Roll Off Dumpster Service on Square pay $29/month — $348/year. Over three years, that's $1,168. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 9.6 months. The median Roll-Off Dumpster Operator earns $55,000/year, so Square's annual cost is roughly 0.6% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $1,168 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Roll Off Dumpster Service face unique challenges: I'm juggling a finite fleet of cans, so a customer who keeps a 20-yard for three weeks past the rental window is a container I can't deploy to a paying job. Dump fees are charged by weight at the landfill, so a box full of concrete or shingles blows my flat-rate quote and I eat the overage if I didn't tonnage-cap it. Placement is a fight: HOAs, narrow driveways, and overhead wires mean I can't always drop where the customer wants, and a cracked driveway is a claim. Every haul has a landfill scale ticket, and matching tonnage to the right customer for billing and for separating clean concrete from mixed waste is constant. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Roll-Off Dumpster Operator earns $55,000/year. Software at $348/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Roll-off truck with cable or hook hoist is yours. You bought it once. Nexa works the same way — $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting. All connected. All offline-capable. You own it like you own your tools.
Square is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Square | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $29/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $1,168 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most roll off dumpster service are fully switched before the weekend.
Go to Square Dashboard → Customers → Export. Also export transactions and item library.
15-minute setup. Import your customer list and service/product catalog.
Run both for 1-2 weeks. Test invoicing and booking through Nexa.
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My business is a fleet of steel boxes and a truck that can only carry one at a time, so the entire day is a swap-and-haul puzzle: drop an empty 20-yard at a roofing job, haul a full one to the landfill, come back with the empty, and slot the next delivery in between. The math that makes or breaks me is weight, because the landfill charges by the ton and a box full of shingles or busted concrete weighs three times what a garage cleanout does, so my flat quote needs a tonnage cap or I'm eating the overage. Every trip to the landfill comes back with a scale ticket, and that ticket has to land on the right customer or my billing falls apart and I can't tell clean concrete loads from mixed waste for the recycler. Placement is its own headache: a customer wants the can in front of the garage but there's a low wire, or it's an HOA that fines for street placement, or a tight driveway where I'll crack the concrete without plywood down. The slow killer is rental time, because a 30-yard sitting full at a customer's house for an extra two weeks is a container I can't rent to someone else. I run the route off the radio, chase the empties, and watch the clock on every can in the field.
Real roll off dumpster service near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a roll-off dumpster operator? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every roll-off dumpster operator on Nexa →
For solo operators and small teams (1-5), yes. Nexa includes invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting. Square may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Square is $29/month — that's $1,168 over 3 years. Which is more? And if you'd rather split it, Nexa is also available as 3 payments of $99.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
Export your data from Square as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $2,520/year on software — and Roll-Off Dumpster Operator face their own version of that math. CA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Fontana metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Roll Off Dumpster Service run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
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