Impound & Storage Software Pricing: What a Towing Company Should Pay
Software for a towing company should pay for itself out of storage revenue alone. If it keeps you from losing a handful of storage days a month, it has covered its cost. The question is how much to pay, and how the pricing is structured.
Starting a Storage Lot: What to Set Up Before the First Car Comes In was about opening a lot. This article is about what you should spend to run one.
What You Are Paying For
For storage work, the software needs to do a few things well: start every stored vehicle from a call with a pickup and a drop-off at your lot, hold vehicle details and driver photos, keep a storage start date and daily storage rate on each vehicle, count the storage days onto the invoice, keep accounts with their calls and invoices, send texts to owners and take payments.
TowingBossPro does all of that alongside dispatch, the driver app, the customer app, invoicing, reports, tags, custom fields and CSV import. Storage lives in the same system that runs your calls, not in a separate spreadsheet.
Be wary of software that treats storage as an afterthought, where you track stored vehicles in one place and invoice them in another. Every handoff between two systems is a chance for a storage day to go missing. The value of having it in one system is that the record and the bill are the same thing.
The Per-User Trap
Many software products charge per user. That sounds fair until you count the people at a towing company: drivers on every shift, dispatchers, the release clerk, the yard person, the owner and the bookkeeper. A per-user price that looks cheap for one person adds up quickly across a whole crew, and it pushes you to share logins or leave people out of the system.
Leaving people out is the expensive part. A driver who is not in the app does not take photos. A night clerk without a login does not record the release. TowingBossPro is never billed per user, so everyone can be in the system.
It also matters as you grow. Adding a truck usually means adding a driver. Adding a second shift means adding dispatch and release staff. With per-user pricing, every one of those decisions costs more software on top of payroll. Without it, you hire for the work and the software bill stays put.
TowingBossPro Plans
There are three plans:
- Start: $59 a month.
- Pro: $89 a month.
- Crew: $199 a month.
Every plan comes with a 14-day free trial and no credit card required to start. Compare what each plan includes on the pricing page and pick the one that matches your company.
How to Judge the Value
Do the math with your own lot. Look at how many vehicles you store in a month, your average daily rate, and how many storage days you think get missed, discounted without a record or never billed. Even a small improvement covers the cost of a plan many times over.
Add the time saved: phone calls answered faster, release windows that run on a finished invoice, account invoices that follow up on their own. Those hours are worth something too.
Be careful comparing prices. A low monthly number can come with setup fees, per-user charges or paid add-ons for features you need. Compare what you will actually pay for the whole team to use everything you need, not just the headline price.
Questions to Ask Any Vendor
Whatever software you look at, ask the same questions:
- Does every stored vehicle carry its own storage start date and daily rate?
- Are storage days counted onto the invoice, or do we add them by hand?
- Can drivers take vehicle photos that stay with the call?
- Do commercial accounts keep their calls and invoices together?
- Can owners pay online before they come to the lot?
- Will adding drivers or office staff raise the monthly bill?
The answers tell you more than any feature list. Software that makes you count storage days on a calendar has not solved the problem that costs lots the most money.
Try It on Real Vehicles
The best test is your own lot. During the free trial, enter a few real stored vehicles with their start dates and daily rates, run a couple of calls through the driver app with photos, and build the invoices. You will know quickly whether it fits how you work.
See everything storage-related on the Impound & Storage Software page. The final article puts it all together as a week at the lot.
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