[ian0]

It was a relatively large paid/private high school.

What Pete27 mentions in regards to higher level is also applicable in high schools, at least where I am (Indonesia). They have varying requirements and while they sometimes look for off the shelf solutions in places it still involves a lot of tying systems together.

> Even for billing and payments?

Funnily enough - thats why I was there. We have built a platform for that. But due to the complexities of payments infrastructure it looks very different to what you would typically find in developed countries. And that particular integration was API based to a system they were building in house.