MiniVAN

3.6
711 reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

miniVAN is a mobile canvassing application that integrates with websites provided by NGP VAN. The miniVAN system allows users to export canvassing lists from VAN onto an iOS or Android device. Canvassers can then enter data into their device as they talk to people on their list. When the canvassers connect their device to the Internet over a wireless or cellular network, they can upload their data back to the VAN with the touch of a button. Administrative users on the VAN can then review the data and apply it to the database in one quick step.

Canvassing with miniVAN allows NGP VAN clients to spend more time and resources on actually contacting people instead of on data entry. What’s more, it virtually eliminates the lag time between collecting canvass results and putting that data to work.
Updated on
Feb 13, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.4
671 reviews
A Google user
October 31, 2019
Working as part of a pair of canvassers, app quickly drained partner's phone battery so we had to switch to my phone. First phone indicated a sync, but second phone showed all of the initial houses unvisited. Then the app locked up 4 times and had to be reopened. Geographic locations of the houses on the map were off by as much as half a city block when using the map view. Would be nice to organize the houses by numerical order odd/even as most streets have houses arranged that way.
8 people found this review helpful
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Darion McGowan
March 10, 2022
Absolutely horrible experience today. As a user of this app for many years, I can firmly say that this update is my most negative experience. The app is constantly crashing, not syncing, zooming in and zooming out at will, grouping houses in inefficient groups so that I have to backtrack every time I do a street, and for kicks the GPS was about a block-and-a-half off showing me inside someone's house. Not sure if this is just an issue with Galaxy phones but it needs to be fixed PRONTO please.
12 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
November 4, 2018
I really wish this were better. Location detection misses my actual location by blocks, so it's useless. App regularly fails to initially locate me, and so refuses to allow me to enter a list number until I try multiple times. There is no way to mark an entire household is not home, which is far and away the most common thing to have happen when canvassing. there's also no simple way to mark that I was unable to locate a given address. It's better than a pen and paper, but with some bug fixes and interface improvements, it could be so much more useful.
17 people found this review helpful
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What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements