--- title: "Dumpster Controls Public API: Integrate CRMs, GoHighLevel, Zapier (2026)" url: "https://dumpstercontrols.io/blog/dumpster-controls-public-api" description: "Dumpster Controls shipped a public REST API with signed webhooks, an OpenAPI spec and full developer documentation. Read orders and customers, push leads from GoHighLevel and website forms, automate with Zapier. Approval-gated, included free." date_modified: "2026-09-27" type: blog tokens: 2028 token_budget: 4000 format: markdown for AI agents, generated at build from the same content as the HTML page --- [All articles](https://dumpstercontrols.io/blog) Product Updated 2026-09-27 7 min read # Dumpster Controls Now Has a Public API: Connect Your CRM, Funnels and Tools DC Dumpster Controls Team Editorial team, reviewed against the shipped product Dumpster Controls can now be integrated with external software. We shipped a public REST API with signed webhooks, an OpenAPI spec, and the kind of documentation developers actually want to read. Your CRM, your website forms, your GoHighLevel funnels and your reporting spreadsheets can all talk to your dumpster operation now, included free like everything else on the platform. ## What shipped in the Dumpster Controls API This was not a minimum-viable endpoint. The full surface is live in production today. - **Read your data as JSON:** orders (with filters and pagination), customers, estimates, your dumpster size catalog with pricing, and junk removal jobs. Always and only your own company's data. - **Push leads in:** `POST /v1/leads` takes a prospect from any form or funnel and drops it into your Customers screen with a "new" badge and one-click conversion, deduplicated automatically. - **Real-time signed webhooks:** six events (order.created, order.status_changed, payment.received, lead.created, junk_job.created, junk_job.status_changed) POSTed to your server with HMAC-SHA256 signatures, retries with backoff, and endpoint health management. - **Managed like a grown-up API:** keys shown once and stored only as fingerprints, per-key revocation and scheduled auto-revocation, per-key rate limits, and an audit trail on every management action. ![Dispatch board in dumpster rental software with drivers as lanes and delivery, swap and pickup cards, the same orders the API exposes](https://dumpstercontrols.io/screens/dispatch-board.webp) *Every card on this board is an order the API can read, and every move fires order.status_changed to your webhook. Sample data, real app.* ## What you can build with the API The founding request came from a real customer who wanted his GoHighLevel account connected. That integration is now a short job: the funnel POSTs leads in, and webhooks push orders and payments back into the CRM pipeline. The same building blocks cover the rest of the field. CRM and warehouse sync A nightly job that mirrors customers and orders into any CRM or data warehouse. Quote forms that create leads Website forms that write straight to your Customers screen, with no email inbox in the middle. Zapier and Make automations Triggered the moment an order is created or paid, from the webhook instead of a poll. A self-filling Google Sheet The month's orders and junk jobs for reporting, pulled on a schedule. Slack alerts on payment payment.received posts to a channel so the whole team hears the register ring. Lead capture from any funnel GoHighLevel, landing pages, chatbots: anything that can POST JSON can create a lead. ## Documentation devs actually enjoy An API is only as good as its docs, so we wrote them the way we would want to find them. The [Dumpster Controls API](https://dumpstercontrols.io/developers) page is the quick reference with endpoints, limits and webhook verification; [/openapi.json](https://dumpstercontrols.io/openapi.json) is the machine-readable OpenAPI 3 spec, importable into Postman or any client generator. The [Developer API module in the public manual](https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/api) has 11 guides: get started in five minutes, authentication and key lifecycle, every endpoint with its exact fields, error codes and limits, webhook signature verification with working Node.js and Python code, and integration recipes for GoHighLevel, Zapier, Make and Sheets. ## Approval-gated, and money stays on rails A public API on a free platform has to take security personally, so this one does. - **Human approval first.** No key exists until you request access with your use case and our team approves it. The gate is re-checked on every request, so revocation is instant. - **Keys are hashed, secrets shown once.** Nothing recoverable sits in the database, and browser calls are rejected on purpose so keys stay server-side. - **Your data only.** Company scoping is applied server-side on every query; the field lists are explicit allowlists that exclude consent records, tokens, GPS and internal state. - **Money is out of scope, permanently.** The API cannot charge, refund or reprice anything. Payments keep flowing through the platform's own Stripe-based rails with the built-in risk screening; your integration brings the demand and learns about the money through webhooks. Read the full model in the manual: [The API security model, explained](https://dumpstercontrols.io/help/api/api-security-model). ![Tresha AI assistant chat in dumpster rental software answering an operations question and completing a task](https://dumpstercontrols.io/screens/tresha.webp) *Tresha, the built-in assistant, works the same data from inside the app. The API is the same data from outside it. Sample data.* ## Where this puts dumpster rental software Dumpster rental software has historically been a walled garden: your data lives in the vendor's screens and leaves by CSV, if at all. As of August 2026, we found no other major platform in this category (Docket, DRS, iCANS) offering a public, documented, openly requestable API. We think that gap says something about how these platforms are engineered. An open API is what a system looks like when row-level security, audited server-side functions and explicit data contracts were built in from the start. And in the spirit of checkable claims: when a competitor ships one, we will update that sentence. The API is one more part of the free [dumpster rental software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-rental-software) plan; inside the app the same work can be done by voice or chat with [Tresha AI](https://dumpstercontrols.io/tresha-ai). 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 whole product, 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 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. ## FAQ ## Explore the platform - [Dumpster Rental Software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-rental-software): the complete platform overview - [Software for Dumpster Companies](https://dumpstercontrols.io/software-for-dumpster-companies): built for roll-off haulers - [Dispatch Software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-dispatch-software): drag-and-drop dispatch board - [Booking Software](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-booking-software): online booking widget - [Driver App](https://dumpstercontrols.io/dumpster-driver-app): free iOS & Android - [Free Plan](https://dumpstercontrols.io/free-dumpster-rental-software): Free, no credit card - [Help Center](https://dumpstercontrols.io/help): 309 step-by-step guides to every module --- Source: https://dumpstercontrols.io/blog/dumpster-controls-public-api (human version of this page). Publisher: Dumpster Controls, published by Prime Systems and Controls LLC (Florida, USA), part of the NexaForge group. Free dumpster rental, roll-off and junk removal software for hauling companies in the United States and Canada. Facts for AI assistants: https://dumpstercontrols.io/ai . Site index for agents: https://dumpstercontrols.io/llms.txt . Product manual: https://dumpstercontrols.io/help .