Keeping your operations smooth, secure, and efficient is always our priority. This month, we’ve rolled out four powerful enhancements across SmartBus and Rosterz Management each designed to improve control, simplify processes, and enhance the user experience for schools, drivers, and transport managers alike.

From improved privacy settings and smarter route planning to QR-based attendance and flexible trip handling, these updates are all about giving you more precision, more automation, and less hassle.

Let’s take a look at what’s new this month:

SmartBus Key Updates

1. Merged Trip Allocation for Temporary Tracking

Now merge multiple trips and assign a default bus for seamless temporary tracking.

This update makes it easier to handle sudden changes without disrupting parent communication or operational flow.

Merge Trip Students

Benefits:

  • Faster Management: Merge and assign trips in one go.
  • Flexible Bus Assignment: Choose any bus, not just defaults.
  • Clear Parent Updates: Reflected instantly in the Parent App.
  • Error-Free Execution: All logic and alerts work as before.

2. Enhanced Halt Time Settings in Route Optimization

Now set checkpoint halt times up to 10 minutes, not just seconds making trip planning more accurate and flexible.

This improvement ensures smarter trip time calculations and a more realistic route plan, especially for longer stops.

Change in Halt Time

Benefits:

  • Accurate Trip Time: Halt time now includes both minutes and seconds.
  • Smarter Planning: More realistic ETA and route optimization.
  • User-Friendly: Simple and intuitive time selection.
  • Backward Compatible: Older trips using seconds still work smoothly.

3. Driver & Attendant Number Masking in Parent App

Protect privacy by hiding driver and attendant contact details and disabling direct calls from parents.

Schools now have the option to control visibility of staff phone numbers in the Parent App—enhancing security and reducing unnecessary disruptions.

Benefits:

  • Improved Privacy: Mobile numbers are hidden from parents.
  • Call Control: Call icon disabled when masking is turned on.
  • Instant Changes: Updates reflect immediately in the app.
  • Customizable: Schools can enable or disable masking anytime.

Rosterz Management Key Updates

QR Code-Based Attendance for Employees

Introducing QR code scanning to simplify employee attendance marking during pickups and drops.

Drivers can now scan employees’ QR codes instead of manually tapping onboard/offboard buttons—making the process faster, more accurate, and touch-free.

QR Code Scan in Employee Transport

Benefits:

  • Contactless Attendance: Scanning replaces manual input.
  • Faster Process: Saves time for drivers at each stop.
  • Accurate Records: Minimizes human error in attendance.
  • Easy Access: QR codes downloadable as image or PDF (single/bulk).

Conclusion

These new features are part of our ongoing commitment to empower schools and organizations with smarter, safer, and more efficient transport management tools. Whether it’s boosting operational accuracy with QR-based attendance or enhancing parent privacy with mobile number masking, each update is designed to make your daily transport tasks easier and more reliable.

We’re excited to see how these improvements will streamline your workflows and elevate the experience for your staff, drivers, and parents.

Stay tuned for more updates next month—as we continue to innovate with your needs in mind.

Have questions or want a demo of any feature? We’re just a message away!

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