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A tanker on a septic pump-out in the UK

Booking software for septic and grease trap emptying in the UK.

The tanker holds what it holds, and the works you tip at closes before you finish. It is a shame no calendar knows either of those things.

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  • The disposal run counted inside the job length
  • After-hours slots for traps, daytime slots for households
  • The day sequenced so the depot run lands before closing
  • Tank size, lid location and last service kept on the site

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Booked into a gap the tanker can take

Households take the daytime slots and kitchens the late ones, and every job carries the tipping run inside it, so a fourth empty is never offered.

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A household pump-out priced from a real gap in the truck run.
New bookingAvailable
ServiceSeptic pump-out · from A$400
WhereAcreage property · Chorlton
DateFri 22 Aug · 9:00am
Priced instantlyFrom A$400

Smart scheduling

A round that still reaches the works

Jobs sit in driving order with their real duration, so you can see whether the last tank leaves you the road to tip before the gates shut.

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A day on the schedule's calendar, with three jobs placed on a vertical time grid at the times they run.
Wednesday1 Jul
3 jobs
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
09:00 · Didsbury
Septic pump-out
11:00 · Chorlton
Septic pump-out
22:00 · Ancoats
Grease trap pump-out

The day ends when the tanker fills.

Three large tanks and the barrel is full. A fourth booking is not more work, it is a promise that unravels at two in the afternoon.

  • The tipping run is inside the job

    Make the duration the whole task rather than the pumping, and the calendar holds the road time instead of assuming the barrel empties itself.

  • Move it and the round moves

    Drag an empty to tomorrow and everything behind it follows, and the driver has the new time before you have put the phone down.

  • Free on every plan

    Moving work around the day costs nothing at all. Filling the hole the move leaves behind is the part that sits on Pro.

A month calendar with booking dots marking the busy days, the way venue and hire availability is read across weeks.
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Night traps, daytime tanks.

A kitchen cannot be pumped out during service and a household does not want you there at midnight. They are two different products, not one product with a note on it.

  • Two services, two sets of hours

    Trap work carries its own availability, so a restaurant only ever sees the late slots and a homeowner only ever sees the morning ones.

  • The cycle books itself

    Recurring visits are free on every plan. Set the interval once and the trap keeps landing on the calendar with its access time on it.

  • Each job as long as it really is

    A level check is twenty minutes and a full tank is most of a morning. Duration is per service, so neither has to pretend to be the other.

A list of bookings with the week's totals, each job showing the customer, suburb, service, time, price and a status dot.
This week56 jobs
Booked value£19,820
  • Mason King · ChorltonEmergency call-out · Wed · 3:30pm£180
  • Ava Baker · AncoatsCallout +1 · Wed · 1:00pm£560
  • Grace Walker · ManchesterRepair visit · Wed · 11:30am£120
  • Amelia Ryan · ChorltonSecond visit · Tue · 2:00pm£190
A booking request inside a message thread, answered with accept or decline without leaving the conversation.
LDLiam Docherty

The tank is right up and there is a smell in the yard. It was last done about four years ago, I think. Anything today or tomorrow?

Booking request
Septic pump-out
Sun 17 Aug · 7:10am · Sale
AcceptDecline

Nothing left on the tanker until Thursday.

A full tank is not a scheduling preference. The enquiry still arrives, with the property and the problem on it, ready for the first genuine gap.

A household pump-out priced from a real gap in the truck run.
New bookingAvailable
ServiceSeptic pump-out · from A$400
WhereAcreage property · Chorlton
DateFri 22 Aug · 9:00am
Priced instantlyFrom A$400

The one that booked itself overnight.

A household pump-out picked a slot at eleven at night, took the address and the tank details with it, and was on the run before you opened the laptop.

A timeline of a customer's past jobs, quotes and payments.
Site record6 visits
  • 4 MarSeptic pump-outTank clear · baffle sound
  • 4 MarReport sentAttached to the site
  • 11 FebLevel checkNot due yet
  • 2 SepLid raised to gradeNo digging next time

What you knew about that tank in 2023.

Where the lid is, whether it has to be dug out, what the baffle looked like last time and every visit since. Read before the truck leaves the yard, not after.

Every tank you empty

Built for households, kitchens and the ones that will not wait

Domestic septic tank emptying

The yearly or two-yearly empty on a property off the mains. Daytime, unremarkable, and reliably further down the lane than expected.

Restaurant grease trap emptying

Work that only happens once the kitchen has closed. A separate service with its own hours, its own price and usually its own account.

Cesspool emptying

No treatment, no discharge, just volume, which makes the interval a matter of how many people are in the house. Recurring, and often urgent.

Package treatment plant servicing

The scheduled service on a small plant. Shorter than an empty, priced as its own job, and due whether or not anyone has noticed.

Emergency overflows

A tank up and over on a Sunday afternoon. It goes to the front of the round, and everybody displaced behind it has to be told.

Fat, oil and grease collections

Regular collections from kitchens on a fixed cycle, where the value is turning up on the night you said you would, every month.

Pre-sale tank reports

An empty and an inspection before completion, with something in writing the solicitor can pass along. Sent from the job, not typed up on Sunday.

Holiday park and site tanks

Tanks that fill by season rather than by date, so the visit is booked against the round rather than pinned to a day months ahead.

Soakaway investigations

The tank that keeps needing the tanker because the ground has stopped taking it. Quoted as a survey first and a repair second.

School and village hall systems

Larger systems on a term cycle, invoiced to a committee that would like a numbered document and a date beside it, please.

A map with three service areas shaded over a street grid, and a list of territories beneath, each a group of counties with its crew.
  • Ancoats8 counties · 2 crew
  • Prestwich7 counties · 2 crew
  • Manchester North7 counties · 2 crew

How far the tanker goes for one tank.

A single tank ninety minutes out is an afternoon rather than a job. Draw the line once, the booking page keeps it, and anyone beyond it can still ask.

A booking request from outside the service area, flagged before it is accepted.
New requestOut of area
Danny Prasad
Callout · Balmain

Past your coverage. Decline politely, or make an exception.

The one that sits outside it.

Flagged before it is accepted, so the long haul is a decision you make in the morning rather than something you discover at the second gate.

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The gap that is worth having.

A cancelled trap leaves a hole at eleven at night. Whether it is worth filling depends entirely on where the next tank happens to be.

  • Slots scored on the driving, with Pro

    Open slots are ranked by the extra road they add to the round you already have, so the sensible ones get offered before the daft ones.

  • Nothing is reordered behind you

    The round you built is the round that stands. Ranking decides what is offered next; it never rearranges what you have already promised.

A day with 3 stops drawn on a map and listed in the order they're scheduled, with the travel time between each.
Today, in scheduled order3 stops
  1. 1Septic pump-outDidsbury09:00
    ~9 min
  2. 2Septic pump-outChorlton11:00
    ~6 min
  3. 3Grease trap pump-outAncoats22:00
Back to base

Empty it, or empty it and find the fault.

A tank filling twice a year is telling you about the soakaway. Put the empty, the baffle and the investigation on one document and let them choose.

  • Three answers on one quote, with Pro

    Options on a quote sit on Pro. Tick the outlet filter or the survey and the figure moves as they read it, which saves the second quote and the phone call chasing it.

  • Priced by the line, not from memory

    Quantity against rate on every line, so the empty, the second chamber and the extra hose add up the same way on a lane as at the desk.

  • Access is its own line

    Lifting a cover out of a lawn and running eighty metres of hose is work, and a line of its own is what stops the total looking invented.

  • The quote keeps its number

    Document numbering is set once and does not move afterwards, so the quote you sent and the invoice behind it trace to one another.

A restaurant grease trap contract, itemised and ready to send.
Estimate #1042
Gemma Whitfield
Sent
  • Grease trap pump-outMonthly · after hours£420
  • Disposal runIncluded in job length£0
  • Compliance docketPer visit£40
Total£460

Paid before you load the hose.

A domestic empty chased by post is a fortnight of nobody doing anything. A restaurant on account is different work. Both close out from the job.

  • Cash and transfer are free

    Record what came in against the job on any plan. The free plan does not stand between you and payment for a tank already emptied.

  • Cards come with Pro

    Send the link while the reel is still turning and watch it clear. No terminal in the cab, and no invoice quietly ageing in a door pocket.

  • Staged, where the job warrants it

    A soakaway repair can carry its own payment request on Pro. Those sit after the booking rather than at the moment a date is chosen.

A list of payments, each with the customer, reference, date, method and amount, with totals received and still outstanding.
Received£4,310
Outstanding£3,840
  • Gemma WhitfieldP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer£380
  • Danny OkoroP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash£240
  • Aisha PatelP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card£380
  • Liam DochertyP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card£190

One app for the whole job

Everything you need to run your septic and grease trap work business.

Scheduling

Every empty carries its real length with the tipping run inside it, so the round reserves the driving as well as the time spent at the cover.

Bookings

Septic tanks, cesspools, traps and plants in one list, each carrying its type, its access notes and the hours the work is allowed to happen in.

Online booking

One page doing two jobs: householders pick from daytime slots, kitchens pick from late ones, and neither is shown the other set at all.

Inbox

The overflow call, the restaurant chasing its monthly date and the solicitor wanting a report, one thread per site rather than three phones.

Estimates

Empty, access work and soakaway repair sit on separate lines, so the digger hire is never quietly read as part of the tanker price.

Customers

The tank you emptied two winters ago sits on the same record as the smell they rang about this morning, cover location and notes included.

Territories

Draw how far you will take a tanker for one tank, so a job the far side of the works cannot book itself into a Tuesday without you seeing it.

Team

The second driver reads the notes you wrote about the lane and the gate, so nobody arrives at a locked yard with no code and no signal.

Payments

Cash and transfer recorded by hand on any plan. Cards come with Pro, so a domestic empty is settled before the hose is back on the reel.

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Common questions.

Set the service to the length the job genuinely takes, tipping run included. The calendar reserves the whole block and declines anything that overlaps it, so the slot is never offered.

They can. Trap work and domestic tanks run as separate services with their own availability, so a restaurant sees the eleven at night slots and a householder sees the morning ones.

Recurring bookings are free on every plan. Set the interval once and the trap keeps reappearing on the calendar with its access time and its notes already on it.

On the property. Tank type, where the cover is, whether it needs lifting out of a lawn, the last three visits and anything you noted about the soakaway sit on one record.

No, and it would be unwise of us to pretend otherwise: the rules differ across the UK and they are yours to hold. What it does is keep a dated record per site, with your notes and files attached.

Cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand on every plan, free included. Card payments come with Pro, so a domestic empty is settled before the hose is back on the reel.

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