Cataloging, circulation, patron management, and multi-library support all come standard. You pay for capacity, not for features.
You're not locked to whatever date you happened to sign up. Pick the month your billing year should start. Most schools anchor to July or August to match their fiscal or school year. When your plan starts, your first invoice is prorated to that month, so you pay only for the time in between. After that, you renew on the same date every year.
Upload your catalog as a MARC file or a spreadsheet and run Lyra alongside your current ILS for a month. No demo call required, no card required, no auto-conversion at the end.
Don't see your scenario? Email us. We answer within a school day.
Patrons = the count of student and faculty records in Lyra to whom items can be loaned, across every school in your account.
Yes. We invoice annually and accept POs from schools and dioceses. Default terms are net-30; net-60 is available on request. ACH, check, and credit card are all fine.
Several schools run under one account and one subscription, on the same published tiers. You add each school yourself. The tier goes by the combined patron count across every school, and each school keeps its own patrons, catalog, and branding. Over 1,500 patrons combined, the price is quoted.
Everything. The trial is the full product: load your catalog, set up patrons, run circulation. No credit card. After day 30 the account goes read-only, and you have 30 more days to subscribe or export your data and walk away.
You can leave any time. Annual contracts aren't refunded mid-term, but you keep service through the end of your paid term and can export everything. Multi-year prepay terms are non-refundable.
Lyra's prices already assume a non-profit, education context. They're not enterprise list prices with a quiet 40% discount waiting in the wings. Multi-year prepay is where the further savings are (12% and 20%).
We keep a side-by-side breakdown of how Lyra compares to the systems schools switch from: what we do differently, what we leave out on purpose, and who we're not the right fit for. See the comparison
Send us your current ILS contract or invoice. We'll send back a side-by-side: tier match, term comparison, and what's bundled vs. à la carte. No sales call.
