Docket alternative, 2026
The Docket alternative at $0/month
Dumpster Controls is a full-featured Docket alternative that costs $0 per month, and as of 2026-09-24 it is the only dumpster rental platform we found that is free for a whole team, drivers included: unlimited orders, drag-and-drop dispatch, online booking, driver app, Stripe invoicing, an AI assistant you can run by voice, and a built-in marketplace. No demo call required, sign up and start dispatching today.
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Last updated October 11, 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
What Docket costs
Docket does not publish prices: its plans page lists Grow, Pro and Pro Plus tiers with no dollar amounts, and access requires a sales demo. ServiceCore, its parent, states on its pricing page that billing is monthly on an annual contract. Card processing on the entry tier is 3.0% + $0.30. Docket was acquired by ServiceCore in May 2023, so Docket and ServiceCore are the same company today.
Dumpster Controls takes the opposite approach: the software is free, with unlimited orders and unlimited users, and the only cost on the free plan is card processing 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 lower card rate plan. Pay by cash, check or any other method and there is no fee at all.
Dumpster Controls
Docket
Monthly price
$0, forever
Not published, demo required
Contract
No contract
Annual contract, billed monthly, per ServiceCore
Card processing
2.99% + $3.99 free plan · 2.99% + $0.30 lower card rate plan
3.0% + $0.30 (entry tier)
Dispatch + driver app
Yes, unlimited drivers
Yes
AI that runs the day by chat and voice
Tresha by chat and two-way voice: creates, dispatches, reschedules and invoices orders and completes deliveries, pickups and landfill runs
Routing only (IronRouteAI)
MCP server
Yes: Claude creates orders at your price list, dispatches and invoices inside your account, every change confirmed
None published (checked 2026-09-28)
Marketplace for overflow jobs
Dumpster Net Hub, zero marketplace fees
No public marketplace
Website builder
Free, $0/month
Bundled site offer
Self-serve signup
Yes, under a minute
No, demo-gated
Competitor facts from the pages listed under Sources at the bottom of this page, checked 2026-08-23.
Why haulers switch from Docket
Price you can see
Our pricing fits in one sentence and is printed on every page: the software is free, you only pay card processing when a customer pays by card. No demo, no quote and no contract.
No annual contract
ServiceCore, Docket's parent, states that billing is monthly on an annual contract. Dumpster Controls has no contract and costs $0 at 1 truck and at 50 trucks.
AI beyond routing
Docket's AI is a route builder. Tresha, our built-in AI, runs the day by chat or voice: create orders at your price list, assign drivers, reschedule, send invoices, complete deliveries, pickups and landfill runs, check finances.
The Free Forever Promise
Free means free. Forever.
We are the only full dumpster software in North America that is free for every company size. Not a trial. Not a feature-gated freemium. Not a free plan capped at one truck. The entire app, unlimited orders and unlimited users, on the house.
$0
Monthly fee
Ever. No surprise charges.
$0
Setup fee
No onboarding cost.
$0
Per-user fee
Unlimited admins, drivers, dispatchers.
$0
Annual contract
Cancel anytime. We never auto-charge.
How we make money: only when you opt in, and the numbers are public. The software is free with unlimited orders and no per-order software fee. If you choose to collect a customer’s card payment through Dumpster Controls, the processing fee is 2.99% + $3.99 per card transaction on the free plan, or 2.99% + $0.30 (the standard Stripe rate) on the optional $169/month lower card rate plan. Take payment by cash, check, Zelle or any other way and you pay nothing at all. Beyond that, our revenue comes from the optional lower card rate plan and from equipment partners and sponsors advertising in the app and on our public directory; our marketplace, the Dumpster Net Hub, charges zero marketplace fees. Run your own business your way and you never pay to use the software. It’s the only model that lets a 1-truck owner-operator run on the same software as a 50-truck fleet.
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The long version
This page is the short answer. The full side by side with Docket goes feature by feature, shows what Dumpster Controls includes at $0 against what Docket charges for, and carries a source URL and a verification date on every claim about them.
Read the full Dumpster Controls vs Docket comparison
Sources
- Docket pricing page (Grow, Pro and Pro Plus, no dollar amounts; card rates) (checked 2026-08-23)
- Docket home page (checked 2026-08-23)
- ServiceCore pricing page (monthly billing on an annual contract) (checked 2026-08-23)
- IronRouteAI route optimization (checked 2026-08-23)
- ServiceCore acquisition of Docket (May 2023) (checked 2026-08-23)
- Dumpster Controls pricing (checked 2026-09-24)
Prices and features change. Every claim about Docket on this page carries the date we read it; if a page above has changed since, the newer version wins.