Many teams, one picture
Assign areas to several canvassers at once, and see coverage by area and by canvasser on one overview.
What your campaign needs from a canvass
And how KnockTurf handles each of them.
The second pass matters most
Every door shows its earlier visits and answers, so a get-out-the-vote pass knows who was leaning which way.
Structure without the overhead
Start from the MPP/MLA/state or party-support question set, invite your team by email, and be on doors the same day.
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.
- Party support: strong, leaning, undecided, leaning other, other party
- Vote intention
- Would like a lawn sign
- Follow-up date
Territory and turf
Draw the ground, hand it out, and know how much of it is left.
Draw areas on a map
Click a corner at a time to outline a neighbourhood, a poll or a single street, then drag the corners to reshape it whenever plans change.
No shapefiles and no GIS knowledge. The person who knows the ward draws it.
A real door count for every area
Each area is counted from municipal address data where it has been loaded, and from OpenStreetMap buildings and addresses everywhere else. Recount at any time.
Progress has an honest denominator, so "80% done" means 80% of the doors.
Assign turf to canvassers
Give an area to one canvasser or several, with an optional target date. Each canvasser is emailed when turf is assigned to them.
Everyone knows where they are going before they leave the office.
Progress on every assignment
Doors visited, doors remaining and a clear state for each area: not started, in progress, ready to close.
Spot the area that has stalled while there is still time to send help.
Maps that stay fast at any zoom
Zoomed out, doors gather into clusters with a count; at street level every door is its own dot. Thousands of doors stay quick on a phone.
A whole ward on screen without the map grinding to a halt.
Areas close themselves at 90%
When nine doors in ten have a result, the area is marked complete, the date is recorded and canvassers stop being directed back to it.
The last few doors are usually unreachable; your team moves on to fresh ground.
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.
People at every door
Know who you are talking to, and remember it for them, not just for their house.
Names from your list, at their own door
Upload the list your race issued and every door shows the people who live there, unit by unit, with their poll.
Canvassers greet people by name and know who they have not met yet.
Answers person by person
Tick who said what, or Everyone here for the whole household. Each visit in the history says who it was for.
Two people at one door can see things differently, and your records show it.
Add the people you meet
The + on any door adds a name, phone and email for the whole team, even at a door with nobody on your list.
A new tenant, or a homeowner who wants a quote, is captured on the spot.
Permission recorded, not assumed
Before taking details the canvasser reads one question, such as "May we contact you by phone or email?", and ticks it. The answer is stored with the exact wording, who asked and when.
You know who agreed to hear from you, the record Canada's anti-spam law expects.
Voter counts on every door
Close in on the map and each door shows how many voters live there: blue until anyone has voted, amber when some have, green when all have.
Plan a shift by people, not just by houses.
Get out the vote
Supporters by poll, who has already voted from the clerk's lists, and a call sheet of supporters who have not.
The last week goes on the yeses who still have to vote.
Yours, and only yours
Names are seen only by your campaign, and by each canvasser only within their own areas. Nothing is ever deleted without telling you first.
Your list stays your list.
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.
Is KnockTurf tied to a party?
No. KnockTurf is neutral and serves campaigns of any affiliation. Every campaign's data is sealed off from every other.
Can several canvassers work the same area?
Yes. An area can be assigned to more than one canvasser, and each one's visits show on the same map.
What does a large campaign cost?
Campaign and Premium plans lower the price per visit and include more seats. The pricing page has a calculator that recommends the plan for your number of doors.
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