Tally is the custom system we built for Contento's container & recycling business in New York — customer requests, driver dispatch, container tracking, weighing and scrap, billing prep and DEC compliance in one desktop app. It's exclusive to Contento's, and it's shown here as an example of what we build.
Every release ships with plain‑English notes inside the app. The full build story
Each stage writes to the same records, so the weight a driver confirms in the field is the weight the billing worksheet reads that afternoon.
A customer calls, or asks through the portal. It lands on a delivery sheet — multi‑container, editable, with demo and direct‑landfill support.
Drag jobs onto a driver's lane or timeline. Multi‑container sheets split into per‑container tasks, each crossed off on its own.
Pickup → dumped → weighed. Drivers confirm weight, destination and yard from the cab through the same record the office uses.
Tipping, trucking, fuel surcharge and add‑on fees total on a per‑sheet worksheet. Mark it invoiced with a QuickBooks number when it's out the door.
Real screens from Tally 1.60. Every screen opens on what needs doing next, and stays dense where you're reading numbers mid‑task.
Every driver gets a column, every job a card. Drag it to the time you want it run, or onto “no time” to hold the driver without committing to a slot.
The sheets page opens on what needs doing: cans waiting to be assigned, then everything on site, longest out first.
Every customer gets a home: who to call, which cans are on which site, what's waiting to be billed and everything that's happened.
Supply against demand for every container size, so the office can say yes to a job with confidence or see a shortfall coming.
Customer requests from the portal and problems from the driver's phone land in one inbox, sliding over whatever screen the office is on.
Screenshots use a fictional training yard; no real customer data is shown.
The parts of a yard that usually live in a second program, a spreadsheet or a binder, on the same records as everything else.
Twenty-one releases in three weeks: the busiest screens rebuilt around what needs doing next, rental time counted for you, and invoices you can trace line by line.
Every job site with a can on it, pinned and coloured by what needs attention first — or today's run as numbered stops in each driver's colour, in run order.
Days on site against the sheet's free days, for every can. What's still to bill is flagged, and the rental fee goes on in one click.
Everything a customer owes on one card, laid out like the QuickBooks invoice it becomes — then kept in an invoice history, line by line, with voids and the reason why.
The dashboard opens on today's deliveries, drivers' progress, loads waiting on the scale and rental to bill. Type "weigh" or "new sheet" and press Enter to go straight there.
A separate, customer-facing site on the company's own domain. Each customer signs in and sees their own account — nothing else.
A separate, deliberately small page — none of the office app's weight — installed to the home screen as My Run, and rebuilt in October around the one stop that matters now.
Each companion is its own small app pointed at the same Tally server — installed only on the desks that need it, updated from the server like everything else.
Tally is a desktop app that hosts its own API and web UI. Staff reach it from the client shell or a browser; drivers add My Run to a phone; customers visit the portal.
Because every material is picked from a catalog mapped to a DEC waste category, the annual filings classify correctly without a reconciliation pass at year‑end — and split by yard when there's more than one.
Tally is exclusive to Contento's. But we build custom software like it for other businesses, shaped around how you work and quoted on scope.