The day you buy
Basis: five in the field and two in the office, single location, propane back-office stack. Range $27,000–$37,000 for the alternatives — per-seat licensing, safety-forms setup, and office setup (estimated). Founder market knowledge, recorded 2026-08-20.
Why seven. The average propane location runs about four drivers, one service tech and two office staff — four on the trucks for every one in the shop. Half the year those drivers work as techs, so they need every form a tech needs, plus the visual tank inspections a driver does standing at the tank. We priced all seven the same, and the range above did not move to cover the two office seats. That counts in their favor, not ours.
Hardware: on this stack you also buy tablets, mounts and docks — about $3,300–$5,295 for five trucks, published retail listings, 2026-08-20, excluded from the total.
Figures reflect the dates cited above and may have changed since — confirm current pricing before relying on any figure. Our own current prices: fuelsite.pro/en/pricing.
Every month after
Basis: five in the field and two in the office — the same seven seats, the same back-office stack as the up-front panel. From $1,337 (range $1,337–$1,595). Counted in their favor: hosting unpriced, escalator unmodelled.
About those two office seats. Most propane companies do not run two salespeople. They run a manager who carries sales, safety, training and whatever else lands on the desk that morning. That manager is one of the two office seats counted here. The seat count did not change, so neither did the figure.
Safety-forms subscription and back-office service modules — founder market knowledge, reviewed 2026-08-20. Tablet data lines, form-builder subscription, and CRM subscription — category-level estimates from our own market comparison, reviewed 2026-08-19; not vendor quotes and not tied to any one provider.
Figures reflect the dates cited above and may have changed since — confirm current vendor pricing before relying on any figure. Our own current prices: fuelsite.pro/en/pricing.
What you get
Basis: distinct capabilities, counted once, against the two categories of system we checked. Tank Spotter: more than 150 capabilities · all standard.
This sheet counts only the nine groups listed above — safety, service tech, propane inspections, tank inventory, compliance, training, sales, scheduling and reporting. Other Tank Spotter sheets count a wider set and print a higher floor. Same product, narrower scope here, lower floor. Counted once per capability, based on founder market knowledge and each category’s own public product information, reviewed 2026-08-20. Where a page was ambiguous, the capability was counted in the alternative’s favor. No vendor publishes a module count for any system shown; none is used here.
It is a floor; the printed index runs longer. Our prices: fuelsite.pro/en/pricing.
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