Canvass Pro

For nonprofit crews · donors · members · volunteers

Canvassing software for nonprofit canvassing.
Priced for the mission, built for volunteers.

The nonprofit door is its own trade. The ask is a monthly gift or a membership, not a roof. The crew is volunteers and maybe a few paid canvassers, and it changes week to week. The software budget is small, sometimes zero, because every dollar spent on tools is a dollar not spent on the mission, and the board reads the line items. And the data problem is worse than in sales: when a volunteer moves on, whatever lived on their clipboard leaves with them. Canvass Pro fits that shape: a real free tier a small team can actually run on, one seat at a time when you grow, leaderboards that keep a Saturday crew engaged without a commission check, and a map you can export in full, any time, because your supporters are yours.

The short version: Canvass Pro is a door knocking app that fits nonprofit canvassing. The free tier is a real product, the full scored map, offline one-tap logging, and CSV export, no card. Every door is scored 0 to 99 with every factor shown, volunteer crews get leaderboards, XP, and seasons on Pro, and paid canvassers get GPS-verified knocks. $0 to start, $49 per seat a month all-in ($41 on yearly), one seat is one person, no seat minimum, cancel any time.

The trade, on the record

The nonprofit door, with sources.

We will not sell you a movement. Here is what the cited research corpus actually says about the tools this trade gets handed, each fact with its source and date. Where no audited number exists, we say so instead of inventing one.

FactWhat the record saysSource + date
The political rails Partisan electoral canvassing is a locked ecosystem: NGP VAN's MiniVAN logged about 90% of 169 million plus door-knock attempts in the cited cycle, up from 71% of progressive knocks in 2018, and 218,000 plus volunteers used it in 2020, with equivalent closed tooling on the Republican side. If your work is a campaign inside the VAN world, that is the standard. This page is for the nonprofit door outside it. ngpvan.com blog posts, retrieved 2026-08-04. NGP VAN merged into Bonterra in March 2022.
The fundraising vertical The one purpose-built face-to-face fundraising suite the cited research sweep found, Beest, is Norwegian, publishes no US pricing, and has a negligible US review footprint, so it cannot serve as a pricing benchmark. In practice a US nonprofit shopping this category ends up quoted general sales-crew software. beest.app, accessed 2026-08-04.
The sales-tool bill The general canvassing incumbents are built and priced for commissioned sales crews. SalesRabbit's own page prices Pro at $49 to $75 per user a month with AI scoring and weather as paid add-ons that stack a seat to $87 to $137. SPOTIO hides pricing behind a demo call, states a 5 seat minimum, and offers no free trial or free plan. Both are capable, well reviewed tools (4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra); both are priced as if a commission pool is paying. salesrabbit.com/pricing and spotio.com/pricing, both fetched 2026-08-04; ratings accessed 2026-08-04.
What nobody measures No audited public benchmark exists for door-to-door donor sign-up rates, doorstep monthly-gift attrition, or volunteer knock volumes. The cited research sweep compiled 2026-08-04 found none. Anyone quoting you a confident face-to-face fundraising conversion rate is quoting a rule of thumb or a pitch. Pilot on the free tier and measure your own numbers instead. Canvass Pro growth research corpus, compiled 2026-08-04.

The honest read: the tools this trade gets offered are either locked to party infrastructure or priced for commission math a nonprofit does not have. Neither is a reason to knock less. It is a reason to run the doors on software whose free tier is real and whose paid step is one published number. Budgeting a paid canvassing crew? Run the arithmetic in the Crew ROI calculator, every benchmark cited and dated.

How the instrument fits nonprofit canvassing

Built for small budgets, and shifting rosters.

These are shipped capabilities, mapped to what a nonprofit field program actually does with them. No roadmap promises, and where a thing is table stakes across the category we say that out loud instead of dressing it up as a moat.

  • The real free tier$0, forever, no card A small team can run an entire pilot drive at $0 in software: the full scored map, one-tap offline logging, and CSV export all live in the free tier, with no card and no clock. Free is a product here, not a crippled trial, because an organization weighing tools against mission spend should get to test on real doors, not a brochure. When the program grows into paid canvassers or a crew that needs routing and leaderboards, the step up is one published number. Fairness note: SalesRabbit also lists a free single-user Lite tier (salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04). SPOTIO offers no free plan and no self-serve trial (spotio.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04).
  • One-seat entryNo minimum, no setup fee One seat is one person, and one seat is where you can start. Add seats when the year-end drive staffs up, drop them when it ends, prorated to the day, cancelled in the portal with no exit fee and no notice window. No implementation package, no demo call to learn a number. A field program that swells and shrinks with the campaign calendar gets billing that follows the roster instead of trapping it. SPOTIO states it is designed for teams of 5 or more, with no free trial (spotio.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04). SalesRabbit's pricing page states implementation packages are required (salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04).
  • Leaderboards + seasonsVolunteer engagement Volunteers do not work for commission; recognition is the pay. Every logged knock earns XP off the door, canvassers climb levels, and Pro runs full-crew leaderboards and seasons, so a Saturday canvass has a scoreboard and a finish line instead of a signup sheet. Honesty note: gamification is not unique to us, SalesRabbit sells it too (Amplify). What differs here is that it ships inside the $49 seat, tuned for a crew that runs on standing rather than bonuses. SalesRabbit gamification (Amplify) per 2025 to 2026 category roundups, retrieved 2026-08-04.
  • Export everythingYour supporters stay yours The people your canvassers sign up belong to your organization, not to your software vendor. Export the whole map to CSV any time, on the free tier too, and we never delete your leads. When a volunteer moves on, their doors, notes, and callbacks stay in the org's map instead of leaving on a clipboard. And if you ever leave us, the data walks out with you in one file, no retention maze.
  • Offline + verifiedThe field basics Every knock logs in one tap, on the device, the instant it is tapped, and syncs when there is signal, so a rural route or a dead zone never costs the drive a door. When a canvasser shares location, a GPS check at log time marks the knock verified, which matters the day you start paying canvassers or reporting field numbers to a board or a funder. Honesty requires this sentence: offline modes and GPS-verified knocks exist at SalesRabbit and SPOTIO too; in this category they are table stakes, not a moat. They are simply included in the $49 here instead of being lines on a longer bill. Parity per spotio.com feature pages and 2025 to 2026 category roundups, retrieved 2026-08-04.

Pricing

One price. That is the whole list.

Every dollar spent on tools is a dollar not spent on the mission, and your board reads the line items. Every Canvass Pro price is published, and everything above is included in it. No add-on tax, no demo call to learn a number.

$0

To start. Full scored map, offline logging, no card.

$49/seat/mo

Pro, all-in. $41 on yearly, two months free.

1seat

Is one person. Start alone, today. No seat minimum.

30days

Plain money back on Pro. Cancel any time, in the portal.

  • All-in means all-in. Scoring, routing, verified knocks, offline logging, and the leaderboards are all inside the $49. Nothing on this page is a separately priced add-on.
  • No contract trap. Month to month if you want it, cancel yourself in one click in the portal, no exit fee, no notice window. Staff up for the year-end push, drop the seats in January, prorated to the day.
  • One seat, one person. Each seat is a single login tied to one individual, so every canvasser carries their own knocks, callbacks, and verified doors. That is what makes the accountability real.
  • Your doors stay yours. Export the whole map to CSV any time, on the free tier too. We never delete your leads.

The add-on tax, itemized

SalesRabbit Pro ($49 annual / $75 monthly)$49 to $75
+ DataGrid AI scoring add-on$19 to $31
+ Weather add-on$19 to $31
Their seat, scored and weather-aware$87 to $137
Canvass Pro, everything included$49

Their numbers are from salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04; the spread is annual versus monthly billing. A nonprofit crew may never want their weather add-on, but the scoring add-on is the one this page is about, and it alone lifts a Pro seat to $68 to $106. Their Terms of Service (PDF dated 2021-06-18, still linked) auto-renew for another one-year term unless cancelled at least 30 days before term end, and state that fees are non-refundable. On a grant-funded budget, read that twice, then check all of it yourself.

The full comparisons

We will say the fair things first. SalesRabbit and SPOTIO are established, well-reviewed tools: both hold 4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra (accessed 2026-08-04), both have offline modes, and both verify knock GPS. SalesRabbit even has a free single-user Lite tier. The honest case against them for a nonprofit is narrower and it is about money and terms: SalesRabbit's add-on stack and auto-renew ToS, and SPOTIO's hidden pricing (demo-gated), stated 5 seat minimum, and no self-serve trial, with third-party price estimates spanning roughly $25 to $129 per user a month depending on source and era (get-instamaps.com, 2026-07-04; Capterra 2026 listing). Read the full dated breakdowns and decide yourself:

Canvass Pro vs SalesRabbit, every number dated → Canvass Pro vs SPOTIO, the price-opacity file →

Straight answers

What nonprofit teams actually ask.

Short, sourced, and honest about the parts nobody has measured.

  • What is the best canvassing app for nonprofits?

    There is no audited head to head for nonprofit canvassing, so be suspicious of anyone who declares themselves the winner. The honest map of the category: partisan electoral canvassing runs on its own rails (NGP VAN's MiniVAN logged about 90% of 169 million plus progressive door-knock attempts in the cited cycle; ngpvan.com, retrieved 2026-08-04), Beest is a Norwegian field-sales and fundraising suite with no public US pricing (beest.app, accessed 2026-08-04), and SalesRabbit and SPOTIO are capable, well reviewed tools (both hold 4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra, accessed 2026-08-04) built and priced for commissioned sales crews. The case for Canvass Pro on a nonprofit team is fit and cost: a real free tier, one-seat entry with no minimum, $49 per seat a month all-in when you do pay, and a full CSV export of your map at any time.

  • Is there a free canvassing app for volunteer teams?

    Yes. The Canvass Pro free tier is a product, not a trial: the full scored map, one-tap knock logging that works offline and syncs when there is signal, and CSV export, with no card and no clock. A small volunteer team can run an entire pilot drive at $0 in software. Fairness requires a sentence: SalesRabbit also lists a free single-user Lite tier (salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04), while SPOTIO offers no free plan and no self-serve trial (spotio.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04). The difference is what happens when you grow: our paid step is one published price, $49 per seat, with nothing stacked on top.

  • How much does nonprofit canvassing software cost?

    Canvass Pro publishes every price: $0 to start, then $49 per seat a month on Pro ($41 on yearly), one seat is one person, no seat minimum, cancel any time in the portal, 30 day money back. For contrast, from the incumbents' own pages: SalesRabbit Pro is $49 per user a month billed annually or $75 monthly, and scoring and weather are paid add-ons (DataGrid AI $19 to $31, Weather $19 to $31), so a fully equipped seat stacks to $87 to $137 per user a month (salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04). SPOTIO hides its prices behind a demo call, states a 5 seat minimum, and offers no free trial or free plan; third-party estimates span roughly $25 to $129 per user a month and cannot be treated as fact (spotio.com/pricing fetched 2026-08-04; get-instamaps.com 2026-07-04; Capterra 2026 listing). On a nonprofit budget, a 5 seat minimum alone is often the difference between piloting and not.

  • Does the door score know who will donate?

    No, and we will not pretend it does. The score is built from signals like home value fit, buyer intent, new homeowner, and neighbor wins, and every factor is shown on the door, no black box. It does not read giving histories, wealth screenings, or your CRM. Those factors were built for door to door selling, and we say that plainly; what a nonprofit crew gets from them is a way to work a finite Saturday in a deliberate order instead of at random, with every signal visible so your coordinator can judge which ones matter for your ask. Whether a conversation becomes a monthly gift is still won by your canvasser and your cause, not by a number on a pin.

  • Does Canvass Pro replace MiniVAN for political canvassing?

    We will not pretend it does. Partisan electoral canvassing in the US runs on entrenched rails: NGP VAN's MiniVAN logged roughly 90% of 169 million plus progressive door-knock attempts in the cited cycle and 218,000 plus volunteers used it in 2020 (ngpvan.com, retrieved 2026-08-04), with equivalent closed tooling on the Republican side. If you are a campaign inside that ecosystem, that integration is the standard and we are not it. Canvass Pro fits the nonprofit door outside those rails: donor acquisition, membership drives, community organizing, and advocacy field work that needs a scored map, offline logging, and a price a small budget survives.

Free to start · no card · one seat is one person

The drive has a date. Score the turf before the clipboards go out.

Draw your territory, see every door scored 0 to 99 with the reasons shown, and log the first knock in the next two minutes. The scored map, offline logging, and CSV export are free forever; $49 a seat when the crew is ready to route. No demo call, no seat minimum, no contract.

Map your territory
Budgeting a paid canvassing crew? Run the honest arithmetic → Or read the dated comparisons first: vs SalesRabbit → vs SPOTIO →