Demos and guides
Try Wagglepost yourself, see every feature with real message examples, and download the guides our customers use.
Everything Wagglepost does
Real examples of what your staff see and what families receive.
Lists
Build a list in minutes
Upload a spreadsheet and group families by grade, team, club or anything else. You see a preview of every row before anything is saved, so nobody gets added twice.
fall-roster.xlsx · 4 rows · nothing saved yet
| Student | List | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Maya Chen | Grade 3 | New |
| Leo Chen | Grade 1 | New |
| Ava Patel | Grade 3 | Matched |
| Noah Rivera | Soccer | Matched |
Broadcasts
One message, every channel
Write it once. Families get it by email and text, and it waits in their portal too. No app to download.
✉️ Email
Early dismissal Friday
School closes at 12:30 on Friday for staff training…
💬 Text
Oak Academy via Wagglepost - Early dismissal Friday at 12:30.
🔔 Portal
Announcements
Early dismissal Friday · just now
Your brand
Your school's name, not ours
Every text and email starts with your school's name, so families know who's writing. Texting is already set up: no phone number to buy, no carrier forms.
Two-way
Every reply in one inbox
Families reply by text or from their portal. It all lands in one inbox your whole team can see, matched to the right family automatically.
Sarah JohnsonText
Can Maya be picked up by her aunt today?
David ParkPortal
Thanks for the reminder about Friday!
Priya PatelText
Is the field trip still on if it rains?
Events
RSVPs by text: IN or OUT
Add an event date to a list and Wagglepost asks families ahead of time, then again that morning. You see who's coming without chasing permission slips.
Service emails
Formal notices that always arrive
Closures, schedule changes and policy letters go out with images and attachments. Service emails reach every family, even those who've muted everyday alerts, and a copy of every send comes back to your office.
Snow closure: school closed Tuesday
Due to the forecast, Oak Academy will be closed on Tuesday. All after-school activities are cancelled. The updated calendar is attached.
Invites
Know who's in
Invite a whole list at once and see who has signed in, who's been invited and who hasn't yet. One click re-invites the stragglers.
- Signed in68%
- Invited24%
- Not invited yet8%
Switching from another app?
If your school uses Remind today, you already know how this works. Here's where everything lives.
| If you're used to… | In Wagglepost it's… | Where |
|---|---|---|
| A class or group | A list, with or without a bus route | Admin Controls → Lists |
| An announcement | A broadcast | Messaging → Send Broadcast |
| Sending a file | A service email with attachments | Messaging → Send a service email |
| Chat with a family | Messages, by portal or text | Messaging → Messages |
| Families joining with a code | You invite families from the list, so only people you added can join | Lists → Invite everyone not signed in |
From payment to your first message in a day
Most customers go from this website to messaging families within one business day.
Step 1: Discover
See features, demo and price
2 min
Step 2: Buy
Tell us your organization and contact
1 min
Step 3: Pay
Secure checkout by Stripe
1 min
Step 4: Confirm
We set up your account
Within 1 business day
Step 5: Sign in
Set your password from the invite
2 min
Step 6: Launch
Upload families, invite them, send a welcome
30–60 min
Guides for everyone involved
Short, illustrated PDFs for each audience. Share them with your team and families on day one.
New customers
Schools & administrators
Families
🚌 For organizations that run vehicles
Shuttlebee adds the ride
Same portal, same family experience, plus drivers, routes and live ride status.
Open the portal demo ↗ (opens in a new tab)Everything in Wagglepost, plus
Live bus position and ETA
Families see where the vehicle is and get an alert as it approaches.
Routes and stops
Build routes, order stops, and every route becomes a messaging list.
Check-ins on every run
Drivers tap On vehicle, Dropped or Absent at each stop from their phone.
Works with your telematics
Connects to Samsara and DriverTech / DriverCloud for live location.
A day on the route
One afternoon run, from the first absence text to the last drop-off, and who sees each step.
Any time before
A family reports an absence
In the parent portal, or by texting ABSENT to 844 405 6418.
Family
Instantly
Dispatch and the driver are alerted
If the route re-times around the absence, families whose time moved are told their new time.
DispatchDriver
About 1 hour before
Driver pre-start message
Text and email with the start time, a route map link, dispatch contacts and who's absent today.
Driver
Before departure
Pre-trip inspection and check-in
Dispatch confirms with a thumbs-up and the driver sees “Dispatch confirmed, you're live.”
DriverDispatch
About 30 minutes before
Families get a tracking link
The route starts soon, with a link to see the vehicle on the map.
Family
On the run
Stop by stop
“I'm at this stop” tells families the vehicle is here. Riders are checked on and off. Absent children's families get no “bus coming” texts.
DriverFamily
After the last stop
Post-trip summary and inspection
Including an interior photo that confirms nobody was left on board.
Driver
Absences by text, with UNDO
No child left on board
Every run ends with a post-trip inspection and an interior photo, so dispatch has proof the vehicle is empty before the driver signs off.
Why schools trust us
No app to download
Email, text and a web portal families can add to their home screen.
Your name on every message
Families see your school first, so texts never look like spam.
A copy for your office
Every broadcast is kept, and a copy is emailed to your team.
Accessible
Built to WCAG 2.1 AA, with clear SMS terms for families.
Read our trust & safety and SMS terms.
Ready when you are
$300 a year per school, up to 120 students. No per-student fees.