Tycoda is free for agents — QR sign-in, SMS verification and CSV export.

Lenders fund it, not agents.

A single lender can sponsor one of your open houses to reach the people who verified at the door. That sponsorship is what pays for the product, which is why the agent side costs nothing.

Sponsorship is priced per open house, at three levels: $98 base, $398 qualified, and $998 live connect. When a lender sponsors your open house, you receive 50% of the net — the sponsorship fee after card processing.

Two things worth being plain about. Hosting alone does not pay you. Only a sponsored open house pays, and a sponsor is optional. It is also an advertising arrangement for the event, not a referral: your share is never tied to whether a visitor does business with the lender.

The whole hosting product.

• Unlimited open houses and unlimited visitors. No cap, no per-lead charge, no card on file.
• A printable QR sign-in poster and a digital flyer, generated when you create the open house.
• A one-time-passcode gate at check-in. The contact record is created only after a code texted to that number is entered back.
• A dashboard of every visitor and every open house.
• CSV export of contacts you own, at any time.
• Follow Up Boss sync, the one live CRM integration.
• An earnings view, if and when an open house of yours is sponsored.

The inconvenient parts, stated plainly.

• Web only. There is no native iOS or Android app and no offline mode. If the phone at your door has no connection, Tycoda does not work.
• One live CRM integration. Follow Up Boss is the only one shipping. Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign and Zapier exist in the codebase marked coming soon — they are not available, and we will not describe them as if they were.
• Earnings are not guaranteed. Not every open house attracts a sponsor. If none does, you keep the free product and earn nothing from that event.
• A confirmed number is not proof of identity. The one-time-passcode gate shows the number is reachable and in that person’s hand at the door. It does not prove who they are.

List prices, dated and sourced.

Free options other than Tycoda exist. Curb Hero is free for solo agents and Open House Wizard offers a free account tier. If price is your only question, either may be a good answer for you.

Every figure below is a list price taken from the vendor’s own pages on the date shown. Prices change; check the source before relying on any of them.

• Tycoda. Free for agents — no card, no fees, no tiers, unlimited open houses and unlimited visitors.
• Curb Hero. Free for solo agents — their homepage states 100% free for solo agents. Teams and brokerages: no published price, contact sales. Source: https://curbhe.ro/ — checked 2026-08-12.
• Spacio. Agent $25/month, with annual billing advertised as saving $45/year. Team $100/month for 5 agents, plus $50/month per additional 5 agents. Brokerage: no published price, demo or contact sales. Custom sign-in form branding carries a one-time $150 setup fee. 14-day trial. Source: https://spac.io/pricing/ — checked 2026-08-12.
• Open Home Pro. Free tier limited to managing 25 leads. Premium from $20/month billed annually. Source: https://openhomepro.com/ — checked 2026-08-12.
• Open House Wizard. Free account available — it does not include all features, but it does allow unlimited visitor registrations. Full version for one agent: $120/year list, or $70 per 6 months list. Text Registration Chatbot: $45/year add-on, which requires an existing paid subscription. Text and SMS features are US and Canada only. Signed PDF disclosures add-on: $99/year for individual agents. Source: https://openhousewiz.com/pricing/ — checked 2026-08-12.
• Happy Open House. Unclear from their public pricing page (checked 2026-08-12). Source: https://happyopenhouse.com/pricing/ — checked 2026-08-12.

What each vendor publishes about verification.

Most open-house tools accept whatever number is typed, or confirm a number the visitor texted from. Tycoda doesn’t create the contact at all until a code texted to that number is entered back. Text-to-register proves someone has a phone. A one-time-passcode gate proves the number in the form is the phone in their hand.

That distinction is about mechanism, not quality. We have not tested any other vendor’s product, so the notes below repeat only what each company publishes on its own pages, with the date we checked. Where a vendor publishes nothing about verification, this page says nothing about theirs.

A. Publishes the mechanism, and gates every check-in on it

We publish exactly what happens at the door, and there is no way to check in without it.

• Tycoda. We publish the mechanism: a one-time passcode texted to the number in the form, which must be entered back before the contact is created. It is the only way to check in on Tycoda — not an optional upgrade or a paid add-on — and it costs the agent nothing.

B. Publishes text-based registration

Text-based registration is published and advertised — on this vendor it is a paid add-on rather than the default.

• Open House Wizard. They publish a Text Registration Chatbot in which visitors register entirely within their text messaging app rather than a form, with no wifi or data connection required. This is text-based registration and they advertise it plainly. Source: https://openhousewiz.com/pricing/ — checked 2026-08-12.

C. Says leads are verified, but does not publish how

The claim is on their site. The method is not, as of the date shown.

• Curb Hero. Their site states that every lead is verified and that background information is automatically extracted. The verification method is not described on their public pages as of 2026-08-12. Source: https://curbhe.ro/ — checked 2026-08-12.

D. Publishes nothing about verification

Nothing about verification appears on their public pages as of the date shown. That is a statement about their website, not about their product.

• Spacio, Open Home Pro and Happy Open House. No first-party wording about verification was captured from their public pages as of 2026-08-12, so this page makes no statement about their verification in either direction.

Draw your own conclusion, but here is ours: a company that gates every check-in behind a one-time passcode has a strong reason to say so, plainly, where buyers can see it. We do. Where a vendor publishes nothing, we can’t tell you what happens at their door — and neither can you, until you ask them. It is a fair question to ask before you pick a tool: what exactly happens when a visitor types a number that isn’t theirs?

Any sign-in that accepts whatever is typed — a paper sheet, a Google Form, or a polished app — hands you a contact you may not be able to reach. That is the failure this page is about.

An independent roundup.

For a comparison written by someone other than a vendor, see the open house app roundup published by Boston Real Estate Observer — checked 2026-08-12.

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