Doorstep
Doorstep is a private canvassing web app for organising rounds, addresses, residents, and doorstep conversations in one place. It helps teams plan who is going where, record what happened, and keep local campaign data tidy after each session.
It is built for people doing practical field work. Canvassers see the rounds assigned to them, managers can plan activity and maintain address data, and admins can control user access, recovery, and installation settings.
Doorstep is self-hosted, so your organisation keeps control of its installation, users, and data. Built-in access controls, audit records, encrypted backups, and privacy administration help your team operate responsibly under its own data-protection policies.
What Doorstep Helps You Do
- Create canvassing rounds from local addresses and assign them to users
- Arrange each round in walking order, attach a map, and save address locations while in the field
- Record conversations, notes, voting intention, likelihood, and previous vote information
- Track address history, resident-level notes, round notes, and completion as work happens
- Import electoral roll data, review possible moves, and safely undo completed imports
- Manage wards, polling districts, streets, areas, towns, addresses, and campaign activities
- Review activity and ward results in the app or export them as CSV
- Keep admins, managers, and canvassers on distinct access levels
Designed for Field Teams
- Mobile-friendly screens for use while canvassing
- Focused route lists with to-do and completed filters
- Shared round notes, address history, maps, and location capture
- Manager views for planning activity, maintaining address data, and reviewing coverage
- Background import processing with progress, results, and email notifications
Controlled And Recoverable
- Administrator approval for new account requests and separate role-based permissions
- Multi-factor authentication and recent re-authentication for sensitive administrator actions
- Encrypted downloads for backing up and restoring the database and uploaded maps
- Administrator tools to export or delete an individual's stored data
- Security audit records, hardened sessions, and protected self-hosted deployment
- Signed installation licences with clear status information for administrators