The full list · verified in the product
160+ features for UK waste carriers.
Waste transfer notes, hazardous consignment notes, DEFRA Digital Waste Tracking, signatures, fleet compliance and the rest — every entry below is live in the product today.
- features, all live
- 167
- categories
- 22
- UK nations covered
- 4
- DWT-ready today
- Oct 2026
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The top 10
If you only read ten entries, read these. Each jumps to the full detail below.
- No. 1:
Works with zero signal
Create, photograph and sign a complete WTN with no bars at all. It saves to the device and uploads itself when signal returns — even while the app is closed.See the detail - No. 2:
Filing to DEFRA today
Receiving sites file Digital Waste Tracking receipts to DEFRA's live API right now — ahead of the October 2026 mandate. Rejections come back as plain-English fix plans.See the detail - No. 3:
Evidence, not just paperwork
Every signature is stamped with GPS, device, IP and time — append-only. Photos carry a provenance trail, edits are logged, and each note has a downloadable audit PDF.See the detail - No. 4:
Hazardous waste done properly
Full consignment notes with three-party signing and statutory certificate wording verified against legislation.gov.uk — varied correctly by UK nation.See the detail - No. 5:
Right in all four UK nations
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each get the correct form, regulator, citations and retention rules — snapshotted onto every record.See the detail - No. 6:
Signatures from anywhere
Sign on-glass at the kerbside, send a Secure Sign link by email or SMS, or flash a QR to hop the signature to a phone. A chase board tracks everything still owed.See the detail - No. 7:
AI that knows waste
Describe the waste in plain English and the right EWC code is found from all 842. Ask AI answers questions about your own records and UK regulations.See the detail - No. 8:
An inbox for receiving sites
Carriers fire loads at your site and they land in an inbox. OCR reads paper notes, a gate QR takes customer drop-offs, and mass-balance tracks your permit headroom.See the detail - No. 9:
Fleet compliance built in
DVSA walkaround checks with defect tracking, live MOT lookups with reminders, and EA/SEPA permit searches that re-verify your saved sites nightly.See the detail - No. 10:
Invoice before you leave the gate
Connect Xero or QuickBooks and raise the invoice straight off the completed note — from the office, or from the driver's phone on the success screen.See the detail
Paid plans means any paid subscription; Solo+, Business+ and Enterprise are included from that plan upwards. Everything untagged is on every plan — Pay As You Go included.
Waste transfer notes
Legally compliant UK duty-of-care notes, from first field to signed PDF.
Unlimited digital WTNs
No per-note cap on any subscription — create as many transfer notes as you move loads.
Guided wizard
Customer and vehicle, waste details, photos, signatures — in order, so nothing statutory gets missed.
Mixed loads on one note
Multiple EWC-coded waste streams on a single note, as the regulations intend.
Producer mode & self-carry
Raise notes as the waste producer who hired a carrier; self-carried waste signs both sides and completes instantly.
Drafts
Park a half-finished note and pick it up on any device — the office starts it, the driver finishes it.
Repeat a note
One click clones a past job into a fresh note, with signatures, date and docket deliberately reset.
Waste profiles Business+
Saved customer + waste + vehicle + destination bundles that pre-fill a whole note.
Waste defaults & quick codes
Account-wide default waste details plus pinned EWC codes with your own names — synced between web and phone.
Custom numbering
Four reference formats — sequential or random, with or without the date — running on your own counter.
Status tracking
Draft, assigned, awaiting signature, complete — with badges on every list and a KPI strip up top.
Search & filters
Free-text search across reference, docket, customer, EWC code and address, plus status filters.
Edits with an audit log
Amend any note; every change lands in an immutable edit log and the PDF is rebuilt.
Weighbridge weights
Gross and tare capture with derived net weight, an estimated-vs-weighed flag, and after-the-fact corrections.
Recycle bin
Deleted notes are soft-deleted with a reason and restorable — plus a permanent purge when you truly need it.
Photo evidence
Before and after load photos, each with a camera-vs-library provenance trail.
Docket attachments
Attach weighbridge tickets, skip dockets and invoices to a note; they're listed on the PDF.
POPs declaration
The persistent-organic-pollutants declaration DEFRA requires, with component concentrations.
DEFRA classification
Official container types, physical form and container counts on every waste line.
Bulk actions
Select many notes and send them to a receiving site, or chase every outstanding signature, in one go.
Hazardous waste
Consignment notes with the statutory wording each UK nation actually requires.
Full consignment notes
Schedule 4 Parts A–E — HWCN in England and Wales, SWCN in Scotland, Northern Ireland's own regime.
Auto consignment codes
Correctly formatted codes per jurisdiction, generated for you and validated for shape.
Three-party signing
Consignor, carrier and consignee each sign separately — on-screen or by emailed/SMS link.
Statutory certificate wording
Part C, D and E declarations verified against legislation.gov.uk and varied correctly by UK nation.
HP code suggestions
HP1–HP15 hazard properties suggested from the chosen EWC entry.
Multi-line & round collections
Several hazardous streams per consignment, plus multiple-collection round consignments.
Licensed-consignee guard
Only sites flagged as hazardous waste facilities can be picked as the consignee.
Part E receipt capture
The receiving site records date, quantity, R/D code and accepted, partially accepted or rejected.
Full lifecycle
Drafts, driver assignment, edits, a recycle bin, a branded PDF and an activity trail per consignment.
Season tickets
One signed note covering repeat collections for up to 12 months.
Repeat-collection notes
Same customer, same waste, same place — covered by one note for up to a year.
Collection log
Record each pickup with quantity, vehicle and notes — the statutory schedule of transfers — with running totals.
Expiry management
Active, expiring and expired statuses with automatic warning emails and a 30-day push notification.
Both-party signing
Transferor and transferee sign on-screen or by emailed link.
Every delivery channel
PDF, email, SMS, QR code, share link, send-to-station and a no-login public view page.
Feeds reporting
Collections roll into tonnage and EWC reports alongside WTNs.
Digital signing
Legally binding e-signatures wherever the customer happens to be.
On-glass signatures
Finger, stylus or mouse at the point of transfer — the producer signs right there.
Secure Sign links
Email or SMS the customer a branded signing link — expiring, single-use and tamper-proof, with a visible countdown.
Sign-on-phone QR
Show a QR to hop a signature capture from desktop to any phone in seconds.
Saved signature
Store your carrier signature once and apply it with one tap — works offline; drivers keep their own.
Consignee signature
An optional third signature for the receiving site on plain WTNs, aligned with DEFRA's receipt workflow.
Re-sign with history
Replace a bad signature while the original stays in the append-only trail.
Link management
Resend or regenerate expired links, or let the recipient request a fresh one themselves.
Branded signing pages
Your logo and brand colour on every page a customer signs — not ours.
Signature chase board
Every note still owing a signature, grouped by who owes it, with bulk chase and automatic reminders.
No pre-signing, by design
Signatures can only be captured at or after the transfer — protecting the integrity of the record.
Customer portal & sharing
Customers help themselves, without an account or a phone call.
Customer portal Solo+
A private link where each customer views, downloads and signs all their documents — WTNs, HWCNs and season tickets together.
White-labelled Solo+
The portal shows the carrier's logo, not WTNcloud's.
Revocable links Solo+
Enable, disable or rotate a customer's portal link at any time — from web or the driver's phone.
QR & short codes
Every note gets a printed short code and QR resolving to a view-only PDF — perfect for paper copies.
Read-only share links
Tokenised view links share a PDF without granting portal access.
Open tracking
When a shared link is opened, it's recorded in the note's audit trail.
Customers & CRM
A waste-specific address book, not a generic contacts list.
Unlimited customers
Full records with contact person, structured addresses, email and phone.
Multi-site customers
Named collection sites per customer — "Head office", "Site 12" — with a default.
CSV import Paid plans
Import a whole customer list from a spreadsheet, with a preview step and de-duplication.
Import from accounting Solo+
Pull existing Xero or QuickBooks contacts in as customers.
Promote one-off jobs
Turn a cash job into a proper customer record with its history back-linked.
Compliance fields
SIC code, unitary authority, permit and exemption details, and carrier registration per customer.
Postcode finder
Type a postcode, pick the address — on every address field in the product.
Use-my-location
Drop a site pin from GPS and the address fills itself, council included.
Compliance lookups & four-nation rules
The reference data of UK waste law, built into every form.
Full EWC catalogue
All 842 European Waste Catalogue codes searchable in-app — bundled on the phone, so it works with no signal.
Mirror-entry aware
Handles the 351 hazardous/non-hazardous mirror entries instead of guessing.
Hazard scoping
A WTN's code picker only offers non-hazardous codes; an HWCN's only hazardous ones. No accidental bypass.
EA & SEPA register search
Look up any waste operation, carrier or exemption by permit, name or postcode — England and Scotland searched together.
One-click permit checks
Confirm a permit is live before you tip there, with verified badges.
Reference data built in
SIC codes, R and D disposal/recovery codes, HP codes, POPs lists and DEFRA container types — with quick pins.
Four-nation rules engine
Regulator, statute, form type, code formats and retention periods per UK nation.
Jurisdiction snapshots
Every record keeps rendering under the regime it was created in, even if you later move region.
Unit handling
Kilograms, tonnes, litres and cubic metres converted consistently across notes, reports and DEFRA filings.
Fleet, vehicles & walkaround checks
The compliance admin around the vehicles, not just the waste.
Carrier address book
The haulage firms you hire, with registration validity badges and a duplicate-registration guard.
Vehicle register
Unlimited vehicles; drivers can keep personal vans separately.
Live DVSA MOT lookup
Type a reg and get make, model, MOT status and expiry straight from DVSA.
MOT reminders
Automatic nudges 30, 14 and 3 days before an MOT expires, with badges across the fleet list.
Transfer stations
Save the sites you tip at, with permit numbers and contact emails.
Verified permits
Create a station straight from an EA/SEPA register hit, with the permit snapshotted and badged.
Automatic re-verification
A scheduled job re-checks your saved permits against the public register and flags anything that stops validating.
DVSA walkaround checks Solo+
Daily vehicle checks matching the printed DVSA sheet, completed on phone or desktop — fully offline on mobile.
Three vehicle templates Solo+
HGV rigid, HGV with trailer, and LGV/van — versioned so historical sheets never get relabelled.
Defect tracking Solo+
Minor, major and dangerous defects with photos; dangerous defects flag the vehicle off-road.
Fitter workflow Solo+
A printable job card, works-done capture, and a signing link for the fitter to certify rectification.
Inspection pack Solo+
Print a whole check — sheet, signatures, defects — for a DVSA visit.
PDFs & branding
Paperwork that looks like your company produced it.
Branded PDFs
Professional WTN, HWCN and season-ticket PDFs generated automatically for every record.
Your look
Logo, brand colour and logo size, with a live preview as you change it — editable from the phone too.
Four PDF themes
Standard, Clean, Bold and Minimal layouts.
Template builder Business+
Add your own sections, fields, dropdowns, checkboxes and signature blocks around the regulated note.
Gated questions Business+
Make a custom question block the job until it's answered correctly — a safety check before collection, for example.
Template snapshots Business+
Old notes keep rendering their original custom sections even after the template changes.
Audit-trail PDF
A separate downloadable PDF of signatures, edits and communications for any note.
Rebuild on demand
Regenerate any stored PDF after an edit or branding change.
Sending & notifications
The note reaches everyone who needs it, and you can see it did.
Branded email delivery
The note goes to the customer as a branded email with the PDF attached — automatically on completion if you like.
Send anywhere
Email any other address, text a link by SMS, or send straight to the tip's address on file — plus up to three standing BCC recipients.
Delivery visibility
Sent, delivered, opened, bounced and link-clicked badges per note.
Signature reminders
Four cadences — off, gentle, standard, insistent — by email, SMS or both.
Driver push Solo+
Drivers get a push notification the moment work is assigned, deep-linked to the exact job.
Respectful by default
One-click unsubscribe, SMS opt-out and suppression lists.
White-label email Enterprise
Send from your own domain, DNS-verified, with zero WTNcloud branding.
Invoicing & accounting
The gap between "job done" and "invoice sent" closes to one tap.
Xero & QuickBooks Solo+
Connect by OAuth and raise invoices from finished jobs without leaving WTNcloud.
Awaiting-invoice queue Solo+
Every completed, uninvoiced job in one list so nothing slips — with a "won't be invoiced" dismissal for goodwill jobs.
One-dialog invoicing Solo+
Turn a note into an invoice with saved line items, tax defaults and contact matching.
Live status Solo+
Draft, awaiting payment, sent, paid or voided — refreshed from the provider.
Invoice on the spot Solo+
The mobile success screen offers "create invoice" while the job is still in front of the driver.
Compliance
What WTNcloud already files to DEFRA
We submit receipts to DEFRA's live Digital Waste Tracking API today — with auto-submit, amendments and plain-English fix plans when DEFRA rejects a record. Receiving sites are in scope first; carriers follow, and you'll already know the ropes.
Get DWT-ready freeOctober 2026
Receiving sites
Receipt filing — live in WTNcloud now
October 2027
Waste carriers
Ready the day DEFRA's carrier API opens
DEFRA Digital Waste Tracking
Receiver-side filing is live now, ahead of the October 2026 mandate — on every paid plan, PAYG included.
DEFRA receipt filing
Submit receive-movement records to DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking API — before the mandate makes it compulsory.
Auto-submit
Receipts file themselves the moment a record is complete.
Plain-English error fixes
DEFRA rejection codes become a fix plan, not a raw error dump.
Amend & re-file
Correct a record already sent to DEFRA and re-submit it.
Payload preview
See exactly what will be sent before it goes; tracking-ID badges once accepted.
Guided DWT setup
A readiness checklist with red/amber/green status and an illustrated screen-by-screen guide; DEFRA credentials encrypted at rest.
Self-carry receipts
File a receive for waste you collected and brought back to your own permitted site.
Operator roles
Carrier, producer, receiver or broker — the interface adapts to what you are.
Receiver inbox suite
For sites taking waste in: a digital gatehouse for inbound paperwork.
Receiver inbox Enterprise
Carriers fire consignments at your site on arrival and they land in your inbox — batch arrivals grouped for one-tap acceptance.
Accept, reject or partial Enterprise
Record acceptance status, accepted quantity and rejection reason; you keep a frozen, immutable copy of every inbound note.
OCR paper notes Enterprise
Photograph or upload a paper transfer note and the fields are read for you, with per-field confidence scores.
Gate drop-off QR Enterprise
A QR on the gate lets customers upload their own paperwork with no login, into a review queue you control.
Part E in-app Enterprise
Sign the consignee section of inbound consignments on-screen.
Permit mass-balance Enterprise
Waste in vs waste out against your permit tonnage, per-EWC sub-limits, a headroom gauge and CSV export.
AI features
Useful answers, grounded in your data and UK regulations.
AI waste-code search
Describe the waste in plain English and get ranked EWC suggestions with reasoning — auto-selected when the classifier is confident.
Ask AI Paid plans
A chat that answers questions about your own records, waste codes and UK regulations — with saved conversation history.
Query your data in English Paid plans
"How much hardcore did we move for Acme last quarter?" answered from your records, as a table.
Regulation Q&A Paid plans
Knowledge-base-backed answers on UK waste law and duty of care.
Vision OCR Enterprise
AI reading of scanned and photographed transfer notes — the engine behind the receiver inbox.
Reports & data
Your tonnage, your customers, your exports — never locked in.
Reporting dashboard
Notes, tonnage and status KPIs over any date range, with previous-period comparison on every chart.
Breakdowns that matter
Monthly tonnage trend, tonnage by EWC code, top customers and top consignees.
Excel-safe CSV exports
All WTNs, all HWCNs and every aggregate — multi-line notes export as per-line rows.
Full PDF export
Download every note's PDF as a single ZIP — free on any plan, with your records available as a separate data export.
Offline & sync
The network is an optimisation, never a dependency. WTNs work end-to-end with no signal.
Full notes with zero signal
Producer details, waste, POPs, photos and both signatures — a complete WTN, end to end, offline. On the phone and in the browser.
Background sync
The app wakes in the background to upload queued notes while it sits unopened in your pocket — and on Android, even after a force-quit or a reboot.
Syncs at every chance
On launch, on reconnect, on foreground, every 15 minutes — plus a manual Sync Now.
Duplicate-proof
An upload that reached the server but lost its reply is recovered, never duplicated.
Data-protecting conflict rules
Completions are never downgraded, signatures are never cleared by the server, photos are only ever added.
Honest failure handling
Network blips retry forever; genuine rejections stop and say so. A billing lapse never loses queued work.
Sync you can see
A header sync pill, per-note status dots, an offline banner and an in-app sync log with timestamps and reasons.
Offline reference data
The full EWC catalogue, your customers, vehicles, stations and templates all live on the device.
True capture times
Photos and signatures taken offline keep the real capture time, not the time signal returned.
The mobile app
Native iOS and Android apps built for the cab, not the office.
Native iOS & Android
Real native apps — iPad included — with haptics, pull-to-refresh and a context-aware create button.
Sign up on the phone
Full registration in-app: type your carrier registration and your company details fill themselves from the public register.
Guided setup
Owners get a six-step setup wizard; drivers are working in under a minute.
Mandatory photo review
Every photo is reviewed full-screen before it's kept, with a one-tap retake — and the audit trail records the review.
PDFs on the phone
View, download and share any note's PDF through the system share sheet.
Maps hand-off
One tap opens the collection address in the phone's maps app.
Face ID & fingerprint lock
Biometric app lock that re-arms after three minutes in the background.
Universal links
wtncloud.co.uk links and push notifications open the exact record in the app.
Subscribe in-app
App Store subscriptions and PAYG top-up packs, restorable across devices — web-billed accounts are never double-asked.
Drivers & teams
Two driver seats on Solo+, five on Business, unlimited on Enterprise.
Driver accounts Solo+
Each driver gets their own login, onboarding flow, saved signature, quick codes and defaults.
Dispatch Solo+
Assign notes and consignments from the office; the driver's phone pings instantly; reassign or pull back any time.
Workload at a glance Solo+
The driver picker shows each driver's active job count before you assign.
Pre-filled jobs Solo+
Assigned work opens as a locked, pre-filled wizard — the driver corrects waste details, captures signatures and photos, done.
Granular permissions Solo+
Per driver or org-wide: create own notes, use company vehicles and stations, see customer contact details.
Edit window Solo+
A configurable window after completion during which a driver can still correct a job.
Per-driver history Solo+
Stats, overrides, vehicles and complete note history for every driver.
Developer platform
For operators wiring WTNcloud into their own systems.
REST API Enterprise
Create and query WTNs and HWCNs from your own software, with public docs and copy-paste examples.
Receiver API Enterprise
Pull your inbound queue, accept or reject loads, post receipts, fetch PDFs.
Serious key management Enterprise
Scoped keys, rotation with an overlap window so live integrations don't break, and full request logs.
Idempotency keys Enterprise
Safe retries — a repeated call returns the original result instead of duplicating a batch.
Webhooks Enterprise
Five movement events to your own HTTPS endpoints — signed, with an automatic retry ladder, health counters and a test button.
Billing & account
Start free, pay how you like, leave with your data.
Start free
20 free notes, no card required.
Pay As You Go
£1.50 per note, top up from £10, no monthly commitment — with an always-visible balance meter.
Four plans, monthly or annual
Solo, Solo+, Business and Enterprise — self-serve upgrades, downgrades and invoices.
Never held hostage
A lapsed subscription locks the account read-only with a clear export window — data is never deleted for non-payment.
Consent-based support access
Support can only "log in as you" after you approve by email, and every action is audited.
Self-serve everything
Onboarding wizard, region switching, coupon redemption, cancellation and un-cancellation, account deletion with export first.
Security & trust
Built to be defensible — in a dispute, an audit or an inspection.
Audit trails everywhere
Signatures, edits, deletions, photo provenance and jurisdiction changes — all append-only.
Signature forensics
Name, company, method, timestamp, IP and GPS on every signature.
Encryption at rest
API keys, webhook secrets and DEFRA credentials are all encrypted.
Hardened public surface
Rate limiting, bot detection on public forms and private docket storage.
UK GDPR posture
EU data storage, documented per-nation retention periods, free full export and self-serve deletion.
Help & free tools
Answers in the product, and useful tools before you ever sign up.
In-app help centre
70+ illustrated articles across 13 categories, searchable — and it works offline.
Free WTN & HWCN generators
No-signup public tools that produce compliant PDFs.
Public code directories
EWC, HP, POPs, disposal/recovery and container-type directories, plus a glossary.
In-app feedback
Feature requests and bug reports without leaving the product.
That's 167 features and counting. See which plan fits , read about the waste transfer note app itself, or get ready for DEFRA Digital Waste Tracking.