How to choose an open house sign-in appEight questions, in order.

How to test it

During the trial, sign in as a fake visitor, then go find the export and time yourself. If you cannot produce a spreadsheet of your own leads in under a minute, without emailing support and without upgrading, you have your answer.

What a poor answer looks like

Export sitting behind a higher tier. Export by support request. An export that hands back names and emails but silently drops the answers to the qualifying questions, which are the part that told you who was worth calling.

Where Open House Console stands

Open House Console exports every lead to CSV from the dashboard, including the qualifying answers and your own notes, on every plan. There is no export tier and no export fee.

How to test it

Set up one open house and look at the finished sign-in screen on a phone and on a laptop, not in the marketing screenshots. Then ask the direct question: which of these elements can I remove, and which am I stuck with?

What a poor answer looks like

A vendor mark larger than your headshot. A third party's name or offer on the screen that you did not choose and cannot switch off. Branding controls that turn out to be a paid add-on after you have already set everything up.

Where Open House Console stands

Your headshot, your logo, your brokerage colors and a choice of six kiosk layouts. Open House Console adds one small credit line along the bottom edge, and the annual plan removes that too. Nobody else appears on the screen.

How to test it

Ask support in writing, before you subscribe: if I cancel, what happens to my leads, and can I still export them? Keep the reply. A vendor who will not answer that in writing has told you something.

What a poor answer looks like

No written answer. A policy that deletes lead data immediately on cancellation. A support reply that says 'contact us and we will see what we can do', which is not a policy.

Where Open House Console stands

Open House Console keeps every lead and deletes nothing, and closing your account closes it rather than erasing your history. Being straight with you: while a subscription is lapsed, visitor contact details are hidden in the dashboard until you subscribe again, so export before you cancel rather than after. That is stricter than we would like, and you should hear it here instead of finding out later.

How to test it

Before the weekend, not during it: put the device in airplane mode, fill in the form, and submit. Then turn the connection back on and watch whether that lead actually appears. Do the same test on a phone through the QR code.

What a poor answer looks like

A spinner that never resolves. An error the visitor has to read and react to. Worst of all, a confirmation screen that says thank you while the lead quietly goes nowhere.

Where Open House Console stands

The kiosk page is cached so it still loads with no connection, and a sign-in that cannot reach the server is held in the browser and sent when the network returns. The visitor sees the same confirmation either way, because making a stranger troubleshoot your wifi is not an option.

How to test it

Scan your own QR code with your own phone and go through the whole thing. Does it open a web page, or does it ask you to install something? Can you finish it one-handed? Count the taps. Then hand the phone to someone who has never seen it and watch where they hesitate.

What a poor answer looks like

An app install prompt for a visitor who is going to be in the house for six minutes. A form that needs pinch and zoom. A required field a stranger will not fill in honestly, which quietly turns into a fake phone number.

Where Open House Console stands

Scanning the code opens a normal web page in the visitor's own browser. Nothing to install, on either side. The same page powers the laptop at the door, so the two never drift apart, and everyone in an arriving group can sign in at once.

How to test it

Ask for the page that documents it. Then check the other end: does the CRM you pay for actually accept what this tool sends? If the answer is a webhook, look for your CRM in a public automation marketplace before you subscribe, not after.

What a poor answer looks like

'We integrate with everything' with no documentation page behind it. A logo wall of CRM brands with no explanation of the mechanism. An integration that turns out to require a plan you are not on.

Where Open House Console stands

Straight answer: Open House Console has no native CRM connectors. It has one outbound webhook that fires the moment a visitor signs in, which you point at Zapier, Make.com, or any endpoint your CRM accepts, plus CSV export. That is a real path and it is documented, but if you want a one-click native connector, this is not the product that has one.

How to test it

Find the price on the website without giving anyone your email address. If you cannot, that itself is information about how the product is sold and how the conversation will go later. Then find what the next tier up unlocks, and check whether anything you assumed was included is sitting in it.

What a poor answer looks like

Per-lead pricing, which bills you for doing well. A cap on open houses per month. Export, branding, or the qualifying questions parked one tier above whatever you were quoted. An annual commitment presented as a discount with no monthly option beside it.

Where Open House Console stands

One flat plan: $7 a month or $70 a year, with unlimited open houses and unlimited leads and every feature included. No tiers to move between, no per-lead fee, and the price is on the pricing page without a form in front of it.

How to test it

After your fake sign-ins, go and look at what the product wants you to do next. Is there somewhere to record that you called? Something that surfaces the lead you have not touched? Or is the follow-up entirely your memory plus a spreadsheet?

What a poor answer looks like

A capture screen with a beautiful list behind it and nothing else. Follow-up tooling sold as a separate product. Reporting that shows you totals but never tells you which specific person to call next.

Where Open House Console stands

Sign-ins land in a live dashboard with one-tap call, text and email, lead categories, notes, a follow-up pipeline you can drag leads through, repeat-visitor detection, and per-open-house analytics. A seller-facing traffic report is included for the listing agent's Monday conversation.