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Customer Portal
24/7 access to schedules, invoices, and service history.
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Quotes & Invoices
View, approve, and pay documents online.
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Online Booking
Customers book roll-offs and event rentals on your website and pay a deposit. Nothing is scheduled until you approve.
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Payment Processing
Secure online payments with flexible options.
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Inbox
Portal messages, text (SMS), and email in one inbox per customer, plus a Requests tab for everything customers ask for in the portal.
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E-Signatures
Sign contracts digitally with audit trails.
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Service Checklists
Standardized pumping and cleaning workflows.
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Venue Blueprinting
Pin inventory clusters on satellite maps, link to quotes, and send branded site plans.
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Email From Your Inbox
Send invoices, quotes, and sales email from your real address, with your real deliverability.

Run the field

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Job Schedules & Dispatch
Create jobs, dispatch routes, and manage recurring service.
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Route Optimization
Routes planned around tank capacity, disposal-site hours, and service windows.
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Mobile App
Offline-first workflows for field operations.
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Unit Pins
Every unit's exact spot on the site map. Drivers move pins from the field.
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Services Hub
Service requests, checklists, and proof-of-work logs for every job.
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Team Chat
Channels and direct messages for drivers, dispatch, and the office.
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Walkie-Talkie
Push-to-talk inside the PortaPro app, on the channels your crew already uses, with searchable transcripts.
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Calls & Huddles
1:1 calls and channel huddles for your crew, plus meetings customers join from a browser.

Control the business

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Equipment Inventory
Availability by date, so a weekend booking shows before the weekend.
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Event & Tent Rentals
Kits, tents booked by size, pull sheets, scan-back check-in, and charges for what comes back missing.
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Event Layouts
Tents and tables to scale on the venue or its floor plan, seating charts from the guest list, and a share link for comments and approval.
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28 Day Invoicing
Bill every site automatically on the industry-standard 28-day cycle, with duplicate prevention built in.
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Bookkeeping & Billing
Quotes, invoices, expenses and receipts, bank reconciliation, and QuickBooks, Xero and FreshBooks sync.
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Customer Accounts
Profiles, sites and locations, contacts, and history.
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Leads & Deals
The CRM built into PortaPro.
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Temporary Fencing
Draw the fence on the satellite map or type the feet: panels, gates, stands, clamps and sandbags counted for you, screen priced by the foot.
Roll-Off Rentals
Live ledger for every container on the ground, overage and landfill disposal billed from the weight ticket, and dumpster requests from the customer portal.
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Fleet Management
Maintenance, compliance, inspections, and vehicle tracking.
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GPS Tracking
Plug-in trackers for the trucks, battery tags for the units, and an alert when a unit leaves its pin.
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Business Phone
A real business line with an IVR, ring groups, voicemail, and recording. Click to dial, ring your cell, and every call logs itself on the customer.
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Team Management
Roles, the time clock, and the credentials about to expire.
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Hiring
A careers page, an application built for CDL drivers, and a Hire button that turns the applicant into a team member.
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Payroll
W-2 and 1099 payroll inside PortaPro. In beta, rolling out in stages.
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Reporting & Analytics
Gallons by disposal site, overdue sites, and reports on your billing cycle.
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Septic Service
The tank on the customer's record, pump-out dates predicted, and every septic report form, from pumping to real estate transfer, shipped and attached to the job.
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Learn & Discover

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ROI Calculator
Estimate time, labor, fuel, and cost savings with PortaPro.
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Route Efficiency Simulator
See how optimized routing can increase weekly service stops.
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Dumpster Weight Calculator
Estimate debris weight and the roll-off size it needs.

Support & Training

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Support
Submit a request, email our team, or book a call.
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Help Centeropen_in_new
Guides, documentation, and step-by-step setup resources.
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Our Promise
Why we refuse to let software get worse over time.

GPS Asset & Vehicle Tracking

How GPS tracking works
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Unit tracking device
A sealed battery tag inside the unit. It reports when the unit moves, and the battery lasts five to seven years.
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Vehicle tracker
Plugs into the truck's OBD-II port. Live location, plus odometer and fuel on supported trucks.

Solutions

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In the Field
A service day from the yard to the invoice, and where each job goes wrong.
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Portable toilet operators
Same-day missed stops, proof for every stop, and rate card invoices.
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Septic operators
Pump-outs predicted from the tank, and the county's own forms filled from the job.
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Grease trap service
Each trap on its own cadence, and the FOG 25% rule measured.
Roll-off haulers
Days past term, tons over the allowance, and landfill fees on one final invoice.
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Tent and party rentals
A tent booked by size, packages as one line, every chair checked in.
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Event and festival operators
A site plan on the quote, and a weekend priced as a weekend.
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Municipal contracts
Invoices before the period with the PO printed, and a record of every park visit.
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Multi-location operators
Several yards, service territories, divisions, and roles in one account.
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Celebration Cards Overview

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A Celebration Card is one group greeting card that your whole team signs. You

create the card once, share one link, and everyone adds a message (and a GIF

if they like) from whatever device they have. The person being celebrated gets

one email that opens the finished card. Drivers who are never in the office can

sign from the cab.

Where to find it

Click Celebrate in the main navigation. It sits in the Management &

Admin group, between Marketing and Reports, and its page lists your

cards. Settings for birthday reminders are in Settings → Cards & Birthdays,

and the gift card connection is in Settings → Gift Cards (both in the

Customers & Growth group of Settings).

Who can use it

  • Plan: Growth and above. On a lower plan the page shows an upgrade prompt.
  • Office staff only: owners, admins and dispatchers see Celebrate. Drivers,
  • mechanics and portal customers never see it.

  • Anyone can sign. Signing needs no login and no PortaPro account. Anyone
  • who has a card's signature link can add a message.

    The Celebrate page

    The page has two tabs at the top:

  • Scheduled: every card that hasn't been sent yet, whether it is still
  • collecting signatures or has a send time set.

  • Sent: cards already delivered. A Sent between filter narrows the
  • list (Last 30 days, Last 90 days, Last 12 months, or pick dates).

    Search finds cards by title, recipient or occasion. Create card starts a

    new one. On the right, Upcoming birthdays lists team and customer contact

    birthdays in the next 30 days, each with its own Create card button. See

    Birthdays and Reminders.

    The three links

    Most questions about cards come down to which link someone has.

  • The signature link. You share this with the team. Anyone holding it can
  • add a message. It shows the card, the message box and every message so far.

    It never shows the recipient's email address or the gift card.

  • The recipient link. This is what the person being celebrated gets by
  • email when the card is sent. It shows the finished card and, if you attached

    one, the button to claim their gift card.

  • The gift card link. Made by Tremendous and placed inside the recipient's
  • card. Treat it like cash. See Gift Cards.

    The signature and recipient links can't be guessed, and having the link is

    what gives access. That is why a driver can sign without an account, and why

    you should only send the recipient link to the recipient.

    Card status

    StatusWhat it means
    CollectingThe card is open and the signature link works. No send time is set, so you send it by hand.
    ScheduledSame as Collecting, but a send date and time is set. Signatures keep coming in until it goes out.
    SentThe card was emailed. A sent card is frozen: no new signatures, no design edits, no message removals.

    Freezing is deliberate. The recipient has already seen the card, so it must

    not change afterwards.

    What a card is made of

  • A recipient: a team member, a customer contact, or someone else you type
  • in by hand.

  • An occasion: one of twelve. It sets the emoji, the starting title and
  • subtitle, and the starting theme.

  • A title and subtitle: written for you, editable until the card is sent.
  • A header photo (optional) across the top of the card.
  • A theme and background. See Cover Photos and Card Design.
  • Messages: up to 500, each with a name, up to 2,000 characters, and an
  • optional GIF or sticker.

  • A gift card (optional). See Gift Cards.
  • What it is not

  • Not a marketing tool. A card goes to one named person, not a list. For bulk
  • customer email, use Marketing.

  • Not anonymous. Every message carries the name the signer typed.
  • Not recurring. Each card is sent once. Birthday reminders prompt you every
  • year so you can make the next one.

    Related articles

  • Creating a Card
  • Collecting Signatures
  • Sending and Scheduling
  • Troubleshooting
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