What Docket dumpster software costs

Card and ACH rates, which almost nobody else in this category does openly:

The per-truck rate. The setup fee.

The setup fee is the one to chase. A per-truck subscription scales with your business, so it sorts itself out — two trucks costs about a third of six trucks. A one-time fee doesn’t. For a two-truck operation it can be worth several months of subscription, and it’s the number that decides whether Docket makes sense at the small end.

Docket’s demo form starts its truck-count dropdown at “1 to 3” and includes “No Trucks Yet.” One of their case studies is a customer who went from three dumpsters to twenty-three. They want the small end. They just won’t price it in public.

We could not find that fee anywhere. Not on Docket’s site, not in a review, not in a directory, not in a forum. Competitors have guessed at the per-truck rate. Nobody has even guessed at the setup fee.

$55 a month. This is on Docket’s Capterra listing. Ignore it. It contradicts the per-truck model Docket itself describes, the listing has two reviews and one is from 2022, and those pricing fields are filled in by vendors and then forgotten.

$250–300 per driver per month. Two competitors publish this — Bin Boss and Dumpster Rental Systems — and neither says where it came from. Worth knowing: it’s the same range Waste Dive reported for CurbWaste, a different company. Bin Boss’s own page description promises a CurbWaste comparison that isn’t in the page. Treat it as a competitor’s number, possibly attached to the wrong vendor.

$150–250+ per truck per month. This one’s from Reservety, a rental-software guide, and it’s the honest one — they label it as their own estimate based on comparable products, not as Docket’s pricing. They also add the most useful detail anyone has published: you pay for trucks on the road, and office staff don’t count.

$3,000 a month. Wrong company. There’s a marketing product that shares the name Docket and prices by monthly website visitors. It’s turned up in at least one dumpster software roundup.

Docket’s terms of service are written in ServiceCore’s name. They say the term renews automatically, that fees “may include setup fees,” that ServiceCore can raise prices at its sole discretion once every twelve months, and that fees are non-refundable.

They also say ServiceCore “may delete” your information after you leave. There’s no export right, no format promised, no window.

The contract length itself isn’t in the terms — it’s set in the order form, which you see after the demo. ServiceCore’s own pricing page says its product is billed monthly on an annual contract. Docket says nothing either way.

ServiceCore bought Docket in May 2023. In March 2026 it was renamed from Docket Dumpster Software to Docket Waste Software, to cover commercial and residential routes as well as roll-off.

Two things a buyer should know. ServiceCore’s website doesn’t mention Docket anywhere — not the homepage, not the pricing page, not the roll-off landing page. And ServiceCore still sells its own roll-off dumpster software directly.

So the same company runs two products at the same customer and doesn’t connect them. There’s no sign either one is being shut down; Docket ships updates and has a published roadmap. There’s also no public commitment about which one survives.

Docket’s homepage advertises 4.9 stars from 84 Google reviews. On platforms Docket doesn’t control, it’s 3.0 on Capterra from two reviews and 3.6 on Google Play from 54.

The Android reviews are the biggest real sample, and the theme is stability. “The app features are great. The downfall is it freezes up constantly.” One hauler describes losing fuel charges because the software wouldn’t round up at the end of a field. A Capterra reviewer reports losing customer credit card data to a glitch and getting no reimbursement.

Docket’s own roadmap promises backend stability work and bug reduction, which lines up with what the reviews say.

Nobody, on any platform, mentions what they pay.

Four things, in writing, before you get to a price discussion:

• The implementation fee.
• The per-truck rate at your actual truck count — and whether office staff count as trucks.
• The contract length and what happens at renewal.
• What you get back if you leave, in what format, and how long you have to ask.