HaulHQvsDocket
Their words.
Docket is the closest thing to us in this category, and the only competitor we take seriously on both verticals. They are also the reason this page exists, because they say they are the only ones doing this and they are not. Here is exactly where we agree with them and where we do not.
"Docket Dumpster Software is the only solution designed specifically for haulers that offer both junk removal and dumpster rentals."Docket, on their own junk removal page, July 15, 2026
Looking for a Docket alternative that shows customers a price?
Two platforms built for the same operator. Here is who each one fits.
The yard is the hard part
Docket is an operations platform first. If your pain is containers and routes, they are strong.
- You track serialized containers and want full lifecycle history on each one
- Routing is your biggest cost and you want AI building the route
- You run commercial and residential trash alongside roll off
- Your drivers need an offline app and a card reader in the truck
- You are fine booking a demo and talking to a rep before you see a price
The phone is the hard part
We are a booking platform first. If your pain is turning strangers into booked jobs, that is what we built.
- You want the customer to see a real price and book it without a call
- You want to know what software costs before you talk to anyone
- Your months are uneven and you want the bill to follow the work
- You want to start today instead of next week after the demo
When does your customer see a price?
Both platforms let a customer start online. Only one of them tells that customer what it costs. Here are the two flows, step for step, from their site and ours.
HaulHQ
Price before booking- Customer lands on your siteAny hour. Your booking form, your branding.
- Picks their zip and their sizeLoad size for junk. Can size and dates for dumpsters.
- PRICEA real number, from your price book, on their phone
- Books itDate, time, address, done. It lands on your board as a real job with a real number attached.
- You show up to a job that is already priced and already agreedNobody is negotiating in a driveway.
Docket
Price in the driveway- Customer lands on the siteSame start. Looks the same to them.
- Uploads photos of the pileEstimates the volume themselves, or picks a single item like a couch.
- Picks a date and requests an estimateNo number yet. There is no number on this screen.
- Some amount of time passes. The customer does not know what this costs. You have committed a truck and an hour to a job that has no price and no agreement.
- Your driver arrivesTheir site's words: knock knock, I am here to give you an estimate.
- The driver builds the estimate on siteIn their mobile app, standing in the driveway.
- PRICEHere. The truck is already parked
- Customer accepts, or does notIf they do not, you drove out for nothing.
We cannot put their price next to ours
Not because we did not look. Because there is not one. On July 15 we opened Docket's pricing page in a browser and this is what is on it.
What it costs to find out what it costs
Not a criticism of their sales team. A description of the mechanism.
To learn Docket's price
- Fill in their demo form, including which industry you are in and whether you also rent roll off dumpsters
- Book a slot on a calendar
- Take the call
- Have the conversation about your business
- Get a number that was assembled after that conversation
To learn ours
- Read the pricing page
- That is the whole list
If you want to talk to a person you can. It just is not the toll booth.
What is actually in the box
Docket marks come from their own pricing page and their junk removal page. Where they do not say, we do not say either.
| Feature | HaulHQ | Docket |
|---|---|---|
| Both verticals | ||
| Junk removal, as a real product | Verified yes | Verified yesOwn dispatch board, photo intake |
| Dumpster and container inventory | Verified yes | Verified yesSerialized lifecycle with notes and photos |
| Both in one platform | Verified yes | Verified yesSeparate boards, shared customers |
| The front door | ||
| Customer can start online | Verified yes | Verified yesEstimate request with photo upload |
| Customer sees a price before booking | Verified yesJunk and dumpsters. Tenants choose whether the number shows at size selection or in the booking modal, but it always shows before the customer books | Verified absentDriver prices it on site |
| Price a job by load size | Verified yes | Not publishedCustomers estimate volume at intake. Whether it maps to a priced tier is not shown |
| Photo upload at intake | Verified yes | Verified yes |
| AI that quotes and books | Verified yesChatbot quotes from your price book, negotiates to your floor, books the job | Verified absentTheir AI is routing only |
| Running the work | ||
| Two way texting | Verified yesIncluded · 100 texts/mo free, then $0.02 | Not publishedA messaging portal and a local number exist. Two way is never stated |
| Automated review requests | Verified yes | Verified yesReview Guard, all tiers |
| AI routing | Verified absent | Verified yesIronRoute AI, top tier only |
| Native driver app | Verified yesiOS and Android apps in both stores. No offline mode | Verified yesNative, offline mode |
| Card reader in the truck | Verified absentKeyed entry and pay links | Verified yesDocketPAY reader, cash, check, tipping |
| The bill | ||
| Price published, no call needed | Verified yes | Verified absentDemo required, all tiers |
| Pay only when you complete work | Verified yes | Verified absentTiered plans, price not published |
| Users included | Unlimited | Not publishedNot priced per seat or per truck, but the count is not stated |
| Monthly bill has a ceiling | Verified yes$149 per service type | Not published |
Where Docket is stronger
This is the longest section on this page and that is on purpose. Docket is a serious product built by serious people, and there are six places they beat us. If one of them is your deciding factor, book their demo.
Serialized lifecycle beats our inventory
Full history on every can, searchable notes and photos per container. Ours tracks what you own and where it is. Theirs tracks what happened to it. If you run a big fleet and cans go missing or come back damaged, that difference is real money.
IronRoute AI has no equivalent here
AI route creation. We do not have anything like it. It is their top tier only, and their own claims about what it saves are marketing, but the capability is real and ours does not exist.
Offline mode and a card reader
Their driver app is native, runs offline, and takes a card in the field with a reader, plus customer tipping. Ours is in both app stores too, but it does not work offline, and we have no reader: keyed entry and pay links only. If your drivers collect cards at the curb, that is a real gap.
Commercial and residential trash
Front load and residential routes alongside roll off, all in one system. If you run trash routes as well as junk and cans, they cover it and we do not.
Cheaper per swipe than we are
Docket publishes 3.0% + 30¢ on cards, dropping to 2.8% at their top tier. We charge a 1.5% platform fee on top of Stripe's own rate. Ours stops at the $149 per-service-type cap and they publish no ceiling on theirs, so at volume the math may flip, but on any single transaction they are cheaper.
They have 2,500 haulers. We do not
By their own count, 2,500 plus haulers, 4.9 stars across 86 Google reviews, serving 1 to 50 plus trucks. We are new. We run a junk removal company on our own software every day, which is a different kind of proof, and a smaller one.
Where we win
Three things, and the first one is the reason to read this page at all.
Your customer gets a number online
Not a request, not a callback, not a driver in the driveway with an iPad. A price, from your price book, at 11pm, on both verticals. Docket's flow cannot do this and their own site describes why: the estimate is created on site by the driver.
You know what it costs before you call
$0 base, $1.50 a job, first 5 free at signup, capped at $149 per service type. It is on our pricing page. Docket's is a demo booking button. You can read our whole model in one sentence and nobody has to sell it to you.
Your slow month is a small bill
Docket is a subscription and they do not publish how, or whether, it flexes with your volume. We charge per completed job, so the bill follows the work, and it stops at $149 per service type when the work is good. You can check that claim against our pricing page in ten seconds. That is the part we can prove.
Some of you should buy Docket
They are the only other people building for exactly your business. That deserves an honest recommendation, not a smear.
Go with Docket
- Routing is your biggest line item and you want AI on it
- You have enough cans that serialized history matters
- Your drivers swipe cards at the curb and work where there is no signal
- You run commercial or residential trash routes too
- You want a vendor with thousands of haulers already on it, by their own count
- Pricing the job in the driveway is how you like to sell, and you are good at it
Go with HaulHQ
- You want jobs booked at a price while you are asleep
- You are tired of driving to estimates that do not close
- You want to see the price of the software before you see a rep
- Your volume swings and you want a bill that swings with it
- You want to start this afternoon
The ones you were going to ask anyway
Because we do not know, and neither does anyone else who has not been on their demo. Their pricing page has no number on it. One of their competitors publishes figures for Docket's pricing and we are not repeating them, because there is no way to check them against anything. If Docket publishes a price, we will put it on this page the same week and date it.
We do both too, which makes the claim out of date rather than dishonest. The real difference is not the two verticals, it is whether your customer can get a price online. On that one, we checked all seven platforms in this category on July 15 and we are the only one that does it for junk and dumpsters both.
It is different, and on routing it is better because we have nothing. IronRoute AI builds routes. Ours is a chatbot on your website that quotes from your price book, negotiates down to the floor you set, and books the job. Theirs makes the truck cheaper to run. Ours makes the phone stop being the bottleneck. Neither of us has the other one's thing.
Bring your customer list, set up your load sizes and can inventory, and run your next job. The first 5 jobs on a new account are free, a one time welcome rather than a monthly allowance, so you can run both in parallel for your first week and let your drivers vote. Ask both of us the data export question before you sign with anyone, including us.
Then tell us and we will fix it. Everything here was checked on July 15, 2026 against Docket's own site, the date is at the top, and we re-check the whole comparison set quarterly. If they ship priced online booking, this page changes and the flow diagram above goes with it.
See the price. Then decide.
First 5 jobs free at signup, no card, no demo, no call. Put your real load sizes in and watch a customer book at a real number.
Sources, checked July 15, 2026
- Docket booking flow, photo intake, driver priced estimate, both verticals claim: yourdocket.com/junk-removal-software
- Docket tier names, card rates, ACH rate, message allotments, IronRoute AI, Review Guard, demo gate: yourdocket.com/pricing
- Docket container lifecycle, offline driver app, self reported traction: Docket's own Bin Boss comparison page
- Docket subscription price: not published anywhere on their site as of July 15, 2026
- HaulHQ pricing: our own pricing page, same numbers