StudentAidEvery child accounted for, every single journey.
StudentAid is a complete school-transport system: a portal for your office, an app for your drivers, and an app for parents. Live vans on a map, QR-verified boarding, and a custody record that proves who collected each child — all in one place.
Free for parents · Multilingual, right-to-left ready · Built for school-transport regulation
The rules are changing. The phone won't stop ringing.
Running a school fleet on registers and phone calls is no longer good enough — for parents, or for an inspector.
Dozens of morning calls
Reception spends the first hour of every day answering “where is the van?” — and cannot actually answer it.
Attendance on paper
A register in a moving vehicle is impossible to verify later. When a child is missed, nobody can prove what happened.
Compliance in a drawer
Vehicle fitness, driver IDs, route logs — scattered across files, and never ready when an inspector arrives.
Anyone at the gate
At dismissal, staff release children to whoever turns up. There is no verified record of who took whom.
No idea where the van is
A delay becomes a crisis because nobody — not the school, not the parent — can see where the vehicle actually is.
No emergency path
When something goes wrong on the road, the driver's only option is to start making phone calls.
Three apps that already know about each other
The driver scans a child onto the van; the parent's phone lights up; the school's board updates; the custody record writes itself. Nobody re-enters anything.
School portal
Roster, fleet, live map, morning ops board, dismissal, custody logs, driver verification, broadcasts and compliance reports — the whole transport office in one dashboard.
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Driver app
Today's trips, QR boarding, offline-tolerant GPS, hold-to-send SOS, and a drop confirmation at every stop. Built for one hand and a cracked screen.
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Parent app
Watch the van approach, get told the moment your child boards, mark them absent, send someone else to collect them, and check in at pickup.
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From the depot to the classroom, recorded end to end
Driver starts the trip
One tap. The van appears on the school's live map and on the phone of every parent riding it.
Each child is scanned aboard
A signed QR pass identifies the child — no names read off a list, no mistaken pickups.
Parents are told, instantly
Approaching, boarded, dropped. Four notifications that end the morning phone calls.
The office sees it live
The ops board counts who has boarded, who is absent, and which vans are running late — as it happens.
Dismissal is verified
At home time, every release is matched to an authorised collector, a signed pass, or a parent's approval.
The record writes itself
Route logs, manifests and custody trails build automatically. Compliance reports are one click.
The safe thing happens by default
These are not settings an administrator can get wrong. They are properties of how the system is built.
An emergency always reaches someone
An SOS fans out to the affected children's guardians and the school's own emergency contacts. That floor is enforced in code — no configuration can leave an alert going nowhere.
A child is never released unverified
Every release is one of three things: an authorised collector, a valid time-boxed pass, or a parent approving in the app. There is no fourth path.
One school never sees another
Where one van serves two schools, each school sees only its own children on the manifest. The boundary is enforced at the data layer and fails closed.
Driver identity is protected
National ID numbers are encrypted, shown only as the last four digits, revealed once through an audited action, and deleted 30 days after a driver leaves.
The custody trail cannot be rewritten
Release records are append-only. They cannot be edited or quietly deleted — their whole value is being trustworthy months later.
Location is not surveillance
Parents see the van carrying their own child, and nothing else. The parent app never tracks the parent, and asks for no background location.
Ready for your regulator
School-transport regulations increasingly expect digital route logging, vehicle tracking and verified driver records. StudentAid keeps those records as a by-product of running the day, so an inspection is a download rather than a week of preparation.
- checkRoute and trip logs for every journey, with timestamps and GPS trace
- checkDriver files: national ID, licence, experience, approval and revocation history
- checkVehicle records with fitness and assignment history
- checkStudent manifests reconstructable for any past date
- checkSigned, verifiable compliance reports with a reference number
- checkA full audit log of who did what in the system
What schools ask us first
How long does setup take?
Most schools are live within a week. You send a student list and route list as a spreadsheet; we map the columns, review the import, and it becomes your roster. Drivers install the app and are verified from your dashboard.
What if a driver has no smartphone?
The driver app is deliberately light and runs on inexpensive Android devices. It tolerates poor coverage — boarding scans and GPS pings queue on the phone and upload when signal returns, so a dead spot never loses a record.
Do parents have to pay?
No. The parent app is free for families, permanently. Schools and operators pay for the platform.
What happens if a parent has no smartphone?
Nothing breaks. Alerts fall back to SMS or WhatsApp, and the school can see and act on everything from the portal on the parent's behalf.
Can one van serve two schools?
Yes, and each school sees only its own children on that van's manifest. The operator sees the full picture. This is enforced by the system, not by staff discipline.
Is the app available in our language?
Both apps are fully localisable and ship with complete right-to-left layout support, switchable per user. Tell us the languages your families use and we will add them.
Who can see my child's location?
Only that child's own guardians, and school staff whose role requires it. Parents never see other families' children or other routes.
What if we already use a GPS tracker?
Most trackers tell you where a vehicle is. They cannot tell you which child is on it, who collected them, or produce a compliance record. StudentAid is about the children, not just the vehicle.
Be one of our first pilot schools
Limited slots for the coming session. Tell us about your fleet and we'll show you the whole system on your own data.