Instead of AMCS Wastedge
Stop renting AMCS Wastedge. Own your waste collection system.
For skip bin, commercial collection and demolition waste operators in Australia and New Zealand. We build your version around how your yard and your trucks run, bring your Wastedge customers, sites, services and bins across, and run it for you for one setup fee, then a monthly retainer that does not grow with every truck you add.
AMCS publishes no price for Wastedge. It is sold as an enterprise platform after a demo, with the weighbridge, the customer portals and payments as further modules, so the bill is whatever your quote and your renewal say.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What you pay for
What the Wastedge bill is really for
Wastedge is priced privately and sold in modules. Most of what the bill buys is screens over records that are already yours: customers, bins, jobs and dockets.
A price you only see after a demo
There is no public price list. The number arrives in a quote, and the renewal is the vendor's to set.
Modules for jobs you already do
Collections, accounts receivable, the mobile workforce, the weighbridge, the portals and payments each sit in their own part of the platform.
Payments as an add-on
Taking card payments through the platform is a separate AMCS product connected to Wastedge, not part of the base.
Reports someone else designed
Bin movements, route operations and customer revenue are on the menu. Margin after the tip fee for each customer and each load is the question you still answer in a spreadsheet.
Screens over your own records
Customers, sites, bins, runs and tip dockets are your business's records. What you rent is the view over them.
A rent that never stops
Every year you trade, the system that holds your customers and your docket history is rented back to you.
What you get instead
One system you own, with the margin after every tip worked out
The margin
What every load leaves after the tip fee
Charges and costs from the same records: the hire, the tonnes over, the days over, and the docket.
- check Each customer's takings against their tip fees for any period, thinnest margin first
- check Every hire price checked against today's tip rate for the tonnes it includes, with the price that puts it back on target
- check A facility rate rise recorded once names every customer price it pushes under target
- check Ask which loads came in heaviest over what the bin includes and whether the excess was charged, which a revenue report cannot tell you
The yard and the trucks
Every bin, every run, every docket
The day planned from the records, and nothing marked done without the paper behind it.
- check Every bin out with its days, the days past what the hire covers, and whether a collection is booked
- check Run sheets per truck and driver, with each site's access notes and the paper each job needs
- check Missed front lifts stay on the morning list until someone rebooks them
- check A swap or collection with no tip docket is named the next morning, while the docket is still in the cab
The rules
Asbestos, road permits and licences checked before the truck leaves
The rules a Victorian waste operator lives under, built in as checks with their sources named.
- check Asbestos cannot go on a run, or be marked moved, without its EPA Waste Tracker record
- check Reportable priority waste goes only on a truck with a current EPA permission, and only to a facility licensed to take it
- check A skip cannot go on the road without a council permit covering the day, inside the window the council allows
- check No driver goes on a run their licence class does not cover, and no truck with lapsed registration
Billing and reports
Invoices from the dockets, reports from the tonnes
What the customer is charged follows what was weighed.
- check Draft invoices for every hire and every month of lifts, with the excess tonnes and extra days set out line by line
- check Contamination a driver noted is priced or waived before an invoice can be drafted
- check A branded waste and diversion report for every account customer, by month and stream
- check Overdue reminders, permit-ending notes and price review letters drafted for a person to send
Make it yours
Design your own AMCS Wastedge replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from AMCS Wastedge. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your AMCS Wastedge data across and run it for you.
What it looks like
Ask it like you would ask a colleague
Real answers from the demo data that ships with Waste Collection for Claude Code. It runs in Claude Code inside the Claude app, so it feels like any chat you already use.
Waste Collection for Claude Code
Connected to your own database
What needs my attention this morning?
Needs a decision, worst first
[1] RPW NO TRACKER H-2005 Harbourline Demolition Cheltenham Reportable priority waste (ASB) with no Waste Tracker record. Nothing moves until it has one.
[2] PERMIT EXPIRED H-2007 Jenny Marsh Highett On the road past its council permit (BAY-SKP-0921, ended 15 Oct). Collect it or renew the permit.
[2] ON HOLD BOOKED H-2009 Kowal Landscapes Moorabbin Booked for Mon 19 Oct but the customer is on credit hold: INV-2995 overdue.
[2] NO PERMIT H-2010 Ruth Okafor Brighton Going on the road Tue 20 Oct with no council permit recorded.
[3] OVER HIRE H-2007 Jenny Marsh Highett SK4 out 12 days, 5 past what the hire covers.
[3] MISSED LIFT L-SV-03-261013 Cheltenham Medical Centre Cheltenham Missed Tue 13 Oct (Gate locked). Not rebooked.
[3] NO TIP DOCKET J-H-2011-C Coastline Homes A collect done Fri 16 Oct with no tip docket: no tonnes, no excess, no cost.
[3] PERMIT ENDS H-2008 Arjun Patel Oakleigh
Ask it anything
Questions AMCS Wastedge cannot answer
Every one of these is a real question the demo answers today. Yours will be different, and that is the point.
Switching
How to switch from AMCS Wastedge
The move involves exporting the core lists, matching their fields, checking the test import, and deciding how much history to bring across.
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Export your core lists
From AMCS Wastedge, export your customer list, site list, scheduled services and bin register. Use the export format your account allows, usually CSV or Excel, and check with AMCS Wastedge if you are unsure what is available. Wastedge has no single published export layout, so the column names and structure may need to be matched before loading.
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Load a test run
Have the lists loaded into Waste Collection for Claude Code with a test run first. In plain terms, this checks how the records fit before they are added. The importer recognises common variations in column names, but your files still need to match what the system expects. If you have Enterprise DNA run the system, they handle this matching as part of the move.
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Review the flagged rows
Read the test results before loading the records for real. The importer names each row it could not read, so you can find missing or mismatched information and correct it rather than assuming everything came across. Customers, sites, scheduled services and the bin register are the lists that carry over. Enter tip rates from facility notices and prices from your current price list, since those start fresh.
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Run both systems briefly
Keep AMCS Wastedge running while you use the new system for a short period. Compare the records and day-to-day work in both, and check that the imported customers, sites, services and bins match what your team expects. Use this period to catch gaps in the data or rules before you rely on the new system alone. Do not switch off Wastedge until you are satisfied with the checks.
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Switch off Wastedge
Once your checks are complete and the new system is ready for your team, stop using AMCS Wastedge for live work. Keep any records or reports you need under your normal business record-keeping practices. Invoices are drafted from dockets in the new system, while sending invoices, taking payments and accounting remain in your accounts system.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually matching your own field names and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. The standard move covers customers, sites, scheduled services and the bin register. Tip rates and prices need to be entered fresh. If Enterprise DNA installs and runs the system for you, they handle the file matching and migration work.
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We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off AMCS Wastedge, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardThree ways to run it
Run it yourself, have it shaped to your yard, or have it run for you
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Clone the repo
- 2 npm run demo, then open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Type /attention
- 4 Import your Wastedge exports and point it at your own database
Built around your business
We customise it
One setup fee
- check Your bin sizes, streams, facilities, price lists and councils written in
- check Your Wastedge customers, sites, services and bins brought across, with the bins out today checked one by one
- check A driver screen in the cab, a link to your weighbridge, or a web front end for the office, if you want one
- check Handed over for your office to run
Omni by Enterprise DNA
We run it for you
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check Everything in the customised version, installed and connected
- check The morning list, run sheets, docket entry checks, billing runs and price reviews run for you
- check New trucks, facilities and tip rates added as you grow, with no fee per truck
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Centre, with the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of AMCS Wastedge, answered
Is the free version really free? expand_more
Yes. It is open source under the MIT licence. Run it on your own computer or your own database, change anything, and you never need an account with us.
What about the drivers? Wastedge has an app. expand_more
The free version has no driver app. Drivers bring back their dockets and notes and the office enters them by saying so, which most small yards already do. A driver screen in the cab, writing into the same records, is something Enterprise DNA builds into your version.
Does it connect to our weighbridge? expand_more
Not in the free version. Tonnes come off the docket the facility gives you. If you run your own transfer station or gatehouse, a feed from the scale is part of a custom build.
Can we bring our history across from Wastedge? expand_more
Customers, sites, scheduled services and the bin register come across from the lists Wastedge lets you download, with a test run first that names every row it could not read. Wastedge has no single export layout, so matching your files is part of the move. Tip rates and prices are entered fresh from the facility notices and your price list, because every margin rests on them.
Does it take payments or do our accounts? expand_more
No, on purpose. It drafts the invoices from the dockets and keeps track of what is owed. Sending invoices, taking payment and the books stay in your accounts system, and one export hands it the invoices.
Find out what Wastedge costs your yard each year
Bring your last Wastedge invoice or renewal. In 30 minutes Sam works out what you pay per year, what you actually use, and what one system you own would replace it with. If it is a fit, we build it and run it. If it is not, take the free version and run it yourself.
Waste Collection for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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