What does door-to-door sales team management software need to do?
At minimum: get reps onto the team, put them in a reporting structure, show you what each one is doing, and let you pay them right. FieldStacker's Team page does all four in one screen — create a team and get a shareable team code, add reps three different ways, build named sub-teams with real reporting lines, and read a per-rep table of doors knocked in the last 7 days, quotes, verified installs, RMR sold, each rep's override and what you earn from it, plus when they were last active. Team settings holds the rest: invites, team name and logo, branding lock, the GPS knock rule, and the danger zone (step down, or delete the team).
How do reps join my team?
Three ways, and you can mix them. (1) Share your team code — an unguessable 8-character code like K7M2-9QX4 that a rep enters on their own Team page to join. (2) Invite by email — they get a link, and signing up through it joins them to your team automatically; pending invites show as Pending until accepted and you can revoke one at any time. (3) Add by rep code — every rep has a personal code; paste it and they land on your team reporting to you. On the Team Management Pro bundle there is a fourth: one stable, multi-use share link per role (Sales Rep, Technician, Sales & Tech, Sub-manager) that you copy or email, and anyone who signs up through it joins in that role with no plan to pick, no dealer to choose and no email verification step.
Do my reps each need their own subscription?
Not if you put them on seats. Team Management Pro is one $250/mo subscription that carries the Sales Manager toolset plus 10 seats. A seat has no subscription of its own — it mirrors your account, so seats are free while you are on your free trial, active once you subscribe, and cut off if your plan lapses. Assign each seat as Sales Rep, Technician, Sales & Tech or Sub-manager, change any seat's role from a dropdown, and free a seat to hand it to someone else. One deliberate behaviour: a rep who already has their own paid or comped account keeps it rather than being pulled onto a seat. They join your team without using a seat, keep their own subscription, and still appear in your roster, stats and lead assignments.
Can I build sub-teams and reporting lines under me?
Yes. Running a team is the paid Sales Manager layer; with it, the team owner or a sub-manager under them can name their own sub-team (up to 60 characters) and add reps beneath themselves by rep code. Add someone who is not on a team yet and they join your team under you; add an existing team-mate and they move into your sub-team. The app blocks the two ways this normally breaks: you cannot add someone you report to, and you cannot pull in a rep from a different dealer's team. On seat bundles there is a "reports to" picker on every seat once at least one seat holds the Sub-manager role — point a seat at you or under one of your manager seats, and the app walks the chain and rejects anything that would loop. The whole structure renders as a Team structure org chart grouped by sub-team, visible to everyone on the team.
How do manager overrides work?
You set an override per rep, right on the Team page, and only on reps you actually manage. What the number means depends on the industry the account runs: on a recurring-revenue vertical like alarms it is a multiple of the deal's monthly price (RMR) earned once per verified install, capped at 10× — 2× on a $55/mo account is $110. On a pure canvassing account it is a flat dollar amount per sale, so $25/sale × 8 sales is $200. The table shows a "You earn" column per rep and a year-to-date override total at the top of the card. Overrides are a reporting and payout figure inside FieldStacker; the Payroll page is where commissions and bonuses get marked paid.
How is this different from SalesRabbit or SPOTIO for running a team?
Two differences that matter. First, price shape: FieldStacker publishes flat month-to-month pricing from $30/mo with a 14-day free trial, no credit card, no seat minimums and no annual contract, and a whole crew fits on the $250 Team Management Pro bundle. The big canvassing platforms are seat-priced and usually quoted, so check their sites for current pricing. Second, scope: they are canvassing-management platforms with enterprise permissioning; FieldStacker gives you four fixed seat roles rather than a custom permission builder, one team per owner, and each rep on one team at a time — but it also carries the rep's own money (commission, chargebacks, IRS-rate mileage, 1099 set-aside) and the manager's override in the same app. If per-field permission matrices and org-wide role design are what you need, that is a different class of tool.
