The recommended path from a brand-new account to your first voter contact.

New to Vottiv? Follow these steps in order and you'll go from signup to reaching real voters — most campaigns get through this list in about an hour. Each step links to a detailed guide if you want to go deeper.

Step 1: Create your account

Sign up for Vottiv, choose your account type, and enter your campaign details — Vottiv automatically loads the voter file for your district. Then activate your Data Center subscription to unlock your voter data.

Guide: Creating and Signing into a Vottiv Account
Guide: Understanding Our Pricing

Step 2: Explore your voter data

The Data Center is your campaign's home base. Search for any voter in your district, open their profile to see vote history and contact information, and get familiar with the data you'll be working with all cycle.

Guide: Introduction to Vottiv Data Center

Step 3: Build your first voter group

Voter groups power everything in Vottiv — every canvass, text campaign, phone bank, and mail piece targets a group. Start with something simple, like likely voters in your party, and refine from there. Groups stay live and dynamic, so they update automatically as your voter file changes.

Guide: Building Your First Voter Group
Guide: Using Filters in the Group Builder

Step 4: Add your team

Invite your campaign manager, staff, and volunteers — each with the right permission level for their role.

Guide: Vottiv Account Permission Levels
Guide: Creating and Using a Volunteer Account

Step 5: Planning to text voters? Register for 10DLC now

Carrier rules require political campaigns to complete 10DLC registration before sending texts, and approval can take several days. If texting is part of your plan, start the registration early so it's ready when you are.

Guide: Registering for 10DLC: Required SMS Compliance for Campaigns

Step 6: Launch your first voter contact

Pick the channel that fits your campaign right now — you can add the others at any time:

Door-to-door canvassing — Setting Up Your First Canvass
Text messages — Getting Started with Texting in Vottiv (SMS & MMS)
Phone calls — Introduction to Phone Calls in Vottiv
Direct mail postcards — Introduction to Direct Mail Postcards in Vottiv

Step 7: Watch the results come in

Every door knocked, text sent, and call made shows up in your reports in real time, so you always know what's working.

Guide: Campaign Reports

Need help along the way?

Join our weekly Vottiv walkthrough for a live tour and Q&A.
Email support@vottiv.com — our team is here for you every step of the way.