Skiplog vs Waste & Recycling One (ISB Global): one yard or a whole group

Waste & Recycling One is a product name associated with ISB Global, and that is as far as our research goes. We have not captured a quoted description from their own site in this research run, so nothing on this page tells you what their product does, costs or supports. Where the table below has a gap, that gap is in our research, not in their software, and their site is the place to settle it.

Skiplog is narrower on purpose. It is a waste record for one permitted site, made for skip yard and transfer station operators with one to twenty staff, where the person doing the paperwork is often also the person weighing the loads.

The decision in plain terms

This is our own way of framing the choice, not a claim about any named vendor. Software bought by waste operators tends to come in one of two shapes.

• A system meant to run the business. The shape a group buys: scheduling, hauliers, containers, weighbridge, invoicing and reporting sitting together, usually configured for you during an implementation project. We are describing a category, not crediting any particular product with those features. Ask each vendor what theirs actually does.
• A record meant to stand up to an inspection. The transfer note, the EWC code, the tonnage, the carrier details, the destination site, and the quarterly return that comes out of them.

A group with several sites, a transport office and a finance team normally needs the first, and will accept the setup work and the project timeline that comes with it. A single yard with a weighbridge, a few lorries and a manager who catches up on paperwork at the kitchen table normally needs the second, and cannot afford to stop work for an implementation.

Skiplog only tries to be the second. It creates a digital waste transfer note with the EA-mandated fields, waste type, EWC code, quantity, carrier details and destination site, on a phone or tablet in the cab in under two minutes. Notes save to the device first, show a queued, syncing or synced status you can see, and sync on their own when signal comes back. It tracks your carrier, broker and dealer registrations with their expiry dates and emails a reminder for anything inside 30 days. The quarter comes out as a one-click CSV in a column layout you set, so the file matches the columns your area office asks for instead of needing an afternoon of reformatting. A site dashboard shows the notes logged, tonnage by waste type and a compliance status overview, so the manager can tell at a glance what the quarter looks like.

The people side has moved on since the first version of this page. The weighbridge and the office no longer have to share one login: you add accounts for the people on your site, invite them by email, and every note names who wrote it. There are two plans, both covering one site with unlimited transfer notes and unlimited tracked registrations, both starting with a 60-day free trial. The figures are in the table below.

A comparison page is only worth reading if the facts in it are facts. We have first-party knowledge of Skiplog because we build it. We do not have a quoted, dated statement from ISB Global about Waste & Recycling One, and an internal estimate of another company's price is not evidence. Publishing a number we cannot show you would be the fastest way to lose your trust, and it would be unfair to them.

The same rule cuts our way. Our plans and our data handling are now written down, so they sit in the table rather than being withheld: two plans, one site each, unlimited notes and unlimited tracked registrations, a 60-day free trial on both, billing through Stripe with card details never reaching us, and a named list of the three services that touch your records.

For the avoidance of doubt, we are also naming what we do not have: no independent security audit or penetration test, no ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials or any other certification, no single sign-on, no two-factor authentication, no signed data processing agreement, and no stated backup retention schedule once an account is deleted. If any of those is a condition of purchase for your group, that is a reason to look at a larger vendor and ask them for the paperwork, and the security page here sets out the whole list in one place.

So treat the other column as a list of things to put to the vendor before you sign anything, which is how you should treat every vendor's own comparison page, including this one. Take the six questions below into the call, write the answers down, and you will have a real comparison inside an hour.

Choose a broader operational platform

If you run more than one site, or a fleet with real routing decisions, or you are trying to get jobs, containers, weighbridge and invoicing into one place, a single-purpose record keeping tool is the wrong shape. You will end up with the compliance record in one system and the commercial side in another, and someone re-keying between them. Groups buy integrated systems for a reason, and the implementation cost buys something real: one version of the numbers. If that is your shape, put Waste & Recycling One on the shortlist and get ISB Global's own description, their own price and their own timeline, then judge it against the others on equal terms. A Skiplog subscription covers one site, so a group of yards is not what it is for, and the page on multiple sites says so plainly.

Choose Skiplog

If you have one permitted site, a manager who is also the weighbridge operator, and the thing keeping you awake is whether the transfer notes and the quarterly return will hold up, Skiplog is built for exactly that. It does not schedule jobs, it does not invoice, it does not track containers. It captures a transfer note with the EA-mandated fields at the weighbridge, in under two minutes on a phone or tablet, keeps saving when the signal goes, tracks when your carrier, broker and dealer registrations run out, and turns the quarter into a CSV in the column layout you have set.

The trade-off is real and worth saying out loud. A narrow tool means a second system for the commercial side, and a paper diary or a spreadsheet may still run your bookings. In return you are not paying for routing engines and finance modules, there is nothing to implement, and the first transfer note is a form on a tablet rather than the end of a project plan. Sign-in is an email address and a password, the office and the weighbridge get an account each, the records sit on Amazon Web Services, and the subscription runs through Stripe. The money side is in the table above, and the pricing page sets out both plans in full. If you want to know what happens to the records when a trial lapses or a subscription ends, there is a page on that too.

If you are earlier in the process and still mapping the market, the guide to choosing waste tracking software for a small permitted site walks through the questions in order, the alternatives page lists the other shapes of answer, and the page on the government's own service explains what you get for nothing before any of this is worth paying for.