Volunteers, not staff
Nothing to install and nothing to learn: volunteers sign in on their own phone and see their turf.
What your campaign needs from a canvass
And how KnockTurf handles each of them.
Your questions, your cause
Start from the advocacy question set, "Support for this cause", or write your own survey, and change it as you learn.
Reach you can report
Coverage by area, a breakdown of every answer and a CSV export for your board, funders or members.
Questions you might ask at the door
Start from a ready-made set in the question builder, then reword, add or retire questions at any time. Answers already collected are kept.
- Support for this cause: supportive, interested, neutral, not interested
- Would like to hear more
- Best contact number
- Follow-up date
At the door
Everything a canvasser needs in one hand, on the phone they already own.
Tap a house, record the visit
Tap the map, the address fills itself in, and your campaign's own questions appear. Save, and the pin takes the colour of the answer.
Seconds per door, and the map shows the result for the whole team.
A form that follows the conversation
The main question comes first. Answer "nobody home" or "left in the mailbox" and the conversation questions step aside.
No irrelevant questions at a door where nobody answered.
Every visit to a door, newest first
Open a door and see what happened there before: each earlier visit, its answers, who recorded it and when.
A second pass starts where the first left off, instead of starting over.
Apartments and condos, unit by unit
Where your list has unit numbers, the form asks which unit, from the list itself. Each unit is its own door with its own history.
A 40-unit building is 40 conversations, and it is counted as 40.
Record a whole street at once
Pick a poll and a street, tap the doors you knocked, and fill in the form once for up to 50 doors. Contact details are left out when several doors are recorded together.
A literature drop or a quiet street is recorded in one step, not fifty.
Correct a mistake for 24 hours
A pencil on a recent visit reopens it with its answers filled in. Saving updates that visit; it is not a second visit and it is not charged again.
A wrong tap is fixed on the spot, and your numbers stay true.
Nothing recorded, nothing counted
Open the form and save it empty, and the door stays available for the next round. An empty save is not a visit and is never charged.
Your coverage figures only count doors where something happened.
Your questions, not ours
Ask what your campaign needs to know, in your own words.
Build the doorstep questionnaire
Single choice, multiple choice, yes/no, text, number, date, phone and email. Mark questions required, choose the main question, and set the order.
Every campaign asks something different; the form fits yours.
Start from a worked example
Ready-made question sets for school trustees, councillors, MPP/MLA and state races, real estate agents and advocacy campaigns, plus a lawn-sign question. One click fills the form in.
Set up in minutes, without designing a database.
Change questions mid-campaign
Add a question or retire one at any time. Retired questions keep every answer already collected.
The campaign can learn as it goes without losing a week of data.
Every answer checked
Answers are validated against your own questions on the server, not just in the browser.
Your results are clean enough to act on.
Results you can act on
See the campaign fill in while your team is still on the street.
Campaign overview
Coverage for the whole campaign, a breakdown of every question, coverage by area and your team, on one page.
The morning meeting starts with facts, not guesses.
Click an answer, see the doors
Click any answer in the breakdown and the map and door-by-door table filter to the doors that gave it.
Find every "undecided" door on a street before your second pass.
Download to a spreadsheet
Export whatever is on screen as a CSV: address, area, answers, canvasser and date, in your campaign's time zone.
Hand your GOTV list to whoever needs it, in the tool they already use.
Follow-ups that do not get lost
Any date question creates a follow-up for that door. Reschedule it, close it, or hand it to another canvasser.
"Call back Thursday" is on someone's list on Thursday.
Each canvasser's own numbers
Every canvasser has a dashboard of their own work: doors today, their answers, their follow-ups and their areas. Organisers can open any canvasser's record.
Volunteers who can see what they achieved come back next weekend.
Your team and your brand
Your campaign's name on the app your volunteers carry.
Invite canvassers by email
Add a canvasser and they receive a secure link to set their own password. Deactivate and reactivate them at any time.
Onboarding a volunteer takes a minute, and nobody emails passwords around.
Your logo and colours
Your campaign name, logo and colour on the canvasser app bar.
Volunteers carry your campaign, not ours.
English and French
Canvassers choose English or French in the app menu.
Bilingual teams work in the language they are comfortable in.
Your time zone everywhere
Every date and time is shown in your campaign's own time zone, and "today" is your campaign's today.
Evening canvassing lands on the right day in your reports.
Directions to the work
The app points each canvasser to their least-finished area, and zooms in when they arrive. Their location stays on their phone.
Less time finding the turf, more time at doors.
Thorough, and priced by the visit
You pay for the doors your team records, at a price published on our site. The map, the dashboards and the question builder are included.
200visits free to start
$0.025per visit after that
No limiton the canvassers you add
$0for an empty save or a correction
Questions
What campaigns like yours ask before they start.
Can we use KnockTurf for surveys?
Yes. Build any questionnaire with choice, yes/no, text, number, date, phone and email questions, and export the results as a CSV.
Do volunteers need training?
Very little. They sign in on the phone they already carry, see their area on a map, and tap a house to record it.
Is our data kept separate?
Yes. Every campaign's areas, volunteers, questions and visits are sealed off from every other organisation using KnockTurf.
Also built for
One tool for every organisation that knocks on doors.