What software should I run my dumpster rental business on?

What dumpster rental software does

A roll-off business has a problem most service shops do not: your product is a physical asset that sits at a customer's site for days. You need to know where every can is, how long it has been there, and what to charge. A normal job tool does not track that.

So dumpster rental software usually covers five jobs:

• Booking: customers order online or by phone, with a price by zip code and size.
• Dispatch: drops, swaps and pickups go on a board, and drivers get them on a phone.
• Can tracking: each dumpster has a status and a location, and you see days on site.
• Billing: invoices come from what happened, including extra days, overweight and dump fees.
• Reports: which cans and trucks make money.

If you only handle a few drops a week, a general tool like Jobber or Housecall Pro may be enough at the start. Once you own more than about a dozen cans, the can tracking gap starts to cost you.

The main options

Docket

Docket is dumpster rental and waste hauling software. Its pricing page says it is priced per truck, billed monthly, with no charge for office staff, and there is a one-time implementation fee. Plans are Grow, Pro and Pro Plus. Grow covers dispatch and the driver app, customer management, billing, a website with an online shopping cart, messaging and QuickBooks Online (accounting software). Pro adds local SEO and integrations with Mailchimp (email marketing), Samsara and Verizon Connect (truck GPS tracking) and Dumpsters.com (a dumpster ordering site). Pro Plus adds IronRouteAI, an AI tool that recommends the best route and driver for your whole day. Card payments are 3.0% plus 30 cents on Grow and 2.8% plus 30 cents on Pro and Pro Plus, and ACH (direct bank transfer) is 1%.

The page also says Docket runs on a one-year agreement and has no free trial, because setup is done with you on your own data. The per truck price is not listed, so ask for a quote.

CurbWaste

CurbWaste is waste management software built by a hauler. Its site lists order management, embedded online ordering for your own website, live inventory and ETA tracking, a real time dispatch board with map view, a driver app for iOS and Android, automated invoicing with a QuickBooks integration, and a customer portal. It has pages for roll-off, commercial and residential. Pricing is not shown on the site, so you book a demo.

Hauler Hero

Hauler Hero is waste hauling software. Its site lists route planning with drag and drop dispatch, billing, payment processing, reporting, a mobile app and an AI product called Hero AI. Its site shows no price, so ask for a quote, and ask whether it handles roll-off container tracking the way you need.

A general field service tool

Jobber, a job management tool for service businesses, starts at $29 a month billed annually, as of November 2026. It books, schedules, invoices and takes payments. It does not know what a dumpster is. You can fake a can list with a spreadsheet, and that works for a handful of cans. See my field service management software guide for how these tools compare.

Side by side

Option	Can tracking	Online booking	Pricing
Docket	Yes, container tracking	Yes, by zip code	Per truck, office staff free, one-time setup fee, one-year agreement
CurbWaste	Yes, inventory and live ETA	Yes, embedded on your site	Demo, no public price
Hauler Hero	Ask the vendor	Check with the vendor	Ask for a quote
Jobber	No, workaround only	Yes	From $29 a month annual

A worked example with made-up numbers

Say you run 3 trucks and 24 cans. A customer rents a 20 yard can for 7 days. On day 9, the can is still there. Who notices?

• With a whiteboard: maybe your dispatcher, maybe not. You lose two days of rental you could have billed.
• With can tracking: the can shows days on site past the agreed period. Billing adds the extra days, and a text goes to the customer.

If two such cans a week are missed, and an extra day is $15, that is $60 a week that never reaches an invoice, or about $3,000 a year. These figures are invented to show the shape of the loss. Use your own price per day. Often the software pays for itself this way, not through fancy routing.

What to ask before you buy

• Is the price per truck, per user or per order?
• What is the one-time setup fee, and does it include moving my customers and price list?
• How long is the agreement, and what happens if I leave? Can I export my data?
• What are the card and ACH fees? Payment processing fees often matter more than the subscription.
• Does it connect to QuickBooks and my truck GPS?
• Can customers book at midnight on my own website, and does the vendor charge a booking fee?

If you also run trucks that haul long distance, see trucking software for the fleet side.

When a custom system fits better

Hauler specific tools cover most of what you need. A custom system makes sense when your business has an odd rule the tools do not handle. Examples: you rent several kinds of equipment, you have contract customers with special rates, you broker loads to partners, or your data already lives in a system you do not want to leave.

A custom build can mean a booking page, a can board and automatic billing built around your rules, and you own it. It costs more up front than a subscription. It makes sense when you would otherwise pay for two or three tools and still keep a spreadsheet. AI can also help on top, for example by answering rental questions or reading dump tickets. I cover that in AI for dumpster rental.

How I'd approach this

First, list your real workflow on one page: order, price, drop, swap, pickup, invoice. Mark where cans get lost or billing gets missed. Second, ask two hauler vendors for a demo using your own numbers, and get the total cost of year one in writing, including setup and card fees. Third, talk to one owner who has used each product for a year.

If you are under 10 cans, start small with a general tool and a can spreadsheet. Past that, move to hauler software. And if the quote comes back at more than the value of your odd rules, price a custom build before you sign a one year agreement.