About Track it Forward:

Track it Forward helps schools track volunteer hours, service learning, and family engagement. The platform helps parents, students, and administrators manage volunteer commitments, service requirements, and tuition-offset programs in one centralized system.

About the relationship:

Track It Forward first connected with Edlink when founder and CEO James McBryan created a free developer account to explore Edlink. At the time, Track It Forward built an integration with FACTS SIS and was gaining meaningful traction with schools using that ecosystem. As the company continued growing, the team realized they were increasingly hearing the same request from prospective schools:

“Do you integrate with our SIS?”

As more schools asked about systems like PowerSchool, Blackbaud, and Clever, the challenge became clear. Track it Forward’s lean team didn’t want to spend years building and maintaining one-off integrations for every SIS requested.

During conversations with Edlink, James shared that their goal was simple:

They wanted to “start saying yes” to more schools without creating long-term technical debt and overwhelming their technical team.

Track It Forward also needed reliable access to parent and guardian relationship data. It is an essential element to track family volunteer commitments, manage tuition credit programs tied to service hours, and coordinate parent participation.

"We chose Edlink because we needed a secure, proven way to integrate with all the different SISs out there for our customers without having to build custom integrations from scratch."
- James McBryan, Founder and CEO of Track it Forward 

By building one integration to Edlink’s Unified API, Track It Forward can now connect to dozens of SIS, LMS, and identity management providers through a single integration. With Edlink, Track It Forward gains the ability to:

  • Support more SIS ecosystems without building integrations one by one
  • Access normalized parent, guardian, and student relationship data
  • Automate rostering and onboarding workflows
  • Reduce manual account creation and CSV uploads

Instead of dedicating limited engineering resources to maintaining integrations across multiple systems, Track it Forward can stay focused on improving their tools to help schools build stronger service-oriented communities.

Edlink is the fastest and easiest way to integrate your learning platform with school data systems. Working with Edlink's Unified API saves development teams from headaches, accelerates time-to-market for operational teams, and helps sales teams win more deals.

Edlink currently supports 150+ edtech companies and helps over 75 million learners and families use their edtech products seamlessly with their school’s LMS, SIS, and identity management platform (like Clever and ClassLink). We’re trusted to exchange sensitive data securely by edtech companies, school IT administrators, and district leaders in over 7,000 educational institutions, and growing.

To learn more about Edlink, visit ed.link.

To learn more about Track it Forward, visit www.trackitforward.com. If you’re a school, click here