Budgetext Corp.




Providing Solutions for the challenges that educators and bookstores face.


Budgetext is a leading provider of affordable educational solutions to the K-12 and college markets. Budgetext serves several thousand customers nationwide with products and services ranging from new and used textbooks, to trade and reference books, to complete store management systems. Budgetext was founded in 1968, and is privately held and headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Budgetext’s continued growth is a result of a company-wide dedication to building strong partnerships with our customers and the development and expansion of unique and innovative solutions.

K-12 Market

Budgetext offers schools and districts new and quality used textbooks, paperbacks, dictionaries and reference materials––with the goal of providing significant savings to reduce the overall cost of education. The Budgetext K-12 division also works in conjunction with schools and districts to seek improved processes for managing their curriculum needs.

Our products and services include:

  • Budgetext.com - our on-line ordering tool for educational managers
  • Innovative programs that enable schools to sell or dispose of surplus textbooks
  • Studysource.com – a private school solution that streamlines the process of textbook management with customized online bookstores for students and parents.

College Market

Budgetext provides college bookstores with a variety of products and services that maximize their ability to meet the demands of students, store personnel, and faculty.

While supplying college bookstores with money-saving used and new textbooks, trade and reference books is our legacy business, Budgetext also offers technology products such as ComText, which includes WebMate, SellMate and UBT to deliver our customers superior results for their retail operations and emerging business trends. Another key service Budgetext provides is Buyback and Beyond, a customized faculty solution that forecasts critically needed curriculum requirements to ensure store shelves are stocked with the right books at the right prices.

The Budgetext Advantage

The cornerstone of our business has remained unchanged for over 40 years. We provide schools, students, and families with exceptional service and solutions that ultimately improve the management, cost and quality of education from kindergarten to college. We are able to accomplish this because:

  • Our people are our most valuable resource, contributing their professional expertise to sales, service, and support every day.
  • Our sales team is strategically positioned throughout the country, which ensures that we offer outstanding products, and that we work in collaboration with our customers to achieve their goals.
  • We have dedicated customer service teams, based in Fayetteville and Atlanta, who provide our customers with personalized service and exceptional response rates.
  • Our corporate facilities include a 240,000 square foot warehouse, automated with a world-class management system that processes millions of books every day.
  • We take pride in our ability to adapt and respond to our customers’ most challenging issues and leverage technology to do so.
    • As a registered Microsoft partner, we offer our customers award-winning, technology-driven tools and solutions that make managing their business simple yet efficient.
    • Our ever-expanding technology team includes system architects, software developers and infrastructure and service managers who have achieved industry recognition for developing and deploying products and services that fit each customer’s individual requirements.