Search for a Follow Up Boss open house app and you hit a surprising answer: Follow Up Boss does not make one. FUB is a follow-up CRM, and it is very good at everything that happens after a lead exists. It has nothing that sits on a tablet by the front door and asks a stranger for their name.
That gap is not a secret. Follow Up Boss keeps an Open House category in its own partner directory, listing sign-in apps like Curb Hero and Spacio. A CRM does not build a partner category for a job it already does itself.
OpenHouse is built for that job. It captures and qualifies visitors at the door, runs with no signal, and sends every lead into Follow Up Boss on its own, tagged with the property address.
What Follow Up Boss does, and what it leaves to you
Follow Up Boss is a real estate CRM built around speed to lead. Calls, texts, and emails land in one inbox. Lead flow rules route new contacts to the right agent. Action plans run drip sequences without you touching them. Smart lists keep Monday morning organized. Agents pay $69 per user per month on the Grow plan, or $58 billed annually, and most of them are happy about it.
All of that starts the moment a contact exists in the database. Getting the contact there is your problem.
At an open house, that problem is physical. Someone walks in holding a coffee and a toddler. You have a few seconds to get a name, an email, a phone number, and enough context to know whether this person matters, before they wander toward the kitchen. Follow Up Boss has no screen for that moment. No kiosk mode, no sign-in form, no QR code for the sign rider, and no path at all for a vacant listing with one bar of LTE.
So FUB left it to partners. Worth knowing before you pick one: Spacio is still listed in that directory and its iOS app was pulled from the App Store in January 2026.
How OpenHouse gets leads into Follow Up Boss
You connect once. In Follow Up Boss, go to Admin, then API, then Create API Key, and name it OpenHouse. Copy the key, because FUB shows it exactly once. Paste it into the Connections page in your OpenHouse dashboard, which verifies it live and shows you which account is attached. The step-by-step guide to connecting OpenHouse and Follow Up Boss walks through it with the field mapping.
After that, every sign-in posts straight to the Follow Up Boss events endpoint, which FUB's own developer docs call "the only correct option to send leads and their activity to Follow Up Boss." Using that endpoint instead of writing contacts directly is what makes the handoff behave like a real lead source rather than an import. Here is what you get because of it.
- Your lead flow rules run. The visitor routes to the right agent on your team, the same way a portal lead does.
- FUB dedupes for you. Per the same docs, Follow Up Boss "will automatically de-duplicate people based on their phone number or email address." The neighbor who signs in at three of your listings stays one contact with three visits, not three contacts.
- Your action plans fire. Each sign-in arrives typed as a Visited Open House event, so the sequence you already wrote starts on its own.
- The address rides along. Every lead carries the property street address, so six weeks later you still know which Sunday afternoon produced it.
The qualification answers come with the lead
A name and an email is a weak lead. OpenHouse asks the short qualifying questions at sign-in and writes the answers back as tags on the FUB contact: Open House, the visitor type, their buying timeframe, their financing status, whether they already have an agent, and whether their contact info was verified. The timeline note spells it out in plain English, including interest level and whether they have a home to sell.
That turns into a smart list. Everyone who toured on Sunday, is not represented, and wants to buy within three months is a filter, not a memory exercise.
Represented buyers do not trigger your drip
Here is something no CSV import can do for you. When a visitor says they are already working with an agent, OpenHouse holds that lead back from Follow Up Boss by default. The lead still lands in your OpenHouse list and your export, so you keep the record and the seller report is complete. It just never fires an action plan at another agent's client.
You can switch that off in Lead handling if you would rather push every visitor through. The point is that it defaults to the polite behavior instead of the noisy one.
The parts that happen before FUB ever sees the lead
Follow Up Boss cannot help you at the door. These are the pieces that decide whether a lead exists at all.
It runs with no signal. The iPad and iPhone kiosk is fully offline. Sign-in, qualification, and every lead write happen on the device with zero network calls. Vacant listings are connectivity dead zones, and a spinner between a visitor and the form is a lost lead. When the device reconnects, queued leads sync and then push into Follow Up Boss. Sign-ins on the browser app or by QR reach FUB within seconds instead.
Visitors can use their own phones. Display a QR code for the listing, the visitor scans it, and the form opens in their phone browser. No download for them, no kiosk device for you, and no line at the table when four groups arrive at once.
The form is one screen. Single-screen sign-in is deliberate. A multi-step wizard is where sign-ins go to be abandoned, and an abandoned sign-in is a lead Follow Up Boss never receives.
Disclosure gets captured with the signature. Since the NAR settlement changed how buyer representation is handled, open house disclosure stopped being optional paperwork. OpenHouse captures a timestamped non-agency disclosure as part of sign-in, so the record exists without you giving a speech at the door.
What it costs next to the CRM it feeds
OpenHouse is $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year per seat, and the first month is free. Against a $69 Follow Up Boss seat, the capture front end runs about a seventh of the CRM it feeds. Teams and brokerages buy per seat with cloud sync and a team leaderboard on top.
If you ever stop paying, OpenHouse drops into a read-only mode. Every lead you captured stays viewable and exportable in every format, forever. Leads are not held hostage, your data is never sold, and the CSV is always right there if you would rather move something by hand.
Next steps
Follow Up Boss is the right place for your open house leads to live. It is just not the thing that collects them. Connect the two once, run your next open house, and the sign-ins will be sitting in FUB with your action plans already running before you pull out of the driveway.
Start free at app.openhousekiosk.com, or read how open house follow-up should look once the leads land.
Frequently asked questions
Does Follow Up Boss have an open house app?
No. Follow Up Boss is a follow-up CRM, not a capture tool, and it ships no open house sign-in app of its own. That is why FUB keeps an Open House category in its own partner directory, listing sign-in apps like Curb Hero and Spacio. A CRM does not create a partner category for a job it already does. OpenHouse is the door-capture front end that fills the gap.
How do open house leads get into Follow Up Boss?
Automatically. You paste your Follow Up Boss API key into OpenHouse once, and every sign-in after that posts to FUB as a Visited Open House event carrying the property address. Your lead flow rules route it, FUB dedupes it against existing contacts by email or phone, and your action plans fire on their own. No CSV, no import step, no copy and paste.
Is the open house app free?
The first month is free, then OpenHouse is $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year per seat. That is roughly a seventh of what one Follow Up Boss Grow seat costs. If you cancel, OpenHouse switches to a read-only mode where every lead you captured stays viewable and exportable.
Does it work offline?
The iPad and iPhone kiosk does, fully. Sign-in, qualification, and lead capture all run on the device with no network, which matters at a vacant listing with no Wi-Fi. When the device reconnects, the queued leads sync and then push into Follow Up Boss. The browser app and QR self-sign-in need a connection because they deliver in real time.
Can visitors sign in on their own phones?
Yes. Print or display a QR code for the listing, the visitor scans it, and the sign-in form opens in their own phone browser. Nothing to download for them, no kiosk device needed for you, and the lead still lands in Follow Up Boss within seconds.
What happens to visitors who already have an agent?
By default OpenHouse holds them back from Follow Up Boss so your action plans never fire at another agent's client. The lead still appears in your OpenHouse list and your CSV, so you keep the record. You can turn that behavior off in Lead handling if you would rather send every visitor through.