VA Horizon vs Door-to-Door Canvassing for Roofing Companies
Door-to-door canvassing crews are typically paid $10 to $20 an hour plus a $20 to $30 bonus per set appointment and 1% or more of the closed job's gross, based on pay structures roofing crews discuss on ContractorTalk. VA Horizon replaces the crew, the software, and the management with a flat $300 setup plus $199 per booked, double-confirmed appointment.
$300 setup + $199 per booked appointment.
VA Horizon vs Door-to-Door Canvassing
| Decision Point | VA Horizon | Door-to-Door Canvassing |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A booked, double-confirmed appointment, priced per unit. | A canvassing crew you hire, train, route, and manage, paid whether or not a given shift produces an appointment. |
| Pay structure | Flat $199 per booked appointment, known in advance. | Hourly base of $10 to $20 plus a $20 to $30 per-appointment bonus and 1% or more of the closed job's gross, cost accrues on hours worked regardless of outcome. (source) |
| Appointment rate | Every unit purchased is a booked, double-confirmed appointment, by definition. | Canvassing vendor RoofNuts claims managed teams hit 8% to 15% versus a 2% to 3% unmanaged average. That is the vendor's own marketing figure, not an independently verified study. (source) |
| Hiring and management | No hiring, no ride-alongs, no crew to manage. | A recommended hiring process runs a five-stage funnel ending in a live field ride-along, because reps who cannot survive a real door-knock roleplay do not survive the job. (source) |
| Storm response | Appointments booked on your criteria, year-round. | Canvassing crews are typically deployed reactively after a hail or wind event, using routing software and storm-data feeds to hit affected zones fast. (source) |
| Wasted-trip protection | Free replacement. You are never billed for a no-show. | A knocked door that turns into no damage, or a home a competitor already locked up, is a sunk labor cost, the hourly pay is already spent. |
What to verify before choosing either option.
You pay canvassers whether doors convert or not
Hourly base pay of $10 to $20 accrues on every shift worked, independent of how many doors turn into appointments. A flat per-appointment price only charges you when the outcome happens. For context, industry benchmarks put exclusive appointment close rates at 25% to 35% versus 8% to 20% for shared marketplace leads, the same gap that makes a paid-per-outcome model easier to plan around than a paid-per-hour one.
The 8% to 15% figure is a vendor's own claim
RoofNuts markets managed canvassing at 8% to 15% appointment rates against a 2% to 3% unmanaged average. That comparison comes from a company selling canvassing teams, not an independent study, and should be treated with the same scrutiny as any vendor marketing claim.
The ride-along funnel is the real cost
Hiring reps who can hold up at the door takes a multi-stage funnel ending in live field testing, per RoofFlowPro's recommended process. That is time and management overhead before a single appointment gets set.
Canvassing still needs a storm or a season
Storm-triggered canvassing is reactive by design, deployed within hours of a hail or wind event using routing software and storm-data feeds. VA Horizon appointments are not tied to whether a storm hit this week.
Match the choice to your bottleneck.
Choose door-to-door canvassing when
You already run storm-market operations, have a canvassing manager and routing software in place, and can absorb the hourly cost even on slow knock days.
Choose VA Horizon when
You want appointment volume without carrying the hourly payroll and turnover that come with building a crew, and you'd rather pay a flat rate per booked outcome.
VA Horizon vs door-to-door canvassing, answered.
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What if a VA Horizon appointment does not show?
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