SCRAP METAL BUSINESS SOFTWARE, IN BETA, FREE FOR ANY FLEET SIZE
Scrap metal software for the company the yard pays, not the customer
Scrap metal business software runs a scrap hauler's day the way a dumpster company runs its own, with one thing reversed: the order is created with no charge, the truck runs it like any stop, the driver records what the scrap yard paid for the load, and the money shows in Finances apart from customer revenue. Pickup only or drop off, scrap metal pickup dispatch, a scrap metal hauling app for the web and the truck tablet, and a scrap rebate receipt when you share the sale. Unlimited orders. No credit card. No contract.
- Scrap orders are created with no charge: no invoice, no payment link, no reminders
- Pickup only (one visit, nothing left behind) or drop off (a container that stays)
- The scrap yard ticket on the order: buyer, ticket number, material, pounds, amount paid
- Runs next to Dumpster Rental and Junk Removal in the same free account
4.7 on the App Store (12 ratings, Sep 2026) Available in all 50 US states and Canada
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
Software for scrap metal companies runs the operation of a scrap hauler the way a dumpster company runs its day, with one thing reversed: the customer usually does not pay, the yard does. Dumpster Controls has a Scrap Metal business line for exactly that: orders created with no charge, pickup only or container drop off, scrap metal pickup dispatch, a driver app, the scrap yard ticket recorded on the order and a scrap rebate receipt when you share the sale with the customer. It is in Beta, switched on in Settings, and free for any fleet size, from one truck up.
Until September 2026 our own software was built on the assumption that an order ends with an invoice. Put a scrap company on that and every order is "unpaid" forever, every reminder is a mistake, and the trip to the recycler has to be logged as a landfill trip. The Scrap Metal line removes that assumption.
$0
Software fee, no card
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On a scrap order with no charge
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Order modes: pickup only, drop off
Sept 2026
In beta for every company
Who this scrap metal business software is for
The line is built for three kinds of companies. The first is the scrap hauler who does pickups: a call comes in, a truck goes out, loose metal comes back, nothing stays at the customer. The second is the company that drops containers for scrap: a 20 or 30 yard box at a machine shop, a body shop or a construction site, sitting there for weeks until it is full. The third is the roll-off company that also buys scrap and, before this line existed, would have had to run those jobs as ordinary dumpster orders with the price typed as zero and the recycler entered as a landfill.
What the three share is the same operation. A customer record, an address, a date, a driver, a truck, a stop on a map, and a run to the yard. What they do not share with a dumpster company is billing. That is exactly the split the Scrap Metal line makes: the operation is the same platform, the money is switched off by default, and what the yard pays is recorded as income on the order.
Scrap haulers doing pickups
One visit, loose metal, nothing left behind. Pickup only mode creates a single order with one date and no container required.
Roll off scrap container companies
A box stays at the customer until it is full. Drop off mode keeps size, dates and driver, like a regular dumpster order, and Swap brings a fresh one.
Dumpster companies that buy scrap
Regular roll-off orders stay as they are. Scrap orders get their own card, badge and pin, on the same board and map.
How a scrap metal pickup order works
Scrap Metal is a business line, the same idea as Dumpster Rental and Junk Removal. A new account picks its lines in the welcome dialog. An existing account turns Scrap Metal on in Settings, under Company, in the Business lines section, where it carries a Beta badge. Turning it on adds a Scrap Metal option to Create New Order and a Scrap Metal card to Operations and the Dashboard. It does not touch any order you already have.
When you choose Scrap Metal in Create New Order, the form asks one question first: how does this job work? Pickup only means one visit; the truck picks up the scrap and no container stays on site. Drop off means a container stays on site until it is full. Pickup only collapses the form to what a single visit needs, so the pickup date is the only date and the container size becomes optional. Drop off keeps the full container form: size, delivery date, pickup date, driver.
Below that sits a box that is checked by default: No charge for this order. The hint under it says what it does in one line: scrap jobs usually are not billed; uncheck to invoice the customer. Leave it checked and the order summary reads "This order has no charge. No invoice is created and nothing is sent to the customer." There is no invoice preview, because there is no invoice. A short confirmation asks if you want to create the pickup for that customer on that date, and the order exists.
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#### 01. Turn the line on
Welcome dialog for a new account; Settings, Company, Business lines for an existing one. It carries a Beta badge. - 2
#### 02. Create New Order, Scrap Metal
Pick pickup only or drop off. The no-charge box is already checked. Uncheck it only for the customers you do bill. - 3
#### 03. Dispatch it
The stop lands on the dispatch board with a Scrap metal badge. The run to the recycler is labeled Scrap yard, not Landfill. - 4
#### 04. The driver runs it
The web driver app and Truck Tablet Mode show the same badge, and a Pickup only chip when there is no container. Photos and completion work as on any stop. - 5
#### 05. Record the scrap yard ticket
At the yard the driver enters the buyer, the ticket number, one line per material with pounds and amount received, and an optional ticket photo. It lands on the order's Scrap Sale card.
The real screens, recreated with sample data: Create New Order with the Scrap Metal card, the dispatch board, the driver's Scrap yard ticket, Order History with the Load result and the rebate receipt, and the Scrap metal card in Finances.
What "no charge" means, exactly
This is the part that had to be built rather than toggled. Before this line existed, an order with a zero price in Dumpster Controls was still an order that "has not been paid". It showed as unpaid in the list, it tripped reminders, it went late, it counted against receivables. A scrap company living inside that model spends its day dismissing warnings about money nobody owes.
A scrap order with no charge in Dumpster Controls has no financial phase. The order list shows a plain "No charge" chip where the amount would be. The expanded order shows "No payment to collect" instead of a payment breakdown, and the Payment Breakdown card is replaced by Load result, the one money line of a scrap order: what the scrap yard paid for the load. The order cannot be marked as paid, because there is nothing to mark. It cannot be resent as an invoice, because there is no invoice. It is excluded from payment reminders and from late-on-payment counts, it never enters your payout, and it cannot be listed on the Dumpster Net Hub, which exists to move money between companies. Cancelling it is just cancelling it, with no refund question, because nothing was ever charged.
Charging remains possible. Some scrap customers do get billed, for a hard-to-reach load, a long haul, or a job with a lot of non-metal debris mixed in. Uncheck the box on that one order and it gets an invoice, a payment link and the rest of the normal flow, and only that order. An extra charge added from Order History on top of a no-charge order also works, for the case where a container came back with concrete in it; it raises its own extra invoice.
Scrap yard pickup software: scrap metal pickup dispatch, the hauling app and the map
Everything downstream of the order is the same platform the roll-off companies use, with scrap marked wherever it matters. On the dispatch board, the task card carries the usual type badge (delivery, pickup) plus a teal "Scrap metal" badge, and the leg that would be labeled Landfill on a dumpster order is labeled "Scrap yard". Drag it onto a driver's lane and it is scheduled. See the dispatch board in detail.
The scrap metal hauling app is the same driver app. In the web driver app, the stop sheet shows the same "Scrap metal" badge and, on a one-visit job, a "Pickup only" chip, so the driver knows before leaving the yard that there is no container on this run. At the recycling center the driver picks the yard from your own recycling centers, sees the Scrap yard ticket form instead of a landfill receipt, and slides to complete. Truck Tablet Mode shows the same, in the landscape cockpit layout built for a tablet mounted in the cab. See the driver app. One honest caveat: the driver app installed from the App Store or Google Play is a fixed build and does not show the scrap badge or the ticket form yet; drivers on the store app complete the stop and the office records the ticket in Order History.
On the live map, every stop belongs to a business line, and each line gets its own pin shape: a circle for dumpster rental, a square for junk removal, a diamond for scrap metal, with an S label on the pickup and SY on the scrap yard. The dispatch map adds a legend for the shapes whenever a junk or scrap stop is on screen. The Dashboard has its own Scrap Metal card as well, with the Beta pill on it, so scrap counts are never mixed into the dumpster counts.
Roll off scrap container software: what is different from a dumpster order
A regular dumpster order has a price, an invoice, a payment status and a landfill leg with a receipt. A scrap order shares the customer, the address, the dates, the driver, the truck, the map and the Swap button with it, and differs in three places. It has no financial phase unless you ask for one. It can be a single visit with no container at all. And its disposal leg is a scrap yard run, where the driver records what the yard paid instead of what the landfill charged.
For a container that stays on site, Swap creates a new drop off linked to the original, so the driver picks up the full container and leaves the empty one on the same visit, and the dialog says the swap follows the original order: no invoice, no payment link, no reminders. The point of keeping everything else identical is that a dumpster company adding scrap changes nothing about how it already works. Same drivers, same trucks, same board, same login. The scrap orders simply carry their own card, badge and pin.
The money, stated plainly: the sale, the scrap rebate receipt and Finances
A scrap company rarely charges the customer because the load has value. It sells the metal by weight at a scrap yard, and sometimes passes part of that value back to the customer as a rebate. Dumpster Controls records both on the order. The Scrap Sale card holds the ticket; the Load result card shows the metal sale, the rebate to the customer and the net to your company. Finances and the Dashboard show the money in their own Scrap metal card, apart from customer revenue, with the sales, the rebates, the net and the loads for the period, and the rebate is an expense of that order in the Orders P&L.
Rebate to customer, under the Scrap Sale card, issues a numbered scrap rebate receipt as a fixed amount or a percent of the sale, sends it by email or text with a public link, and lets you mark it paid later with the method, reference and date. Two things are not in the app yet, and this page will say so until they are: public online booking for scrap orders, and QuickBooks export of the scrap sale itself (the rebate does export, as a Purchase with the customer as the vendor).
What it costs
The software is free for any fleet size, with unlimited orders, drivers, trucks and customers, and no credit card, contract or setup fee. The free plan is for a company that owns and operates its own trucks. The only cost anywhere in the platform is card processing, and only when a customer pays by card through it: 2.99% + $3.99 per card transaction, or 2.99% + $0.30 on the optional $169/month Unlimited plan. A scrap order with no charge never reaches a card, so a scrap company that never bills a customer moves no money through the platform at all. See the pricing page.
Scrap metal business software: FAQ
The feature is documented step by step in the Scrap Metal section of the help center, and the launch story, starting with the support ticket that asked for it, is in the blog post.
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