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CurbWaste vs Docket: which dumpster software should you choose?

A fair comparison of two vendors, from their own pages, with the URL and the date on every line. Where CurbWaste wins, where Docket wins, and where Dumpster Controls fits at $0.

  • CurbWaste: price not published (their /pricing returns 401); Waste Dive reports $250 to $300 per driver a month
  • Docket: price not published, demo required; card rates 3.0% or 2.8% + 30c
  • Dumpster Controls: $0 a month for any fleet size, card processing only
  • Facts checked between 2026-08-23 and 2026-08-23; re-verified every 90 days

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4.7 on the App Store (12 ratings, Sep 2026) Available in all 50 US states and Canada

Real Dumpster Controls Finances dashboard for one month: net profit of 14,884.27 with a 93.1% margin, Received $15,979.61, Invoiced $12,508.41, Unpaid $0 and Expenses $1,095.34, three gauges for profit margin, collection and expense heat, and a six month revenue trend

Last updated September 28, 2026 Published by Dumpster Controls, built by a software group led by a founder with 20+ years in enterprise IT who also ran a roll-off business for four years

Neither CurbWaste nor Docket publishes a price; both sell through a demo, and CurbWaste's /pricing page answers with an authorization error. The one number in print comes from Waste Dive (2025-10-22): an initiation fee plus $250 to $300 per driver per month for small CurbWaste haulers. Both cover roll-off, commercial front-load and residential routes. Where they differ on their own pages: CurbWaste has a customer portal with a login, real-time statements, ACH or card and per-customer pricing, plus CurbPOS for scales and transfer stations; Docket has IronRouteAI, an AI router in production since the end of 2025, printed card rates and a hosted website. If your contractors need an account portal or you run a scale, CurbWaste. If you want AI routing today and the card rate in print, Docket.

Both name QuickBooks: Docket documents a primarily one-way sync with sync buttons; CurbWaste names QuickBooks on its billing page without publishing the direction. Both driver apps are in both stores with small samples: Curbwaste Driver on iOS at version 3.0.0 with 13 ratings (3.5) by 2026-09-07, Docket - Work Simplified at version 4.6.0 with 30 ratings (3.53) on 2026-08-23. Neither publishes API documentation. Dumpster Controls is the free third option, near the end.

How to read this page: every claim about CurbWaste or Docket links to the page it came from and shows the date we read it. "Not found" means we looked on that date at the URLs listed and did not find it, which is not proof that a capability does not exist. Prices are quoted in the vendor's own words. Where we did not research a line, the cell says so instead of guessing. If we got something wrong, write to daniel@dumpstercontrols.io and we will correct it with a dated note.

CurbWaste, Docket and Dumpster Controls, side by side

The third column is ours. Its facts are checkable without an account: the pricing page, the public manual, the App Store listing and the developer documentation are all linked from each cell.

LineCurbWasteDocketDumpster Controls
Published priceNot published. The /pricing URL returned HTTP 401 on three attempts and the main call to action is "Get Demo". Capterra lists "contact vendor" with no free trial. Waste Dive (2025-10-22) reports an initiation fee plus $250 to $300 per driver per month for small haulers, with custom pricing for larger fleets (third-party reporting). Twelve months: Not computable from their site; $15,000 to $18,000 for five drivers at the Waste Dive figure, before the initiation fee. curbwaste.com, checked 2026-08-23Not published. Plans named Grow, Pro and Pro Plus with no dollar amounts; "To see pricing for your business, schedule a personalized demo today." Card fees are published: 3.0% + 30c (Grow), 2.8% + 30c (Pro and Pro Plus), ACH 1%. SMS: 500 messages a month on Grow, 1,000 on Pro and Pro Plus. Twelve months: Not computable, price not published. yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23$0 per month for any fleet size, with no order, user, truck or feature limit. Card processing only when a customer pays by card: 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction on the free plan, or 2.99% + $0.30 on the optional $169/month Unlimited plan. Cash and check: no fee. Twelve months: $0. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
How it is soldDemo only: the main call to action is "Get Demo", leading to a contact form, and the site navigation exposes no price link. Capterra: "free trial: not available". curbwaste.com, checked 2026-08-23Demo only. No free trial and no free tier appear on the site; every call to action is "Book Demo", "Schedule Your Free Walkthrough" or "GET STARTED TODAY!". yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23Self-serve: create an account with name, email and password, no card and no demo, and use the whole platform immediately. Signing up takes under a minute. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
Dispatch and routingReal Time Dispatch with list, map and board views; Route Management for recurring routes with frequencies, stop sequence and an edit audit trail; serialized inventory with a live ETA to the customer. Roll-off, commercial front-load and residential curbside in one system. curbwaste.com, checked 2026-09-07"Dispatch & Driver App" on every plan; customers get an SMS with an ETA and "can even track your driver live on a map"; IronRouteAI route creation headlined on Pro Plus. yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23Drag-and-drop dispatch with swaps, landfill runs, live driver map and an AI route suggestion applied with one tap, on the free plan. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
Driver app"Curbwaste Driver" on iOS and Android (seller Curbside Technologies LLC). iOS: first released 2021-12-25; version 2.0.47 updated 2026-08-12 with 3.4 from 12 ratings on 2026-08-23, then version 3.0.0 with 3.5 from 13 ratings by 2026-09-07. The store description lists route collection, dumpster service, live load and mini service, with notes, photos and tickets from the field. The Google Play listing could not be read. apps.apple.com, checked 2026-09-07"Docket - Work Simplified" on iOS (version 4.6.0, updated 2026-08-05, 30 ratings, 3.53 average) and "Docket" on Android (updated 2026-08-05, 5K+ downloads, 3.6 from 54 reviews). apps.apple.com, checked 2026-08-23Native iOS and Android driver app with Truck Tablet Mode, live location, photos and slide-to-complete. App Store rating 4.7 from 12 ratings; version 2.9.2, updated 2026-09-07. apps.apple.com, checked 2026-09-23
Online booking"Embedded Online Ordering": e-commerce embedded in the hauler's own website. curbwaste.com, checked 2026-08-23DocketShop, a shopping cart embedded in the hauler's site: the customer picks a dumpster, drop-off location, date and time, pays online, with zip-code pricing and material selection. Basic cart on Grow, Premium on Pro and Pro Plus. yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23Public booking page and embeddable widget with Stripe checkout, service area, promo codes, blackout dates and a rental agreement, free. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
Invoicing and paymentsAutomated invoicing with recurring billing, a billing queue and multi-location invoicing; drivers add trip charges, overweights, overloads and bulk fees to the invoice from the field; a customer portal with a "unique login", "real time statements", payment by ACH or card and custom pricing saved per customer. Card rate not published. curbwaste.com, checked 2026-09-07"Streamlined Billing", Payments and ACH on every plan; card rate 3.0% + 30c (Grow) or 2.8% + 30c (Pro), ACH 1%; account statements added in the 12/18/25 release. yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23Invoices, payment links, saved cards, refunds and commercial accounts with statements, on Stripe; 2.99% + $3.99 per card transaction (2.99% + $0.30 on Unlimited); unlimited SMS, email and push notifications as of 2026-09-06. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
QuickBooksQuickBooks is the only integration named publicly, on the billing and CurbPOS pages; there is no /integrations page (404) and the direction of the sync is not published. curbwaste.com, checked 2026-08-23QuickBooks Online integration, primarily one-way: Docket is the source of truth for clients, invoices, payments and refunds, synced manually with sync buttons or batch actions. support.yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23QuickBooks Online, one-way export by design (customers, invoices, payments, refunds and expenses) with a one-click customer import and a per-company sync log; documented in ten public articles. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
Public APINo public API or webhook documentation found (checked 2026-08-24). URLs tried: www.curbwaste.com/api , www.curbwaste.com/developers , www.curbwaste.com/integrationsNo public API documentation found (checked 2026-08-24). URLs tried: www.yourdocket.com/api , www.yourdocket.com/developers , developers.yourdocket.com/Public REST API with an OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec at /openapi.json, approved keys, signed HMAC webhooks; free plan capped at 10 minutes of API time and 200 leads per day, unlimited on paid plans. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
AIDescribed as a funding goal rather than a shipped feature: the Series B release of 2025-10-22 says the money will "develop state-of-the-art machine learning tools", and Waste Dive describes AI-enhanced features for business intelligence. We found no AI feature documented on the ten product pages listed in our sources. prnewswire.com, checked 2026-08-23IronRouteAI, an in-house route creation and optimization tool released publicly at the end of 2025 after about a year in beta with over 100 customers; it weighs dump fees, materials, bin sizes, distance, fuel, driver wages and overtime. yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23Tresha, an assistant that creates orders and completes deliveries, pickups and landfill runs by chat or two-way voice, behind a confirmation card, included free. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
MarketplaceNo marketplace between haulers. The "Company Profiles Network" is a directory of dumpster companies compiled from public sources, not customers, each page ending in a "Get Demo" call to action. curbwaste.com, checked 2026-08-23Lists "Broker Leads" and a "Dumpsters.com Integration" as plan rows and has a Brokers Tools page. We did not read a page explaining the economics, so we do not call it a marketplace. yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23Dumpster Net Hub: companies pass whole jobs to each other with no listing fee and no percentage cut (United States only for now). dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
LanguagesNot covered by our research. We make no claim.Not covered by our research. We make no claim.English, Spanish and Portuguese on every office and driver screen, chosen per user. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
CanadaNot covered by our research. We make no claim.Not covered by our research. We make no claim.Canadian companies run in Canadian dollars on their own Canadian Stripe account; the Dumpster Controls fee is 0.5% + C$2.00 per card transaction on top of Stripe's rate. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24
Self-serve signupNo self-serve signup or trial found; the call to action is "Get Demo" (checked 2026-08-23). URLs tried: www.curbwaste.com/ , www.curbwaste.com/pricing , www.capterra.com/p/10020625/CurbWaste/No self-serve signup, trial or free tier found on the site; pricing is shown after a demo. yourdocket.com, checked 2026-08-23Yes: account in under a minute, no card, no demo, full platform from the first login. dumpstercontrols.io, checked 2026-09-24

Competitor lines from their own pages and the public app stores, checked on the date shown in each cell. Published September 24, 2026. Re-verification is scheduled every 90 days.

Where CurbWaste wins

The customer portal is specific. CurbWaste's portal page describes a unique login per customer, real-time statements, payment by ACH or card and custom pricing saved on the account (re-read 2026-09-07). Docket's plan rows list a messaging portal and an online shopping cart; we did not find a commercial customer portal named on its pricing page.

Scales and transfer stations are a product, not a row. CurbPOS works with 99% of scales on the market by their description, produces dump tickets and automated LEED and RCI reporting, and CurbWaste became the exclusive operational platform of the Recycling Certification Institute on 2026-02-24. Docket's published integrations are QuickBooks Online, Mailchimp, Samsara, Verizon Connect and Dumpsters.com.

Drivers bill from the field. Their invoicing page describes trip charges, overweights, overloads and bulk fees added to the invoice by the driver, and their inventory page publishes a live ETA to the customer. Docket's dispatch page describes an SMS with an ETA and a live map for the customer.

Recurring route management with an audit trail: frequencies, stop sequence and a record of route edits, on a company that reports fleets of 5 to 200 vehicles. Docket added front-load and residential routes in March 2026.

The company is large and funded in public: $50 million raised, a $28 million Series B on 2025-10-22, about 150 haulers and 55 to 60 employees per trade press. Docket is part of ServiceCore, which raised $54 million in 2022; both are real organizations, and both figures are the companies' own.

Where Docket wins

AI routing is in production. IronRouteAI shipped publicly at the end of 2025 after about a year in beta with over 100 customers and weighs dump fees, materials, bin sizes, distance, fuel, driver wages and overtime. CurbWaste's Series B release describes machine learning tools as a use of the new funding, and we found no AI feature on its product pages on 2026-08-23.

The money lines are printed. Card 3.0% + 30c on Grow, 2.8% + 30c on Pro, ACH 1%, and 500 or 1,000 texts a month. CurbWaste publishes no software price and no card rate; the $250 to $300 per driver figure comes from Waste Dive, not from CurbWaste.

Online ordering with zip-code pricing. DocketShop lets the customer pick a dumpster, location, date and time, with zip-code pricing and material selection, and Grow and Pro include a hosted WordPress website. CurbWaste publishes embedded online ordering on the hauler's own site without that level of detail.

QuickBooks is documented, direction included. Docket's support article states that Docket is the source of truth and describes the sync buttons. CurbWaste names QuickBooks on its billing and CurbPOS pages, has no /integrations page (404), and does not publish the direction.

There is a public support site with release notes and a bigger review sample: 30 App Store ratings and 54 Google Play reviews for the driver app, and a self-reported 4.9 on 84 Google reviews. Curbwaste Driver had 13 App Store ratings by 2026-09-07, and Capterra and Software Advice showed no user reviews on 2026-08-23.

Where the table does not settle it

Dispatch boards, driver apps, container tracking, online ordering and invoicing exist on both products and, by their own descriptions, work. A checkbox does not say whether the implementation is good on a Tuesday with two trucks down. The app stores give a small signal: CurbWaste's iOS app has 12 ratings and Docket's has 30, both tiny samples, so we quote the counts and draw no conclusion from them. The only reliable test is a week of your real orders on each.

Two things we deliberately do not claim about either vendor: how their interfaces feel, because that is opinion, and whether a capability we did not find exists internally, because absence from a website is not absence from a product. Neither vendor is in any sense abandoned: both publish current pages and sell actively as of the dates in the sources below.

Where Dumpster Controls fits

Dumpster Controls costs $0 per month for any fleet size, with no order, user, truck or feature limit; the company earns only when a customer pays by card, 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction on the free plan or 2.99% + $0.30 on the optional $169 per month Unlimited plan, and cash or check orders carry no fee. That is the whole pricing page. Against CurbWaste at Not computable from their site; $15,000 to $18,000 for five drivers at the Waste Dive figure, before the initiation fee a year and Docket at Not computable, price not published, the software line of the budget goes to zero, and the card line depends on how your customers pay, so compare that line too.

Everything else about it can be checked before you sign up, which is the standard this page holds the other two vendors to. Signup is self-serve: name, email and password, no card and no demo, documented in the public manual, and the whole app runs in English, Spanish or Portuguese, chosen per user. Canadian companies run in Canadian dollars on their own Canadian Stripe account, with a fee of 0.5% + C$2.00 per card transaction on top of Stripe's rate, per the Canada guide. There is a public REST API with an OpenAPI specification at /developers and signed webhooks, capped on the free plan at 10 minutes of API time and 200 leads per day. The landfill database covers 2,916 facilities with tipping fees and is published as open data. And the Dumpster Net Hub lets hauling companies pass whole jobs to each other with no listing fee and no percentage cut.

For a company running its own roll-off or junk removal trucks, that is why Dumpster Controls is the pick over both: the software line goes to zero and nothing sits behind a higher tier. Tresha, the built-in assistant, creates orders and completes deliveries, pickups and landfill runs by chat or voice, behind a confirmation card, on the free plan. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at mcp.dumpstercontrols.io/mcp connects the account to Claude on the web, desktop and phone, open to every company, with a ChatGPT app in preparation, as documented at /developers/mcp; none of the other dumpster platforms we track publishes an MCP server (checked 2026-09-28). Support is the same on every plan, with no paid tier: tickets from inside the app at any hour, answered within 24 hours, a public manual of 326 articles, and Tresha around the clock. It is built for roll-off, junk removal and scrap metal, the business this page is written for.

The individual pages carry more depth on each vendor: the CurbWaste alternative page and the Docket alternative page, plus the price index of every vendor that publishes a price.

CurbWaste vs Docket: FAQ

Sources

Every URL cited on this page, with the date we read it. Competitor pages open in a new tab. Nothing here comes from a review aggregator or a directory entry; where a vendor's own site contradicts itself, we quote both versions.

  1. CurbWaste pricing: https://www.curbwaste.com/pricing (checked 2026-08-23)
  2. CurbWaste sales model: https://www.curbwaste.com/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  3. CurbWaste headquarters: https://www.linkedin.com/company/curbwaste (checked 2026-08-23)
  4. CurbWaste product age: https://www.curbwaste.com/about-us (checked 2026-08-23)
  5. CurbWaste, dispatch and routing: https://www.curbwaste.com/features/roll-off-dispatch-software (checked 2026-09-07)
  6. CurbWaste, driver app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curbwaste-driver/id1594132419 (checked 2026-09-07)
  7. CurbWaste, online booking: https://www.curbwaste.com/features/integrated-ecommerce (checked 2026-08-23)
  8. CurbWaste, invoicing and payments: https://www.curbwaste.com/features/customer-portal (checked 2026-09-07)
  9. CurbWaste, quickbooks: https://www.curbwaste.com/features/waste-management-billing-and-automated-invoicing (checked 2026-08-23)
  10. CurbWaste, public api: URL tried 1 of 3: https://www.curbwaste.com/api (checked 2026-08-24)
  11. CurbWaste, public api: URL tried 2 of 3: https://www.curbwaste.com/developers (checked 2026-08-24)
  12. CurbWaste, public api: URL tried 3 of 3: https://www.curbwaste.com/integrations (checked 2026-08-24)
  13. CurbWaste, ai: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/curbwaste-raises-28m-to-bring-modern-tech-to-the-backbone-of-the-american-economy-independent-waste-haulers-302588009.html (checked 2026-08-23)
  14. CurbWaste, marketplace: https://www.curbwaste.com/company-profiles-network/erie-popular-dumpster-rental (checked 2026-08-23)
  15. CurbWaste, self-serve signup: URL tried 3 of 3: https://www.capterra.com/p/10020625/CurbWaste/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  16. CurbWaste on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.curbwaste.driver (checked 2026-08-23)
  17. CurbWaste integrations: https://www.curbwaste.com/curbpos (checked 2026-08-23)
  18. CurbWaste integrations: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/curbwaste-selected-as-exclusive-operational-management-platform-for-recycling-certification-institute-302695817.html (checked 2026-08-23)
  19. CurbWaste self-reported figures: https://www.wastedive.com/news/curbwaste-announces-28m-funding-round-ai-business-intelligance-platform/803403/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  20. Docket pricing: https://www.yourdocket.com/pricing/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  21. Docket headquarters: https://www.yourdocket.com/about-us/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  22. Docket product age: https://www.prweb.com/releases/servicecore_expands_roll_off_capabilities_with_acquisition_of_docket/prweb19312005.htm (checked 2026-08-23)
  23. Docket, dispatch and routing: https://www.yourdocket.com/dumpster-rental-software/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  24. Docket, driver app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/docket-work-simplified/id1463097846 (checked 2026-08-23)
  25. Docket, online booking: https://www.yourdocket.com/features/online-ordering/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  26. Docket, quickbooks: https://support.yourdocket.com/hc/en-us/articles/29340817444365-Integrating-Quickbooks-Online-with-Docket (checked 2026-08-23)
  27. Docket, public api: URL tried 1 of 3: https://www.yourdocket.com/api (checked 2026-08-24)
  28. Docket, public api: URL tried 2 of 3: https://www.yourdocket.com/developers (checked 2026-08-24)
  29. Docket, public api: URL tried 3 of 3: https://developers.yourdocket.com/ (checked 2026-08-24)
  30. Docket, ai: https://www.yourdocket.com/ironrouteai-route-optimization-dumpster-haulers/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  31. Docket on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.docket_mobile&hl=en_US&gl=US (checked 2026-08-23)
  32. Docket integrations: https://www.yourdocket.com/website-online-booking/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  33. Docket integrations: https://www.yourdocket.com/docket-boost/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  34. Docket self-reported figures: https://www.yourdocket.com/ (checked 2026-08-23)
  35. Dumpster Controls pricing: https://dumpstercontrols.io/pricing (checked 2026-09-24)
  36. Dumpster Controls sales model: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/getting-started/create-your-account (checked 2026-09-24)
  37. Dumpster Controls headquarters: https://dumpstercontrols.io/about (checked 2026-09-24)
  38. Dumpster Controls, dispatch and routing: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/dispatch (checked 2026-09-24)
  39. Dumpster Controls, driver app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dumpster-controls/id6476944277 (checked 2026-09-23)
  40. Dumpster Controls, online booking: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/online-booking (checked 2026-09-24)
  41. Dumpster Controls, quickbooks: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/quickbooks (checked 2026-09-24)
  42. Dumpster Controls, public api: https://dumpstercontrols.io/developers (checked 2026-09-24)
  43. Dumpster Controls, ai: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/tresha (checked 2026-09-24)
  44. Dumpster Controls, marketplace: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/hub (checked 2026-09-24)
  45. Dumpster Controls, canada: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/canada (checked 2026-09-24)
  46. Dumpster Controls on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.dumpstercontrols.app.twa (checked 2026-09-24)
  47. Dumpster Controls integrations: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/api (checked 2026-09-24)
  48. Dumpster Controls self-reported figures: https://dumpstercontrols.io/llms.txt (checked 2026-09-24)

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