Ecanvasser provides you with a mobile app, either iOS or Android, that is engineered to replace traditional walk sheets.
The mobile app streamlines the transfer of data from your organizers on the door, back to your database, and campaign strategists.
It's understandable that there can be a number of reasons why a team may wish to use traditional walk sheets/lists instead, for example:
Organizers with a non-Android/iOS device
Organizers without a smartphone
As a back-up
Ecanvasser provides you have two options to generate walk sheets or walk lists, each with its own advantages.
Option 1: Pre-configured walk lists
From the Lists tab of the Database page:
Select Export Walk List
Click on your desired export format
A walk sheet/list will begin to download the takes the below format.
Please note the following points in relation to walk lists:
The headings repeat periodically to ensure that they print at the head of each page of the printed walk sheet
The headings are limited, collecting only general demographics beyond Reception Rating, and a miscellaneous Info column
The file is formatted with a grey color for easier readability for the organizer
Contacts are Listed together by house, allowing to quickly jump to the next entry when moving from house to house
If using this method, you may well wish to customize the walk sheet column headings, as well as add more column headings as per your specific needs.
Option 2 - Custom export
While adding in your columns may solve some issues with regard to the above pre-configured walk-sheet, if you would like data already existing in your database to be available to your Organizers, you will have to build your own walk sheet. That said, this process is pretty straightforward forward too!
In order to do so, export using the Database Export Function, having selected the required and desired information for your custom walk sheet.
On the first view, this export may seem to be missing some of the nicer formattings of the pre-configured walk sheet but you can quickly take care of that:
At this time, you may wish to edit the width of columns or make any other cosmetic edits you require, and your Custom Walk Sheet should look something like the below:
