Canvass Pro

For political and advocacy teams · the doors, organized

Canvassing software for political and advocacy.
Cut the turf. Keep the pace. Count every knock.

A field program lives or dies on three unglamorous jobs: cutting turf into packets a volunteer can actually finish, holding pace when GOTV compresses months of persuasion into a few weekends of second and third passes, and knowing at the end of the day which doors were really knocked, by whom, and what happened there. Volunteers show up an hour before the launch and need a tool they can learn on the walk to the first door. Paid canvass crews need a knock record solid enough to invoice against. Canvass Pro is built for exactly those jobs: draw the turf on a map, log every disposition in one tap offline, and watch the whole field live while it happens.

The short version: Canvass Pro is a door knocking app for political and advocacy field programs. Draw your territory and every address inside becomes a workable door, dispositions log in one tap and work offline, a GPS check at log time marks each knock verified, and a live dashboard shows the whole operation as it moves. Honest boundary: there are no voter-file integrations, no VAN, PDI, or i360 sync, and we say so before you sign up. $0 to start, $49 per seat a month all-in ($41 on yearly), one seat is one person, cancel any time in the portal.

The trade, on the record

The 2026 field landscape, with sources.

Political tech is the one canvassing vertical with real incumbency, and we will not pretend otherwise. Here is what the cited research corpus actually says about the landscape you are knocking in, each figure with its source and date. Where no audited number exists, we say so instead of inventing one.

FactWhat the record saysSource + date
The incumbent MiniVAN dominates progressive canvassing: roughly 90% of 169 million plus logged door-knock attempts in the cited cycle ran through it, up from 71% of progressive knocks in 2018, with 218,000 plus volunteers using it in 2020. NGP VAN merged into Bonterra in March 2022. If your program is wired into the voter file, this is the standard, and honest software admits it. ngpvan.com blog posts, retrieved 2026-08-04.
The other side The Republican-aligned stack is its own closed ecosystem: i360 Walk has been renamed i360 Grassroots, and Campaign Sidekick is the other GOP-aligned door app. Both sides of the aisle run entrenched, party-adjacent tooling; neither is bought off a pricing page. i-360.com and App Store listing, retrieved 2026-08-04; NBC News coverage of GOP turnout tech, 2023.
The calendar 2026 primaries run late February through mid-September; the general election is November 3, 2026, with all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats contested. GOTV canvassing concentrates in September and October. A field program bought in August is bought for a roughly 90 day sprint, which is why monthly billing and portal cancellation matter more here than in any other trade. Bipartisan Policy Center 2026 key dates; 270toWin primary calendar; retrieved 2026-08-04.
The churn in the stack Even inside the duopoly, the tooling is in motion: Progressive Turnout Project has been piloting a MiniVAN replacement, TouchStone, ahead of 2026, and Higher Ground Labs maintains the buyers' guide progressive campaigns use to assemble their stack. Teams outside those ecosystems, advocacy groups, ballot committees, local and independent races, are the ones shopping the open market this page is written for. campaignsandelections.com; highergroundlabs.com 2025 pages; retrieved 2026-08-04.
What nobody measures No audited public benchmark exists for political knock-to-contact or contact-to-commitment rates. The cited research sweep compiled 2026-08-04 found none. Anyone quoting you a confident doors-per-shift or contact-rate number is quoting a rule of thumb or a sales pitch; plan your universe and your shifts with ranges instead. Canvass Pro growth research corpus, compiled 2026-08-04.

The honest read: if you are a partisan campaign with voter-file access, the incumbent tools exist for a reason and this page will not talk you out of them. If you are the field program the duopoly does not serve, an advocacy group, a ballot-measure committee, a local or independent race, a paid canvass vendor, the open-market question becomes what a seat costs and what is included in it. Pricing a paid crew for the fall? Run the arithmetic in the Crew ROI calculator, every benchmark cited and dated.

How the instrument fits political and advocacy

Built for the field office, not the boardroom.

These are shipped capabilities, mapped to what a field program actually does with them. No roadmap promises, an explicit list of what is not built in, and where a thing is table stakes across the category we say that out loud instead of dressing it up as a moat.

  • Drawable turfTerritory as packets Draw a shape on the map and every address inside it becomes a workable door. That is turf cutting without the spreadsheet: split a precinct into walkable packets by drawing them, hand each packet to a walker, and the map itself is the walk list. When the launch moves or a volunteer no-shows, redraw in the parking lot instead of re-exporting anything. Doors come from the territory you draw, which is exactly why this works for advocacy and ballot programs that have a neighborhood, not a universe file.
  • One-tap dispositionsBuilt for GOTV pace Not home, callback, no, win: one tap per door, logged on the device the instant it is tapped, synced when there is signal. GOTV is a pace problem, the same turf walked twice or three times in a weekend with volunteers who got their training in the driveway, and a tool survives that weekend only if the log costs nothing. The Morning Run opens each day on the callbacks waiting for a second pass, so the not-homes from Saturday are the walk list on Sunday instead of a note nobody reopens. Honesty requires this sentence: offline modes with auto-sync also exist at SalesRabbit and SPOTIO; in this category offline is table stakes, not a moat. It is simply done properly here and included in the price. Offline parity per spotio.com feature pages and 2025 to 2026 category roundups, retrieved 2026-08-04.
  • Verified knocksThe accountability layer When a walker shares location, a GPS check at log time, within 60 meters of the door, marks the knock verified; a door logged from the car is not. For a field director that is the end of the oldest argument in canvassing, whether the packet was actually walked. For anyone hiring a paid canvass vendor, or being one, it is a knock record solid enough to invoice and pay against. The live dashboard shows the whole operation as it moves: who is out, what got knocked, how the day's funnel looks, with owner, manager, and rep roles enforced server-side so a volunteer sees their turf and not your donor strategy. Fairness note: GPS-verified knock locations also exist at SalesRabbit and SPOTIO; what differs is what you pay for the seat that carries them. Parity per competitor feature pages, retrieved 2026-08-04.
  • Not built inThe honest boundary Enterprise voter-file integrations are not built in, and we will not pretend otherwise. There is no VAN, VoteBuilder, PDI, or i360 sync in either direction. And the 0 to 99 door score that Canvass Pro ships is a sales-fit model, built from signals like home value fit, buyer intent, new homeowner, and neighbor wins, every factor shown: it does not know vote history, party registration, or turnout propensity, and for a pure GOTV pass off a target universe you should ignore it and use the map, the pace, and the verification. What you do get on the data side: your whole knock record exports to CSV any time, on the free tier too, so everything your walkers gather leaves with you. If live voter-file sync is a hard requirement, MiniVAN's roughly 90% share of logged progressive knocks tells you where to go, and we would rather send you there than disappoint you. MiniVAN share per ngpvan.com blog posts, retrieved 2026-08-04.

Pricing

One price. And an exit that respects election day.

Campaigns have end dates; advocacy budgets have reporting requirements. Every Canvass Pro price is published, everything above is included in it, and the account cancels itself in the portal the week you stand down. No add-on tax, no demo call to learn a number, no contract that outlives the race.

$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. Turf drawing, one-tap offline logging, verified knocks, the live dashboard, routing, and the leaderboards are all inside the $49. Nothing on this page is a separately priced add-on.
  • Built for a 90 day program. Month to month, cancel yourself in one click in the portal, no exit fee, no notice window. Add seats for GOTV weekend, drop them on November 4, prorated to the day. A short program that never upgrades past the free tier is a fine outcome; we would rather be useful than clung to.
  • One seat, one person. Each seat is a single login tied to one individual, so every walker carries their own knocks and callbacks. Honest fit note: that maps cleanly to staff and paid canvassers; a program surging dozens of episodic volunteers should start on the free tier and decide whether per-seat software fits its shape at all.
  • Your doors stay yours. Export the whole knock record to CSV any time, on the free tier too. The field data your volunteers gathered outlives the campaign, and it leaves with you. We never delete your doors.

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, fully stacked$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, and a political program may not want their weather add-on at all. The terms matter more for a campaign: SalesRabbit's Terms of Service (PDF dated 2021-06-18, still linked as of 2026-08-04) auto-renew for another one-year term unless cancelled at least 30 days before term end, and state that fees are non-refundable. A one-year auto-renew is a strange shape for an operation that ends November 3. Check all of it yourself.

The full comparisons

We will say the fair things first. In political proper, the incumbents are MiniVAN and the i360 stack, not us, and the record above says so. Among the field-sales tools an advocacy or vendor program might otherwise buy: SalesRabbit and SPOTIO are established, well-reviewed products, both holding 4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra (accessed 2026-08-04), both with offline modes and GPS-verified knocks, and SalesRabbit has a free single-user Lite tier. The honest case against them 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 field directors actually ask.

Short, sourced, and honest about the incumbents.

  • Is Canvass Pro a replacement for MiniVAN or VoteBuilder?

    For a partisan campaign wired into the voter file, no, and we will say that plainly. MiniVAN is the entrenched standard on the progressive side: roughly 90% of 169 million plus logged door-knock attempts in the cited cycle ran through it, with 218,000 plus volunteers using it in 2020 (ngpvan.com blog posts, retrieved 2026-08-04). The Republican side has its own stack in i360 Grassroots and Campaign Sidekick. Canvass Pro does not integrate with any voter file. Where it fits is the door program that starts from a map instead of a universe file: advocacy groups, ballot-measure committees, local and independent races, and paid canvass vendors who need turf, pace, and a verifiable knock record without a party data agreement.

  • Does Canvass Pro integrate with the voter file (VAN, PDI, i360)?

    No. There is no VAN, VoteBuilder, PDI, or i360 sync in either direction, and this page will not imply one is coming. Doors come from the map itself: draw your turf and every address inside it becomes a workable door with one-tap dispositions. Your knock record exports to CSV any time, on the free tier too, so what your team gathers is yours to take into any other system. If your program cannot run without live voter-file sync, Canvass Pro is the wrong tool and we would rather say so here than after you have set it up.

  • Does Canvass Pro work offline on canvass day?

    Yes. Every knock logs in one tap on the device the instant it is tapped and syncs when there is signal, so a dead zone or an overloaded network on a big canvass day never costs you a door. Honesty requires the next sentence: SalesRabbit and SPOTIO also offer offline modes with auto-sync (their own feature pages, 2025 to 2026), so offline is table stakes in this category, not our moat. The difference is what you pay and what is included at that price.

  • How much does political canvassing software cost?

    Canvass Pro publishes every price: $0 to start with the full scored map and offline logging, then $49 per seat a month on Pro ($41 on yearly), one seat is one person, cancel any time in the portal, 30 day money back. MiniVAN access runs through the VAN ecosystem and party channels, and we will not guess at numbers we cannot cite. Among the field-sales incumbents a program might otherwise buy: SalesRabbit Pro is $49 per user a month billed annually or $75 monthly, with scoring and weather as paid add-ons (DataGrid AI $19 to $31, Weather $19 to $31), stacking a scored seat 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).

  • What happens to our account after election day?

    You cancel it yourself, in the portal, in one click, and the billing stops. Canvass Pro is month to month with no notice window and no exit fee, which matters in a trade where the whole operation stands down the week after November 3. Compare the terms before you sign anything for a 90 day field program: SalesRabbit's Terms of Service (PDF dated 2021-06-18, still linked from their site as of 2026-08-04) auto-renew for another one-year term unless cancelled at least 30 days before term end, and state that fees are non-refundable. And your field record is not hostage either way: export everything to CSV before you close the account, free tier included.

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

GOTV concentrates in September and October. Cut your turf before it does.

Draw your first turf, hand a walker a packet, and log the first knock in the next two minutes. The map and offline logging are free forever; $49 a seat when the program is ready to route and verify at scale. No demo call, no seat minimum, no contract that outlives the race. The September-October GOTV window is per the Bipartisan Policy Center's 2026 calendar, retrieved 2026-08-04; the deadline is real even though nothing on this page guarantees results inside it.

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