Handwriting eats a third of the sheet
A hurried signature, a phone number with a looping 7, an email that could be gmail or gmial. On a 22 visitor Saturday most agents can read back only 14 usable rows.
8 names lost per open houseOpen house desk for listing agents
Every visitor who steps into your open house leaves as a named lead, followed up before you pull the sign out of the yard.
FoyerSignIn runs the door on a tablet, checks the address each guest types, and hands you a seller ready summary while the caravan is still on the block. The buyer touches go out on their own: a thank you that evening, the disclosure packet on Tuesday, and a payment and school breakdown on Friday morning.
- 1,240 US agents sign visitors in with FoyerSignIn every weekend
- Works with zero bars in the driveway, then syncs when signal returns
- Median 11 minutes from the last guest to the seller report landing
Saturday, 1:04 pm, first guest through the door
The Sunday problem
It is 4:58 on Sunday, the sheet is a smudge, and the best buyer of the day is already at the next listing
Open house traffic is the cheapest lead source a residential agent has. It is also the one that leaks the most, because the capture tool is a clipboard, a shared pen and your memory of a conversation you had four hours and thirty visitors ago.
Follow up lands two days late
You get home at six, the family wants dinner, and Monday opens with a listing appointment. Buyers contacted inside two hours book a private showing four times more often than the ones who hear from you Wednesday.
About $9,600 in gross commission per seasonThe Monday seller call has no page
Price reduction conversations are won with counts, not adjectives. Without visitor numbers, dwell time and recorded price reactions, you are defending a list price with a story.
18 extra days on market, on averageSunday night is data entry night
Typing a clipboard into your CRM runs about 95 minutes a weekend, and it happens after a nine hour day on your feet. Half the rows are guesses by the time you finish.
54 hours over a 34 weekend seasonHow it works
Four moves at the threshold, then the weekend keeps working after you lock up
Nothing here asks you to change how you host. You still greet people, you still walk them to the kitchen. The tablet handles the part of the job that used to happen at eleven o clock at night.
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Load the listing before you turn the key
Paste the MLS number or type the street address, and the sign in screen dresses itself with the photo, the list price and the seller name you report to. Two agents splitting a Saturday can each take a shift on the same listing, and the visitor log stays in one place.
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Hand over the tablet, not the pen
Guests type their own name, mobile number, email and home address, and answer whether they are already working with an agent. The keyboard is large, the flow is four taps deep, and nobody has to decipher anyone else's cursive.
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The seller report writes itself on the drive home
Visitor count, how long the median guest stayed, how many arrived unrepresented, what they said about price, and the questions that came up more than twice. It goes to your seller as a clean one page PDF with your headshot and license number on it.
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Three buyer touches leave without you
A text at seven that evening while the kitchen is still in their head, the disclosure packet and floor plan on Tuesday, then a monthly payment and school zone breakdown on Friday. You get pinged only when somebody replies.
The console tablet, kiosk locked
Built for the door
Six things the clipboard was never going to do
Every one of these came out of a Saturday shift with a working listing agent, not from a whiteboard.
Kiosk mode a curious four year old cannot escape
The tablet locks to the sign in screen, so nobody wanders into your photos, your email or the app store. A four digit code returns it to you when the last car pulls away.
Address check on every entry
Typed home addresses are matched against postal records and mapped against the listing, so the neighbor from two doors down is tagged as a neighbor and not chased like a buyer. Bad phone numbers bounce back before the guest walks away.
Agency question worded for your broker file
Each guest answers whether they are represented, and the answer is stored with a timestamp, the listing address and the device it came from. When your managing broker audits the file, the record is already there.
Seller report with the numbers the Monday call needs
Traffic count, median dwell time, represented versus unrepresented, and every price comment grouped by theme. Sellers stop asking how it went, because the page already answered it.
Three touch buyer sequence, in your voice
You write the three messages once, we hold them against each visitor's timeline and send from your number and your address. Anyone who replies drops straight out of the sequence and into your inbox.
Offline first, syncs when the bars come back
Half finished basements and rural driveways do not stop the sign in, because entries queue on the device itself. The moment the tablet finds a signal the whole log uploads, in order, with nothing dropped.
What changes by the third weekend
The numbers agents report after one full listing cycle
Measured across 620 accounts that ran at least eight open houses between January and December 2025, compared against their own paper sheets from the season before.
3.4x
More reachable names per open house
Typed contact details, checked in the moment, replace guesses at handwriting. The lift comes almost entirely from rows that used to be unreadable.
68%
Reply rate on the Saturday evening text
The first touch goes out while the granite counters are still fresh. Agents who wait until Monday see that number fall to 19 percent.
11 min
From last guest to seller report
The report compiles as guests sign out or as the shift closes, so it is in the seller inbox before you reach the highway.
48 hrs
Sunday night data entry returned per season
Nothing is retyped, because the log lands in your CRM already tagged with the listing address and the shift.
From the hosting agents
Three agents on what the tablet changed
I stopped guessing which visitors were neighbors. Last spring on a ranch in the North End I had 31 people through in two hours, and 12 of them lived within four blocks. The report told my seller that before I did, and she finally understood why the price conversation mattered.
My managing broker used to send back three files a month for missing agency answers. Since we put the tablet at the door there has not been one. The timestamp and the address sit right on the record, so the audit takes him about a minute per listing now.
The Saturday night text is the whole thing for me. A couple wrote back at 9:40 pm about the basement egress window, I answered in bed, and we wrote an offer on Monday at 11. That never happened when my follow up waited for a Sunday night typing session.
1,240US agents running the door each weekend
62,900open houses hosted through FoyerSignIn in 2025
4.9 / 5average rating from 3 verified customer reviews
Plans
Priced against one weekend, not one lead
Unlimited open houses on every plan. A busy Saturday should never cost you more than a quiet one.
Single Agent
$29 per monthOne hosting agent, unlimited listings.
- Unlimited open houses and visitors
- Kiosk sign in on iPad or Android, offline ready
- Branded seller report as a one page PDF
- Three touch buyer sequence from your number
- CSV export and email support within one business day
Recommended, most chosen by two person teams
Team
$69 per monthTwo person teams and a shared assistant.
- Three seats with shift handoff on one listing
- Shared open house calendar and door card printing
- Two report brands for co listed properties
- Follow Up Boss, kvCORE and Sierra Interactive sync
- Dedicated sending number and same day support
Brokerage
$189 per monthOffices running a full weekend roster.
- Fifteen agent seats with roster management
- Compliance archive of every agency answer
- Office wide traffic reporting by listing and by agent
- Onboarding session for the whole floor
- Admin controls, single sign on and a named contact
Every plan is billed monthly in US dollars and can be cancelled at any time from the account screen. No annual contract, no setup fee, no per visitor charge.
Questions agents ask first
The six that come up on every discovery call
Single Agent is $29 per month and covers unlimited open houses, so a hosting agent who works two Saturdays a month pays about $14.50 a weekend. Team is $69 per month for three seats and Brokerage is $189 per month for fifteen. There is no per visitor charge and no fee for the follow up messages, because a busy open house should never cost you more than a quiet one.
Most agents are ready in under an hour. You add your license number, your headshot and your brokerage disclosure, write the three follow up messages once, then install the app on any iPad or Android tablet made in the last six years. We also send a printed door card and a stand template so the tablet reads as part of the staging instead of borrowed equipment.
You do. Every name, number and note collected at your listings belongs to you and your brokerage, and you can export the full log to CSV at any hour without asking us first. We never sell contact records, we never rent them to lenders, and we do not market to the buyers who sign in at your door. If you close the account we delete the data within thirty days and send written confirmation.
Yes. Native connections cover Follow Up Boss, kvCORE, Sierra Interactive, LionDesk and HubSpot, and anything else can run through Zapier or a plain CSV export. Records arrive tagged with the listing address, the shift date and the represented or unrepresented answer, so the smart lists you already built keep working. Team and Brokerage plans can route different listings into different pipelines.
Every plan is billed month to month and you can cancel from the account screen in two clicks, with no phone call and no retention script. Billing stops at the end of the current month and your data stays available for export for thirty days after that. Agents in northern markets often pause in January and return in March, and their listings, message templates and past seller reports are exactly where they left them.
Some will not, and the sign in is built for that. FoyerSignIn asks for a mobile number but never requires one, so a guest can enter an email alone and still be counted in the seller report. In practice 81 percent give a working mobile number once the screen states plainly that it is used for the disclosure packet and nothing else, which is a better rate than most agents get from a clipboard asking the same question.
The Foyer Report
What we publish between open houses
Nine field pieces about the door itself: what you are allowed to ask a visitor, what four hours of your Saturday actually costs, and how a follow up message stays inside the calling and texting rules. Written from the console table, not from a marketing desk.
regulation and compliance
Fair Housing Limits on What You Ask Open House Visitors
The Fair Housing Act governs the door, not just the listing. Here is what you may ask a visitor, what belongs on a sign in, and which friendly questions about schools and safety cross the line.
practical guide
How to Run a Weekend Open House Solo, From Setup to Lockup
A full run of show for one agent working a weekend open house alone, from the MLS entry three days out and the sign route to the lockup text you send the seller before you pull out of the driveway.
checklist
Open House Safety Checklist for Agents Working Alone
A working safety list for agents who host alone: how to vet the assignment, set up the door table, keep your sight lines, use the sign in as a record, and close the house after dark.
Request a demo
Tell us about your next Saturday and we will set the door up with you
Send the address of a listing you are hosting in the next three weeks. We will walk the sign in screen with you on a fifteen minute call, load that listing while you watch, and you can hand the tablet to a real guest that weekend.
Demos are run by people who have stood at an open house door, not by a sales floor working from a script. If the answer is that a clipboard is fine for your volume, we will tell you that.
Prefer email? Write to jimenezjulien42@gmail.com and mention the city you list in.