How can a shitty student information system that already costs $20k/yr have an optional shitty SOAP API module, that only allows read access to records, that has an initial setup fee of $5k plus $5k/yr?!

Because fuck you if you want your data back, that's why.

Because business.

I feel ya. Our shitty fundraising software is like 200k / year or some shit.

The thing that doesn't make sense to me is why they'd put such a high price on it, since their target-market is (mostly) gov-funded schools. This makes the API completely useless, on top of it being functionally useless as well.

@human "gov-funded" some mysteries solve themselves :)