Door Tracker and Badger Maps solve the same problem from opposite directions: one is source-available software you can own outright for $49, the other is a subscription at $58–119/rep/mo run entirely on someone else's servers.
Head to head
| Door Tracker | Badger Maps | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49 intro (1,000 licenses), then $299 — once | $58–119/rep/mo, forever |
| 10-rep team, year one | $49 flat | $6,960–$14,280 |
| Proves knock vs drive-by | Yes — duration-banded stop detection | Route history only, no dwell analysis |
| Per-rep billing | Never | Yes, scales with headcount |
| Where the data lives | Your server | Their cloud |
| Payroll export | CSV, included | Higher tier only |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Source code | MIT, on GitHub | Closed |
What Door Tracker does well
- 5-minute GPS pings — Reps' phones report location automatically in the background — no manual check-ins to forget.
- Auto stop-clustering — A haversine-distance engine groups consecutive pings into stops the moment a rep parks or lingers, with a configurable radius per team.
- Duration bands do the judging — Drive-by (<30s), likely knock (30s–5min), extended visit (>5min) — color-coded so a manager sees the shape of the day at a glance.
- Full-day route map — A connected polyline through every ping plus numbered, timestamped stop pins — click any stop for arrival, departure and duration.
What Badger Maps still does better
There's a real reason Badger Maps costs what it does: a bigger team, broader integrations and dedicated support behind it. If that ecosystem is genuinely what you need, it's worth paying for.
Which one should you pick
If your workflow depends on Badger Maps's specific integrations or you'd rather not run anything yourself, stay put — that's a legitimate call. If you're comfortable owning the tool and want to stop paying $58–119/rep/mo for a job your own hardware can do, Door Tracker pays for itself and then some: a single rep on Badger Maps costs more in two months than the entire Door Tracker license costs once, at any team size.
Try Door Tracker — $49, once
GPS pings every 5 minutes, auto-clustered stops with dwell time, so you can tell a knock from a drive-by.