Student Transportation Management with Parent Notifications

The 90-day free trial covers routing setup and your data feed at no cost, so you can build routes and see the platform work before any invoice. GPS units and tablets are quoted separately with year-to-year annual invoicing and no multi-year commitment. Your specialist walks you through exactly what is free during the trial and what a full deployment looks like, so there are no surprises when the fiscal year opens.

Yes. Crosswalk K-12 syncs with PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, and other student information systems to keep enrollment, addresses, and stop assignments current. If your district does not have the PowerSchool transportation module, our team helps you identify bus riders and set up the data feed so the sync still works. This removes the daily manual entry that slows transportation departments down.

The parent app is route-aware, so notifications reflect where the bus actually is along its route, not just how close it is on a map. Families see route and stop details and an approaching-bus alert timed to their child’s stop. This answers the questions parents used to call in for and lets your team focus on dispatch and the operational decisions that make a department great.

Yes. Custody and dual-address families are common, and Crosswalk K-12 supports day-of-the-week routing so a student can ride one route on certain days and a different route on others. You assign the student to the right stops without rebuilding routes each time, and SIS sync keeps address changes current. It is one of the setup questions our specialists walk through during onboarding.

You do not build it alone. Our implementation team sets up your routes and data feed for you, and we can use GPS route history to reconstruct routes when a district has little or no existing documentation. Onboarding is framed as professional development, not just software training, so your team learns how great transportation operations think while the heavy lifting is handled for you.

Support comes from real K-12 specialists inside our organization, not a chatbot or an overseas call center. Every plan includes unlimited live support with no ticket queues, and many directors tell us they have spoken with several of our people by name. We stay after the sale, teach your team, and check in on the department as a whole, not just the software.

UniteGPS is FERPA compliant, and student data protection is central to how the platform, SIS sync, and parent communication are built. We work with your district’s data use agreement, apply encryption and clear data handling policies, and will sign your own governance forms. Districts can improve communication and operations while handling student transportation data responsibly.

Yes. Contracts are year-to-year with annual invoicing and no multi-year lock-in, which fits boards and district attorneys who limit long-term agreements. We can also send the contract ahead of July 1 so your district can submit payment the moment the new fiscal year opens. Your specialist confirms these terms in writing on the quote.