Families order coffee, snacks and spirit wear from their phones. Parent volunteers hand it over in the pickup line at dismissal, or send it home in a backpack. Every card payment lands in your group's own bank account.
In our first season, bringing schools on a few at a time. Free to set up. You pay only when families pay by card.
On the way 3 of 4
1 × Drip Coffee · 1 × Granola Bar
To the Silver Toyota Sienna
From your school's own menu, at your prices, with allergens shown on every item. Sales tax is worked out item by item. Ordering for the car line closes a few minutes before the bell, on a schedule you set.
Orders line up on the runners' phones in the order parents reached school, each with its pass, the car or pickup spot, and what goes in the bag.
A runner walks it out to the window, or cars pull up to a drive-thru spot by the curb: each school picks. The parent follows it on their Lock Screen, and is told when it's on the way or ready to collect.
Order a coffee on the parent's phone. It lands on the runner's phone beside it — take it from there, and watch the parent's screen keep up.
A volunteer walks each order out to the car.
Demo · nothing is ordered or charged
Drip CoffeeLocally roasted, hot.$3.50
Hot ChocolateFor the back seat.$4.00
Granola BarOats, honey, almonds.$2.50
Tax worked out item by item: the granola bar is exempt here.
Start on the parent's phone: add a coffee and place the order.
Car line
For things that won't wait: a coffee, a snack, a cold drink after practice. Ordering opens once the parent is at school, and every order is matched to a car and a pass.
Goes home
For spirit wear and anything else you order in from a supplier. Families order from anywhere; you get one supplier order and a handout list sorted by classroom.
Volunteers use their own app, Car Line Market Runner. It does one job: get the right order to the right car before the line moves.
From a sheet at a volunteer meeting, or a link. Nobody sees a family's order until the school approves them.
Orders and alerts arrive only while you're on shift. It switches itself off after the school day, so nobody looks present who has gone home.
"New order! 1× Drip Coffee" — tap it and the order opens.
Where the school has drawn its pickup line, cars close together are grouped. Take a group and the others see "Jamie has this," so two runners never walk to the same car.
Every card leads with the pass. Marking it delivered is a slide, the one step that can't be undone from the phone.
A fundraiser is only as good as its records. Car Line Market keeps the ones a parent group's finance rules actually ask for, so the treasurer isn't rebuilding them from bank statements in June.
We're in our first season, so there are no results to quote yet. Here's the arithmetic instead, with your own numbers: fees, the cost of what you sell, and what's left for your group.
Your guesses, worked through. Every order by card and no sales tax. An estimate, not a forecast.
An order can't cost more than it sells for, so this is set to the average order.
5%of card sales
Taken from each card payment before it reaches your account. Never on sales tax.
| The family pays | $40.00 |
|---|---|
| Stripe's card fee 2.9% + 30¢ | −$1.46 |
| Car Line Market 5% | −$2.00 |
| Your group's bank account | $36.54 |
Twelve guided steps, starting with your school in the national directory: your menu and prices, the pickup area and schedule, sales tax, and your group's bank account through Stripe.
Place an order and hand it over, the way a volunteer will on the day, before a single family can see your store.
Where your rules call for a vote, the wording is ready to copy, filled in with your group's name, your school and the year.
Share your school's link in the newsletter, and families find you by name in the app. Short of volunteers one afternoon? Switch the car line off for the day; pre-orders carry on.
Your school's parent group shares a link to its store. It opens the Car Line Market app with your school already picked, ready to order. Questions about an order go to your school's parent group; anything else, we can help.
No. PTA, PTO, PTSA, HSA, booster club — whatever yours is called, it runs its own menu, prices and volunteers. Nothing assumes a particular size of school or a particular way of running dismissal.
No. Families pay your menu price and any sales tax. Our fee comes out of the card payment before it reaches your account; there's no convenience fee on top.
You do, from the admin app: back to the card, or as account credit for the next order. An item a runner didn't have goes back as credit by itself when the order is handed over. You can keep refunds to your treasurer. Our fee is returned on every card refund.
Families can't pay cash in the app, so nobody handles money at the curb. Cash and checks you take at a table are recorded alongside card sales, free, and counted by two adults.
Your group's EIN and bank account, and an officer to complete Stripe's own sign-up form. Use an email address the group keeps, like treasurer@, so the store outlasts any one officer.
Car Line Market is in a pilot with a small number of schools and is not in the App Store yet. Your parent group tells families how to install it, and your school's link opens it with your school picked.
Car Line Market is in its first season, with schools joining a few at a time. Tell us about yours and we'll be in touch. Set up takes about half an hour, and there's nothing to pay until families start paying by card.