MeterBeam watches your entire fleet — meter reads, toner levels, service alerts — and tells you exactly what to ship, where, and when. Built for copier dealers and MSPs — and available as a Single Seat plan for IT teams running one fleet.
Runs live today on real fleets in the Chicago area.
Born inside a copier dealership. MeterBeam was designed around the way a real dealer bills, stocks toner, and dispatches service — and it runs those fleets today.
What it does
One lightweight agent per site. Full visibility across every location, every device, every cartridge — whether you manage fleets for dozens of customers or for your own company.
Mono and color page counts from every networked printer and copier, every day, via standard SNMP. No more walking to the machine, no more calling the customer for a read — HP, Canon, Xerox, Toshiba, Sharp, Ricoh, Konica Minolta, Lexmark, Brother and more.
MeterBeam tracks each cartridge's burn rate and projects a days-left and empty date — not just a percentage. You see "black empties ~Sep 24" instead of "12%", so you ship when it matters and skip the ones that will be fine for months.
Every morning the queue tells you exactly what to ship, where, and when: Ship now for anything urgent, Add to box for cartridges due within 45 days so they ride along in the same shipment, and Restock for shelves that fell below minimum.
Know what toner is already sitting on the shelf at every site. Set a minimum per location or department, get restock flagged when it dips below, and watch it draw down automatically when a cartridge is swapped in.
Jam, door-open, and error codes that persist; devices that go dark; collectors that stop reporting; waste-toner boxes filling up. Alerts are batched, de-duplicated, and routed by customer — via email or Telegram — so you hear about it before the customer does.
Per-customer volume reports for the billing period, CSV export that drops straight into your contract billing or ERP, and a full read history per device. Dealers bill from it; IT teams use it to right-size the fleet and chargeback departments.
One lightweight agent per site. Dealers see every customer, every location, and every device in one view with per-customer routing and reports. Single Seat teams get the same view across their own buildings and departments.
A small signed Windows MSI (Linux too) installs in minutes, discovers devices on the network, and phones home securely over HTTPS — outbound only, nothing to open on the firewall. Self-updating, no server babysitting.
Two-factor authentication, role-based users, scoped API keys, read-only AI access by default, and no inbound ports at the customer site. Details on the security page.
Reports that land in your inbox
You don't have to log in to know what's going on. MeterBeam emails a toner-to-ship report per customer on your schedule, and batches service alerts as they happen. These are real emails from the product, rendered exactly as they arrive.
Volume reports and billing CSVs are available in the portal and over the API. See how meter reports and billing exports work →
AI-ready
MeterBeam ships with a full REST API and native MCP support — the open standard that connects AI assistants to live data. Point Claude, ChatGPT, or your own agent at your fleet and ask it questions in plain English.
How it works
No rip-and-replace, no six-week onboarding. If a site has a Windows machine and a network, you're in business.
Drop the installer on any Windows PC or server at the customer site. Enrollment takes one token, one minute.
The agent scans the network, discovers printers and copiers, and starts reporting meters, toner, and status automatically.
Your dashboard shows exactly which supplies to send, where, and when — batched to save money, flagged when it's urgent.
MeterBeam is a printer fleet monitoring and smart-supplies platform. A lightweight data collection agent (DCA) gathers meter reads, toner levels, and device status from the printers and copiers on your network, and MeterBeam turns that into clear actions: what to ship, where, and when.
Copier dealers and MSPs managing fleets across many customers are the core use case — the Dealer plan covers unlimited customer accounts. But you don't need to be a dealer: the Single Seat plan gives an in-house IT team, a single office, or a campus the same meter collection, toner forecasting, and alerts for its own fleet. And a small office with a handful of printers can start on Starter — low-toner alerts and one-click ordering, nothing to learn. From five devices to multi-site fleets.
Yes. MeterBeam covers the core DCA workflow — automated meter collection, toner monitoring, and supply alerts — and is designed around real dealer billing, supply, and service workflows. Early-access partners are being onboarded now.
MeterBeam works with all major brands via standard SNMP, including HP, Canon, Xerox, Brother, Lexmark, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, and Sharp.
30-day free trial, then simple monthly plans — no setup fee, no annual contract. Early partners lock in a Founding Rate for as long as they stay subscribed. See pricing for current plans.
Yes — natively. MeterBeam includes an open REST API with scoped API keys and a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can query your fleet directly: toner levels, supply forecasts, meter reads, alerts, and volume reports. Access is read-only by default, and keys can be revoked at any time.
Guides and honest comparisons for anyone evaluating printer fleet monitoring.
How data collection agents gather meters, toner, and status from your fleet.
Ship cartridges just before they're needed — no outages, no stockpiles.
Track meters, toner, and device health without dealer-sized complexity.
Query your fleet in plain English with Claude, ChatGPT, and MCP.
An honest side-by-side against ECI's long-standing DCA platform.
How we stack up against ECI's cloud MPS platform.
Where each platform fits for dealers, MSPs, and IT teams.
We're onboarding a limited group of founding partners — dealers and MSPs on the Dealer plan, IT teams on Single Seat, small offices on Starter. Founding partners keep their rate for as long as they stay subscribed, and get a direct line to the people building it.
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Questions? Talk to us or email info@meterbeam.com