Out of your service area? Out of inventory? Don't offer that service yet? Every “no” is revenue walking out the door. Excern turns the jobs you'd normally turn away into booked, billed, paid work — one platform to quote, dispatch, invoice, and collect.
No contracts · No setup fees · Up and running in a day
You worked hard to earn the call. Then you hand the customer to a competitor because of a gap you could have covered. Here's where the margin leaks out:
A great customer needs a drop two markets over. Today that's a “sorry, we don't go there.” It should be a booked job you fulfill through your network — and keep the margin on.
Every can is on the ground and the phone keeps ringing. Instead of losing the job, place it with a partner hauler in a few taps and stay the one vendor your customer pays.
They ask for a porta potty, temp fencing, or junk haul-off. Saying “we only do dumpsters” sends them shopping. Say yes, broker it, and become their one-stop shop.
One unbroken flow. A customer reaches out, Excern prices it from your network, you win the job — and it runs all the way to a charged card without ever leaving the platform.
A call, web form, or text lands in one shared inbox — nothing slips through.
Excern's AI drafts the order from the message, or you key it in by hand.
Preferred haulers & vendors with preset rates — an accurate quote on the spot.
The customer says yes; the drop, swap, or pickup goes straight on the calendar.
Run it yourself or place it with a partner hauler. The customer sees one brand: yours.
AI reads the hauler's invoice, you charge the card on file — the margin is yours.
Inside your coverage area, Excern Dispatch runs your trucks, drivers, and every numbered container. Outside it — or when every can is on the ground — Excern Broker places the job with a partner and keeps the margin. Same customers, same billing, one login.
A container is only ever in one of three places: at a yard, on the back of a truck, or sitting on a job site. Excern moves it for you — assign a box and it's reserved, complete the delivery and it's on site, run the swap and the old can rides the truck to the dump, then lands back at the yard the moment its scale ticket is recorded. No whiteboard. No “where's 4012?” calls. A full movement history on every can.
Unassigned work on the left, driver lanes on the right, live yard inventory in the sidebar. Drag a job onto a driver and the truck, box, and route follow. A 7-day planner forecasts container and truck shortages before they bite, and late alerts fire before the customer calls you.
See the full dispatch tour →Every call you turn away — wrong zip code, no cans available, a service you don't offer — is revenue you already earned the marketing for. Operators running Excern book those jobs through partner haulers and keep a healthy margin on work their trucks never touch. The dashboard below isn't a fantasy; it's what a month of “yes” looks like.
No new trucks. No new drivers. No new yard. Just the jobs you were already being asked to do.
See how brokering works →New lead → quoted → dispatched → active → complete. See every job and where the money is at a glance.
Hauler invoice hits your inbox, Excern reads it, matches it to the work order, and tees up the customer charge for overages. No manual entry.
Branded invoices, card on file, deposits, and automatic receipts. Get paid the day the job is done — not 30 days later.
A built-in line for customers and haulers. Every conversation attached to the job, nothing lost in someone's personal phone.
Schedule drops, swaps, and pickups; send drivers a mobile view of their day. Fewer dry runs, fewer “where's my can” calls.
Run the whole operation from your phone — quote, dispatch, and collect from the truck, the jobsite, or the couch.
Driver lanes, drag-drop assignment, 7-day container and truck shortage forecasting, late alerts before the customer calls.
Yard → truck → site, automatically, with a movement log on every can. Know exactly which box sits at which address.
Record the ticket once: tonnage lands on the job, dump fees hit your cost, and customer overages are queued for review — never auto-charged.
When you can say yes to anything — any service, any market — you stop being a dumpster guy and start being the vendor they call for everything. That's stickier customers, bigger tickets, and growth that doesn't require buying another truck.
Excern wasn't dreamed up in a boardroom. It was built inside a working dumpster operation across the Midwest — real drop-offs, real swap-outs, real hauler invoices, real customers on the phone at 6:40 in the morning.
We're not a dumpster company that wrote some software. We're operators who became a technology company — and Excern is the system we always wished we could buy.
| Spreadsheets & phones | Legacy rental software | Excern | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dispatch your own fleet | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Track numbered assets yard → truck → site | — | Partial | ✓ Automatic |
| Broker jobs you can’t fulfill | — | — | ✓ Built in |
| AI reads hauler invoices for you | — | — | ✓ |
| Scale tickets that bill the customer | — | Manual re-entry | ✓ One entry |
| Full CRM — calls, texts, email on the job | — | Bolt-on | ✓ Native |
| Card-on-file payments & overage billing | — | ✓ | ✓ Per-box accurate |
| Setup | n/a | Weeks of onboarding | Up in a day |
Enterprise dumpster software costs a fortune and takes weeks to set up. Excern is a fraction of that cost — priced so a single brokered job or one saved dry-run can cover the month. No annual lock-in, no five-figure onboarding, no paying for a hundred features you'll never touch.
No — they’re two engines on one platform. Run Dispatch alone for your own fleet, Broker alone if you’re asset-light, or both: in-house inside your coverage area, brokered everywhere else. Same customers, same billing, one login.
Legacy systems schedule trucks. Excern does that — drag-drop board, day planner, driver app — and then does what they can’t: brokers the jobs you’d turn away, reads hauler invoices with AI, bills overages per box, and keeps every call and text on the job record.
Every container has its painted number in the system. Assign it and it’s reserved; complete the delivery and it’s on site; run the swap and the old can rides the truck until its scale ticket is recorded, then it’s back at the yard. Three states, moved automatically, with a full history per can.
A 20-minute walkthrough on real work orders, then your free trial starts the same day. We'll show you exactly where the “no’s” are costing you — and how fast Excern pays for itself.