Dismiss students to the pickup zone exactly when their ride arrives.
Carline Calling is the carline app built for small K-12 schools. Staff connect with every classroom in real time. When a family arrives, their students get called, and only then do they head out to pickup. No crowd at the curb, no chaos.
Credit card required. No charge for 30 days. Cancel anytime.
A browser-based school dismissal system — no parent app, no hardware
Most car line apps make families install a phone app or make schools buy scanners and tags. Carline Calling does neither. It runs entirely in the browser, so a small K-12 school can be coordinating dismissal the same afternoon it signs up.
No parent app
Families never download anything. Staff run dismissal; parents just pull up to the curb.
No special hardware
No license-plate cameras, RFID tags, or beacons to buy, install, or maintain. Nothing to break.
Just a browser
Open a tab on any laptop, tablet, phone, or projector. Import your roster and dismiss.
Is This For Your School?
We built this for a specific type of school. Here's how to tell if it's a fit.
Carline Calling is built for schools like yours if...
- Grades K-12: Staff-managed dismissal where adults control the pickup flow
- ~100-600 students: Small to mid-size schools where one carline manager handles the queue
- Space-constrained campus: Students need to arrive at the pickup zone just-in-time, not wait outside in a crowd
- Car pickup is primary: Most families pick up by car; bus routing is handled separately
- Staff in control: The carline manager decides when students are called; parents don't need an app
This is probably NOT for you if...
- Your school has 1,000+ students and needs license plate scanning, RFID tags, or automated vehicle identification
- You need integrated bus routing with GPS tracking
- Parents need a mobile app to notify the school when they're arriving
- You want an all-in-one platform (visitor management, attendance, hall passes, emergency alerts)
- Your high school students dismiss themselves
Everything a small school needs from a carline app
A single-purpose tool that does one thing well: coordinate students from classrooms to the pickup zone in real time.
Real-Time Classroom Notifications
The moment a family is called, every classroom with a student from that family sees the notification instantly.
Sibling Auto-Selection
Call a family and all siblings across classrooms are pre-selected. Deselect individuals if only some are being picked up.
Stay Request Workflow
Teachers can request that a called student stay for clubs, sports, or tutoring. The manager approves or denies in real time.
Multi-Display Support
Show the classroom call list on projectors, TVs, or any screen with a browser. Display-only mode with no interaction needed.
CSV Roster Import
Upload your student roster as a CSV file. It needs names, classrooms, and families. Ready in minutes.
No Hardware Required
Works on any device with a modern browser. Laptops, tablets, phones, projectors. Nothing to install, nothing to maintain.
How the Carline Calling dismissal app works
If your staff can use a search bar, they can use Carline Calling.
Family Arrives
The carline manager searches for the family by name as their car pulls up.
Students Called
With one click, all siblings in the family are called. Each classroom instantly sees the notification.
Students Head to Pickup
Teachers see the live call list and send students to the pickup zone only when called, not before.
Family Departs
The manager confirms pickup. The call clears. Next family.
Simple, flat-rate pricing — $79/month, no per-student fees
One price. Everything included. No per-student fees. No hidden costs.
What's Included (Everything)
- Unlimited students and families
- Unlimited staff accounts (managers, teachers, display screens)
- Real-time classroom notifications
- Stay request workflow (teacher requests, manager approves/denies)
- CSV roster import
- Multi-classroom display support (projectors, TVs)
- Automatic daily event expiration
- 30-day dismissal history
- Signed Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
- Email support
What's NOT Included (By Design)
- No parent-facing mobile app (staff-operated by design)
- No bus routing or GPS tracking
- No visitor management or attendance tracking
- No license plate recognition or RFID hardware
- No emergency alert system
Your students' data is safe. Here's exactly how.
Encryption
All data encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3)
Isolation
Each school's data is completely separated at the database level, so no school can ever see another's data
Minimal data
We store only names, classrooms, and pickup records. No photos, GPS, or tracking.
Auto-delete
Dismissal records are automatically purged after 30 days
Access control
Role-based permissions: managers, teachers, and display-only screens each see only what they need
Audit trail
Every action is logged for accountability
DPA included
Every school receives a signed Data Processing Agreement
No data sales
Student data is never sold, shared, or used for advertising
“Built by a parent who watched 500 kids crowd into a pickup zone designed for 100. There had to be a better way.”
Frequently Asked Questions
About the Product
Setup & Onboarding
Pricing & Billing
Data Privacy & Security
Carline Calling vs. other school dismissal apps
We'd rather you find the right tool than buy the wrong one. Here's an honest look at the school dismissal apps we know about. If Carline Calling isn't right for your school, one of these might be.
Carline Calling
- Pricing
- $79/mo or $790/yr, flat
- Free trial
- 30 days (CC required)
- Self-service signup
- ✓
- Parent app required
- ✗
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ✓
- Data auto-deletion
- 30 days
PikMyKid
- Pricing
- Contact sales
- Free trial
- Free tier (limited)
- Self-service signup
- ✗
- Parent app required
- ✓
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- Unknown
SchoolPass
- Pricing
- Request demo
- Free trial
- Demo only
- Self-service signup
- ✗
- Parent app required
- ✓
- Special hardware
- ✓
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- Unknown
PickUp Patrol
- Pricing
- Contact sales
- Free trial
- 60 days
- Self-service signup
- ?
- Parent app required
- ✓
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- Unknown
Schoolhouse Driveline
- Pricing
- Flat annual
- Free trial
- 60 days
- Self-service signup
- ?
- Parent app required
- ✗
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- Unknown
PickupFlow
- Pricing
- Contact sales
- Free trial
- Unknown
- Self-service signup
- ?
- Parent app required
- ✓
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ?
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- Unknown
DashPass
- Pricing
- Request demo
- Free trial
- Unknown
- Self-service signup
- ✗
- Parent app required
- ✓
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- Unknown
FetchKids
- Pricing
- Request quote
- Free trial
- Unknown
- Self-service signup
- ✗
- Parent app required
- ✓
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- Unknown
Carline.app
- Pricing
- Per-student
- Free trial
- 30 days (CC required)
- Self-service signup
- ✓
- Parent app required
- ✗
- Special hardware
- ✗
- Real-time classroom
- ✓
- Stay requests
- ?
- Data auto-deletion
- ≤90 days on termination
Compiled from publicly available information as of June 2026; check each vendor's site for current pricing and features. "?" means the information isn't published on the vendor's website. If anything here is inaccurate, let us know and we'll update it.