The list is the ward
Your board issued a list, and only those doors count. Upload it and every authorised door appears on the canvasser's map. Names are discarded; the address and elector count are kept.
What your campaign needs from a canvass
And how KnockTurf handles each of them.
Few volunteers, many doors
Record a whole street from the list in one step, and hand each volunteer the turf they can finish.
Doors outside your list
Doors that are not on your list are flagged, never blocked, so a canvasser is not stopped at the doorstep and you can review them afterwards.
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 trustee: strong support, leaning support, undecided, leaning against, opposed
- Would like a lawn sign
- Follow-up date
- Best contact number
Voter lists and authorised doors
Bring the list your race issued you, or canvass without one.
Upload your list as a CSV
Switch the campaign to a restricted list and upload the addresses you were issued. Column names are matched for you; ward and poll are optional.
A school-board or members-only list becomes a map in minutes.
Names are read and discarded
KnockTurf keeps the address, the poll, the elector count and the unit numbers. The names in the file are never stored.
You get what the canvass needs without holding more personal data than necessary.
Preview before you replace
A new upload shows exactly what will change before it replaces the current list, and every replaced list is kept as a snapshot you can restore.
A wrong file is a cancelled preview, not a lost list.
Authorised doors on the canvasser's map
Every address on your list appears as a dot on the map, street by street.
Canvassers see exactly which doors belong to the campaign.
Off-list doors are flagged, never blocked
A canvasser at a door that is not on the list is warned, can note why, and the visit is saved and flagged. Review flagged visits and add the door to the list in one click.
Nobody is stopped at a doorstep by a spelling difference, and you keep control of the list.
Progress measured against your list
For a restricted campaign, coverage is counted against the doors on your list rather than an estimate.
The number on screen is the number your race cares about.
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.
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.
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 I upload the list the school board gave me?
Yes. Set the campaign to a restricted list and upload the CSV. KnockTurf matches the columns, maps every address, and keeps the address, poll, elector count and unit numbers. Elector names are read and discarded.
Will canvassers be blocked at doors that are not on my list?
No. They are warned and the visit is saved with a flag, so you can review it and add the door to your list if it belongs there.
Can I see which polls are strongest?
Yes. The campaign overview breaks down every answer, and you can click an answer to see exactly which doors gave it. Canvassers can also record a whole street, poll by poll, when the list has poll numbers.
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