Open home sign-in apps for NZ real estate agents, compared (2026)

Every open home still starts the same way: a clipboard, a pen, and a stranger’s phone number written half-legibly under the last twelve names. Agents have known this is a lead-generation weak point for years, which is why a small industry of open-home sign-in apps has built up around it. We went and looked at what NZ and international agents are actually choosing between, what each one costs, and what a visitor actually experiences standing at your front door.

We’re Open Locally, and we build one of the tools on this list — Open Property. We’ve tried to be straight about where the others do well. If you read this and pick a competitor because it fits your office better, that’s a fair outcome; the worst thing any of these tools can do is sit unused because nobody explained the difference.

How we checked this

For each tool we looked at its own pricing page (where one exists), its App Store listing, and its stated feature list. Some publish pricing openly; some don’t and want you to talk to a salesperson. We’ve said which is which rather than guessing a number.

The list

1. Open Property — NZ$29 per agent, per month

Open Property is ours, so judge the ranking accordingly — but here’s the actual case for it. Every agent carries one matte-black NFC card. Its address never changes; you set which listing it points to from your phone when you walk in the door. A visitor taps the card, and the first time they ever do this, they give an email and mobile number — about 15 seconds — and a pass lands in their Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. A printed code on the back of the card covers phones that won’t tap.

Here’s the part that isn’t on any other list in this article: that pass isn’t tied to your agency. It’s the visitor’s. At the next open home — a different agent, a different agency, months later — they tap and walk straight in. No form, no re-typing their number for the fourth time this month. Your register fills itself: name, email, mobile, new-or-returning, what they thought of the place, any questions they left.

Pricing is NZ$29 per agent per month, first month free, cancel any time. It’s charged per agent, not per office, so a two-person office and a twenty-person office pay proportionally the same rate.

Worth knowing: both Apple Wallet and Google Wallet are supported, and a printed code on the stand covers any phone that won’t tap, so an iPhone buyer is no different to an Android one. It’s worth knowing about before you commit.

2. Curb Hero — free

Curb Hero is a US product (Roadless Co) and, going by its own listing, one of the more feature-dense free tools on this list. Visitors can sign in via QR code or on-screen entry, it works offline and syncs once you’re back on wifi, and it supports the buyer disclosure forms US agents need post-NAR settlement (not relevant to NZ, but it tells you who they built it for). It says it syncs with over 6,000 CRMs and marketing tools.

It’s marketed as free on the App Store, and we couldn’t find a published paid tier — if heavier CRM automation sits behind a paywall, Curb Hero doesn’t say so publicly, so we’re not going to guess. If you’re comfortable with a US-built tool and don’t need NZ-specific compliance features, it’s worth a look purely on the strength of being free.

What it doesn’t do: there’s no cross-agency element. Each open home is its own sign-in, same as every other tool here except Open Property.

3. Open Home Pro — free, or US$25/month Premium

Built by Placester, and the App Store listing claims 195,000+ agents use it — that’s Placester’s own figure, not something we verified independently. The free plan manages your first 25 leads with unlimited open houses and listings; Premium (US$25/month, cheaper billed annually) adds unlimited lead export, automated follow-up emails, email open tracking, and branded templates.

It’s a genuinely capable free tier if you’re a solo agent doing a handful of opens a month. Once you’re past 25 leads in a period, you’re into Premium.

What it doesn’t do: again, no cross-agency pass. Every visitor starts fresh at every listing, whether it’s yours or someone else’s.

4. Spacio — US$25/agent/month

Now part of Elm Street (originally HomeSpotter). Digital sign-in designed for a tablet at the door, with social profiling and lead scoring against your own “ideal customer profile,” automatic post-open-home emails, and export for newsletters. Pricing is US$25/month per agent, or US$100/month for a 5-agent team (works out to US$20/agent on the team plan), with custom pricing for brokerages.

It’s aimed squarely at teams and offices that want shared reporting across agents, not just an individual’s leads.

What it doesn’t do: the sign-in is per-listing and per-agency, same limitation as the others. And at US pricing with no published NZD rate, you’re wearing the exchange rate.

5. Homepass — pricing not published

Homepass is owned by Domain Group, the Australian property portal that competes with realestate.com.au. It handles check-in, a mobile brochure, CRM sync, document tracking, and — on paid plans only — an automatic SMS vendor report at the end of an inspection, plus a livestream option for remote buyers. There’s a free “Lite” tier and a paid tier above it.

We looked for a public price and couldn’t find one; Homepass sells through account managers rather than listing a rate card. We also couldn’t confirm New Zealand availability or NZD pricing from anything we could access — it reads as an Australian product built for the Australian market, so if you’re in NZ, confirm directly with them before assuming it’s an option.

What it doesn’t do: same as the rest — no visitor-owned pass that carries between agencies.

The one thing none of the others do

Every one of these five tools, ours included, solves the sign-in sheet itself — legible details instead of a scrawled name and a made-up phone number. But every competitor’s sign-in lives inside that company’s own app. The visitor starts from zero at the next open home, even if it’s the same agency’s listing the following weekend. We went and checked each product’s own description of itself for this article, and none of them mention a wallet pass or a way for a visitor’s details to follow them to a different agent’s door.

That’s the actual gap Open Property is built around. The visitor owns the pass, not the agency. It sits in their Google Wallet next to their boarding passes and bank cards, and it works at any agent’s door, at any agency, indefinitely.

Which one should you actually use?

If you’re a solo agent doing the occasional open home and want to spend nothing, Open Home Pro’s free tier or Curb Hero cover the basics well. If you’re running a team and want shared reporting, Spacio is built for that, at a real per-agent cost. If you’re in Australia and already inside the Domain ecosystem, Homepass is worth a direct pricing conversation.

If you want the sign-in to actually get easier every single open home — for you and for the visitor — because they’re not starting from scratch at every door, that’s the specific problem Open Property solves that the others don’t.

See how it works and claim your first month free at openlocally.com/openproperty.