Is FieldStacker a good CRM for siding door-to-door?
Yes for the canvassing and money side of exterior remodeling. The knock map with fresh-lead pins, drawn territories you can throw around an active job site, your own custom dispositions, GPS-verified team knocks, in-app messaging for the setter-to-closer handoff, the leaderboard and the 1099 financials all work for a siding crew today. What it does not do is measure the house or render colors on it: your HOVER or EagleView wall report and your visualizer stay exactly where they are. FieldStacker runs the street; your takeoff stack runs the elevation.
Does FieldStacker measure siding squares or render color visualizations?
No. It does not count squares, corner posts, J-channel, soffit or window and door openings, and it does not drop a Dutch lap or a ColorPlus finish onto a photo of the customer's house. Those are their own disciplines and the tools that do them — HOVER, EagleView wall reports, Renoworks, CertainTeed ColorView, the James Hardie and Alside visualizers, or a ladder and a tape — are very good at it. FieldStacker earns its keep everywhere around that: getting the crew onto the right blocks, remembering every door, keeping two setters off the same street, and tracking what you actually get paid after the three-day window closes.
Does it work for retail exteriors and for storm siding claims?
Both, because the street work is the same shape. Retail exteriors runs on job-site radius canvassing and new-homeowner lists, and lives or dies on setting a demo where both decision-makers are home. Storm siding runs on getting a crew into a hail or wind footprint before four competitors do. FieldStacker handles either: trace the damage zone or a ring around the house you are wrapping this week, load the doors inside it, and name your own stages — demo set, demo sat, DM gap, adjuster scheduled, sold, in rescission, install scheduled — so the pipeline reads like your business instead of a generic funnel.
Can it track siding commissions, three-day cancels and chargebacks?
Yes, and this is the part exterior reps need most. Siding money is lumpy and reversible: a signed contract can die inside the federal three-day cooling-off window, at the credit decision, at the re-measure, or at final walk. FieldStacker logs the deal on your own split, nets chargebacks and clawbacks against your total instead of quietly leaving them in a spreadsheet, captures mileage automatically at the IRS rate for every driving day, and builds a quarterly tax set-aside. It does not run credit or process financing applications — that stays with your lender portal.
How is this different from SalesRabbit or SPOTIO for a siding company?
Those are capable canvassing platforms, but they are seat-based, priced for teams, usually sold on an annual commitment, and they hand the rep's own money — commission, cancels, mileage, quarterly taxes — back to a spreadsheet. FieldStacker is flat month-to-month from $30/mo with a 14-day free trial, no credit card, no seat minimums and no annual contract, and it folds the rep financials into the same app the setter is already knocking with. Built for the 1099 exterior rep first, then scaled to the crew. Check their sites for current pricing before you compare.
Can one account sell siding and the other exterior trades?
That is the point of the stack. Most exteriors companies sell siding, roofing, windows and gutters off the same door, and a storm knock is often all four at once. Turn on the industries you actually sell and work them from one login — one map, one set of stats, one bill. The alarm side is powered by FieldStacker Security, our alarm edition, on the same backend, so nothing lives in two apps.
