Comparison
Spacio suits an agent whose office has standardized on a broader real estate technology suite, while FoyerSignIn suits the agent who buys their own tablet software and hosts two opens most weekends.
If your brokerage already pays for a wider suite and your broker administers it, the open house piece that comes with it is the path of least friction, and Spacio is built for exactly that setting. If you are the one buying the software, the one placing the signs, and the one who owes the seller a recap on Sunday night, FoyerSignIn is the closer fit. It is scoped to one job: name every visitor at the door, send the seller a traffic report from the driveway, and start a three touch buyer sequence without you opening a laptop.
| What you are deciding | FoyerSignIn | Spacio |
|---|---|---|
| Who the product is shaped around | A solo agent or two person team who buys the software themselves and hosts most weekends. | Agents in offices that have standardized on a wider real estate technology suite, with open house capture as one part of it. |
| Time from purchase to the first Saturday | Load the listing, open the tablet, take names the same weekend. | Depends on how the office rolls out the suite and who administers the account. |
| Seller reporting | Traffic counts and written visitor comments go to the seller before you pull out of the driveway. | Open house reporting sits inside the suite scope, so confirm what the current version sends and when. |
| Buyer follow up | A three touch sequence starts on its own for every visitor who signs in, with the listing address in the first message. | Follow up generally leans on whichever CRM the office has already adopted. |
| Fair housing discipline at the door | The default form asks only what you may ask a stranger in a doorway, with no fields for family status, faith, or national origin. | Forms are configurable, so the discipline depends on whoever builds the form for the office. |
| Entry hall with no signal | The tablet keeps taking names when cell service drops in a basement or a rural listing, then syncs later. | Confirm current offline behavior before you rely on it at a house with thin coverage. |
| What you pay for | Flat plans at $29 Single Agent, $69 Team, and $189 Brokerage. | Usually acquired as part of a wider package, so the real cost question is the whole suite. |
| Who holds the visitor list | Export every visitor by listing or by season whenever you want it. | Data handling follows the suite, and in many offices the account belongs to the brokerage. |
The right hand column places Spacio by scope and by the sort of operator it serves, with no attempt at a priced feature list. Software shifts month to month, so read their own pages before you commit. FoyerSignIn is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.
Spacio assumes a supported agent. Someone else set up the account, someone else decided which fields appear on the form, and the CRM the office chose is where the visitor ends up. That is a real advantage when it is true, because you walk into the listing and the tooling is already decided.
FoyerSignIn assumes the opposite. You reserved the date with the seller, you entered the open in the MLS, you bought the sign riders, and you will be the one apologizing on Monday if a visitor never hears back. The product is built to survive that reality: one tablet on the door table, a form a stranger finishes in twenty seconds, and follow up that fires whether or not you remember it.
The comparison that matters most is not the sign in screen, it is what happens by Monday morning. A name with no follow up is a name your seller paid four hours of your weekend for and got nothing from. Suite based tools generally hand the visitor to the office CRM and expect the agent to work the record there.
FoyerSignIn treats the handoff as part of the sign in. The three touch buyer sequence starts on its own, the seller report goes out the same evening, and the visitor list stays exportable so you can screen numbers against the Do Not Call registry before you dial anyone who is not a client.
Both approaches let you collect a name, a phone number, an email, and whether the visitor is working with an agent. The difference is who decides what else appears on the form. A configurable form is a strength for a compliance officer and a hazard for a busy agent who adds a friendly question about schools, kids, or the neighborhood feel.
FoyerSignIn ships the safe form by default and keeps the risky questions off it. If your broker wants extra fields, you add them deliberately rather than inheriting them from an office template you never reviewed.
Yes, and plenty of agents do. The sign in tablet and the seller report are yours per listing, and you can export the visitor list into whatever CRM your office standardized on. The overlap is worth accepting when the office tool does not send a seller recap you are proud of.
Not continuously. The sign in keeps accepting visitors when the connection drops, which happens often in finished basements and on rural listings, and it syncs once you are back in range. Follow up and the seller report go out after the sync.
FoyerSignIn Team at $69 gives both agents the same visitor list per listing, so whoever hosts Sunday sees who came Saturday. A suite based tool can do this as well, but usually through office administration rather than something you set up yourself between two agents.
Comparison
Curb Hero suits the agent who wants a quick self serve sign in screen and will handle the rest by hand, while FoyerSignIn suits the agent who wants the seller report and the buyer follow up to happen without being told twice.
Comparison
Follow Up Boss is a real estate CRM built around routing, calling, and pipeline discipline across a book of business, while FoyerSignIn is built around one weekend job at one listing.
Reading a comparison row is not the same as watching a stranger finish a sign in while you greet the family coming up the walk behind them. Ask for a walkthrough and we will set the tablet up on the house you are hosting next, then send the seller recap to your own inbox so you can judge the wording yourself. Nobody at your brokerage has to be involved.