Volunteers, contacts, regions, outreach lists — Beacon's vocabulary, your program. Signatures with GPS verification, multilingual surveys, region heatmaps, grant-ready exports. Built for nonprofits and advocacy groups, priced like one.
— Regions
Polygon a region, name it, assign volunteers. The contact list inside becomes an outreach list. Signature drives surface duplicate detection automatically. Every signature carries GPS so you can prove jurisdiction at the elections board.
— The platform
No more clipboards lost in the rain. No more spreadsheets reconciled at midnight before the grant report deadline. Every contact, every signature, every survey response writes to the record your coordinator can export with one click.
/01 — DESK
Build the program. Cut regions, draft surveys, assign volunteers, watch the coverage map fill in. Export grant-ready reports without manual aggregation.
/02 — DOOR
What your volunteers actually use. Outreach list, contact screen, survey, sync. Works offline; queues for sync the moment signal returns. Onboarding under 5 minutes.
/03 — MAP
Every contact pings the map. Coverage by region, signatures by zip, support level by neighborhood. Numbers your board chair will read at the next meeting.
— Program types
The platform stays the same. The disposition set, the survey, and what you export change to match what your program is actually trying to capture.
GPS-verified signature capture, real-time goal tracking, automatic duplicate detection by name + address. Print-ready exports in the format your election board wants.
Captures: Signed · Refused · Out of Jurisdiction · Duplicate
Form validation at the point of capture cuts rejection rates. Coverage heatmaps show which blocks still need a volunteer. Deadline countdown lives on the dashboard.
Captures: Registered · Already Registered · Ineligible · Follow-Up
Renewal door knocks at scale. Issue surveys with structured response options. Multilingual canvassing where 18% of your contacts speak a language other than English.
Captures: Renewed · Pledge · Issue Priority · Volunteer
— How a region gets covered
The same loop whether you're collecting 500 petition signatures in one ward or running 30 volunteers across five regions for a member drive.
/01
CSV, voter file, member CRM export — bring whatever you've got. Beacon geocodes contacts and tags language preference if your file has it.
/02
Polygon territories. The contacts inside become an outreach list. Auto-balance suggestions if regions run too heavy or too light for your volunteer count.
/03
Volunteers run the contact screen. Signature, survey response, follow-up flag. GPS verification on signatures. Offline-safe in rural and community-center settings.
/04
Coverage map, contacts reached, signatures collected, demographic reach. One-click grant-ready PDF or CSV. Reports that used to take a week take a minute.
— On the doorstep
Tap a contact. The screen surfaces language preference, prior conversations, what the household cares about. Signature capture lives one tap away with GPS + timestamp baked in. Offline-safe; queues for sync the moment signal returns.
See the volunteer flow →
— Nonprofit FAQ
/Q — PRICING
Pricing is by contact list size, not volunteer count or organization type. Bring 50 volunteers; doesn't change what you pay. Six tiers; Starter $59 (2,500 contacts) up to Enterprise $599 (250K+).
/Q — SIGNATURES
Most jurisdictions accept GPS-tagged digital signatures with timestamp + IP. We export print-ready PDFs in the format you specify. Always check with your local board first; we'll help format the export.
/Q — LANGUAGES
12 language preferences per contact. Surveys can be authored in any language; volunteers see the contact's preferred language tagged on the contact screen.
/Q — DUPLICATES
Fuzzy-match on name + address detects duplicates as they're collected. The volunteer sees a flag at the door before the signature is saved — so the petition isn't rejected at filing for duplicates.
/Q — REPORTING
One-click export of contacts reached, demographic breakdown, geographic coverage, and survey results. PDFs and CSVs ready for funders. The reporting that used to take a coordinator a week now takes a minute.
/Q — SETUP
Most programs are out in under three days. Same-day account, contact list imports while you draw your first region, outreach lists in volunteer pockets the next morning. Real human onboarding.
— Start the drive
Open an account, import your contact list, draw a region. By Saturday morning your volunteers are knocking with route-ordered outreach lists in their pockets — and your coverage heatmap is filling in live.