DumpsterVibes pricing:You only pay when you get paid. No monthly subscription. No contract.
A small fee per payment, and it drops as your month gets busier. No setup fee and nothing per user or per truck.
| Payments you take in a month | Standard |
|---|---|
| $2,000 | $58 |
| $5,000 | $94.70 |
| $10,000 | $129.20 |
| $20,000 | $198.20 |
A $10,000 month costs about $129.
Never more than $199 a month, however busy you get.
- You'd pay
- $129.20
No credit card to start · no contract · cancel anytime in Support
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Typical roll-off dumpster software: $99/month + about 0.75% of every payment
| A month of | Typical | DV standard |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | $114 | $58 |
| $5,000 | $136.50 | $94.70 |
| $10,000 | $174 | $129.20 |
| $20,000 | $249 | $198.20 |
Card processing by Stripe is the same either way and isn't included in these numbers.
On payments made through Stripe (card, bank transfer, Cash App) the fee comes out of the payment itself. On cash, check and other offline payments it's charged to your card or bank account on file once a month. A month with no jobs costs nothing. Standard figures are for up to 2 modules; each extra one raises the breakpoint and maximum by $39.00 a month. No platform fee on anything booked in your first 60 days after you sign up — judged by when a job is booked, so one booked inside the trial for a later date stays free. One exception: a donated rental past your monthly allowance carries the platform fee on what the rental would have cost (nothing once your month's fees reach the maximum). Your DV website is included, on its own free yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com address. A custom domain (like yourcompany.com) is not included: you buy it in your own name and we connect it.
…until your fees pass $79 for the month — about $2,700 in payments. Then just 0.69% on every payment, card, cash, check or ACH.
Never more than $199 a month, however busy you get. No platform fee on anything booked in your first 60 days after you sign up — judged by when a job is booked, so one booked inside the trial for a later date stays free. Card processing is Stripe's, paid by you on your own Stripe account, and separate from the platform fee. One exception: a donated rental past your monthly allowance carries the platform fee on what the rental would have cost (nothing once your month's fees reach the maximum). Your DV website is included, on its own free yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com address. A custom domain (like yourcompany.com) is not included: you buy it in your own name and we connect it.
- No monthly platform fee, no setup fee, no contract
- No per-truck, per-user or per-driver charge — unlimited users, trucks, and dumpsters
- No platform fee on anything booked in your first 60 days after you sign up — judged by when a job is booked, so one booked inside the trial for a later date stays free
- Online booking and checkout, junk quoting, and portable-toilet orders
- Service modules you switch on: roll-off dumpsters, compactors, junk removal, portable toilets, commercial front-load and curbside trash. 2 are included; each extra one raises your breakpoint and monthly maximum by $39.00 a month after your free trial, counted only for the days it is on, and is never a charge of its own
- Driver app on the web and as a native iPhone app in beta on TestFlight (Android coming), dispatch with truck-aware routing, and a live map
- Your own text number for order texts, 1,000 texts a month included, plus emails, invoices and weight-ticket billing
- QuickBooks Online sync, reports and a custom report builder, fleet inspections
- Free Growth tools: reviews, Google Maps ranking, town pages and more
- A DV website on yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com, with your live prices and booking
- A public API and MCP server for your own tools
- Paid into your own Stripe account
Your website is included
Every company gets a DV website on its own free yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com address, with your live prices and booking built in.
A custom domain (like yourcompany.com) is not included: you buy it in your own name, and we connect it.
Done for you, $99 a year plus 0.25% per order: DumpsterVibes builds your website and looks after it. We write it and set it up from your DumpsterVibes details; you review it, and nothing is charged until you approve it going live. Extra pages are $5 each, one time, only when you ask for them and approve them. The yearly price and any extra pages are added to your platform fees and collected with them, with no separate card charge, and none of it counts toward your monthly maximum.
How DV websites work →For national chains and brokers
$199 / month per chain
The Broker Portal lets a chain send jobs to local DumpsterVibes companies and pay their invoices in one place. The chain pays it, with no per-job fee. A hauler's own platform fee on the chain's payments is unchanged.
Broker Portal sign-up →Switching from another tool?
Import your customers, the cans you have out and the balances owed yourself, free, from a CSV or Excel export. Or send us your files and we'll move everything: $99 one time on your platform fees, free for founding companies, and no charge if we can't move your customers and cans. Your bookings history isn't needed to start.
Switching to DumpsterVibes →The numbers
These read from the same settings that bill you, so this table changes when they do.
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Platform fee on each payment | 2.9% |
| …until your platform fees for the month reach | $79 |
| Then, on every payment for the rest of the month | 0.69% |
| Most you pay in platform fees in a month | $199 |
| Free trial: no platform fee on anything booked in your first | 60 days |
| Service modules included (of 6) | 2 |
| Each extra module raises your breakpoint and your maximum by | $39 a month |
| Your DV website and its yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com address | Included |
| Optional: DumpsterVibes builds and looks after your website for you | $99 a year plus 0.25% per order |
| Done for you: each extra page, one time, added to your platform fees | $5 |
| A custom domain of your own | Not included |
| Monthly fee, setup, per user, per truck, per driver | $0 |
| Smallest charge to your card on file for cash and check fees | $5.00 |
| Broker Portal, for national chains (paid by the chain, not you) | $199 a month |
How that compares
A common way to sell hauling and field-service software is a monthly subscription, sometimes per truck, sometimes with a setup fee or a contract. Here's how our structure differs from that model.
| DumpsterVibes | A monthly-subscription model | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | None | A monthly subscription, sometimes per truck |
| Setup / implementation fee | None | Sometimes charged |
| Per-user / per-truck charge | None — unlimited | Can grow with your team or fleet |
| Contract | None — cancel anytime | Sometimes required |
| Free to start | Yes — no platform fee on anything booked in your first 60 days after you sign up | Varies by vendor |
| Public pricing | Yes — on this page | Varies by vendor |
| Routing & dispatch included | Yes, in the box | Sometimes a higher tier |
| No platform fee in a month with no jobs | Yes | The subscription is due either way |
This describes a common pricing model, not any particular vendor, and vendors' terms vary and change. Check a vendor's current terms before comparing. We publish ours so you never have to guess.
The fine print, in plain English
Paid out of what you collect
On payments made through Stripe (card, bank transfer, Cash App) the fee comes out of the payment itself. On cash, check and other offline payments it's charged to your card or bank account on file once a month. A month with no jobs costs nothing. Never a bill you owe up front. One exception: a donated rental past your monthly allowance carries the platform fee on what the rental would have cost (nothing once your month's fees reach the maximum). Your DV website is included, on its own free yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com address. A custom domain (like yourcompany.com) is not included: you buy it in your own name and we connect it.
No platform fee for your first 60 days
Take real bookings, dispatch them, and get paid before DumpsterVibes takes a platform fee. The trial is counted in calendar days from the day you sign up, and every module is open during it. No card to start. Card processing is Stripe's, paid by you on your own Stripe account, and separate from the platform fee.
Your money, your Stripe
Every company connects its own Stripe account and is paid there. You're the merchant of record, customer payments land in your balance, you pay Stripe's fees on your own account, and payments pay out to your bank on Stripe's schedule. DumpsterVibes takes only its platform fee: as part of each card or bank payment, and, for cash, check, and donated rentals past your monthly allowance, out of your next customer payments, or once from the card or bank account you keep on file with us if nothing has been collected for 30 days.
Donated rentals
When the owner books a rental as a donation, the customer pays $0. Each company has a monthly allowance of fee-free donations, and the office is shown how many are left before booking one. A donation past the allowance carries the usual platform fee on what the rental would have cost, decided once when it is booked and charged to the card or bank account you keep on file with us, like a cash job. Once your platform fees for the month reach the $199 maximum, donations are free for the rest of that month, however many you book. Nothing that happens later on a donated rental carries a platform fee: extra days, overage, extra charges or a swap, even when the rental runs into the next month. What you bill your customer for those is yours to set.
Cash and check count too
Mark a cash or check job paid in the office and the platform share accrues on your dashboard. That money never passed through Stripe, so it comes out of your next customer card and bank payments, never more than half of any one payment, with no processing added. If nothing has been collected from you for 30 days, what you owe is charged automatically, once, to the card or bank account you keep on file with DumpsterVibes (Tools → Platform Fees → Billing). The processing on that charge is yours and is added on top (2.9% + $0.30 on a card, 0.8% (at most $5.00) on a bank account); it doesn't count toward the monthly maximum. A balance under $5.00 isn't charged; it carries forward until it reaches $5.00. If that charge fails, it isn't retried on its own: DumpsterVibes contacts you. Want it settled sooner? Press Pay under Platform fees any time.
No setup fees or seat charges
No setup fee, no implementation fee, no per-truck or per-seat charge, no contract, no cancellation penalty. Unlimited users, trucks, and dumpsters are in the box for everyone, and so is your DV website. A custom domain of your own is the one thing you buy yourself.
No contract, and no surprises
Pricing can change — we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we commit to is telling you at least 30 days before an increase takes effect, and to never having a contract or a cancellation penalty holding you here. The terms you signed up on are recorded on your account.
Pricing questions
Is there a monthly fee?
No. There is no monthly platform fee, no setup or implementation fee, no per-truck, per-user or per-driver fee, and no contract. You pay a 2.9% platform fee on each payment. On payments made through Stripe (card, bank transfer, Cash App) the fee comes out of the payment itself. On cash, check and other offline payments it's charged to your card or bank account on file once a month. A month with no jobs costs nothing. One exception: a donated rental past your monthly allowance carries the platform fee on what the rental would have cost (nothing once your month's fees reach the maximum). Your DV website is included, on its own free yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com address. A custom domain (like yourcompany.com) is not included: you buy it in your own name and we connect it.
How does the platform fee work?
Each payment carries 2.9% until your platform fees for the month add up to $79 — that happens at roughly $2,700 in a month — and after that every payment (card, ACH, Cash App, cash, check, pay on delivery or net terms) is billed at 0.69% for the rest of the month, up to $199 a month in platform fees: once your fees for the month reach $199, the rest of that month is free. It is the same for every fleet size. Your fee month resets at midnight on the 1st in your company's time zone. Your live fee total is on your dashboard at all times.
What do the first jobs cost?
Nothing in platform fees for your first 60 days. Anything booked in the 60 days from the day you sign up (Eastern time) carries no platform fee, even when the job itself happens later: a roll-off dumpster booked on day 59 for delivery on day 70 is still free. Platform fees start with the first booking made on day 61. Card processing is Stripe's, paid by you on your own Stripe account, and separate from the platform fee. No credit card is required to start. The trial is for new companies only: an account flagged as a duplicate or a restart of an earlier one doesn't get one.
Do I pay a fee on cash and check jobs?
Yes, the same as a card booking: 2.9% until your month's fees reach the breakpoint and 0.69% after it. They count toward the same $199 maximum, in the month the job was paid. Mark a cash or check job paid in the office and the platform share accrues on your dashboard. That money never passed through Stripe, so it comes out of your next customer card and bank payments, never more than half of any one payment, with no processing added. If nothing has been collected from you for 30 days, what you owe is charged automatically, once, to the card or bank account you keep on file with DumpsterVibes (Tools → Platform Fees → Billing). The processing on that charge is yours and is added on top (2.9% + $0.30 on a card, 0.8% (at most $5.00) on a bank account); it doesn't count toward the monthly maximum. A balance under $5.00 isn't charged; it carries forward until it reaches $5.00. If that charge fails, it isn't retried on its own: DumpsterVibes contacts you. Want it settled sooner? Press Pay under Platform fees any time.
What does it cost to charge my card on file for cash and check fees?
The platform fees, plus the processing on that one charge, which is yours: 2.9% + $0.30 on a card, 0.8% (at most $5.00) on a bank account. That processing is not a platform fee and doesn't count toward the monthly maximum. If you owe less than $5.00, nothing is charged and the balance carries forward until it reaches $5.00.
How do DumpsterVibes fees I owe get paid?
Automatically, for every company. Fees you owe (from cash, check and other payments outside Stripe) come out of your customers' card and bank payments as they're paid, never more than half of any one payment, with no processing added, and only from money actually paid, never a hold. A refund of that payment doesn't return them. If nothing has been collected from you for 30 days, the card or bank account you keep on file is charged once, with that charge's processing added. If that charge fails, DumpsterVibes contacts you.
Do I get a text number for my customers?
Yes. When you go live, DumpsterVibes sets up your own local text number (or a cheaper toll-free one, if you pick it), registered with the carriers under your business name. It sends your automatic order texts, one-way: customers who reply get your phone number, and their reply comes to your dashboard and email. 1,000 texts a month are included; after that each text is 3¢. The number itself costs what Twilio charges for it, passed through at cost: once when it is approved (its first month, and for a local number the carriers' registration fees), then its monthly price (and for a local number the carriers' monthly fee). Nothing is charged for setup if it isn't approved. All of this is billed with your other fees and is outside the monthly maximum. You can use your own Twilio number instead, with no number fees from us.
How much is card processing, and who pays it?
Card processing is Stripe's standard rate and goes to Stripe, not to us. You choose per company whether to absorb it or pass it through as a disclosed card fee — credit cards only, capped at 3%, with no fee on debit or prepaid cards. Check your state's rules first; some states restrict surcharges.
Is a website included?
Yes. Your DV website is included, on its own free yourcompany.dumpstervibes.com address. A custom domain (like yourcompany.com) is not included: you buy it in your own name and we connect it. The site is built on the DumpsterVibes page builder, hosted by us, and shows your live prices with a Book button. Rather not build it yourself? Done for you, $99 a year plus 0.25% per order: DumpsterVibes builds your website and looks after it. We write it and set it up from your DumpsterVibes details; you review it, and nothing is charged until you approve it going live. Extra pages are $5 each, one time, only when you ask for them and approve them. It includes Home, Contact (with a form that sends each enquiry to you), About, a page for each service you run (one you switch on later gets its page too) and up to 6 city pages, with page titles and meta descriptions, canonical URLs, LocalBusiness and Service schema, Open Graph and Twitter cards, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, a favicon, alt text on every image, one H1 per page, and a mobile-friendly layout. The yearly price and any extra pages are added to your platform fees and collected with them, with no separate card charge, and none of it counts toward your monthly maximum. Already have a website? Keep it: the Book Now button and price tables for your own site are included too.
What do extra service modules cost?
2 modules are included. Each one you add raises your breakpoint and your monthly maximum by $39.00 a month, counted only for the days it is on. It is never a separate charge: you only pay more if your fees actually pass the old breakpoint or maximum. During your free trial you can switch on every module; the raise starts after the trial, for the extras you keep on. The Growth tools are free and are not a module.
Can the price go up after I sign up?
It can. Pricing is set by us and can change — what we commit to is that you hear about it in advance, not after the fact, and that there's no contract keeping you here if you don't like it. We don't quietly re-rate you: the terms you're on are recorded on your account, and a change that raises what you pay is announced at least 30 days before it takes effect.
How do I get paid?
You're the merchant of record — your business name on the customer's statement, your chargebacks. Each online payment is made on your own Stripe account, so the money lands in your Stripe balance and pays out to your bank on Stripe's standard schedule, and you pay Stripe's processing fee there yourself. DumpsterVibes takes only its platform fee: as part of each card or bank payment, and, for money that never passes through Stripe (cash, check, donated rentals past your monthly allowance), out of your next customer payments, or from the card or bank account you keep on file with us when nothing has been collected for a while.
What happens if I lose a chargeback?
Lose a chargeback you fought? We credit our platform fee on that payment, up to $15.00, up to 2 a month, against the next month's platform fees. Respond to the dispute in Stripe to qualify.
Typical setup takes about 20 minutes. Card payments switch on once Stripe approves your account, on Stripe's timeline. Questions? Knowledge base.