ONE TRUCK TO FIVE, FREE FOR ANY FLEET SIZE
Dumpster rental software for small business, built to run from one truck
Small dumpster company software with nothing held back: the driver app, dispatch, online booking, invoicing and per-order profit at $0 a month, whether you run one truck or five. The dashboard at the top of this page is the real one. Set up in an afternoon. USA and Canada.
- No monthly fee, no per-truck fee, no per-user fee, no contract
- Sign up in under a minute, no card; import your current rentals from a spreadsheet
- Run dispatch from the phone, create orders by voice from the cab
- Cash and check orders work with no Stripe account at all
4.7 on the App Store (12 ratings, Sep 2026) Available in all 50 US states and Canada
Last updated September 27, 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
Dumpster rental software for small business is the same platform a thirty-truck hauler runs, priced so a one-truck owner can use it: dispatch, the driver app, online booking, invoicing and per-order profit, with no monthly fee, no per-truck fee and no per-user fee. Dumpster Controls is free for any fleet size, and most of the companies on it are small.
For a one-truck company the software fee is a share of the owner's paycheck, and every seat and truck it adds is another slice. For a company with twelve trucks the same fee is a rounding error. That is the whole reason a search for small dumpster company software is different from a search for dumpster rental software: at $0 per month at any size, the fee stops being the question.
What follows is the small-company version of the platform: what to set up first, what to add at the first hire, and the arithmetic against a paid plan. The full module walk-through is at dumpster management software.
What you get on day one
- Sign up with a name, an email and a password, under a minute, no card
- Setup checklist: sizes and prices, first truck, first driver, booking page, first order
- Import rentals already out from a spreadsheet, up to 200 rows per batch
- Dispatch on the phone with one-tap assigning
- Tresha creates a complete order by chat or voice from the cab
- The driver app with stamped photos and slide to complete
- Cash and check orders, invoices and finances with no Stripe account
- Booking page on your website and payment links by text, when you are ready
Counted in our production database on September 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
380+
Companies on Dumpster Controls
1,386
Dumpster companies in our directory
140+
Trucks registered
34 states + Canada
Where it runs
The dumpster rental software cost math for a small business
The vendors that print a monthly price list $99 to about $300 a month, and several charge per driver or per truck on top; each one's price, with the URL and the date we read it, is on dumpster rental software cost. On Dumpster Controls the monthly fee is $0, and the only cost is card processing when a customer pays by card.
Free plan
$0 per month. Card processing 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction when a customer pays by card. Unlimited trucks, drivers, users and orders.
Unlimited plan, optional
$169 per month. Card processing 2.99% + $0.30 per transaction. The software is identical; only the card rate changes.
The per-transaction saving is $3.69, so it pays for itself above roughly 46 card payments a month. Below that, stay on free.
Cash and check
No fee at all. You also choose whether the customer pays the card fee, your company absorbs it, or you split it.
Small dumpster company software, set up in one afternoon
Signing up is a name, an email and a password, under a minute, no card. The welcome tour opens on the dashboard and a setup checklist appears.
- 1
#### 01. Sizes and prices
Add your dumpster sizes and the price of each. - 2
#### 02. First truck, first driver
Add the truck and invite the driver, or mark yourself Also a Driver. - 3
#### 03. Booking page
Share your booking site or embed the widget on your website; that is the dumpster booking software, on the free plan. - 4
#### 04. Rentals already out
The checklist has Already have rentals out? Import your spreadsheet: paste the rows, headers included, the page validates line by line, and the active rentals land on the board as rentals waiting pickup, unpaid, with nothing billed automatically. Up to 200 rows per batch. - 5
#### 05. First order
Create it in the New Order form, or say it to Tresha by voice: customer, size from your inventory, price with your defaults, dates, address, driver notes and payment choice, then a confirmation card. Nothing is created until you tap Confirm.
The real app dashboard, sample data.
The Free Forever Promise
Free means free. Forever.
Every module on this page is on the free plan, with unlimited orders, unlimited users and unlimited SMS, email and push notifications.
$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 Unlimited 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 Unlimited 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.
What you use at each size
The software does not change between one truck and five; what changes is which screens you open.
| Feature | What runs the day | What you add | Monthly fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner-operator, one truck | Dispatch on the phone, the driver app in the cab, Tresha by voice for new orders | Booking page on your website, payment links by text, the landfill database sorted by distance | $0 |
| First hire, two trucks | Dispatch board with one lane per driver, push and SMS on assignment, live truck markers | A Dispatcher or Supervisor login, Also a Driver for yourself, stamped photo proof on every stop | $0 |
| Three to five trucks | Operations tabs with Late, Today, Tomorrow, AI route suggestion per driver, swap logic | Units by serial with QR stickers, Trucks page with insurance and maintenance, Orders P&L, QuickBooks sync | $0 |
The same free plan at three sizes. The monthly fee column is the point.
An invoice with its payment link, sent by text. Invoicing is on the free plan from the first order.
Dumpster software for one truck: the cab is the office
On a phone, Dispatch is an overview with three counters, No driver, Assigned and Late, and one-tap assigning. The same person is the office user and the driver, marked Also a Driver, and runs the stop from the app: On My Way, I've Arrived, a stamped photo, slide to complete.
Before
- Dates in a notebook, addresses in a text thread, photos in the camera roll
- Invoices typed at night from memory
- The customer calls to ask where the truck is
- A monthly software fee taken out of a one-person paycheck
After
- Every order with its dates, address and stamped photos on one record
- Invoice and payment link sent from the phone in the driveway
- The customer gets on-the-way and delivered texts automatically
- $0 per month, and the driver app is the dumpster driver app the big fleets use
The phone side is on dumpster driver app, billing on dumpster invoicing software, and a crew that also hauls junk uses the same login, covered at software for junk removal.
What the small company grows into
The screens you open at five trucks are the same ones a large company opens: Orders P&L with a row per order and a confidence status on each profit number, the Finances dashboard with net profit first, one-way sync to QuickBooks Online, a public REST API and the Dumpster Net Hub for selling an order you cannot serve to another hauler (United States only for now).
Revenue by week with received, invoiced and expenses, sample data. The same chart at one truck and at five.
The dumpster business software page is the owner's view of those numbers, free dumpster rental software explains the free plan in detail, and roll-off management software lists what a one-truck operator needs first, module by module.
Keep reading
- Software with unlimited orders for hauling businesses
- How to handle online bookings for a dumpster rental business
- How to track containers and inventory for a hauling company
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