Run the whole operation — and stay compliant — from one system
AxiWaste connects sales, dispatch, route planning, your drivers and your Waste Transfer Notes into a single native Zoho platform — so every collection your business makes is scheduled, costed and reported without anyone re-typing a thing.
Now onboarding design-partner operators ahead of the DEFRA reporting deadline.
1 October 2026: Digital Waste Tracking becomes mandatory
Across England and Wales — Scotland and Northern Ireland follow from January 2027. Every waste receipt will need an EWC code, a weighed tonnage, and a submission to DEFRA's Receipt of Waste API.
Key facts
What it is
AxiWaste is waste management software built natively on Zoho, covering sales, dispatch, route optimisation, a driver app, digital Waste Transfer Notes and DEFRA compliance in one system.
Who built it
Axithorn, a UK Zoho Premium Partner, has been approved as an official software provider by Defra and is listed on Defra's Report Receipt of Waste provider page.
The compliance deadline
Digital Waste Tracking becomes mandatory in England and Wales on 1 October 2026, and in Scotland and Northern Ireland from January 2027.
How it's priced
Office and driver seats are priced separately, so a five-vehicle yard and a two-hundred-vehicle enterprise or local-authority fleet each pay for what they use. Contact us for a quote.
Paper WTNs and disconnected spreadsheets don't survive contact with a regulator
Duty of care, held together with hope
Carrier licences checked once at onboarding and never again. EWC codes guessed by whoever's filling in the note. No evidence trail if the Environment Agency ever asks.
The same job, typed three times
A booking taken by phone, re-keyed into a routing spreadsheet, then re-keyed again into the accounts package. Every re-key is a place for a job — or a charge — to go missing.
Routes planned on local knowledge
No system knows a tip closes at 3pm, that a vehicle's tail lift is booked out, or that a container's already been dropped at that site. So routes get planned the way they always have — by memory.
One operational record, from the enquiry to the tip
Sales, dispatch, route intelligence, a driver app and the compliance engine — six connected stages, built as one system rather than six tools stitched together after the fact.
Sales, dispatch & routing
Leads and quotes live in Zoho CRM itself, so a signed contract turns straight into a live schedule — drag-and-drop dispatch, and route optimisation that weighs gate fees, not just distance.
Offline driver app
Offline-capable navigation, one-tap job confirmation and photo evidence at every lift — so the office knows what happened before the driver's even left the site.
Compliance & invoicing
A digital WTN with EWC coding on every completion, a queued DEFRA submission, and an invoice raised into Books, Xero or Sage the moment the job closes.
Most systems cover half the operation. AxiWaste was built to cover all of it.
| Capability | AxiWaste | Waste Logics | BigChange | AMCS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native CRM & quoting | ✓ | Bolted on | — | ✓ |
| Native WTN & EWC coding | ✓ | — | Adapted | ✓ |
| DEFRA Digital Waste Tracking submission | ✓ | — | — | Enterprise-only |
| Duty-of-care licence auto-verification | ✓ | — | — | — |
Based on published capabilities and our own market research as of July 2026. See the full comparison at axiwaste.com.
Zoho architecture
Built on Zoho's own application architecture and infrastructure
EU data centre
UK/GDPR-aligned data residency
Books · Xero · Sage
Connects straight into your existing finance stack
Axithorn has been approved as an official software provider by Defra — see the listing on Defra's "Report receipt of waste: choose a software provider" page.
Want the full picture before you talk to us?
axiwaste.com has the complete platform walkthrough, live product screens, the full competitor comparison, detailed pricing and an interactive readiness check that scores your operation against the October 2026 mandate.
Questions we hear most from waste operators
Has Axithorn been approved as an official Defra software provider?
Yes. Axithorn, the company behind AxiWaste, has been approved as an official software provider by Defra, and appears on Defra's "Report receipt of waste: choose a software provider" page.
When does Digital Waste Tracking become mandatory in the UK?
Digital Waste Tracking becomes mandatory across England and Wales on 1 October 2026, and in Scotland and Northern Ireland from January 2027. Every waste receipt will need an EWC code, a weighed tonnage, and a submission to DEFRA's Receipt of Waste API.
How much does AxiWaste cost?
AxiWaste is priced with a platform fee plus separate office-user and driver rates, so cost scales with fleet size rather than a single flat licence fee. There's no published price list — contact Axithorn for a quote based on your fleet size and depot count.
More questions, plus a full waste-compliance glossary, at axiwaste.com.
Get compliant before October 2026 — not after the enforcement letter
We're onboarding a small number of UK waste operators ahead of general availability. Bring your fleet, your customers and your paperwork — we'll show you what it looks like the other side.