Stopfinder

Transfinder Corporation

About this app

For participating Districts, Stopfinder gives parents and guardians access to view and share their student’s bus stop assignments as well as communicate with the Transportation Department.

With Stopfinder GeoAlerts, app users can create alert zones at any stop or school or along your student’s route. Stopfinder users will be notified when their student’s bus has arrived at or departed from an alert zone. Know where the bus is and know your student has arrived at or departed from any location along their assigned bus route.

Stopfinder Forms allows app users to complete electronic forms sent from their district through the Stopfinder app. Stopfinder users can view new forms and submitted forms through the Stopfinder Message Center.

Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) notifications can be configured by Stopfinder app users to display the bus’s ETA based on their student’s assigned stop and the bus’s location. ETA notifications appear on the student’s schedule in the Stopfinder app and inform users the amount of time until the bus arrives at their student’s assigned stop.

Control who can see your student’s assigned trip stops.

Control who can see your student’s assigned trip stops, view attendance history, and receive notifications when attendance has been taken or a vehicle substitution has been made.

Send and receive messages from the school district’s Transportation department.

Ratings and reviews

Half the time it works, the other half it doesn't. It's always loosing the location of the bus (saying vehicle location unavailable) that's not helpful when the whole point of the app is to track the bus. The maintenance tool on the map never works and somehow the school transportation department isn't seeing the messages I sent through the app. The afternoon drop off and notifications seem to work as normal, but the morning (3 days in a row or more) no vehicle location. APP IS POINTLESS!!

The app worked well for this entire school year, with a handful of days here and there when my alerts didn't work. Then, towards the end of May, alerts and bus locations were rarely working. Now, the app is working overtime: it sends me anywhere from 25-35 notifications every time one of my alerts is triggered, and I have to mute the app, defeating the purpose of the app in the first place.

The app works great for information about changes to my son's bus number. I took a star away because it frequently has the vehicle location unavailable. That is the feature we need to use daily. My son is disabled and we stay in the house until we see the bus is close. When we can't see the route we have to wait until the bus is on our street to go out. Having to wait for us delays the bus a little. If it was more reliable I would rate it 5 stars! I do love this app and am grateful for it.

What’s new

Bug fixes