WebCheckout was first designed and deployed to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 as a campus-wide scheduling and management tool for a multi-million dollar portable equipment facility inventory used by students, faculty, and staff. Leveraging a thin-client architecture running on universally accepted open source operating system and inexpensive Intel hardware.

WebCheckout garnered the interest of other academic institutions, and by 2000 WebCheckout had become a product-based ISV. Since that time WebCheckout has enjoyed steady and sustainable growth with over 150 implementations on 5 continents. WebCheckout is the market leader in higher education resource management, especially among art and film schools, all sizes of public and private institutions, community colleges, and other organizations that manage portable equipment inventories.