Please add “No pickup needed” option
I would love to be able to let transportation know when my child will not be on the bus in the AM. I’m sure no one wants to make unnecessary stops when they don’t have to. Many children get picked up at their homes in the morning and it seems efficient to know if they weren’t planning on needing the bus. ALSO, it would be nice for the bus to know if we were planning on using the bus. If they are early then they would see I clicked we were coming to school today. Maybe like a “check in” button? 🤷🏻♀️
Also, it would feel nice for the employees to not have to rush at every stop... they think we wouldn’t need the bus just because we weren’t out there right as they pulled up..in the end not having experiences with waving down the bus...(Yes that happened..)
I do love being able to know when the bus is coming and this is such an amazing app..just hope y’all keep adding some other great features.
Also, it would feel nice for the employees to not have to rush at every stop... they think we wouldn’t need the bus just because we weren’t out there right as they pulled up..in the end not having experiences with waving down the bus...(Yes that happened..)
I do love being able to know when the bus is coming and this is such an amazing app..just hope y’all keep adding some other great features.
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Horrible execution of simple idea
The idea behind this application is brilliant and I was excited to give it a shot last year. While the information was useful and it did use this app every morning to track the bus, I could not believe how poorly this app is designed or how slowly it ran.
Somehow they managed to make it even worse this year. Just switching from one child to the other takes between 20-30 seconds to load.
Edit: it has likely been a year since I first wrote my review. This application continues to be the worst application for iPhone I have ever seen.
Somehow they managed to make it even worse this year. Just switching from one child to the other takes between 20-30 seconds to load.
Edit: it has likely been a year since I first wrote my review. This application continues to be the worst application for iPhone I have ever seen.
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Not accurate - no scan history kept
Not accurate and scans come six hours later sometimes or usually not at all and no history of scans is kept. Useless
Does exactly what it’s is designed to do!
It lets me see where my child’s bus is!! It even has an approximate time of arrival but if a bus stop is skipped due to a sick child then that time is not accurate, but that doesn’t matter because I can actually SEE the bus and I know when it will be here.
Don’t expect it to be able to predict real world changes like accidents and sick students or those things, that’s impossible. Expect it to show you where your child’s bus is and you’ll be happy.
We did have some trouble getting it set up; but once again this was the schools fault and the app developers did everything required to get me going ASAP
Don’t expect it to be able to predict real world changes like accidents and sick students or those things, that’s impossible. Expect it to show you where your child’s bus is and you’ll be happy.
We did have some trouble getting it set up; but once again this was the schools fault and the app developers did everything required to get me going ASAP
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Great app... a few suggestions
I love this app, but that’s only because my kids prior school had no bus notification system so I was always waiting and watching out the window for his bus to come. This certainly is better as I can just watch the bus coming here from my phone and don’t have to stand in the cold for 20 minutes during the winter.
My biggest suggestion would be adding a notification once the bus is either a quarter mile to your location or right out front of your location. Sometimes morning are hectic (Momma of 3) and I can’t watch the bus on my phone and get them out the door. If a notification “dinged” on my phone I would know there were close or right out front. Is this something your could possibly add?
My biggest suggestion would be adding a notification once the bus is either a quarter mile to your location or right out front of your location. Sometimes morning are hectic (Momma of 3) and I can’t watch the bus on my phone and get them out the door. If a notification “dinged” on my phone I would know there were close or right out front. Is this something your could possibly add?
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Basic operation is okay, far from great
This app serves its purpose to let me see where the bus is. I understand that the county can decides to use other features that utilize notifications and our county must not Bc I literally only see where the bus is, and there is a slight delay in that.
My biggest complaint, is that having elem and middle schoolers, I can’t link them and see they while logged into the same account. So I take my 2 elem boys (log in for them) to the bus then have to log out and log in for my middle schooler to see his bus which comes next. Then repeat in the afternoon, which involves logging out first of middle schooler so I can log in for elem kids. Then switch again. Versatrans please fix this! Lots of parents complaining at our school about it. Lots of us have kids at more than one school, or most of us will at some point. In 2 yrs, I’ll have kids at 3 schools on 3 diff buses.
As far as basic operation though, the app serves its purpose and I can see where the bus is and it’s estimated arrival time. Was super helpful when the bus broke down once.
My biggest complaint, is that having elem and middle schoolers, I can’t link them and see they while logged into the same account. So I take my 2 elem boys (log in for them) to the bus then have to log out and log in for my middle schooler to see his bus which comes next. Then repeat in the afternoon, which involves logging out first of middle schooler so I can log in for elem kids. Then switch again. Versatrans please fix this! Lots of parents complaining at our school about it. Lots of us have kids at more than one school, or most of us will at some point. In 2 yrs, I’ll have kids at 3 schools on 3 diff buses.
As far as basic operation though, the app serves its purpose and I can see where the bus is and it’s estimated arrival time. Was super helpful when the bus broke down once.
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So unreliable
School boards must have a better option than this garbage app. Highly unreliable. There are days where the GPS doesn’t work and other days where it’s 5-10 minutes behind. Also, the scanning of my kids on the bus gets glitchy. Truly terrible.
Frustrating
This app promises more than it delivers. The scan section is always blank. On the Map page, when the bus is between scans, it says that the bus is not running it’s scheduled route and lists the scheduled arrival time, despite clearly showing the icon for the bus on the route. When it does scan, it displays the address of the last scan and the projected actual time of pick up for a few seconds before reverting to “bus 11 is not running its scheduled route” and the time changes back to the scheduled time. With a bus that often runs early, this makes the app frustrating to use!
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Super buggy
Our school started using this app at the end of last school year. It was buggy then and hasn’t gotten any better. The app will only log in for one out of every 30 or so attempts. Although it appears to have functionality for tracking a bus for multiple students (I have one in middle school and one in elementary), I have to log out and play the “will it or won’t it” log in game.
If it actually functioned as intended, this app would be great. It would be nice to be able to check when the bus will be here instead of standing in the heat/rain/cold and waiting (sometimes for over 40 minutes - but that’s not the app, that’s the school district).
If it actually functioned as intended, this app would be great. It would be nice to be able to check when the bus will be here instead of standing in the heat/rain/cold and waiting (sometimes for over 40 minutes - but that’s not the app, that’s the school district).
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Needs some add on’s
My kids school just started to use the the app. There’s been bugs with the scanning but they seem to be fixing it. I’m enjoying the app so far but my only problem is that I have two kids riding the bus and can only see one child’s ride at a time. I need a way to be able to have both kids linked so when one stays home sick or when my son goes to middle school next year I don’t have to go back and forth between logins. Just need a way to link siblings under one login.
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