Truck Check
Apparatus walkarounds, SCBA bottles, bunker gear, station supplies, alerts, journal. The daily-shift workhorse.
$750/yr · up to 250 users
Built by firefighters, for fire departments
Every truck. Every member. Every TV in the bay. One platform.
Station Pulse runs the daily truck check, the back-office member & certification system, the dayroom info board, and the live CAD board on every TV in your station — from one login, one bill, one place. Try the live demos below — no signup, no sales call.
- ✅ NFPA-aligned PPE & SCBA tracking
- 📱 Works on the phone in your turnout pocket
- 📋 Inspection-ready records, auto-stamped
- ⚡ Up and running in a day
- 🔒 Two-factor & passkey sign-in built in
Six products. One platform. Mix and match.
Pick what your station actually needs. Add the rest later — everything talks to itself.
Department Office
Member rosters, certifications, training/social hours, meetings, compliance, equipment, e-signed agreements.
📇 Office 365 sync — optional, self-configured: connect your own Microsoft 365 to keep an Office 365 distribution list matched to your roster, so new members are emailable on day one and departed members drop off. (Included option · you set it up.)
$750/yr · up to 10 editors
Station Wallboard
The dayroom TV finally earning its keep. Announcements, training, social events, weather, hall rentals.
$250/yr · up to 15 editors
CAD Board
Live Active911 incident on every TV in the bay. Marked-up responders, run order, response timer, map.
$250/yr · up to 5 editors
Hall Rentals
Booking calendar, custom agreements, deposits, add-ons (Wi-Fi, AV, tablecloths), banned-renter list, e-signed contracts. Public booking form with mobile signature pad.
$350/yr · unlimited spaces & bookings
Donations
Donor database, gifts, fundraising campaigns and pledges, year-end giving reports, CSV import, and printed thank-you letters + envelopes. Pledge-due and stale-thank-you reminder emails. (Recordkeeping only — does not process payments.)
$200/yr · up to 15 users
Office add-ons
Bolt-on modules for departments that already have Department Office. Each requires the Office subscription to be enabled.
Sign-Ups Office add-on
Event sign-up sheets for trainings, fundraisers, and socials. Multi-day events, capacity limits with per-slot min/max, time-slot picker, member invite tokens that pre-fill (with verified ✓ badge), public link with auto self-manage email, 1-day + 4-hour reminder emails, modern public page with your dept logo and theme.
$25/yr · requires Department Office
Ask about Sign-UpsVoting Office add-on
Token-based ballots for officer elections, bylaw changes, or quick motions. Live admin console with reveal-one-at-a-time, big-screen results page for the meeting room, secret-vs-named vote per question, show-live-tally toggle, auto roster picker from your Office members.
$25/yr · requires Department Office
Ask about VotingTwo live demos — no signup, no demo call.
Real working boards running synthetic data from a Demo Volunteer Fire Department. Click and you're looking at exactly what your TVs will show. Press F11 for the full kiosk experience.
Same code, same data flow, same kiosk you'd get for your station. The Voting board uses simulated election results so you can see exactly how the meeting-room display behaves on election night.
Made for the bay floor, not a boardroom
Big buttons, dark screens, glove-friendly inputs. Looks at home on the iPad strapped to the cab and on the phone in your pocket between calls.
Walks the inspector through your records
Every check, alert, hydro, and bunker-gear inspection is timestamped and attributed. When the auditor shows up, you hand them a tablet, not a banker's box.
Built by firefighters who got tired of clipboards
This isn't a generic SaaS bolted onto a fire-service skin. Every screen reflects how a real apparatus floor actually runs — including yours.
Everything you're tracking on sticky notes — in one place
The tools your department uses every shift, finally living together.
Truck checks made fast
Per-apparatus walkarounds with photo references for every compartment, fuel and mileage capture, and a one-tap "flag this" that opens a ticket on the spot.
SCBA, bottle-by-bottle
Service life and hydro dates tracked per cylinder — steel, fiber-wrap, carbon, your custom types. The PA Fire Academy inspection template is built in.
Bunker gear, by member
NFPA 1851 lifecycle tracking per firefighter. Members get a private link to flag their own gear — no app to install, no extra login.
Supplies that restock themselves
Set par levels by compartment. When stock dips below the line or an item is close to expiring, a ticket opens automatically — before anyone notices on a call.
Issues that don't get forgotten
Every flagged item becomes a ticket with priority, comments, assignment, and a clear status. The board on the dashboard tells the whole truth in one glance.
One journal everyone reads
Pinned bulletins, scheduled expirations, and a system-event timeline of every check, alert, and inspection. Tell the next shift what they need to know — once.
Never miss a deadline
Hydros, PPE inspections, supply expirations, registration renewals — everyone who needs to know gets a friendly heads-up, from your department's name in their inbox.
Peace of mind, by design
Member information is locked down. Roles match the chain of command. Two-factor and modern passkey sign-in keep the wrong people out. You hold the keys.
What each product actually looks like
Real screenshots from the demo board, running right now. Click any "View live demo" to open the real thing.
Companion product
Station Wallboard
The flat-screen on the dayroom wall, finally earning its keep. Weather, today's training, upcoming hall rentals, social events, and any announcement the chief pinned that morning — live, big, and built to be readable from across the bay.
- Auto dark/light theming so it never looks washed out
- Add announcements/training/social right from the admin panel
- Hall rental feed plugs into your existing booking system
- Plug a Pi or stick PC into the TV and forget about it
Companion product
CAD Board
Tone drops and every TV in the station instantly shows the active call — address, type, who's marked up, run order based on the area and call type, and a live map. Pulls from Active911 in real time; no extra hardware, no extra integrations.
- Live Active911 feed — alerts, responders, and timestamps in one view
- Recommended run order computed from your call types + area buckets
- Embedded Google Map — pin-only or driving directions from your station
- Per-unit display tokens so a stolen URL only kicks out one TV
- Built-in test alert button to verify the board without dispatching
Companion product
Department Office
The back-office side of running a fire company — the part most platforms forget. Active, social, and junior rosters in one place. Cert tracking that tells you who's FF1, who's Proboard, who's EMS, and where the gaps are. Training hours, social hours, meeting attendance, compliance, and the department-history archive your historian has been begging for.
- One screen for every member — status, certs, birthdays, contact info
- Cert dashboards your chief can hand to the county fire marshal
- Training, social, and meeting hours rolled up automatically
- Mass-email blasts to active members in one click
📊 Training hours rolled up by quarter — instantly auditable.
🤝 Community service & fair hours — separate categories, single view.
✅ State compliance: background, child abuse, FBI — expiration alerts built in.
Buying all four? We bundle. Drop us a line at the form below and mention what you're looking at.
Honest pricing. No surprises.
Annual subscriptions. Pay by card (Square) or invoice. Bundle two or more and save.
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Truck Check
$750/yr
up to 250 users
- ✓ Apparatus daily checks
- ✓ SCBA bottles + hydros
- ✓ Bunker gear (NFPA 1851)
- ✓ Station supplies + alerts
- ✓ Journal + activity log
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Department Office
$750/yr
up to 10 editors
- ✓ Member roster + statuses
- ✓ Cert tracking + dashboards
- ✓ Training/social/meeting hours
- ✓ Compliance (BG, FBI, child)
- ✓ Email blasts + e-sign
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Wallboard
$250/yr
up to 15 editors
- ✓ Dayroom TV info display
- ✓ Announcements/training/social
- ✓ Weather + hall rentals
- ✓ Auto dark/light theming
- ✓ Display token per TV
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CAD Board
$250/yr
up to 5 editors
- ✓ Live Active911 feed
- ✓ Marked-up responders
- ✓ Run-order engine
- ✓ Google Maps embed
- ✓ Test alert button
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Hall Rentals
$350/yr
unlimited spaces & bookings
- ✓ Booking calendar
- ✓ Custom agreements + e-sign
- ✓ Deposits + member pricing
- ✓ Add-ons (Wi-Fi, AV, etc.)
- ✓ Public booking form + iCal
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Donations
$200/yr
up to 15 users
- ✓ Donor database + gifts
- ✓ Campaigns + pledges
- ✓ Thank-you letters + envelopes
- ✓ Year-end giving reports
- ✓ CSV import + reminder crons
📋 Office add-ons
Each requires the Department Office subscription. No separate seat limit — included for everyone on your Office tenant.
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Sign-Ups
+$25/yr
requires Office
- ✓ Multi-day events + time slots
- ✓ Member invite tokens + verified ✓
- ✓ Auto-issued self-manage links
- ✓ Day-before + 4-hour reminders
- ✓ Public page w/ your logo + theme
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Voting
+$25/yr
requires Office
- ✓ Token-based private ballots
- ✓ Reveal-one-at-a-time console
- ✓ Big-screen live results
- ✓ Secret vs named per question
- ✓ Auto roster picker from Office
Combo
Wallboard + CAD Combo
$450/yr save $50
Both station-display products. For stations that want one or two TVs in the bay.
Most popular
Full Volunteer Dept Bundle
$2,000/yr save $400
All 5 core products (Truck Check, Office, Wallboard, CAD Board, Hall Rentals) plus both Office add-ons (Sign-Ups + Voting). The full Station Pulse suite at a bundle discount — what most volunteer departments end up choosing.
Custom
County / regional
Talk to us
Multiple departments under one roof, higher seat counts, custom onboarding. We'll quote you in 24 hours.
All plans include: 2-factor & passkey sign-in · unlimited paired TVs (within seat cap) ·
email support · data migration help.
Get a quote — usually same-day reply
You're not locked in. Your data is yours.
The four questions every chief asks before saying yes. The answers stay the same whether you're a 30-member volunteer co. or a 6-station county.
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Member PII encrypted at rest
Names, emails, phone numbers, SSNs, ID-theft PINs — encrypted on disk with an application key separate from the database. Even a stolen DB backup is unreadable.
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CSV / JSON export anytime
Members, certs, training hours, journal entries — all exportable on demand from the admin panel. If you ever leave, we hand you everything and shake hands. No retention games.
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2FA + passkeys included
TOTP authenticator + WebAuthn passkey sign-in built in for every account from day one. Backup codes for the chief who locks themselves out. No upcharge.
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Email from your dept's mailbox
Reminders + invites + agreements go out from events@yourdept.org, not from us. Members never see "Station Pulse" in their inbox. Per-tenant SMTP, SPF + DKIM aligned.
How we stack up
Honest comparison vs. the two systems most departments switch from.
| What you actually want | Station Pulse | PSTrax | Paper / spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Truck check + SCBA + PPE | ✓ | ✓ | spreadsheet |
| Live CAD board on TVs | ✓ (Active911) | — | — |
| Wallboard for the dayroom | ✓ | — | — |
| Office (members, certs, compliance) | ✓ included with Office plan | + extra module | — |
| Hall rentals + e-signed contracts | ✓ unlimited spaces | — | — |
| Member self-service email links | ✓ (no member app to install) | — | — |
| Real-time officer voting (big screen) | ✓ ($25/yr add-on) | — | — |
| Public sign-up sheets | ✓ ($25/yr add-on) | — | Google Form |
| Built specifically for fire | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Annual price (single-station volunteer dept) | $750–$2,000 | $1,200–$3,500 | $0 + headaches |
| Data export on demand | ✓ CSV/JSON | support ticket | — |
| Setup time | < 1 day | 2–6 weeks | — |
Pricing snapshots are from the competitors' public pages or quotes departments have shared with us. If yours looks different, tell us what they quoted and we'll update.
Why now
Three reasons the chiefs we talk to actually pull the trigger.
📋 NFPA 1851 + 1971 paperwork
Bunker gear lifecycle records have to be inspection-ready. The fastest way to fail an audit is "we have it somewhere in a binder". One-tap timestamped records means you hand the inspector a tablet, not a banker's box.
🏆 ISO PPC rating cycle
Apparatus + SCBA documentation directly affects the ISO score, which affects every homeowner's insurance bill in your service area. Departments dropping from a Class 6 → 5 on documentation alone is not rare.
🔁 The volunteer turnover cliff
The chief who's been holding it all in his head for 25 years isn't always going to be there. The records he carries need to live somewhere when he hangs up the gear.
Common questions, straight answers
How long does setup take?
For a single station with one apparatus and one TV, you can be up and running in under a day. We'll import your members from a spreadsheet, you wire your CAD feed (Active911), point your TV at the board URL, and you're live. Multi-station and county-wide deployments take longer — we plan it with you.
Do I have to buy every product?
No. Start with what hurts most — usually Truck Check or the Wallboard — and add the others when you're ready. Each product is sold separately, and the bundle discount kicks in any time you have two or more.
What are Sign-Ups and Voting? Why are they cheaper?
They're Office add-ons — small tools that piggyback on your member roster. Sign-Ups is for trainings, fundraisers, and socials (with public signup links, time-slot pickers, and reminder emails). Voting is for officer elections and bylaw motions (token-based ballots + a live admin console). Each is $25/yr on top of your Office subscription, since both lean on the member data you've already paid Office to maintain. You can't buy them stand-alone — Office is the foundation they sit on.
What's "per editor" mean? Do my firefighters need accounts?
Editor seats are the people who change things — admins, officers, training officers. Anyone viewing the wallboard or CAD board on a TV doesn't need an account. For Truck Check, every firefighter who marks a check complete uses one seat — that's why the cap is 250. Most volunteer departments use 30-80 truck-check seats.
We use Active911 already. Does Station Pulse work with that?
Yes — that's exactly how the CAD Board works. You generate a personal refresh token from Active911's developer console (1-year lifespan, free), paste it into Station Pulse's admin panel, and the board pulls alerts and marked-up responders in real time. No extra Active911 license needed.
What if I want to leave? Can I export my data?
All your data — members, certs, training hours, journal entries, custom check templates — is yours and exportable as CSV/JSON any time. We don't lock you in. If you ever leave, we hand you everything and shake hands.
Switching from PSTrax or a paper system?
We've done this a few times. Send us your current export (PSTrax has a CSV export; paper can be scanned + we'll do the typing), and we'll have it loaded before your first day live. Free as part of onboarding.
Is my department's data secure?
PII columns (names, emails, SSNs, ID-theft PINs) are encrypted at rest with per-application keys — not just the database, the values themselves. Two-factor and modern passkey sign-in are built in. Every action is audit-logged with the actor's user id and timestamp. You hold your own admin keys; we can't read your members' private info even if we wanted to.
Who's behind this?
Active volunteer firefighter who got tired of the existing software being either expensive, ugly, or both. Station Pulse is built and run from one person who actually shows up at calls — not a Silicon Valley team treating fire service as a vertical to extract from. If you email support, the reply comes from the person who wrote the code.
🎁 Free tools
No login. No data saved. Backed by your browser's cryptographic random source — the same OS-level entropy HTTPS uses — with rejection sampling so every entry has provably equal probability of being selected.
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Random number picker
Pick any number 0–1,000,000. Set the range, pick 1–3 winners, optional 3rd→1st reveal. Zero-padded for printed tickets (01, 02…).
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Random name picker
Paste a roster — one per line, comma-separated, or pasted from a spreadsheet. Pick 1–3 winners with announcement-style reveal. Up to 500,000 names.
Let's talk about your station.
Send us a note — a real person replies, usually the same business day. Bring questions, screenshots from your current setup, or just "what would this look like for us."
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