MiniVAN

NGP VAN

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.

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.

MiniVAN Touch is developed and maintained by NGP VAN and is not affiliated with any government agency.

Ratings and reviews

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.

This app could use an upgrade! It would be awesome if the lit drops you completed turned a bright color because when you are outdoors it is difficult to tell the difference between black and gray. It should sync automatically. The addresses should be organized in a more user friendly manner. Once you finish your list it should move into a finished file. Make it easier for volunteers to use.

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.

What’s new

Easier note-taking in MiniVAN: a new floating “Add Note” button makes it simple to log notes, and we added the option to dictate and save transcribed text to reduce time spent entering notes.