live bus GPS tracking with stop-by-stop progress
New feature shipped to Inkwelly— India's most actively developed school management software. This change is in production at real Indian schools today, not on a roadmap.
- Live tracking: Parents follow their child's school bus on a live map with a stop-by-stop timeline — which stops are done, how many are left, an honest ETA, and a truthful "X stops away" to their own stop. WhatsApp and push alerts fire when the bus starts, is near the stop, and is next. The live stream now connects instantly and self-heals through patchy network without restarting the app.
- Driver app: A dedicated bus driver app built for non-technical drivers — one-tap start of the morning pickup or evening drop (picked by the time of day, or from any route card), guided stop-by-stop boarding by tapping a child's photo, a live route map showing where to go next, and full Hindi and English with an in-app language switch.
- Stop progress: Stops are marked automatically by GPS as the bus reaches and leaves them; the driver can mark or correct any stop by hand, and undo a mistakenly started or finished trip.
This isn't a roadmap. It's already running in your competitor's school.
Every update on the Inkwelly changelog is in production at real Indian schools today. If you're tired of ERP vendors who promise features for “next quarter”, let's talk. We run a 90-day paid pilot with a pro-rata refund and full data export.