Everything between “who needs a ride?” and everyone’s pickup.
Coordinators plan the rides. Riders reply from any browser. Drivers get their stops in order. RideSmart keeps it all in one plan, and you decide when it goes out.
Your volunteers, your final say. Plans stay drafts until you send them. Automatic sending is off unless you turn it on.
For the coordinator: one plan instead of four tools.
The requests, the seats and the pickups live in one place, and the next thing that needs you is at the top.
Dashboard
The next ride first, with who still needs a seat and the one step to take next. Upcoming events underneath.
Planner
RideSmart drafts the carpools from seats and pickup locations, with the stops in order. Compare suggestions and move anyone you like.
People
Add members, approve who can drive and set their seats. Only people you approve can offer rides.
Recurring events
Set up a weekly service once. Each week’s event opens to members on its own, ready for replies.
For riders and drivers: only what they need to show up.
Nobody learns a new system to get to church. Riders reply in a browser, drivers see their route, and guests don’t need an account.
Reply from any browser
Riders accept and pick a saved pickup location. Approved drivers can offer seats in the same reply. No install needed.
Their driver and their stop
Once you send the plan, each rider sees who’s driving, where they’ll be picked up and which stop they are.
Drivers get the route
The RideSmart app for iPhone and Android shows each pickup in order, lets drivers call or text a rider, and hands the route to Google or Apple Maps. It isn’t in the app stores yet.
Messages, in the words we really send
Members with the app get a notification. Guests you invite by link get an email and can reply without an account. You can turn a guest link off at any time.
- New ride invitationYou’ve been invited to “Sunday Youth Service”When you open an event
- Respond to your rideSunday Youth Service is waiting for your response.When you send a reminder
- Assignments readyDriver assignments for “Sunday Youth Service” are confirmedWhen you send the plan
- Assignment updatedYour assignment for “Sunday Youth Service” has been updated.When you move someone
Control stays with your church.
RideSmart organizes your volunteers. It doesn’t replace your judgment or your policies.
Your drivers only
Only members you’ve approved can offer seats. RideSmart never brings in outside drivers.
You send the plan
Plans stay drafts until a coordinator sends them. Automatic sending is off unless you turn it on.
Coordinators and members
Coordinators run events and people. Members see their own rides, and riders see only their own car.
Your policies
Your church screens drivers and handles insurance. RideSmart records who you’ve approved; it doesn’t run background checks.
What works today, and what isn’t decided yet.
RideSmart is new. Here’s where it stands, so you don’t have to guess.
Works today
- Events and recurring services, with replies from the web and reminders for anyone who hasn’t answered.
- Drafted plans you can compare, change and send.
- The driver app for iPhone and Android, ready and waiting on the app stores.
- Guest links for people who aren’t members yet.
Not decided or not built yet
- Pricing. Founding churches talk with us before anything is billed.
- App store release of the driver app.
- Messages to riders left without a seat. Today the coordinator follows up with them.
- What comes next is chosen with founding churches.
Bring the event that’s hardest to coordinate.
Founding churches start with a free pilot on a real recurring service, tell us what to fix first, and choose whether to continue at a founding rate.
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