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Lynx
What Is Lynx?
A complete cloud based solution for school districts and school bus contractors, including route management, consolidation and optimization, boundary planning, vehicle maintenance, live weather overlays, live traffic flow overlays, online field trips, editable route maps, rider management, GPS tracking, online driver pre-trip checklists and your own personal Lynx advisor. Lynx fully integrates with all major student information systems.
Who Uses Lynx?
School district transportation departments and school bus transportation contractors.
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Reviews of Lynx
Exceptional Service
Comments: [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] are always extremely helpful with troubleshooting any issues and updating the program to help the routing software be more efficient for our transportation department. We just recently asked for some help in creating new routes and they were extremely fast importing the data and getting the information back to us quickly!
Pros:
This routing software is extremely easy to use and set up for your specific needs.
Cons:
Our county is unique in that we use a lot of fire numbers as addresses. Makes it harder for Lynx to pinpoint the correct address.
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Comments: Lynx helps me on a daily basis with keeping my data accurate and current and is a huge time saver because managing the data is usually simple and easy to learn.
Pros:
I like the ease of use and the personal Tech Support.
Cons:
I don't understand when searching a particular student and I use the drop down to choose the different categories that can be included, some of the categories that I would like are not listed as an option, however many others are that I'll likely never use.
Lynx Software Response
5 years ago
Good morning Pat! Please contact us if you have any questions or are having any problems with the software. We want to help!!
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Comments: Overall, Lynx does what we wanted it to do. It is a little more complicated than we expected but it houses the data we needed it to house and we can generate reports out that we needed it generate. It is not a very nice looking, user centric program but it does a lot of heavy lifting.
Pros:
The functionality of the software for the price is very good. It gets the job done that we needed to have done. The different report and search options are very helpful. After you are trained it is relatively easy to use. The customer support is outstanding.
Cons:
The data sync is a little clunky. It would be nice if it were cloud based with a better connection to our student information system. The end user interface is not very user friendly or intuitive. When we have questions this generally results in a call to support. However, the support team is always excellent. It is just time consuming to have to call in everytime.
Lynx Software Response
4 years ago
Thank you for the review and your honesty Kevin! We've made several improvements to the data sync which is now based in the cloud. We are seeing drastically reduced issues. We continue to improve the user interface but transportation logistics is inherently complicated. We will always do our best to serve you!!
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Comments: been using for over 16 years,ive had the option to purchase the more expensive softwares and ive stayed with Lynx, it does what they say it will do.Customer service is second to none
Pros:
easy to use, contains all the information in one software that a transportation director needs
Cons:
navigation of reports is a little tricky
Lynx: the software that is computer friendly and easy to use.
Comments: start up went great, wonderful training experience, and fantastic support
Pros:
Hard to limit it to one thing. The remote support is fantastic. They respond very quickly to emails and calls. I also love the videos that are setup to take you through step by step when you are in unfamiliar areas. I have used other software's that were not user friendly.
Cons:
At this time I do not have anything that I don't like about Lynx
