What is Here Comes the Bus?
Here Comes the Bus is a mobile application that provides real-time location information of your child's school bus. It alerts you when the bus is near and when your child gets on/off the bus. The app also offers Student Ridership, which ensures that your child gets on the right bus at the right time and gets off at the right stop. Here Comes the Bus promotes safety for your children and peace of mind for you.
- Customizable map: See the exact location of your child's school bus using your own customizable map.
- Push notifications: Receive alerts when the bus is within 2 miles of your stop, has a schedule change, and more. Get notifications when your child gets on/off the bus, including the bus number, location, and time.
- Arrival & departure info: Access arrival and departure information to confirm your child's bus has arrived at the bus stop and at school, both before and after school.
- Track all of your children: See each child's bus information within one account, even if they ride different buses.
- Multilingual support: The app and notifications are available in English, Spanish, and French.
- Privacy protection: Parents must obtain a private ID number, which grants access to their child's bus only.
**NOTICE: In order to use the app, your school district must have a contract with Synovia Solutions and make Here Comes the Bus® and/or Student Ridership available to parents. Please contact your school district or visit www.this app.com for more information.** Here Comes the Bus is an easy-to-use app that gives you the real-time location of your child’s bus, and alerts you when the bus is near. With Here Comes the Bus, your children will get to the bus stop not a minute too early – or a minute too late. And with Student Ridership, you’ll not only know your child got on the right bus at the right time, but that they got off the bus at the right stop. All of this equals safety for your children, and peace of mind for you. KEY FEATURES: Find your bus quickly and easily See the exact location of your child’s school bus using your own customizable map. Receive alerts via push notification -Be notified when the bus is within 2 miles of your stop, has a schedule change, and more -Receive notifications when your child gets on/off the bus, including the bus number, location and time Access arrival & departure info Confirm your child’s bus has arrived at the bus stop and at school, both before and after school. Track all of your children Have children that ride different buses? See each child's bus information within one account. App and notifications in three languages The app and notifications are available in English, Spanish and French. Know your privacy is protected Parents must obtain a private ID number, which grants access to their child’s bus only.
By Hotrodder007
This is app is Great! Before I heard about it I was sending the kids down to the end of driveway 10-15 early in the summer and 5 min early in winter so they wouldn't freeze to death but the 5 min window wasn't enough sometimes they would miss it and then I would have to drop them. Then I heard about this bus app and boy was I excited!! Now I have it timed perfect to where I let them walk down the drive(I have a 900 ft drive, cause we live in a farm in the country) and by time they get to the end the bus is pulling up- perfect! Now don't have to worry about someone snatching them(not that I worry about that where I live) but never know? Better safe than sorry and they don't freeze waiting on it! Excellent app, there's only 1 day to where it didn't work but I believe it was a setting in my phone so gets 5 stars in my book the alerts don't work or are off sometimes but I don't worry about those anyway as ling as I can see the bus in motion and know where it's at is good enough for me! If you have kids that get on a bus YOU NEED THIS APP!
By danocamera
This app has been a godsend this entire school year! Everything was working nicely until the most recent update; all of my info (bus, school and bus stop icons) disappeared and I got a message saying the map info “wasn’t available” when I tried to adjust the notification radius. Everything was fine on the website, it was just the app that was screwy. I came here to see if anyone else was having this problem and just as I saw that it was mentioned in several other reviews, I got a Notification that my son’s bus was in the designated range. I checked the app and there were still no icons so I deleted it and immediately re-downloaded it. After I signed in, everything is working as expected! I bet if I had just logged out and logged back in, everything would have been fine too. Hopefully this can help other users and save you from unwarranted negative reviews!
By MAGIK P
That is the way I feel about this app! It tells me/us when the bus will be at the bus stop which saves us time and lots of worrying! My son is the only person at his bus stop so I cannot always tell if we have missed the bus or not. We drive him to the bus stop since there are no sidewalks in our development on our side of the street. With this apps it tells us what time the bus will be at the stop. With the traffic the way it is were we live it’s extremely helpful. A Godsend! Plus it was easy to install. You just need your child school district transportation number. Your child ‘s student id number and where do you want the information to be sent to your cell phone, tablet, or computer. It can even call you for a reminder. This App is Great! It removes the guess work of if you missed the bus or not. Monica P. Cary, NC