No. Anyone can submit a report through their mobile browser with zero downloads, zero accounts, and zero friction. Scanning the QR code on a sticker opens a webpage instantly. This is intentional — maximum reporters means maximum protection for your fleet. The NotifyMe dashboard is for fleet managers and vehicle owners — reporters never need an account.

As soon as a report is submitted, an alert goes out to the people you've chosen, with the GPS location and issue details. Actual delivery speed depends on mobile networks and email providers, so we don't promise an exact time, but it's built to reach you right away, usually within a minute, and every notification is tracked in your dashboard.

For fleet vehicles — tire problems, lights out, swaying or load shift, hitch issues, open doors or panels, falling debris, and general safety concerns. For driver behaviour — aggressive driving, distracted driving, speeding, unsafe lane changes, illegal parking, and positive reports for great driving. For bins — bin full, overflowing, damaged, moved to a different location, or need an additional bin or size swap.

QR scanning itself does not provide GPS — the location comes from the reporter's phone GPS separately. When a reporter submits a report the browser requests location permission. If they allow it, coordinates accurate to 3 to 5 metres are captured and included with the alert. If they decline, the report still goes through without coordinates. For construction sites and roadsides — outside with clear sky — GPS accuracy is excellent. Reporters who allow location on their phone attach GPS automatically with every report.

Canadian customers contract with NotifyMe Inc., a Canadian federal corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act, corporation number 1805631-5. Your agreement is governed by the laws of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada. Your invoice comes from a Canadian entity in Canadian dollars. US and international customers contract separately with NotifyMe LLC, our Wyoming affiliate, at notifymesolutions.com.

Personal information collected through NotifyMe is stored and processed on Canadian infrastructure in the Canada Central region. This is a deliberate choice. PIPEDA does not require Canadian data residency — organizations may transfer personal information outside Canada provided it remains comparably protected — but for Canadian fleet, waste, and construction customers, and for public sector procurement in particular, being able to say the data is stored in Canada removes a question before it is asked.

Indirectly, and we want to be straightforward about how. Under the National Safety Code, your carrier profile is built from collisions, convictions, and roadside inspection results — not from public reports. NotifyMe does not write to your profile. What it does is surface defects and driving complaints earlier, so a wobbling wheel gets pulled before it becomes an out-of-service defect at a CVSE scale, and a driving complaint gets coached before it becomes a conviction. It also gives you a timestamped, location-stamped record of what was reported and what you did about it — the kind of documentation that matters in a facility audit or a liability claim. Anyone who tells you a QR sticker moves a safety rating directly is overselling it.

Unlike vehicle alerts where any bystander might legitimately report a dangerous tire, a bin pickup request triggers a real truck dispatch that costs your company time and fuel. A false or unauthorized pickup request wastes a driver trip. The company PIN ensures only authorized personnel on your job sites can request a pickup. Anyone who scans the bin QR without the correct PIN sees a message to contact their site supervisor — no report submitted and no dispatch triggered.

Yes — and we recommend it. Site-specific PINs give you tighter control. If a PIN from a completed job is ever shared or leaked it can only be deactivated for that site without affecting your other locations. Your dashboard shows which PIN belongs to which site so you always know who has access to what. Generating a PIN for a new site takes 30 seconds.

Three failed PIN attempts locks that device from submitting further attempts for 24 hours. PINs can be set to 4 or 6 digits. All PIN attempts including failed ones are logged in your dashboard so you can see if someone is repeatedly trying incorrect PINs on a specific bin.

If several people report the same problem on the same vehicle or bin within about 30 minutes, every report is kept and counted, but your team gets one alert rather than one per person. Each phone is also limited in how many reports it can send in a short time, and every person you add has an hourly and daily alert limit. The person reporting always sees that their report was received. This protects your team from alert fatigue.

Photos are screened automatically before anyone on your team sees them. Clearly harmful content is blocked outright; anything borderline is held for a person at NotifyMe to look at rather than being passed through or silently dropped.

Written comments are screened too. If a comment contains abusive or inappropriate language, the alert still goes out so the problem isn't missed, but the words are held back. Only a manager on your account can choose to read them. No screening system is perfect and we won't claim ours is.

Three reasons. Quality — picture messages compress photos heavily and delivery varies by carrier; the dashboard shows the full-resolution photo. Cost — picture messages cost significantly more per message. Privacy — photos in the dashboard are only visible to signed-in account holders, not anyone who glances at a phone. Every alert links straight to the report, photo included.

No. NotifyMe works standalone — you do not need a telematics platform at all. If you already run one, alert data including GPS coordinates can flow into it automatically via our outbound API. We integrate with Geotab, Samsara, Verizon Connect, Fleet Complete and others. NotifyMe adds a public intelligence layer — real reports from real people on the road — to whatever you already use, without replacing or duplicating anything.

Yes, by webhook today: every report can be pushed to your own system the moment it is filed, as structured data with the location, the vehicle or bin, and the issue. Direct connections to specific telematics or dispatch platforms, and an inbound API for registering vehicles from other systems, are built on request. Tell us what you use and we'll tell you honestly how it connects.

NotifyMeBins works alongside your existing dispatch software. Your dispatcher receives the bin full alert with GPS in the NotifyMe dashboard and enters the pickup into your system as normal — just now with exact GPS coordinates instead of a vague phone description. Deeper integration with Trux, AMCS, and other waste management platforms is available via our outbound API. Contact us to discuss your specific software environment.

NotifyMe Inc. follows PIPEDA, the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and has designated a named privacy officer accountable for compliance. We collect only the data necessary to provide the service. Data is stored encrypted on Canadian infrastructure. Reporter IP addresses are stored as one-way hashes, never in plain text. Licence plates are stored securely and never shown to reporters. You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data at any time. Our practices are also aligned with Alberta PIPA and British Columbia PIPA for operators in those provinces.

Report alerts are not marketing: they go only to people the account owner adds, and only after that person confirms by email or text. Every alert names NotifyMe as the sender, and we keep a record of each confirmation. Every alert email has a one-click Unsubscribe link, and texts stop the moment you reply STOP. Only the person who unsubscribed can switch alerts back on. We don't send marketing email today; when we do, it will follow Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, with our mailing address and an unsubscribe link in every message.

No. Reporter identity is never shared. You receive the report content — issue type, note, GPS location, and photo if attached — but not the reporter's name, phone number, email, or any identifying information. Reporter IP addresses are stored as one-way hashes that cannot be reversed. This anonymity is by design — it encourages more people to report problems because there are no personal consequences for doing so.

For most businesses, same day. Create your account, register your vehicles or bins, and your stickers are ordered. Once stickers arrive and are applied your operation is live. No hardware installation. No IT project. No training program beyond showing your team how to log in. Most businesses are fully operational within a week of signing up.

Yes. Book a free demo and we will walk you through the complete platform using our demo environment. We also offer a pilot program for qualifying businesses where you can run NotifyMe on a subset of your fleet or bins before full rollout. Contact us to discuss what a pilot looks like for your specific operation.