When multiple families independently elect to share transportation duties this is an example of a true carpool, contrasted with parents individually picking up their own children. We attempt to distinguish between these two differences by referring to the former as Carpool and the latter as Pick Up but you may find in either the documentation or the application where we have lapsed and have referred to Pick Up as carpool, but probably not ever the other way around. If you notice such an error it will be appreciated if you bring it to our attention.

There are many different ways in which to accommodate multiple family carpools, each with different implementation methods. The choice of method is dependent upon several factors which are described in each section below.

A persistent multi family carpool is one in which all of the children from one or more households always, except in rare circumstances, travel together in the same vehicle. This is the simplest method to configure but allows the least flexibility so it should be used only in those instances in which the different families may be effectively treated as a single family with regard to transportation.

To implement this method select a Pick Up ID number that is currently assigned to one of the students. In general the recommended choice is the lowest of all of the distinct member numbers but this is not mandatory. Presuming that the appropriate permission has been obtained from the guardians of all of the students to be included, change the assign Pick Up ID for the target students to be the same value. This may be done by going to STUDENTS / LIST, clicking on the first letter of the last name of a student, locating the specific student in the list then clicking on that student's last name.

This will open the student record edit page. Near the top right of the page is the assigned Pick Up ID field. Change this value to match the desired value for all members of the group then press the Save button.