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Work your farm with a door knocking app
that remembers every doorstep.

Describe how you prospect and Netiva’s AI builds a web app for territories, walk lists and door-by-door notes — with a do-not-knock list every agent sees and code you own.

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Starter prompt

Build a door knocking web app for a listing agent and two teammates who prospect in person. A territory is a farm, a circle around a new listing or sale or a set of expired listings, each with an anchor address and pass number. Doors carry street, house number, owner name and a do-not-knock flag. Agents sign in and work a walk list sorted by street and odd or even side. At each door they tap an outcome: not home, talked, not interested, call back, appointment set or do not knock. Hide flagged doors from every walk list and keep a revisits list of call backs and promised reports.

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Overview

Who this door knocking app is for

Door knocking pays off when you return to the same streets, yet many listing agents work from a printed street list and memory. After a Saturday session, the notes about who wanted a market update, who said to come back in spring and who asked never to be visited again sit in a pocket or a camera roll. A door knocking app built with Netiva gives each territory a walk list on your phone, records the outcome at every door and hides do-not-knock homes for your team, so the next pass starts where the last one stopped.

Key features

What your door knocking app can do

  • Territories and walk lists

    Set up each area you work — a subdivision you farm, the blocks around a just-sold home or a set of expired listings — and the app turns its doors into a walking order for the day.

    • Walk order by street, then odd or even side
    • Door rows drafted from a house-number range, for your review
    • Progress for each pass: doors knocked out of the total
    • A saved view of each agent’s assigned territories

  • Outcomes logged at the door

    Agents sign in on their phones, open the walk list and tap what happened before they reach the next driveway, so notes never wait for the drive home.

    • Not home, talked, not interested, call back or appointment set
    • The territory’s opening lines shown above the buttons
    • Leave-behind and notes saved with each knock
    • Every knock stamped with the signed-in agent and the time

  • A shared do-not-knock list

    When a homeowner asks you not to come back, or a porch shows a no-soliciting sign, one tap flags the address and it drops off every agent’s walk list from then on.

    • The reason and date recorded with each flag
    • Signs, spoken requests and city registry entries kept apart
    • A public opt-out page for homeowners, linked from door hangers
    • Homes listed with another brokerage marked so you skip the pitch

  • Revisits and promised drop-offs

    Every call back, knock-again date and market report you promised on a doorstep stays tied to its door, and a scheduled email tells each agent which homes to revisit before the day starts.

    • Morning email of the doors to revisit today
    • Overdue revisits listed first, grouped by agent
    • Promised market reports held open until you mark the follow-up done
    • A weekly summary of doors, conversations and appointments
Data model

The collections behind it

Netiva keeps your records in built-in collections. Here’s a starting structure — the agent adapts it to your prompt, and you can change it any time.

Territories

Each area you knock, from a monthly farm to the blocks around a fresh sale.

  • Name (required) Text
  • Type (required) Farm, Circle around a listing or sale, Expired listings Text
  • Anchor address The listed or sold home a circle is built around Text
  • Assigned agents Comma-separated agent names, spelled the way each agent’s sign-in name is Text
  • Pass number (required) Which round of knocking this is; raise it when a pass is done and new knocks stamp it Number
  • Local rules checked on When you last checked permits and any city do-not-knock registry Date
  • Script opening The lines agents see above the outcome buttons on this territory’s walk list Paragraph
  • Common replies How to answer “we’re not selling” and similar replies Paragraph

Doors

Every home in a territory, in the order you walk it.

  • Street (required) Text
  • House number (required) Numeric part only; letters and units go in the next field. Sets the odd or even side Number
  • Unit or suffix A, 1/2 or Apt 3 — shown after the house number on the walk list Text
  • Territory (required) Relation to Territories
  • Owner name Optional, from your own records or public records Text
  • Do not knock (required) No (default), Asked at the door, Asked online, No-soliciting sign, City registry Text
  • Listing status Not listed, Listed with another brokerage, Expired, For sale by owner Text
  • Knock again after The only next-visit date; the revisits list reads it and clearing it closes the follow-up Date

Knocks

One row per visit, with what happened and what comes next.

  • Door (required) Relation to Doors
  • Pass (required) Copied from the territory’s pass number when the knock is logged Number
  • Knocked at (required) Date & time
  • Agent (required) Filled in from the signed-in agent, using the territory’s assigned-agent names Text
  • Outcome (required) Not home, Talked, Not interested, Call back, Appointment set, Do not knock Text
  • Left behind Door hanger, Market report, Just-sold card, Nothing Text
  • Follow-up None, Call back, Market report promised, Knock again, Done Text
  • Notes Paragraph

Opt-out requests

Addresses homeowners send through the public opt-out page, waiting to be matched.

  • Address (required) As the homeowner typed it Text
  • Submitted at (required) Date & time
  • Name Optional; the form asks for the address only Text
  • Status (required) New, Matched to a door, Not found Text
  • Matched door Set on matching; that door’s Do not knock becomes Asked online Relation to Doors

Required field. Types are Netiva collection field types.

Screens

Pages and screens to start with

A typical first version. Ask the agent for more, or annotate the preview to change any of them.

  • Walk list

    One territory’s doors in walking order, split by odd and even side, with do-not-knock homes left out and one-tap outcome buttons.

    Signed-in users

  • Territories

    Every territory with its type, current pass, assigned agents and how many of its doors have been knocked this pass.

    Signed-in users

  • Door history

    One home’s visits, notes, listing status, do-not-knock reason and next follow-up, plus a link that opens the address in a maps app.

    Signed-in users

  • Revisits

    Doors whose knock-again date is due today or overdue, grouped by agent and street and labeled with what you owe: a call back, a promised market report or another knock.

    Signed-in users

  • Opt-out request

    A public form, linked from door hangers, where a homeowner gives their address to ask not to be visited; each request lands in the opt-out queue for your team to match to a door.

    Public

  • Knocking results

    Doors knocked, conversations and appointments set by territory, pass and agent, with conversations shown as a share of doors knocked.

    Signed-in users
How it works

From prompt to a live door knocking app

  1. Describe how you prospect

    Tell Netiva which territory types you work, the outcomes you record and who knocks with you. The agent drafts collections for territories, doors, knocks and opt-out requests.

  2. Load your first territory

    Enter doors in the collection grid or ask the collection assistant to draft rows for a street’s house-number range, then review them and write the opening agents use on that street.

  3. Walk it in the preview

    Tap through a walk list in the live preview as if you were on the sidewalk. Annotate anything that slows you down, such as button size or outcome order, and the agent changes it.

  4. Publish before the next session

    Publish in one click, have each agent sign in and switch on the morning revisit email. Every change is checkpointed, so an edit that didn’t work is easy to roll back.

Why Netiva

Netiva vs a traditional build

Building a door knocking app with Netiva compared with a traditional build
Criterion With Netiva Traditional build
Recording each door An outcome tapped on a phone at the door, with the script, leave-behind and follow-up date A printed street list marked in pen, typed up after the session if at all
Do-not-knock requests Flagged homes removed from every agent’s walk list on every future pass A note on one agent’s list that the next agent on that street may never see
Getting started Describe what you need in chat and watch it take shape in a live preview Hire developers, or stitch together templates, plugins and a hosting plan
Content and data Built-in collections with nine field types, bound straight to your pages Set up and connect a separate database or CMS
Making changes Ask the agent; every change is checkpointed and reversible File a ticket, wait for a sprint, redeploy
Hosting and domain Global hosting and automatic SSL; connect a custom domain from the Starter plan Buy hosting, then install and renew SSL certificates yourself
Code ownership Clean production code you own and can export Locked into a template, plugin or agency setup
Examples

Ways teams use it

  • A solo agent farming one subdivision

    A listing agent knocks the same 400-home neighborhood every month. Each pass starts with a clean walk list, not-home doors carry a knock-again date and the results page shows which streets lead to conversations.

  • A team circling a just-sold home

    The day a sale closes, two agents split the 60 doors around it, open with the just-sold script and leave a card. Neighbors who ask how the sale affects their own home land on the revisits list.

  • A team lead coaching newer agents

    The lead assigns territories for Saturday sessions, reads the notes each agent left and compares conversations and appointments by agent to see who needs practice with the opening.

Good to know

Before you build

  • Local solicitation rules

    Some cities require a solicitation permit, keep a do-not-knock registry of addresses or treat a no-soliciting sign as binding even for permit holders. Check your city’s code and your brokerage’s policy; the app records requests but doesn’t check local law.

  • Homes already listed with another broker

    The NAR Code of Ethics allows general canvassing of an area, but REALTORS® may not solicit a listing that is currently listed exclusively with another broker. Mark those homes in the listing status field and leave them out of your pitch.

  • Addresses and owners come from you

    Netiva doesn’t supply property, owner or MLS data and doesn’t import your farm list. Enter doors yourself, have the collection assistant draft them or connect a property data provider’s API with your own key.

  • Calls, texts and email after the knock

    The app emails your team, not homeowners; it stores no homeowner email. Calls and texts fall under do-not-call and consent rules — a number on the National Do Not Call Registry generally needs written agreement or a recent inquiry. Marketing email needs a working unsubscribe.

Compliance note

Door-to-door prospecting is regulated locally. Depending on where you knock, you may need a solicitation permit, and you should honor no-soliciting signs, do-not-knock requests and any city registry of addresses. Keep every request in the app and check local rules before each campaign — the app keeps the list; it doesn’t decide what the law allows.

FAQ

Questions about building a door knocking app

Can agents use the door knocking app on a phone while they walk a street?

Yes. Netiva builds web apps that open in the phone’s browser, so there is nothing to install. Each agent signs in with their own account, opens a walk list and taps an outcome at the door. The app needs a data connection, so on a street with weak signal, jot the outcome down and enter it at the end of the block.

How does the app keep do-not-knock homes off the walk list?

Each door has a do-not-knock field that records the reason, such as a request at the door, a no-soliciting sign or a city registry entry. The walk list is a filtered view that leaves out any door where that field isn’t “No”, so a request one agent logs disappears from every other agent’s list. Requests from the public page land in the opt-out queue, and matching one to a door sets its reason to asked online.

Can I track circle prospecting around a new listing or a recent sale?

Yes. Create a territory with the type set to circle and the listed or sold home as its anchor address, then have the collection assistant draft door rows for the house numbers on either side. Write the just-sold opening on the territory so agents see it above the outcome buttons, and the results page shows how that circle compares with your farm.

Where do the addresses and owner names come from?

From you. Netiva doesn’t supply property or owner data and doesn’t import lists. You can type doors into the collection grid, ask the collection assistant to draft rows for a street’s house-number range or connect a property data provider’s API with a key stored securely. Owner names are optional; the app works with addresses alone.

Which numbers show whether door knocking is working?

Useful counts are doors knocked, conversations, appointments set and the listing appointments that follow. The results page can total them by territory, pass and agent and show conversations as a share of doors knocked, which hints whether a street needs a different time of day or a different script. The figures are counts of what your team logged, not forecasts.

Which Netiva plan do I need to publish a door knocking app?

You can build on the free plan, with no credit card, and try the walk list in the live preview. Publishing on your own custom domain needs the Starter plan or higher, and higher plans add capacity and features. Compare the current plans on Netiva’s pricing page before your team starts knocking with the app.

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Drafted with AI assistance from Netiva’s product pages and reviewed by the Netiva team. Example data models, screens and prompts are illustrative starting points, not customer projects.

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