Launch your valet trash business on professional software
Valet trash is one of the few businesses you can start with a vest, a route, and a handful of contracts — and most of your future competitors still run on spreadsheets. Start with the systems established operators use, from night one.
$8–15
Typical billing per door, per month*
$25–35
What residents pay for the amenity*
Monthly
Recurring revenue from every door
Low
Startup costs — no fleet, no warehouse
Why valet trash?
Recurring revenue with long contracts
Published industry pricing guides put operator billing at roughly $8–15 per door per month on multi-year contracts. At the middle of that range, a single 200-unit community is worth over $2,000 a month — five communities and you have a real business.
Low startup costs
No expensive equipment, no warehouse, no fleet. Your primary costs are branded containers, porter wages, and software. You can start with one property and grow organically.
You can out-professionalize the incumbents
The largest national providers carry pages of public complaints about missed pickups and unreachable support. Property managers actively want a provider who shows up, answers the phone, and proves the work — a local operator with real verification wins those conversations.
Proof is your sales pitch
The national providers taught property managers to demand photo verification and nightly reporting. Walk into your first pitch with the same technology story — photo proof of service and a branded morning report — and you compete on service, not on company size.
*Ranges from published industry pricing guides; your market may vary.
Start with the right foundation
Most valet trash startups begin with spreadsheets and scale into chaos. Doorstep One gives you day-one access to the same tools that established operators use — so you can scale without rebuilding.
- Professional morning reports from your first night
- Photo-verified service that wins property manager trust
- Mobile app so simple your porters learn it in minutes
- Route management that grows with you
Win your first contracts
Property managers evaluate providers on reliability, reporting, and professionalism. Walk into your first pitch with a real morning report: send them the sample, then show them their own on your first night.
- Demo-ready platform for property manager pitches
- Professional reporting from night one
- A free login for every property manager you serve
- Violation management that shows operational maturity
What your property managers get
Every property manager you serve gets the morning report automatically and their own free login, with last night inside their community on a map and every photo pinned where it was taken.
- The morning report, automatically, once the night’s routes are done
- Last night on a map, clipped to their community
- A one-page PDF for every violation
- Any past night in Service Activity
Everything you need to launch and grow
From your first property to your fiftieth, the platform scales with you.
Route Builder
Create routes as you onboard new properties.
Porter App
Hand your porters a phone, not a training manual. English and Spanish.
Client Reports
Look like an established operator from night one.
Team Management
Assign routes and manage your team as it grows.
Property Onboarding
Your first route, ready in under 10 minutes.
Proof of Service
Time- and GPS-stamped photos on the units and service points you choose, and geofence checks, from night one.
Ready to build your valet trash business?
Talk to our team about how Doorstep One can be your competitive advantage from day one.
Or start your free trial now. Your first month is free, and no card is required.