The state’s Unified Court System has announced the purchase of a $4.5 million software system that will bring savings to town and village courts, Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks said.

The acquisition of the automated case management system developed by Service Education Inc. will save $1.5 million annually in licensing fees, the court system said in a press release on Tuesday. Outside of New York City, there are 1,300 justice courts that hear roughly 2 million cases each year and collect about $250 million in fees, fines and surcharges. Prior to the court system’s purchase of the software system, each municipality was responsible for payment of any licensing fees and other costs, which ranged between $1,300 and $4,500 a year per court.