The school run, arranged once.
Arrange and manage your child’s rides from your own account, including the school run every weekday.
You arrange it. We carry them. You watch the whole way.
Getting a child to school and home again is the same journey five days a week, and arranging it fresh each morning is where it goes wrong. With Topsy Teens you set the pickup point, the school, the days and the times once, and the car is booked for each of those days from your account.
- The arrangement is yours
- You create it, you change it and you cancel it. Your child does not need a Topsy account, a phone or a payment method of their own.
- Monday to Friday, or the days you choose
- Pick any combination of weekdays. Add the trip home and both legs are part of the same arrangement, so a change to the plan changes the whole day.
- Runs to a start and end date
- Set it for the term and it stops on the date you gave. Nothing continues quietly after the last day of school.
- You pay, from your account
- Every trip settles on your Topsy account with your chosen payment method. Nobody is handing cash to a driver at a school gate.
From adding your child to the first pickup
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Add your child to your account
Their name, and the details a driver needs at the kerb: how to recognise the handover, who to call if plans change, and anything about the pickup worth knowing. You choose what to share.
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Save the places they travel between
Home and school, saved against that child, so you are picking from approved points rather than retyping an address at 6am.
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Choose the days and the times
Monday to Friday, or whichever days apply. Set the morning pickup time, and a time for the trip home if you need one.
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Give it a start and an end
The arrangement runs from the day you choose until the day you choose. Trips are put in the diary a few days ahead rather than a whole term at once, so you are never paying for journeys nobody has taken yet.
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Follow every trip from your account
The driver, the vehicle and the live position are on the trip in your account, and you are told when the driver is assigned, when they arrive and when your child has been dropped off.
The driver knows they are collecting a child
- That this is a guardian-managed booking, before they set off
- Your child's name, so they know who they are meeting
- Your name and number as the guardian responsible for the trip
- The handover note you wrote, such as which gate to wait at
- The emergency contact you gave, if your child is not there
A four-digit PIN confirms the right car before the trip starts, the route is tracked live for the whole journey, and the trip can be shared with whoever is at the other end so they can watch the car arrive without a Topsy account.
Changing plans, mid-term
- Move a time or a place
- Update the arrangement and it applies from the next trip onward. Trips already in the diary that have not happened yet follow the change.
- Skip a day, or stop entirely
- Cancel a single upcoming trip if they are off sick, or end the whole arrangement. Ending it cancels every future trip it had booked and refunds them.
- Set a spending limit per child
- Per-trip, daily and monthly limits can be set on each child, so an arrangement cannot quietly run past what you expected.
- Keep the history
- Every trip stays in your account with its route, its fare and its receipt, listed against the child who travelled.
Before you set one up
Does my child need their own Topsy account?
No. The arrangement, the booking and the payment all sit on your account. Your child is the passenger, and needs nothing of their own.
Can I set different days for different children?
Yes. Each child on your account has their own arrangements, so one can travel five days a week and another two, from different pickup points.
What happens during school holidays?
Give the arrangement an end date for the last day of term, or end it whenever you like. You can set up a new one when term starts again.
Can somebody else be told when they arrive?
Yes. Share the trip and whoever is meeting them can follow the car without an account. The link expires on its own.
Can I use this for someone other than a child?
Yes. It works for anyone you are arranging travel for on your account, including an older relative who would rather you handled the booking.
Can my company pay for it?
Family arrangements settle on your personal account. Staff travel belongs on a Topsy Business account instead, which invoices the company.
Arrange this week's school run.
Add your child, choose the days, and the car is booked for each of them.