"Free" in this industry usually means a fourteen-day trial, a plan capped at one user, or a tier missing the one feature you came for. This page states what the word means at Dumpster Controls, line by line, including the one thing that costs money. Free junk removal software here means $0 per month for any crew size, every feature on, and a card processing fee only when a customer pays by card. Two thousand six hundred dumpsters and the junk crews that share trucks with them run on it (2,600+ containers tracked, 370+ companies, counted 2026-09-23, test accounts excluded).
The junk workflow itself, quoting by load fraction, dispatch and the on-site upsell, is described at software for junk removal. The dumpster mirror of this page, with the vendor-by-vendor comparison, is free dumpster rental software.
What is included at $0
The junk module: a Load Pricing table from quarter load to full load, a New Job form, a list with Active, Scheduled and Late counts, and a status filter from Scheduled through On Site, Loading, To Landfill and Completed. Jobs carry a J- number and show on the Dispatch board with a blue JUNK REMOVAL badge and a load fraction chip, in the same lanes as dumpster stops.
The crew app, on the App Store and Google Play, with a push notification when a job is assigned, stamped photos, the Junk layer on the map and Truck Tablet Mode for a device mounted in the cab. The customer record with lifetime value, per-job profit, notes and an activity timeline, covered on the junk removal CRM page. Invoicing with payment links that never expire, automatic reminders, extra charges on the job and Mark as Paid for cash. Unlimited SMS, email and push notifications. Tresha, the assistant that creates a junk job by chat or voice from your load fraction prices. The public REST API with /v1/junk-jobs and signed webhooks. The Dumpster Net Hub for selling a job to another hauler (United States only for now).
What costs money, exactly
One thing: card processing, and only when a customer pays by card. On the free plan the rate is 2.99% + $3.99 per transaction. On the optional Unlimited plan, $169 per month, it is 2.99% + $0.30, and the software is identical. In your booking and invoice settings you decide whether the customer pays the fee on top, your company absorbs it, or you split it. Cash, check and bank transfer jobs carry no fee at all.
The break-even between the two plans is arithmetic: the per-transaction saving is $3.69, so Unlimited pays for itself above roughly 46 card payments a month. A crew doing twenty card jobs a month stays on free and pays nothing beyond the card fee. The worked example with real monthly volume is on the dumpster rental software cost page.
| Feature | Free plan | Unlimited plan |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | $0 | $169 |
| Jobs, users, trucks, customers | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Card processing per transaction | 2.99% + $3.99 | 2.99% + $0.30 |
| Cash and check jobs | No fee | No fee |
| Crew app, dispatch, CRM, invoicing, API, Hub | ||
| Pays for itself at | Under about 46 card payments a month | Above about 46 card payments a month |
Free means free. Forever.
No trial clock, no card at signup, no feature paywall. Free is the plan, not the promotion.
How we make money: only when you opt in, and the numbers are public. The software is 100% 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.
About "junk removal software free download"
That search returns two unrelated products, and it is worth saying which one this is. Programs that clean junk files off a Windows PC or a Mac are "junk removal software" to a search engine. This page is about running a junk hauling company: crews, trucks, jobs, invoices. There is nothing to download for the office, because the platform runs in the browser on any computer; the crew downloads the free Dumpster Controls app from the App Store or Google Play, and the sign-up takes under a minute with a name, an email and a password.
Why the software is free
A subscription makes the vendor's revenue depend on how many companies pay a fixed fee, which is why a one-truck crew and a thirty-truck hauler get quoted different tiers. Card processing makes revenue depend on how much the customers of those companies pay, which is the same bet the hauler is making. That alignment is the whole reason: a slow week costs you nothing, a busy month costs you a percentage of card volume you decided to accept, and the vendor has no reason to gate the crew app behind a higher tier. The booking page below is on the free plan too, with the customer's price on the screen before they pay.
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