits in a finance department.

Many district and association libraries pay nothing until the board approves the bill list at its monthly meeting. Tell us when your board meets and we will time the annual invoice to land just before it. We will also send a one-paragraph justification you can drop into the board packet, so the question at the meeting is a thirty-second yes instead of a tabled item.

Most library budgets are set months before the fiscal year starts, so “we have no line for this” usually means “not until July 1.” Two things help. First, ask us for the budget-request kit: a quote plus a short written justification, ready to paste into next year's request. Second, start the free pilot now and tell us when your fiscal year opens. We would rather work out the timing with you than have you re-enter your schedule from scratch next July.

The opposite problem also happens: it is May, or December for calendar-year budgets, and there is money left that will not carry over. Ask us for an annual invoice and we will turn it around quickly, dated and documented the way your auditor wants.

A Friends group, a foundation, or a grant can pay for Kickstool directly. We will make the invoice out to the paying organization, exactly how their treasurer needs it, and a mailed check is welcome. The library keeps the account, whoever pays the bill.

We bill annually or monthly by default, which keeps the purchase inside a single fiscal year and simple to account for. If your jurisdiction wants a multi-year agreement, we will include a non-appropriation clause on request, so the contract ends cleanly if a future budget doesn't fund it.

Do you accept purchase orders?

Yes. Email your PO to support@kickstool.com and we will send back an invoice that references your PO number, on net-30 terms, payable by check or ACH. No credit card is needed at any point.

Can you send a W-9 and fill out vendor registration forms?

Yes. Email support@kickstool.com and we will send a current W-9 for Kickstool LLC and complete your city or county vendor-setup paperwork.

Can we get a quote first?

Yes. We will send a quote on letterhead for your purchasing file or board packet, along with a short paragraph you can paste into a budget request that explains what the subscription covers.

What name shows up on our card statement?

Card payments run through Dodo Payments, our payment provider and the legal merchant of record, so DODO_PAYMENTS_KICKSTOOL appears on the card statement rather than Kickstool. The receipt and invoice from checkout show your Kickstool subscription. If a finance clerk asks why the statement name doesn't match, that's why.

Our library is sales-tax exempt. Will checkout charge us tax?

Card checkout calculates tax automatically from your billing address, and it has no way to take an exemption certificate. If your library is tax exempt, buy by invoice instead: include your exemption certificate with your vendor paperwork and the invoice comes from us directly.

Our IT or purchasing office has a security questionnaire.

Send it to support@kickstool.com. We answer vendor security questionnaires and can provide a data processing agreement. The accessibility statement on this site reports our WCAG 2.1 AA status honestly if your review covers Section 508.

What happens if our payment is late?

Nothing happens to your schedule. We know an invoice can sit in a finance department for a month or two for reasons the library can't control. We never suspend access over procurement lag.

Can we cancel? What happens to our data?

You can cancel anytime, and you can export every schedule, person, and hour with one click whether you stay or go. There is no long-term contract unless you ask for one.

The pilot is the same full product every plan gets, free for 30 days with no payment method. Start it today and sort out the purchasing path that fits your library while it runs.