One job, start to finish
You touch it once.
SkipOS does the rest.
Here is a single skip going out and coming back, the way it happens on an ordinary Tuesday. Everything below is in the product today.
- 1
The customer books
They do itYou get your own booking page. A builder can put his job in at half past six in the evening while you are having supper, and it arrives with the address, the skip size and the dates already on it.
- Your skip sizes, your hire periods, your prices
- Works on a phone, no app for them to install
- You can still take a booking by phone in under a minute
- 2
A skip gets held against the job
AutomaticThe booking takes a skip out of your available list the moment it is made, so you cannot promise the same bin to two people on the same morning.
- Waste type and travel zone priced in automatically
- Collection date worked out from the hire period
- Repeat customers fill in from two letters of their name
- 3
Your driver opens his run sheet
You do itNot a phone call at ten past six. He opens his phone and sees today: what is going out, what is coming back, and anything already late, in red at the top.
- Drops and collections in one list
- Tap to mark a job done as he goes
- Nothing to learn — if he can use WhatsApp he can use this
- 4
The customer gets told
You do itSkipOS writes the message when the skip is on its way, and again before collection day. You send it with one tap from your own WhatsApp. Most of the calls you take are people asking where their skip is, and this is what stops them.
- Sent from your own WhatsApp number
- Written for you — confirmation, reminder, overdue, review
- You press send, so nothing goes out that you have not seen
- 5
Invoice out, money tracked
AutomaticThe invoice goes with the booking instead of on a Friday when you remember. Payments get recorded against it, and the month adds itself up.
- Printable tax invoice, VAT broken out if you are registered
- Cash, EFT or card — see at a glance who still owes you
- Chase everyone who is overdue in one go
Five ordinary bad mornings
You have run the business a long time without this. These are the situations where it earns its keep — and if none of them sound like your week, it is honestly not worth your R499.
The bin nobody remembered
How it goes now
A 6 cube went out on the 3rd for a week. It is the 22nd. Nobody rang, nobody logged it, and it is still standing on a driveway in Bothasig earning nothing. You find out when the customer phones to ask if you have forgotten about it.
With SkipOS
It turned red on your run sheet on the 11th and stayed there every morning until you dealt with it. Late jobs do not scroll away.
On a R1,050 week, eleven idle days is about R1,650 of hire you could have sold to somebody else. That is three months of SkipOS, on one forgotten bin.
A booking while you are on the road
How it goes now
Your phone rings at ten past four on the N1. You cannot write, so you try to hold the address in your head until the next stop. Sometimes it survives the trip.
With SkipOS
He books on your own page — his address, the size, the dates, in his handwriting rather than your memory. It is on your run sheet before you have parked.
The bookings you take are the ones you can still read on Friday.
The same builder, third skip this month
How it goes now
You take his name, his number and the site address again. He spells the street again. You write it in the book again, slightly differently, and now he is in there three times.
With SkipOS
Two letters of his name brings him up with his number, how many jobs he has had and where the last one went. One tap fills all three.
Most skip hire is the same handful of builders. This is most of your bookings.
Month end, and what has not been billed
How it goes now
You go through the book looking for jobs that never made it onto an invoice. You find most of them. The ones you miss are gone for good, because nobody is going to spot a skip that was never charged for.
With SkipOS
One screen: every job that has gone out and not been billed, oldest first, with the total. Raise it in QuickBooks, Sage or wherever you already work, tick it off, and put the invoice number in.
SkipOS does not replace your accounting. It stops work falling through the gap in front of it.
The quote that has to come out right
How it goes now
A 4 cube, mixed waste, out past Melkbos, and there is diesel to think about. You do the sum in your head while he waits, and you either round down and lose it or round up and lose him.
With SkipOS
Pick the size, the waste type and the area. Your fuel surcharge is already on it. The price is on screen with every line shown, so he can see what he is paying for.
The customer sees a breakdown instead of a number you had to defend.
The bit that is easy to miss
Every SkipOS account comes with its own booking page, from the day you sign up. It carries your business name, your skip sizes, your hire periods and your prices — not ours.
A customer opens it, picks a size, types their own address and chooses the dates. It lands on your dashboard as a request. Nothing is booked and no skip is committed until you accept it, so you are never surprised by a job you cannot do.
Three things that quietly matter. The address is spelt the way they meant it, because they typed it. It takes bookings at half past nine at night, when the alternative is a missed call and a job that goes to somebody else. And the same link goes on your website and in your Google listing, so people can book you without phoning at all.
If you would rather not put it on a website, use it one customer at a time: when somebody phones for a quote, tap Send booking form on your dashboard, type their number, and it reaches them on WhatsApp while you are still talking to them.
Is it worth it at my size?
Under about five skips — probably not yet. A whiteboard and a good memory genuinely cope at that size, and you would be paying for a problem you do not have.
Six to twenty — this is where it is built for. Enough bins that you cannot hold them all in your head, not enough staff that anyone else is holding them either.
Twenty and up — you are probably already running something, or you have someone in the office doing it by hand. Worth a demo to compare.
What it will not do
SkipOS is built around hire — a skip that goes out, stands on a site, and comes back. If you run fixed collection rounds, where the same bins go out and return on a route every week, the fit is not right yet and I would rather tell you now than have you find out after you have paid.
Route order is a suggestion, not a road plan. Your driver can tap to put the day in route order — nearest stop next, measured in a straight line from where he is — but it does not know about one-way streets or trips back to the tip, and he can switch it off and drive his own way.
Have a look with your own skips in it
Plans start at R499 a month. No contract — cancel any time in the app — and you can export everything you put in if you decide against it. Adding your fleet takes a few minutes.