BusBoss PARENTpatrol

Orbit Software, Inc.

About this app

BusBoss PARENTpatrol offers parents a secure app that provides minute-to-minute updates on their child's bus locations with estimated time of arrival. The app allows for easy communication between the district and parents. (This application is not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, maintained, authorized, or sponsored by any government organization or political entity.)

Ratings and reviews

If your password has a special character, the app will fail to open with a can't connect to server error. Customer service and help is non existent for individual users. Bus route updates are clunky, updating like every 30s or so with a screen refresh. You can't see other stops on the map, and once the bus arrives at your stop, you no longer get updates (which would be helpful to see when it reaches the school or to get your child to a different stop). ETA is only helpful when one stop away.

Kept getting the login failed message like others have. As another reviewer pointed out, you apparently can't have special characters in your password. Changing mine to a basic alphanumeric password let me log in. There should be a simple error message warning users of this so they know why they can't use the app, especially since many people are used to being required to put special characters in their passwords for increased security. Or... just let people use whatever passwords they want.

update: the bus doesn't even show up anymore. and disappears. I mean it works. but there's no way to see the bus after my kid gets picked up?? I want to see the full bus route until they get to school. Also the red arrival time at the bottom right if the screen is small and hard to read. hope no one color blind has to use this app.