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!!

Inconsistent tracking the bus. Delayed updates, sometimes the area alert is minutes off which defeats the purpose. If you think you can use this app to avoid wasting time waiting for the bus, then think again. I have to be at the bus stop at least 10 mins early due to the inconsistent tracking. Also, our school district has a different schedule for Wednesday, which this app does not consider so I have to wait extra early on those days.

Very helpful and helps children not wait extra time for the bus. Although at least once a week the bus can't be located. Overall great app Update: two of my kiddos were removed from my account. Not sure how to add them back in. I've had to have the school add them back on twice. Update 2: 2+ days a week the bus nor the time left shows. This defeats the purpose and makes it very inconvenient especially when the temperature is in the teens.

What’s new

Bug fixes