Canvass Pro

For the trade · Roofing & storm restoration

Canvassing software for roofing,
built for the storm week.

Roofing canvassing is not a steady grind, it is a sprint that starts when the hail stops. Demand arrives by storm, the knocking window is measured in hours, every homeowner has already been warned about storm chasers, and the crew that runs eight reps in June runs two in January. Canvass Pro is a door knocking app shaped around exactly that: the live swath becomes a scored, routed lead list the same hour, every knock carries a GPS check at the door, it all logs offline, and the winter has a pause button instead of a cancel button.

The short version: Canvass Pro turns a hail swath into a scored, routed lead list the same hour it hits, GPS-verifies every logged knock, and works with no signal. Free to start, no card. Pro is $49 per seat a month, all-in: storm routing and door scoring are included, not sold as add-ons. One seat is one person, month to month, cancel in the portal, and from October an off-season pause holds everything for winter.

The field reality

The week roofing actually sells in.

Every figure below carries its source and date, from a cited research sweep compiled 2026-08-04. Where no audited number exists we say so instead of inventing one.

  • Demand arrives by storm 2025 was a record hail year: State Farm alone paid over $5.6 billion in hail claims, $1.4 billion of it in Texas, up 27%+ year over year. 2026 opened heavy too: 650+ hail events reported across nine states on March 10, 2026 alone, and 50,000+ Midwest claims by March. When a swath crosses a town, the market for your crew appears overnight, and so do your competitors' trucks. State Farm newsroom release, covered 2026-04-21; 2026 season coverage, retrieved 2026-08-04.
  • The window is hours Roofing-industry canvassing guidance says crews work storm paths within 24 to 72 hours of an event. The insurance clock starts when the hail stops, homeowners commit to the first credible inspection, and the swath that sat for a week is a swath somebody else already worked. Roofing-industry canvassing guidance, accessed Aug 2026.
  • The doorstep is skeptical After every major hail event, insurers, local news, and city halls warn homeowners about out-of-town storm chasers. The first thing a roofing canvasser sells is not the roof, it is legitimacy. A crew that can show discipline (who knocked, where, when, verified) is running a different conversation than the truck that rolled in overnight. No invented statistics here; this one is the lived texture of the trade.
  • The crew is seasonal Hail peaks April to June across most of the US (the Texas I-35 corridor peaks March to early April, Colorado from mid-May), and September to November is a strong follow-up canvassing season. Then winter. Crews staff up for the season and shrink for the cold months, so software billed like a year-round office suite fights the shape of the business. There are roughly 106,000 roofing contractor businesses in the US, and most storm canvassing crews are a handful of reps, not a hundred. Insurance Information Institute hail facts + Hail Protector state guide, accessed Aug 2026; IBISWorld roofing contractors, 2025 data (105,876 businesses), retrieved 2026-08-04.

The fit

How the instrument fits roofing.

Nothing below is a roofing skin on a generic tool. These are the product's real capabilities mapped onto the storm week, in the order the week happens.

  • 01 · The swath routes itself The storm layer is a live severe-weather feed derived from National Weather Service data, swept every 20 minutes, free to watch without an account. On Pro, a hail swath crossing your territory becomes a scored lead list the same hour it hits: one tap on the swath and the doors thread into a numbered drive loop, hottest first, so the crew is knocking damage inside the 24-to-72-hour window instead of drawing turf on a whiteboard. Backed by the Storm Guarantee: hail one inch or larger crossing doors already on your map, routed the same day, or that month of Pro is credited on one email.
  • 02 · Scored, and explained Every door reads 0 to 99 with every factor shown, no black box, on the free tier and up. Inside a fresh swath that is triage: the crew works the houses most likely to open and buy first, instead of the block top to bottom while the window closes.
  • 03 · The verified knock When a rep shares location, each knock carries a GPS fix at log time, within 60 meters of the door, or it does not show as verified. In a trade where the homeowner has been warned about storm chasers and the owner has been burned by ghost knocks logged from the truck, that record is the discipline made visible: the rep's commission proof, the crew's answer when two trucks claim the same swath, the owner's clean signal of who actually worked the damage path.
  • 04 · First touch, on the record Every logged door is a time-stamped record of who was there and when, and the verified ones carry the GPS fix with it. Storm work runs on first touch: commission splits, territory disputes, and callback claims all come down to whose knock was first. Your whole map exports to CSV any time, on the free plan too, and we never delete your leads.
  • 05 · Offline where the hail hit The neighborhoods worth knocking are the ones the storm just tore up: power out, towers overloaded, dead zones everywhere. Every knock writes on the device the instant it is tapped and syncs when signal returns, so the swath's worst block never costs you a logged door.
  • 06 · Winter has a pause button From October, Off-season mode pauses billing until March 1 in one tap. Your doors, learned scores, streaks, and storm watch all stay live through the winter, and you can resume early the day the first spring swath crosses your territory, with last season's map intact. No cancel-and-rebuild, no paying full seats to keep your data warm. (And if you would rather just cancel, the portal does it in one click, no exit fee.)

Pricing

Priced for a storm business. All-in, no weather tax.

Free to start with the full scored map, no card. Pro is $49 per seat a month ($41 on the yearly plan), and one seat is one person. Storm routing and door scoring are included in that number, not sold back to you as add-ons, and you can cancel any time in the billing portal.

  • $0 to start. The full scored map, offline knock logging, and the live storm stream to watch. A real product, not a trial, and no card to see it.
  • $49 per seat, all-in. Storm swaths routed the hour they hit, 0 to 99 scoring with every factor shown, routing, territories, and leaderboards, one price. No weather add-on, no AI add-on.
  • One seat is one person. A 3-rep crew pays for 3 seats, starting at one. No 5-seat minimum, no setup packages, add or drop seats as the season changes, prorated to the day.
  • Leave any time. Month to month, cancel yourself in the portal in one click, no exit fee, and Off-season mode instead of a winter cancel. Plain 30 day money back on Pro, plus the Storm Guarantee for storm trades.

The weather tax, from their own pricing page

SalesRabbit Pro, monthly$75
+ Weather add-on$31
+ DataGrid AI add-on$31
Their map, scored and weather-aware$137
Canvass Pro, everything included$49

Prices from salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04, monthly billing; annual billing lowers their stack to $87 all-in and ours to $41. SalesRabbit is a well-rated product (4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra as of Aug 2026) with a real free single-user Lite tier, and it has offline mode and GPS verification too. The difference we claim is the bill, not their quality. Check every number yourself.

The full SalesRabbit comparison →

The other incumbent will not tell you the price

SPOTIO publishes no prices at all: its pricing page gates the numbers behind a form and a demo call, states the product is designed for teams of 5 or more, and offers no free plan and no self-serve trial (spotio.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04). Third-party estimates range from $25 to $129 per user per month depending on source and era, and cannot be treated as fact. SPOTIO is also a well-rated tool (4.3 to 4.5 stars on Capterra and G2 as of Aug 2026) with offline and GPS features of its own.

The structural problem is the doorway: a 3-rep storm crew is below the stated 5-seat floor, and a crew staffing up in a storm week does not have a discovery call to spare. Canvass Pro publishes every price, starts at one seat, and you can be routing a swath the same afternoon you sign up.

The full SPOTIO comparison →

Competitor prices, terms, and ratings on this page were verified against the named primary pages on 2026-08-04 and are re-checked periodically. SalesRabbit's terms of service provide for one-year auto-renewal unless cancelled at least 30 days before term end, with fees non-refundable (SalesRabbit ToS and Billing FAQ, accessed 2026-08-04); SalesRabbit also offers monthly billing at a premium. Nothing on this page guarantees ROI, close rates, or income.

Straight answers

What roofing buyers actually ask.

Short, sourced, and honest about the competition.

  • Does Canvass Pro show hail maps and storm swaths for roofing canvassing?

    Yes. The storm layer is a live severe-weather feed derived from National Weather Service data, swept every 20 minutes, and free to watch without an account. On Pro, a hail swath that crosses your territory becomes a scored, routed lead list the same hour it hits: one tap on the swath orders the doors into a numbered drive loop. Storm routing is included in the $49 seat, not sold as a separate weather add-on.

  • How fast does a roofing crew need to canvass after a hail storm?

    Roofing-industry canvassing guidance says crews work storm paths within 24 to 72 hours of an event (accessed August 2026), and September to November is a strong follow-up canvassing season on top of the April to June hail peak (Insurance Information Institute hail facts, accessed August 2026). Canvass Pro is built for that clock: the swath routes the same hour it hits, so the crew is knocking damage while the tarps are still going up.

  • How does GPS knock verification help with the storm-chaser problem?

    After every big hail event, homeowners are warned about out-of-town storm chasers, so distrust is the first objection a roofing canvasser meets. Canvass Pro cannot make a homeowner trust you by itself; a disciplined, accountable local operation does that. What it gives you is the record of that discipline: when a rep shares location, each knock carries a GPS fix at log time, within 60 meters of the door, or it does not show as verified. That record is time-stamped, at-the-door evidence of who worked which doors when: the rep's commission proof, the crew's answer when two trucks claim the same swath, and the owner's guard against ghost knocks logged from the couch.

  • What does Canvass Pro cost for a roofing crew, and what happens in winter?

    The free tier is $0 forever: the full scored map, offline knock logging, and the live storm stream, no card. Pro is $49 per seat a month ($41 on the yearly plan), one seat is one person, and storm routing is included. There is a plain 30 day money back on Pro, plus the Storm Guarantee: if a qualifying storm (hail one inch or larger crossing doors already on your map) is not turned into a routed lead list the same day, that month of Pro is credited on one email. For winter, Off-season mode (available from October) pauses billing until March 1 in one tap while your doors, scores, streaks, and storm watch all stay live; resume any time. Or just cancel in the billing portal, one click, no exit fee.

  • How is Canvass Pro different from SalesRabbit or SPOTIO for roofing?

    Honestly: both are established, well-rated tools (4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra as of August 2026), and both already offer offline modes and GPS-verified knock locations. The differences Canvass Pro claims are the bill and the terms. SalesRabbit sells weather as an add-on at $19 to $31 per user per month on top of a Pro seat at $49 to $75, so a scored, weather-aware map stacks to $87 to $137 per user per month (salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04), and its terms of service auto-renew for a one-year term unless cancelled 30 days before term end, with fees non-refundable (SalesRabbit ToS and Billing FAQ, accessed 2026-08-04). SPOTIO publishes no prices, states it is designed for teams of 5 or more, and offers no free plan or self-serve trial (spotio.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04). Canvass Pro is $49 per seat all-in with storm routing and scoring included, a one-seat minimum, month-to-month billing, and cancellation in the portal. Read the full SalesRabbit comparison and SPOTIO comparison.

Before the next storm

The swath will not wait for your software decision.

Draw your territory now, free, so the day hail crosses it the doors are already scored and the route is one tap away. No card, no demo call, no seat minimum. Pro is $49 a seat when the crew is ready to route.

Map your territory

Free to start. One seat is one person.

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