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Ecanvasser Web Application

Release notes

Updated over 2 months ago

June 2025

What's new?

📢New List Approval Workflow and UI Enhancements

We’ve introduced a range of new controls and interface updates designed to make the management, approval, and tracking of Lists (Turfs) more streamlined and effective across your organization.

List Status: Pending Approval

A new status, Pending Approval, has been added to help maintain oversight and quality control over canvassing activities.

  • Restricted Access: Lists marked as Pending Approval are not visible or accessible in the mobile app.

  • Review Workflow: These lists must be reviewed and explicitly updated to In Progress before they become available to field users.

Permission Setting: Approval Required for List Visibility

A new permission setting called “Approval Required for List Visibility” determines which users require approval before their lists are made visible to others.

  • Enabled for Role: If a user’s role has this setting enabled, any list they create will automatically default to Pending Approval.

  • Approval Authority: Only users with this setting disabled have the authority to approve lists and update them to In Progress.

Bulk Status Management

To simplify administrative tasks, you can now bulk update the status of multiple lists at once. Available status options include: Pending Approval, In Progress, and Completed.

Quick Status Switching with Dropdown

Each list now includes a status dropdown, allowing for quick and easy updates to list status directly from the list overview.

Visual Status Indicators

For enhanced usability, we’ve introduced colour-coded labels for list statuses.

These visual cues make it easier to scan and understand list statuses at a glance:

  • Completed — Blue

  • In Progress — Green

  • Pending Approval — Amber

Real-Time Notifications

When there are any lists in Pending Approval, a notification will appear in the top right-hand corner of your dashboard—ensuring you’re always aware and in control of approval workflows.

📢List Object Now Available in the API
We’re pleased to announce that the List object is now fully accessible through the Ecanvasser API. This enhancement gives developers and integration partners more control over list data and better visibility into field operations.
What’s Included
You can now programmatically retrieve, filter, and interact with Lists (Turfs) through the API. This enables a wide range of automation and integration use cases, such as:

  • Extracting assignment data for reporting or analytics

  • Automating campaign workflows across external systems

  • Tracking canvassing progress by list

  • Managing list visibility, approval status, and ownership through code

Developer Documentation
All endpoints, parameters, and usage examples related to Lists are available in our API documentation. Access the full List API reference here: View List API Documentation

Key Capabilities
The new List object endpoints provide comprehensive functionality, including:

  • GET /list – Retrieve all lists

  • GET /list/{id} – Fetch detailed information for a specific list

  • PUT /list/{id} – Update a list’s name, status, assigned team, or owner

  • DELETE /list/{id} – Delete a specific list

  • Advanced Filtering – Filter lists by status, team, creator, date range, and more

  • Status Tracking – Programmatically access list status: Pending Approval, In Progress, and Completed

Mar 2025

What's new?

For US-based Commercial sales teams, we’ve made it easy to add leads to your Ecanvasser account with the launch of Lead Prospector.

Target an area on our interactive map, apply your filters, and instantly see verified leads without manual uploads or additional geocoding.

How Prospector addresses the problem

Prospector streamlines the lead generation process by automatically delivering verified, up-to-date residential contact details. The tool applies advanced filtering and live data overlays to identify high-value residential prospects in real-time, reducing manual effort and ensuring your team receives quality data when needed.

Key aspects of Prospector include:

  • Verified data: Automatically sourced and current residential contact details.

  • Targeted filtering: Advanced tools to identify prospects that match your criteria.

  • Seamless workflow: Integrates directly into your sales process, minimizing disruption.

Feb 2025

What's new?

We’re excited to introduce Pivot Table as an extension to Ecanvasser’s report feature! This solution allows users to dynamically summarize and analyze data from multiple angles, offering enhanced flexibility in reporting. With Pivot Table, you can easily organize and manipulate data to uncover insights, making it easier than ever to visualize key trends and make data-driven decisions.

Nov 2024

We're excited to announce significant improvements to our Map Overlay feature (previously known as Shapefiles). These enhancements will make territory management more flexible and efficient for your canvassing operations.

New File Support

  • Now accepting KML, KMZ, and GeoJson files in addition to existing formats

  • Increased file size limits:

    • Up to 10MB for standard files

    • Up to 20MB for specialized formats

Enhanced Territory Analysis

View detailed demographics for any area by simply clicking on a polygon within your Map Overlay:

  • Total number of houses

  • Resident count

  • Instant territory insights

Streamlined Turf Management

Save time with new one-click operations:

  • Create and assign turfs directly from polygon selections

  • Automatic turf labelling using existing tags from your Overlay files

These updates are designed to reduce administrative overhead and help you manage your canvassing territories more efficiently.

Getting Started

To use these new features, simply access the Map Overlay section in your Map Toolbar within the web app. All improvements are automatically available to all users.

Oct 2024

New API Resource: Appointments

We've added Appointments as a new resource in our API, enabling you to seamlessly manage appointment data within your integrations. Access the updated API documentation here for details on endpoints and usage.

May 2024

We are excited to announce a significant upgrade to Ecanvasser. With the release of our newest feature, Dashboards, you'll unlock a world of possibilities for leveraging your collected data like never before.
The new Dashboards feature empowers you to create customized Dashboards and Reports for your users, teams, and the entire organization, making actionable insights available easier than ever. Upon logging into the web application, you'll now be greeted by your personalized Dashboards, replacing the previous Homepage and Activity Feed.

Key Features include:
Create customized dashboards for individual teams and your entire organization

  • High-level dashboards tailored for leadership

  • Team-specific dashboards to monitor progress

Personalize the appearance of your dashboards

  • Utilize the intuitive drag-and-drop editor for layout customization

  • Dashboards are downloadable, exportable, and shareable

Ensured data security through robust management features

  • Advanced reporting permissions allow for tighter control over data while keeping access to those who need it

April 2024

Bug fix

  • We fixed an issue that some users had with accepting an invite on their mobile app

March 2024

What's new?

  • Given how vital importing data is to a successful campaign launch, we have made it simpler for customers to import their data including

    • clearer import options

    • mapping record of import column headings to the associated Ecanvasser property

    • transparency around import conflicts and skipped rows with clear follow up actions

  • You might already have noticed that the side menu has been updated this month! We have streamlined the key pages for you to focus on

  • The L2 integration has been expanded to include additional data points such as mobile phone and home phone properties

February 2024

What's new?

  • We have made several changes to the new customer experience which should help you hit the ground running in a fresh campaign

  • You can now login using your mobile number on the webapp

January 2024

What's new?

  • Web app users can now edit the profile details of users on their team from the User & Team page.

  • The white-label custom branding service has been deployed across a suite of customer accounts. Interested in signing up for the custom branding, visit here

Bug fixes

  • The map on the field tracking page was experiencing some latency issues loading for some customers, this has now been resolved.

  • Searching with special characters was resulting in incorrect search results and this has been updated to return the correct search results now

December 2023

What's new?

The Field Tracking page has been optimized for really large teams that are tracking a lot of interactions every day.

October 2023

What's new?

  • Most pages on the dashboard were updated this month to load significantly faster, especially on accounts that have a high volume of data.

September 2023

What's new?

  • We tweaked the experience for setting up a new subscription that we believe will make it easier for new and returning customers.

  • Field tracking date filtering received a revamp with a new custom date filter option along

Bug fixes

  • We resolved an issue around inviting users to accounts who had previously been removed and had a different permission level, a low volume of users had this issue.

  • For accounts with large volumes of survey responses, we have made the Survey page and Activity feed load faster

  • For a handful of accounts, newly created Survey questions were misbehaving and this issue has been resolved

August 2023

What's new?

  • Have you noticed that houses apartments/units that are within the same building are now all linked together in a Building? Going forward, house apartments/units that all have the same house number, street name, city, and state are all grouped together into their own building. This streamlines the door-to-door canvassing experience for your organizers dramatically.

  • From the dashboard, you can also bulk-edit the floor of apartments within a building

  • We've also added a new filter option under the House section called "In Building" with Yes or No as the option to support customers who want to target high-rise buildings in their campaign.

July 2023

Bug fixes

  • We resolved a data syncing issue for large-scale accounts that were syncing high volumes of assigned lists to their teams.

  • We also fine-tuned the data-syncing engine behind the scenes so that the connected mobile apps don't have to work so hard at locating the latest interaction data

June 2023

What's new?

  • Ecanvasser is now officially launched on Zapier! You can learn more by visiting https://zapier.com/apps/ecanvasser/integrations

  • The App Store page received an updated appearance along with the inclusion of the Zapier integration as well as Ecanvasser API

  • Dynamic Lists are now updated hourly (on top of the hour) instead of every 24 hours. This makes it much easier for your team to receive updated lists as the database is being updated with more contacts.

  • We've also made it easier for you to understand what steps you need to take if you exceed your contact limit on your current Subscription plan

May 2023

What's new?

  • The extended Public API is officially live with a wide range of new resources as well as an expansion to some existing resources. The key new resources are:

    • Team

    • Effort

    • House

    With expanded endpoints on Surveys, Users and Interactions

  • In tandem with this, we updated the API docs which can be found here

Bug fixes

  • The search function was not behaving as expected so we have released an update to handle searches that include special characters

April 2023

Bug fixes

  • We did a series of mini-releases to address some rough edges and internal workings. The Web App is now better than it was!

March 2023

What's new?

  • The Actions feature (formally known as Events) is officially available on the dashboard.

    Feature notes:

    • Brand New name, location, & icon

    The Actions feature is now positioned at the centre of the main navigation bar at the bottom of the mobile apps.
    This lighting bolt icon is used across the platform and replaces the calendar icon formerly used for events, all references to Events have been replaced with Actions

    • Action now has associated lists

    An "In person" action can now be associated with one or more lists of contacts.
    Users can only access the list(s) when the action is about to start
    They automatically lose access to the list(s) when the action ends

    • New Action Start and End behaviour

    App users can "check-in" to an action up to one hour ahead of the action start date.
    Once they have checked in to the action, they will only have access to the lists attached to that action.
    Any interactions that they collect during the action are associated with that action (for in-person actions only)
    When an action ends, access to these list(s) is automatically removed (unless a user has been specifically assigned to that list as a user or team member)
    Alternatively, users can opt to exit the action before the action end time has passed.
    "Online" actions - the virtual link is now a required field

  • We've also expanded the Dynamic List feature for those who love to cut turfs from the map instead of the Database page

  • Our integration with Salesforce has been expanded to map contacts to Leads in Salesforce as an alternative to mapping to Contacts in Salesforce

February 2023

Bug fixes

  • While our team were primarily focusing on building out exciting new features for future releases, we did address some ad hoc issues and deployed some improvements to the dashboard that were not show stoppers however we hope these improvements make your day-to-day engagement with the dashboard a little bit better!

January 2023

What's new?

  • January might be a slump month for some, our team were supercharged after the Christmas break and off to a flying start with building a new pin drop feature on the mobile apps. The Pin Drop feature removes the dependence on having to secure, import, clean up a contact database ahead of becoming active in the field. Each house created in the mobile apps is automatically synced back to the dashboard, ready to be assigned out to re-target again

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