TOWING SOFTWARE COMPARISON
Company Name: |
Beacon Software |
DENTED Development Inc. |
Ranger SST |
Towbook Management Software |
TXI Systems, Inc. |
VTS Systems (Vehicle Towing and Storage) |
Eemerg Roadside Assistance Marketplace |
FTI Groups Inc. |
Omadi, Inc. |
SSCS |
TowTrack Software |
Tracker Management Systems |
Transportation Information Systems |
Software Name: |
Dispatch Anywhere |
InTow Software Suite |
Ranger Tow Management Solution |
Towbook |
TOPS |
VTS Cloud, VTS PC Classic |
Eemerg Roadside Assistance Marketplace |
sureEcosystem Dispatch |
Omadi Core, Omadi Driver |
Digital Dispatch |
TowTrack |
Tracker, TrackerMobile, LotManager, Digital Dispatch |
Tow Management Systems |
Website: |
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Contact Name: |
Todd Althouse |
Dennis Thurlow |
Jim Shellhaas |
Kendall Smith |
Nathan Barker |
Drew Pestell / Lisa Perez |
Whitney McClendon-Gregory |
Rachel Blackburn |
Tony Fish |
Shon Allen |
Steve Whitten |
John David |
Henri Maramis |
Contact Phone Number: |
440-237-6653 |
(866)-706-2366 |
440-498-1495 |
810-320-5063 |
423-664-1309 |
877-374-7225 Ext. 2 |
1-866-247-9989 |
877-401-2345 |
801-921-9892 |
831-784-4773 |
772-223-5351 |
800-445-2438 |
1-818-563-2839 |
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OVERALL | |||||||||||||
Q1: Does your software address the following as standard or add-on features: |
-Accounting – standard |
-Accounting - yes |
- Accounting - Yes, full functionality including payment application and emailing of statements with a link to Quickbooks for Invoices and Payments |
- Accounting -Standard |
- Accounting – Yes, Onboard or QuickBooks |
- Accounting - Accounts receivable, driver commission, auto calculations, and reporting, but no accounts payable |
-Accounting-No |
- Accounting -Yes |
- Accounting - Yes |
- Accounting Yes |
- Accounting - Standard |
- Accounting Yes |
- Accounting -- Billing, report |
Q2: Does your software offer online training videos? |
YesYes, we have a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9GUl2m2LUWioXpiPQuX6UQ |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, over 40. |
Yes Yes, you can visit our YouTube channel at any time. |
Yes Yes |
No No. Real-time, personal one-on-one training and support. |
YesYes, In our service provider protagonists we have tutorials for service providers to get better acquainted with the platform. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, on support.omadi.com |
No No |
No No. We do live training one on one. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, separate link not in the software. |
Q3: Does your software allow for customizing of reports? |
Yes Yes, we have over 300 available reports |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
No No, standard reporting, full customized reporting, coming 2020. |
All reports are done through the progressive web app. There is little to no information needed once you have completed the sign up process. |
No No |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes. Extensive customization is quick and easy. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, to certain extent. |
Q4: Does your software sync with Quickbooks? |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, QuickBooks Online and Desktop. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, VTS PC Classic - VTS CLOUD QB integration, scheduled 2020 |
Because we handle the service call from start to finish we handle all payment processing. Service providers don’t have any paper work to keep up with. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, with accounting module. |
No No |
Yes Yes, both QB online and QB enterprise versions. |
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COSTS | |||||||||||||
Q5: Please denote how your software fees are structured: |
Yes Initial set-up fee: none |
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- FREE trial - no obligation; pre-configured |
- Initial set-up fee: $0 |
- Initial set-up fee: $300 and up depending on set up needs. |
- Initial set-up fee: No, included in monthly license fee |
-Initial set-up fee: Free |
- Initial set-up fee: $0 |
- Initial set-up fee: $0, option custom software configuration billed hourly |
- Initial set-up fee: Yes |
- Initial set-up fee: $2400 |
- Initial set-up fee: None or Product Dependant |
- Initial set-up fee: hardware cost depending on type and option selected |
Q6: Does your software require a contract? |
No No |
No No |
Service Agreement is provided as it is a benefit to the customer. |
No No, we believe in working to keep our clients happy. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, A minimum twelve-month license and mutual nondisclosure agreement, outlines the rights and obligations of both parties, one to the other. |
We do have Terms & Conditions that you have to agree to before becoming a service provider with Eemerg. |
No No |
Yes Yes, standard 12 months. |
Yes Yes |
No No |
No No |
Yes Yes |
Q7. Does your software charge for multiple users? |
Yes Yes, we have per user and unlimited user options |
We charge per CPU. You can have as many users setup as you want across the licensed PC’s. |
Yes Yes |
No No |
Yes Yes, but with unlimited transactions. |
No No |
NoNo, Eemerg does NOT charge for multiple providers on the application. Our platform is open for companies of all sizes. |
No No |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes - doesn't charge per truck. |
No No |
Varies by product and user count. |
Yes Yes |
SUPPORT | |||||||||||||
Q8: How many days a week is your team readily available to provide live support to your customers? |
7 days a week |
7 |
- System uptime is monitored 24/7 - both by Ranger and the data center. Ranger is a proven web-based (SaaS) solution with 15 years of experience and operational learning (e.g., "glitch" elimination) to deliver high reliability |
7 days a week and 365 days a year |
Live Support 8:30 – 6:00 M-F; On-Call support all other times. |
Seven days a week, emergency service on Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays |
We provide live support around the clock. Our customer service representatives are available 24/7. |
Five days/week (M-F 8am – 5pm CST) |
5, yet varies based on support plans and level[s] of support |
5 |
5 |
7 Days a week, 24 Hours a day. |
24/7 |
Q9: What are the business hours on those days that customers can expect to reach your team directly? (this does not include the ability to submit a request via your website or leaving a voicemail) |
24/7 for Emergency Support |
7am – 7pm |
8 AM to 7 PM EST |
24 hours per day |
Live Support 8:30 – 6:00 M-F |
Live support service 8 AM through 10 PM Mondays through Fridays, emergency service, Saturday, Sunday, and legal holidays |
Our support team is available by 24/7. We can be reached by emailing support@eemerg.com and phone at 1-866-247-9989. |
8am-5pm CST |
Emergency service is 24/7 availability. Standard requests are M-F 9-5 (MST). |
5am - 5pm Pacific |
9am-5pm EST |
Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM ET |
M - F 08:00 to 17:00 Pacific |
Q10: Are there ANY fees associated with providing support to your customers regarding your product? (i.e. support packages, one-time support fees, etc.) |
No No |
Yes Yes under the terms of a support contract. It includes technical support, product updates and VIN/Plate decoding |
No No |
No No, our support is completely free, there are never any charges associated with servicing our clients. |
No No |
No No, ongoing customer support, and product training is inclusive in the monthly license fee. |
NoCustomer support is completely free and available to all service providers in our network. |
No No |
No No fees for standard support. Optional custom software configuration is billed hourly. |
Yes Yes, included in monthly fee. |
Yes Yes. $700/yr |
Included with your software purchase |
No No |
CYBERSECURITY | |||||||||||||
Q11: What steps does your software take to protect proprietary client data? |
Allows for provider to determine if they want to share data with a third party such as a motor club. |
It’s a local database. |
- All systems are located in a commercial data center with physical and logical security, and redundant power supply, internet connectivity, and cooling |
Towbook’s technology stack, and our data centers, rely on the latest security technologies available in the market today. Security audits are done periodically to ensure we remain safe. We also utilize programs to continuously search for security threats. We rely on software and internal processes to ensure customer data, client data and user credentials cannot be accessed by 3rd parties. |
Customer data is stored on fully redundant, enterprise class storage hardware. All database data is mirrored in real-time to a backup system, and full backups are performed daily. Data security is provided with strong network and disk encryption, and multi-layered network firewalls. |
Client and employee personal data is protected by tiered access, company name, employee name, and individual security password. |
Our software uses the industry standard for software security. Maintaining a safe environment for service providers and customers is our top priority. |
1. Secure AWS databases for all data |
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Various firewalls, encryption, backup/redundancy |
N/A We are not an online program. |
At Tracker, we take data protection and security seriously. Unlike many of our competitors, we’ll never sell your information. In addition, we take other provisionary steps to protect our clients data: strong Privacy Policy, we don’t collect and keep what we don’t need (SSN, CC, etc.), multiple layers of security and employee education. |
If it's installed on customer's server then customer is responsible protecting the server. If it's from our server then it is protected by our cyber guard system. |
Q12: Does your software allow paperless invoicing from a driver in the field to your accounting software? |
Yes Yes |
YesYes |
Yes Yes |
We allow paperless invoicing that can go to their accounting software (i.e. QuickBooks)depending onthe preferences that the manager sets. (pushing invoices automatically, after 24 hours, or manually) |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, in VTS CLOUD a driver can send a paperless invoice to a client, but has no access to corporate financial information |
All of our invoicing is done paperless, the customer pays via credit card. The service providers don’t deal with any of the hassles of invoicing. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
No No |
No No |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes. Limited feature. |
MOTOR CLUBS | |||||||||||||
Q13: Please list the motor clubs that your software integrates with. |
AAA, Agero/Swoop, Allstate, ISSC/Geico, Road America, Nation Safe Drivers, Quest, Allied, USAC, Gerber, Fleetnet, Pinnacle/Coach-net, IAA, Copart |
Allstate, Agero, AXA, Genco, FleetNet, AAA/CAA, Sykes, PDG, Road America, Allied, Nation Safe Drivers, Quest, Tesla, USAC, New Jersey Turnpike, and any customer in your database. |
Agero, Allied, GEICO, FleetNet, NSD, Quest, Road America, Tesla, USAC; AAA (one-way) |
Digital Integrations: Automatic Importing |
Agero, Allstate, Geico, Road America, Quest, NSD, ADS, USAC, Tesla, FleetNet |
GEICO Atlas, GEICO Legacy, Agero, NSD, Allied Dispatch Solutions, Allstate, Qwest, Road America, USAC, Tesla. |
We currently run our own platform and we don’t integrate with any other software but we are working on making partnerships that will help service providers operate smoothly. The service provider portal is a seamless applications that allows you to run Eemerg effortlessly |
1. AAA |
Allstate, Road America, Nation Safe Drivers, Quest, Geico, Allied Dispatch, USAC, Agero |
AAA |
N/A (work in progress) |
Allstate, Agero, FleetNet, Geico, Road America, Nation Safe Drivers, Quest, USAC, Allied Dispatch Solutions, Tesla, Roadside Protect |
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DISPATCHING | |||||||||||||
Q14: Does your software offer real-time tracking? |
YesYes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, via third-party GPS. |
YesEverything on EEMERG is done real-time. From request, to response, and dispatching this marketplace is completely on demand. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
No No |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Q15: Can your software automatically update customers with ETA, driver photos, etc? |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, clients can utilize our “Roadside.io” feature for this. |
No No |
Scheduled release 2020 |
EEMERG software automatically notify the customer of ETA, Driver information, and contact information once the request has been accepted. |
No No, a driver must add these via mobile app in order to be viewed on the web. |
Yes Yes, via partners, but not offered natively in Omadi |
No No |
No No |
Yes Yes |
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MOBILITY | |||||||||||||
Q16: Is your software mobile friendly? |
Yes Yes, we have a dispatcher and separate driver app |
Yes Yes (a mobile app for remote dispatching and drivers) |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes. Any Device, anywhere, anytime. |
Our progressive web app is very mobile friendly. Through chrome, safari or directly from your mobile interface. You can access Eemerg on all devices. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
No No |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Q17. Does your software offer an App version for Android? Mac? |
Yes Yes, we offer apps for both |
Yes Mobile app for dispatching and a driver app. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, both. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes, smart phone app compatible with both android and Mac. |
Eemerg Service Provider App can be accessed through the web or by downloading the progressive web app directly to your home screen. |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
No No |
N/A |
Yes Yes |
Web app, not native. |
WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR SOFTWARE’S BEST THREE FEATURES? | |||||||||||||
Q18: Best three features? |
- Integrated A/R accounting or sync Invoices with Quickbooks Online or Desktop. |
-Customizable– InTow Manager is a local database solution, so we can modify reports and features specifically for each customer. We provide an abundance of configuration settings so you can run the software to match how you run your business, not the other way around. |
Simpler: Ranger is easy-to-use, for the full scope of DISPATCHING needs |
- Accessible Anywhere. Towbook was the first fully integrated cloud-based software to hit the towing industry back in 2007, which means that you can access it from anywhereand at any time. Many business owners in this industry are also operators, so it was important for us to besure that they were able to accesstheir software wherethey needed itmost. |
Security. TOPS® offers role-based security that is structured on individual security items that give owners and managers complete control over what users can and cannot see and do. Every screen and the majority of data fields contained on those screens can be either partially or completely restricted, or can be viewable, or editable. Search. TOPS® offers the ability to search on any field or combination of fields on the call record, even if you only have a small portion of the information. You can even search on whether a field HAS information or is blank. Comprehensive Reliable Software. For over 20 years TOPS® manages all of your towing operations; billing, inventory management, lien documentation, auction management, driver communications, motor club dispatching, municipal interfaces, and GPS tracking all in one software package. TOPS® allows smaller operations to run with integrity and larger companies the flexibility to consolidate or segment as needed. |
VTS System provides both a fully automated PC and CLOUD software products. From the moment the phone rings, both PC and CLOUD formats include dispatch, towing, impoundment, automated LEA notification, storage lot management, auction/public sale, and tax office title documentation. And, above all, one-on-one unlimited customer training and support! 1. Fully automated, customized, individual client profiling, including billing and charges. No additional data entry required. 2. Fully automated retrieval and placement of owner, lienholder, and title information from more than thirty-five online state DMV’s. 3. Fully automated on-time, online creation of notification/lien letters, pushed as electronic certified mail cyber documents to the USPS, for conversion to hardcopy mail pieces. Automated tracking and reporting of the process by USPS to the storage lot record, including date received, date mailed, date delivered, article tracking number, and charges. Hard and soft copy documents provided, NO MORE GOING TO THE POST OFFICE |
If you are looking for a software that is mobile-friendly, paperless and has real-time dispatching look no further. Eemerg has an on-demand service that is a great addition to any company. We are accepting new providers nationwide. |
- Cost effective and no contract |
- Customization - We have uniquely tailored options to support a wide variety of tower needs, while building flexible reports to allow you to keep track of the essential parts of your business. |
- Ability to manage any and all calls and seamlessly integrate with commissions to pay and fleet maintenance. |
Our ease of use, extremely flexible workflow setup and our ability to customize reports, forms and letters to each individual customers' needs. |
1. Ease of Use - Our collection of online videos, user friendly interface, and full help desk team are here to help guide you through the product making it exceptionally easy to get started and continue to use daily. We give you the tools to either learn on your own time or with an account specialist who can guide you through the software. 2. Time Management - All features are built to save time through minimizing clicks and applying automation wherever possible. Track employees performance, dispatch more quickly with mobile apps, and easily receive motor club calls through Digital Dispatch. Quickly find any job from any job criteria using the Recall feature too. 3. Lot Management - our lot management apps allow for on premise lot reporting, our additional app, LotMagager, allows for detailed descriptions of your lots and tools that allow you to track exact vehicle location across all of your yards and divisions. |
1. Integrated features to handle dispatch, routing, call status, tracking, inspection, lot management, etc. 2. Ease of use, system of choice for small to medium towing company 3. Customer service |