What is Stopfinder?

Stopfinder is the all-in-one parent engagement app designed by parents for parents to keep you in the know – in real-time – where your child’s bus is and when your student arrives at school. You can also create “GeoAlerts” for your child, which will notify you when the bus has arrived or departed from any location on their route, including their assigned bus stop and school. “GeoAlert Alert Zones” can be created for individual children allowing you to customize the Alert Zone based on their bus route. Have more than one child traveling to different schools at different times? Stopfinder tracks multiple buses so you can know when each child gets on the bus or arrives at school or home.

With Stopfinder, you will:

  • Know the schedule of your child’s bus

  • Receive push notifications related to your child’s bus schedule and any changes, such as bus number or driver changes

  • Get real-time information on the location of your child’s bus by creating your own alert zones with the upgrade to GeoAlerts

  • Notice bus substitutions because they are clearly indicated – reducing misinformation and confusion

  • Track multiple buses, a great feature if your children don’t ride the same bus

  • Know exactly when your children arrive at school or at home

How do I get Stopfinder?

Download the App from your device's app store and be on the lookout for an email invitation into the platform. (You must receive your email invitation before you can begin using the app.)

App Store

Google Play

How do I use the App?

Once you have the app installed and have received your email invitation from BCPS, check out the videos here and the FAQs below about various components of the app:

  • App Overview - Video Timestamps:

    • 0:05 - Logging in

    • 0:23 - Viewing bus schedules

    • 0:50 - Updating your profile (including language preferences)

    • 1:13 - Viewing bus routes on a map

    • 1:44 - Sharing bus route information with others

      • 2:19 - Managing shared subscriptions

    • 2:41 - Messaging (At this time, BCPS does not have access to the messaging feature, so this section does not apply to our district’s rollout)

  • Setting Up GeoAlerts

Stopfinder FAQs

[Courtesy of the Transfinder Community Page]