What Bin Cleaning Business Software Costs: Start, Pro and Crew Explained
Software is one of the few costs in a bin cleaning business that you pay every month whether it rains or not. That makes it worth understanding exactly what you're paying for, what can change the bill, and how to think about whether it pays for itself. Here is the plain answer for TrashCanBossPro, plus a way to do the math for your own business.
The Short Answer
Once you've worked through Choosing Software for a Bin Cleaning Business: What to Check Before You Commit, the next question is always the price. TrashCanBossPro has three plans:
- Start — $59 a month
- Pro — $89 a month
- Crew — $199 a month
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, and you don't need a credit card to start it. You are never billed per user, on any plan. Those are the only three prices.
Why "Never Billed per User" Matters
A per-user price looks small on the pricing page. Then you hire a tech, then a second, then someone in the office two days a week, and the bill grows every time your team does. Worse, per-user pricing tempts owners to share one login across the crew. When everyone is logged in as you, you can't tell who completed which job, who skipped which stop or who was clocked in when.
With TrashCanBossPro, every tech gets their own personal PIN and every office person gets their own login with a role. Adding a person doesn't add to the bill. That keeps your records honest and keeps the cost of hiring where it belongs: in wages, not software seats.
Texting Allowance by Plan
Text messages are the one piece that depends on how much you use. Each plan includes a monthly text allowance, counted in segments sent and received:
- Start: 500 segments a month
- Pro: 1,000 segments a month
- Crew: 2,000 segments a month
Texts include the night-before reminders, on-the-way and arrived alerts, and two-way texting with customers from the office. A short, plain text is usually one segment. Long messages and some special characters can use more than one, so keep reminders short and simple. Your list size and how many alerts customers choose decide which allowance fits. The pricing page has the full plan comparison.
How to Think About Whether It Pays
Don't compare software to zero. Compare it to what running on paper costs you. Try this with your own numbers. Say you charge a customer $30 for a monthly cleaning. One monthly customer who quietly falls off your list for a year is $360 you never see. One declined card that nobody chases for three months is another $90. One extra can you never added to the bill is a few dollars every visit, forever.
Plans that come due on their own, past-due follow-up and card-on-file charging at completion exist to stop exactly those losses. For most bin cleaning businesses, catching one or two of them a month covers the software. The time you stop spending on building routes by hand, answering "are you coming today?" texts and chasing checks is on top of that. For a full list of where that money tends to go, read Profit Leaks in a Trash Can Cleaning Business and How to Plug Them.
Which Plan to Start On
The honest answer: start where your business is today and move up when it grows. A new owner running one trailer and building a list is a natural fit for Start. As the list grows and the texting picks up, Pro gives you more room. When you're running several trailers with a crew and office help, Crew is built for that size. You can change plans as you go, so there's no need to pay today for the business you hope to have in three years.
If you're not sure, use the 14-day trial to run your real routes and real reminders, then look at how many texts you actually sent.
What Isn't Extra
Some software lists a low monthly price and then charges for the parts you need. With TrashCanBossPro, the core of running a bin cleaning business is part of the platform: cans and trash day on every address, recurring plans and the Waiting List, routes, the tech app, the customer app, sign-up forms, estimates, invoices, card on file and reports. Card processing on customer payments has its usual processing fees, as it would anywhere, but that's a cost of taking cards, not a software add-on.
The Bottom Line
Three plans, $59, $89 and $199 a month, never per user, with a 14-day free trial and no credit card. Run your numbers against what paper is costing you now. For more on the business side of bin cleaning, visit the trash can cleaning business software page.
Three Plans. No Per-User Fees.
Start at $59, Pro at $89, Crew at $199 a month. Try TrashCanBossPro free for 14 days.
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