A bin cleaning route is forty or sixty short stops, each with its own cans, its own trash day and its own idea of where those cans live. TrashCanBossPro puts the day's stops in route order on the tech's phone, with one-tap navigation, the can count, trash day and can location on every card, gate codes, Start / Skip / Complete, before-and-after photos, automatic on-the-way and arrived texts, and a card-on-file charge when the stop is done.
Plans start at $59/month and you are never billed per user, so every tech on the trailer, every part-timer and the owner can have the app. The route, navigation, can details, photos, customer texts and payment at completion are part of the platform, not an add-on. To see how the tech app fits with the Waiting List, routing, recurring plans and billing, start at TrashCanBossPro and then dig into the tech's side here.
Each tech sees their own stops in the order set on the dispatch board. Finish a driveway, look at the next card, keep rolling.
Every stop card has a Map button that opens navigation to the address. Nobody types a street name with wet hands.
“2 trash · 1 recycling · Trash day Tue” under the address, plus where the cans sit, so the tech washes the right cans.
Photos taken in the app stay with the stop for the day someone says their cans were never touched.
On-the-way and arrived texts go out on their own. Customers pick their alerts, and replies go to the office.
Complete creates the invoice and can charge the card on file before the trailer leaves the curb.
Whoever signed the customer up already recorded how many cans, which kind, the city pickup day and where the cans are kept. TrashCanBossPro keeps that on the address and puts it on the tech's phone, so the tech reads it once at the curb instead of calling the office from a side yard.
Bin cleaning techs did not get into this business to fill out forms on a phone. TrashCanBossPro asks for a few taps per stop and gives back the address, the cans, the way in and a quieter office phone. It runs in the browser on the iPhones and Android phones your crew already carries, with no app store download.
Set up employees with a personal PIN, assign trailers or trucks, and add your customers with their cans and trash day. You are never billed per user.
Weekly, every-other-week and monthly cleanings land on the Waiting List map when they come due. Assign them to a trailer and day.
The dispatch board sets each trailer's order, by hand or by auto-routing from the shop, and the tech's phone shows the same order.
Log in with company login and PIN, tap Map, read the cans and notes, tap Start, take the photos, tap Complete.
Most field service apps assume one long job at one address. A bin cleaning stop is ten minutes at the curb, with cans to count, a trash day to respect, a side gate to get through and a customer who swears nobody came last month. An app with one address and a notes box leaves half of every stop on a route sheet.
Ask any bin cleaning tech how the day really runs and you will hear the same story: a printed route sheet that was wrong by 9am, a gate code buried in a group text, and a driveway with four cans at the curb. Which two are the customer's and which two belong to the neighbor. Whether the recycling can was on the plan. Whether anybody told the homeowner the trailer was coming today.
That information belongs on the address, not on a clipboard or in one tech's head. When it shows up on the phone, any tech can run any route and the office stops reading gate codes over the phone.
TrashCanBossPro keeps the stop, the cans, the address and the customer in one place, from the first sign-up to the paid invoice.
Every tool here exists to get techs through a full day of driveways, HOA rows and dumpster pads with fewer phone calls, fewer wrong cans and fewer trips back.
Techs sign in with your company login and a personal PIN, so every stop, photo and clock-in belongs to the right person.
Each tech sees their own stops in the order set on the dispatch board, and the list follows when dispatch moves a stop.
One tap from the stop card opens navigation to the address.
Trash, recycling and yard waste cans on every card, so the tech washes what the customer pays for.
The city pickup day for each address shows on the card, so cans get cleaned right after they are emptied.
Side of the garage, behind the gate, next to the AC unit. Under the address on every card.
Gate codes and access notes live on the address and show with the stop.
Three buttons tell the office what is underway, what is done, and what was skipped and why.
Proof of the clean, saved with the stop.
Sent automatically. Customers choose night before, when they are next, and when the tech arrives.
In the customer app: "You're stop 12 of 20, the crew is 5 stops away."
Complete creates the invoice and can charge the card on file. HOA and commercial accounts can get one monthly statement.
Techs clock in and out on the same phone, so hours are recorded as they happen.
Crew locations show on the office map, so the office knows which trailer is closest.
Runs in the browser and installs to the home screen. No app store, no special devices.
Every tech gets the app. Plans are Start $59, Pro $89, and Crew $199 per month, not a per-seat charge.
The tech's list starts on the Waiting List, a live map of every cleaning that has come due. Weekly, every-other-week and monthly plans come due on their own from each plan's minimum days between visits. The office assigns stops to a trailer and day, builds the day around trash day, auto-routes Closest First or Furthest First from the shop, and the phone shows the same order. As techs tap Complete, the office sees stops done, photos attached and invoices created. For a full walkthrough of the tech's day, read Trash Can Cleaning App: The Complete Guide for Bin Cleaning Companies and Their Techs.
The most common reason a bin cleaning stop fails is cans that went back in the garage before the trailer showed up. Automatic reminders the day before, on-the-way and arrived texts as the tech works the route, and a live map in the customer app all tell the homeowner to leave the cans at the curb. Replies come back to the office through two-way texting, and when the stop is complete the invoice, online payment and card on file are all in the customer app.
Pick the plan that fits your operation. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no credit card.
Compare plans on the pricing page.
Their stops for the day in route order. Each card has the address with a Map button, the cans (trash, recycling and yard waste), the city trash day, can location notes and gate codes. They tap Start, Skip or Complete, take before-and-after photos, and the customer gets automatic on-the-way and arrived texts.
No app store download. The app runs in the browser on iPhone and Android and can be installed to the home screen. Techs log in with your company login and their own personal PIN.
The office sees the stop done with its photos and notes, the invoice is created, and a card on file can be charged. Recurring plans come due again on the Waiting List on their own, based on the plan's minimum days between visits.
The tech taps Skip and notes why, ideally with a photo of the full can or the empty curb. The office sees the skip with the reason and can text the customer, send a tech back or move the stop to another day.
Yes. Crew GPS from the techs' phones shows on the office map during the workday. That is the crew's location from their phones, not a tracker on the trailer.
Start is $59/month, Pro is $89/month, and Crew is $199/month. You are never billed per user, so every tech gets the app, and every plan starts with a 14-day free trial with no credit card.
The tech app is one piece of how TrashCanBossPro runs a bin cleaning company. For the Waiting List, routing, recurring plans, HOA accounts and billing, see the full TrashCanBossPro platform overview.
Practical reading on logging in, route order, navigation, cans and trash day, gate codes, Start / Skip / Complete, photos, customer texts, payment at completion, the time clock, crew GPS and training new techs.
Stops in route order, cans and trash day on every card, before-and-after photos, automatic customer texts and payment at completion on every tech's phone. Try TrashCanBossPro free for 14 days.