One platform, three views
Everyone on the route, on the same page
SpudBus gives each person exactly what they need — and nothing they don't.
Schools & organisations
A live operations console for the office: plan routes, watch every bus, and handle registrations and absences in one place.
- Live ops dashboard with every run
- Route planning & capacity balancing
- Registration approvals & rosters
Parents & carers
One calm screen in the browser — where the bus is, when it'll arrive, and a tap to mark an absence. Nothing to install.
- Live ETA for your passenger's stop
- Mark absent, or clear an absence, in one tap
- Send your child a bus link — no account needed
- Request a change to the pickup point
Drivers
A focused in-cab drive mode: stop-by-stop navigation and a big-button register, designed for glance-and-tap use.
- Turn-by-turn to each stop
- Board & drop-off register
- Live absence updates from the office
The product
Run the whole operation from one place
From the morning the buses roll out to the registration that came in overnight — it's all connected.
Live ops dashboard
Every bus on a live map, per-route progress, on-time status, and a triage feed that surfaces what needs you now.
Routes & capacity
Build and rebalance routes, see capacity pressure as a day-by-session heatmap, and cover a vehicle going down without rebuilding the day.
Contact view
Live tracking, one-tap absences and pickup-point requests — in the browser, flowing straight through to the driver and the office.
Driver drive mode
A distraction-light in-cab view with big tap targets, stop-by-stop nav, and a register that updates the whole system.
Not a school? SpudBus also runs for organisations outside education.
Try it yourself
The morning, live — right here
This is the actual Live ops screen — the same board and map an admin sees, running on sample routes. Filter the runs, open one, toggle a route off the map. The full demo adds the triage rail, the activity feed and the parent's view of the same morning.
That's four screens of eight
The demo is the office board, the driver's register, a parent's page and the bus link. That still isn't the whole product, and we'd rather list what it leaves out than let four good screens stand in for the rest. Ask us for a walkthrough of any of these.
Registrations & rosters
Approve requests to join a route, and keep the roster for every run.
Capacity & redistribute
A day-by-session heatmap of where a route is tight, and a tool to move passengers between routes.
Cover
A vehicle or driver drops out; reassign the run under your org's cover policy.
Run log
What actually happened on every run, retained only as long as the retention policy allows.
How it works
Build it once, run it every morning
Build your routes
Add your stops, passengers, drivers and vehicles in the planner, and let it order each route for you. No new hardware, no IT project.
Invite contacts & drivers
Families claim their passenger and get the live view in a browser; drivers sign in to their schedule.
Run the morning live
Watch the buses roll, field absences as they come in, and keep every contact informed automatically.
Pricing
Quoted against your routes
SpudBus is charged per vehicle — a platform fee plus a rate for each minibus you run. Every feature is included, with no setup fee and no hardware to buy.
We quote per school rather than publishing a rate card. Routes, vehicles and passenger numbers vary enough that a single published figure would be wrong for most people reading it — so tell us yours and we'll price against them.
Get a quote for your routes- Every feature included — there is no tier that withholds one
- No setup fee, no hardware to buy, no long minimum term
- Priced on the vehicles you run, not on how many people are aboard
- A quiet term costs no more and no less — the figure is stable and easy to budget
Bring calm to your school run
Tell us about your operation and we'll walk you through the morning, end to end.