Canvass Pro

For the trade · home security and alarms

Canvassing software for
home security and alarms.

You are not selling a gadget at the door. You are asking a stranger to trust you with the way their family sleeps. That takes a longer conversation than almost any other doorstep sale, it usually finishes at the kitchen table instead of on the porch, and the thing that opens it is not a pitch, it is proof: the neighbor two doors down who already signed. Canvass Pro is a door knocking app built around exactly those three facts.

The short version: every door on the map is scored 0 to 99 with every factor shown, and Neighbor wins is one of the visible factors, so reps work the streets where the crew already has installs. Every knock writes a disposition to the door (sold, appointment, interested, callback, no answer) that stays there, appointments book in the same tap with reminders, and all of it works offline. Free to start, $49 per seat a month for Pro, one seat is one person, cancel any time.

How the instrument fits

Built horizontal. Tuned for the alarm door.

Canvass Pro is one map for every team that knocks; the signals tune to the trade, the instrument does not change. Here is what that means when the product on the truck is a security system and the sale runs on trust.

  • Neighbor wins, visible The score on every door is 0 to 99 with every factor that moved it shown on the sheet, and Neighbor wins is one of those factors. A street where your crew already installed reads hotter, and the rep can see why before touching the bell, so the opener is the honest one that actually works in this trade: the neighbors already trust us. No black box, no take-our-word-for-it number.
  • Worked-door history Every knock writes a disposition to the pin, and the door remembers. A callback from June is still sitting on the door in August. An angry no is never re-knocked five days later by a different rep. A new hire can read the whole history of a street before their first knock on it. In a trade where the product is trust, not hitting the same door twice in a week is the first courtesy, and the map enforces it for you.
  • Appointments + reminders Alarm deals close at the kitchen table, not on the doormat. The same tap that logs the knock books the appointment, and the reminder brings the rep back to that door on time. The follow-up lives on the same instrument as the knock, so a set never dies in somebody's memory between Tuesday and Saturday.
  • The verified knock When a rep shares location, the knock carries a GPS check against the door and shows as verified. This is a trade that already runs on evidence: the elite award of the sport, the Golden Door, requires 400+ alarm accounts verified through CRM exports and installation reports. d2dcon.com/golden-door-awards, fetched 2026-08-04.
  • Offline, always Knocks write on the device and sync when there is signal, so an evening shift at the edge of coverage never loses a door. Honesty note: offline mode and GPS verification are table stakes in this category, the incumbents have both too. We just refuse to treat either as a premium feature.
  • The summer shape The big alarm programs run on the summer model: the window closes in late August as reps return to school and the next cohort recruits January to March. Territories, per-rep seats, leaderboards, and seasons are built for exactly that shape: draw the turf in April, run the season, add and drop seats as the roster changes, and export everything you earned in September. Year-round dealer crews get the same instrument without the calendar. Research corpus compiled 2026-08-04; the large alarm companies run summer programs but publish no rep totals.

The market, honestly. There were 82,991 US security alarm services businesses in 2025, up 3.2% from 2024, and the average security system services business employs 2.7 people (IBISWorld 2025/2026 pages, retrieved 2026-08-04). This trade is tens of thousands of small crews, not four giants, which is why Canvass Pro starts at one seat and $0 instead of a five-seat minimum and a demo call.

And what nobody has measured: a cited research sweep compiled 2026-08-04 found no audited alarm-specific knock, contact, set, or close benchmark from any reputable source. Anyone quoting you one is quoting a guess. We publish the generic door to door rules of thumb, labeled as such, in the Crew ROI calculator.

Pricing

Every price public. Every term plain.

A 2.7-person alarm crew should not need a procurement cycle to buy a map. Free to start, $49 per seat a month when you are ready, and the exit is a button, not a notice period.

  • $0 to start. The full scored map and offline knock logging, no card, no time limit. A real product, not a trial.
  • $49 per seat a month on Pro ($41 on the yearly plan, two months free). Scoring, routing, territories, leaderboards, and appointments all included. No add-on tax.
  • One seat is one person. Each seat is a single login tied to one individual. Add seats as the summer roster fills, drop them when reps go back to school, prorated to the day.
  • Cancel any time. Month to month if you want it, cancel yourself in the portal in one click, and a plain 30 day money back on Pro. Your doors export to CSV on every tier, free included.

The incumbent math, dated and sourced

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

Their numbers are from salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04, monthly billing; on annual billing the same stack is $87 per user a month ($49 + $19 + $19) against $41 for Canvass Pro yearly. SPOTIO publishes no prices at all: plans are demo-gated behind a form, with a 5 seat minimum and no self-serve trial (spotio.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04); third-party estimates run $25 to $129 per user a month depending on source and era (get-instamaps.com, 2026-07-04; Capterra legacy tiers, 2026). Check every number yourself.

The terms, and the fairness clause

Contracts: SalesRabbit's terms of service run a 1 year auto-renew unless cancelled at least 30 days before term end, with all fees non-refundable (SalesRabbit ToS dated 2021-06-18 and help.salesrabbit.com billing FAQ, accessed 2026-08-04). Canvass Pro is monthly, cancelled by you, in the portal, in one click.

And in fairness: SalesRabbit and SPOTIO are mature, well-rated products, 4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra as of 2026-08-04, both have offline modes and GPS-verified knock locations, and SalesRabbit offers a free single-user Lite tier. Our claim is not that they are bad software. It is that the bill and the terms are better here, that our door scoring is included and explainable rather than a paid black-box add-on, and that their own pages are the receipts.

Read the full comparison: Canvass Pro vs SalesRabbit → Read the full comparison: Canvass Pro vs SPOTIO →

Straight answers

What alarm crews actually ask.

Short, sourced, and honest about what nobody has measured.

  • Does Canvass Pro work for home security and alarm door to door sales?

    Yes, out of the box. Canvass Pro is a horizontal canvassing instrument whose signals tune to the trade: every door is scored 0 to 99 with every factor shown, and Neighbor wins is one of the visible factors, which matters in a trade sold on neighborhood social proof. Every knock logs a disposition (sold, appointment, interested, callback, no answer) that stays on the door, appointments book in the same tap with reminders, and everything works offline. The free tier is a real product with the full scored map and offline logging, no card.

  • What does canvassing software cost for an alarm crew?

    Canvass Pro is $0 to start (full scored map, offline knock logging, no card) and $49 per seat a month on Pro, or $41 per seat a month on the yearly plan. One seat is one person, you can cancel any time in the portal, and there is a plain 30 day money back. For comparison, SalesRabbit's own pricing page (fetched 2026-08-04) lists Pro at $75 per user a month billed monthly, with door scoring (DataGrid AI) and weather sold as add-ons at $19 to $31 each per user a month, stacking to $87 to $137 per user a month. SPOTIO does not publish prices at all: plans are demo-gated with a 5 seat minimum and no self-serve trial (spotio.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04); third-party estimates range $25 to $129 per user a month.

  • Is there a benchmark close rate for alarm door to door sales?

    No audited one exists, and we will not invent it. A cited research sweep compiled 2026-08-04 found no alarm-specific contact, set, or close benchmark from any reputable source. The only planning bands are generic door to door rules of thumb, labeled as such in our Crew ROI calculator. The one verified ceiling reference: the D2DCon Golden Door Award requires 400 or more alarm accounts in a season, verified through CRM exports and installation reports (d2dcon.com/golden-door-awards, fetched 2026-08-04). That is the top of the sport, not an average.

  • When is door knocking season for home security sales?

    The big alarm door programs run on the summer sales model: crews knock through the summer and the window closes in late August as reps return to school, with the next cohort recruited January to March (research corpus compiled 2026-08-04; the large alarm companies run summer programs but publish no rep totals). Local dealers and year-round crews knock outside that window too, and Canvass Pro's territories, seasons, and per-rep seats are built to fit either shape.

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

    Honestly: SalesRabbit and SPOTIO are mature products rated 4.2 to 4.5 stars on G2 and Capterra (accessed 2026-08-04), and both already have offline modes and GPS-verified knock locations, so we do not claim otherwise. The differences we do claim are structural and verifiable: Canvass Pro includes explainable 0 to 99 door scoring in every tier while SalesRabbit sells scoring as the DataGrid AI add-on at $19 to $31 per user a month (salesrabbit.com/pricing, fetched 2026-08-04) and SPOTIO prices its AI add-ons only on a call; Canvass Pro publishes every price while SPOTIO's are demo-gated with a 5 seat minimum and no self-serve trial; and Canvass Pro bills monthly with cancel-any-time in the portal, while SalesRabbit's terms run a 1 year auto-renew with 30 day notice and non-refundable fees (SalesRabbit ToS dated 2021-06-18, accessed 2026-08-04). Full side-by-sides: vs SalesRabbit and vs SPOTIO.

Free to start · no card

The street already knows which doors trust you. Knock it in that order.

Draw your territory, watch the Neighbor-wins streets light up, and log your first knock in the next two minutes. Free to start, one seat is one person, and Pro is $49 a seat a month only when the crew is ready to route.

Map your territory

Free tier forever. Cancel any time.

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