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Free open house sign-in sheet: four printable templates

Four printable open house sign-in sheets — Classic, Privacy-forward, Luxury/broker open, and Rental — each as a print-ready PDF and an editable Word document. No email gate, no watermark, no catch. Pick the style that fits the listing, print a stack, and spend the open house talking to buyers instead of managing a clipboard.

Skip the clipboard entirely

Print a QR code instead. Visitors sign in on their own phones, the list builds itself while you talk to people, and you export it to CSV afterwards. Free, unlimited, and no card — you just need an account.

Create your free QR sheetTakes about a minute · nothing to fill in but your email

Pick your sign-in sheet style

The all-rounder
Classic

Name, email, phone, agent status, marketing source, and a consent checkbox. The sheet most agents want most weekends — full lead capture without feeling like a mortgage application.

Best for: Standard weekend open houses where lead capture is the point.

Minimal fields
Privacy-forward

Name, one optional contact field, agent status, and an explicit opt-in checkbox. For neighborhoods and sellers where a long form by the door reads as intrusive — you'll get fewer contacts, but every one of them is genuinely warm.

Best for: Privacy-conscious markets, occupied homes, sellers who asked for a light touch.

Adds brokerage + price range
Luxury / broker open

Adds brokerage/company and a price-range-of-interest column, plus represented-buyer status. Built for broker opens and high-end listings where who walked through matters as much as how many.

Best for: Broker opens, luxury listings, and events where agents are the audience.

Adds move-in timeline
Rental open house

Swaps the marketing-source column for desired move-in date and household size — the two answers that actually qualify a renter on the spot.

Best for: Rental and leasing open houses, multi-unit showings.

Prefer to design your own in Canva or Google Docs? Start from the Word file — every layout here is a plain table (header row, thirteen sign-in rows, a consent line), so rebuilding one with your brokerage's branding takes minutes. Keep the consent line; it's the part that makes the follow-up list usable.

Every format: PDF, Word, Google Docs, print at home

Each of the four styles comes as two files. Both are free, neither is watermarked, and neither asks for an email address.

Open house sign-in sheet PDF

Print-ready and fixed — what you want if you are printing a stack on Friday night and nothing needs to change. US Letter, landscape, thirteen sign-in rows, black and white so it costs nothing on a home printer.

Download the PDF ↓

Editable Word (.docx) template

The same sheet as an editable table — add your brokerage, your logo, your licence line, or change the columns. This is the file to start from if your broker requires specific wording on anything a visitor signs.

Download the Word file ↓

Google Docs, Pages and Canva

There is no separate file to download. Open the .docx in Google Docs or Pages and it converts cleanly, because every layout here is a plain table rather than a design file. For Canva, rebuild from the Word version — it takes a few minutes and you keep your brand kit.

Printable, straight from this page

You do not have to download anything. Print directly from here and the page strips its own navigation, leaving just the sheet. Print two more than you think you need — sheets fill up faster than agents expect on a busy Saturday.

What to include on an open house sign-in sheet (and what to skip)

A sign-in sheet is doing three jobs at once: capturing leads, creating a security record of who entered the home, and giving the seller evidence the event happened. Four fields do almost all of that work. Name anchors the record. One working contact field — email or phone — is the whole point of lead capture; requiring both costs completion without adding much. “Are you working with an agent?” is the qualifying question: an unrepresented visitor is your lead, a represented one still belongs in the seller's activity report. And a consent line or checkbox turns scribbles into a list you can actually contact — a visitor who checked “OK to contact” is a welcome call, and keeping consent on the sheet itself (not in your memory) keeps your outreach on the right side of contact-consent rules.

What to skip: home addresses (intrusive, rarely used), “how's your credit?”-style qualifying questions (a sign-in sheet is not an application), and more than one nice-to-have column. Every field you add is a reason for a visitor to write less. The marketing-source column (“How did you hear about this open house?”) earns its spot only if you'll actually tally it; if you won't, use the Privacy-forward style and enjoy the higher completion rate.

One Washington-specific note: agency-disclosure rules govern how and when you explain who you represent, and a broker open or a visitor working with another agent can raise those questions at the door. The sheet's represented-buyer column helps you track it, but the conversation is yours to have — follow your brokerage's current disclosure guidance rather than treating any template as legal advice.

Paper sign-in sheet vs. QR sign-in: the honest comparison

 Paper templateQR digital sign-in
Works with no phoneYes — pen and paper, always. This is paper's honest win.No. A dead battery or a visitor who won't scan means a missed entry.
Legibility & completenessWhatever the handwriting gives you; fields get skipped.Required fields — every entry arrives with a name and a working contact.
After the open houseSomeone types the page into a CRM (or doesn't).Nothing to transcribe; entries are already in your live list.
DuplicatesStack up.Merge automatically.
Feedback for the sellerOnly if you add a column and people fill it.Star ratings and comments built into the form.
CostFree (these templates).Free with every open house hosted on ShowingMarket.

The setup that loses the fewest leads is both: a printed QR sign-in page on an easel with a paper sheet underneath as the dead-phone fallback. The full argument is in paper vs. QR — and if you host open houses for other agents, the hosting itself pays.

Printing and setup tips

The PDFs are US Letter, landscape, thirteen sign-in rows to a page — print three or four pages for a typical two-hour open house and staple them to one clipboard so nothing wanders. Landscape matters: it gives the email column enough width that addresses stay on one line and stay legible. If you use the Word version, keep the row height generous when you edit — cramped rows are how phone numbers lose digits. And bring a backup pen taped to the clipboard; the loose one always walks away with a visitor. Hosting on ShowingMarket? Print the QR display page too and let the paper sheet be the fallback rather than the primary.

Getting people to actually sign in

A few practice notes from agents who host every weekend: put the sheet on a table by the entrance with two pens (one always walks away); greet and point — a visitor who is greeted signs, a visitor who slips past a clipboard doesn't; frame it as a courtesy to the homeowner (“the seller asks that everyone signs in”) and compliance goes way up; and transcribe the page into your CRM the same evening, while “the couple asking about the school district” still means something to you. If the open house is one you're hosting for another agent as paid work, log your buyer feedback promptly — it's what the listing side is paying for. More on that in how it works.

Sign-in sheet template questions

Are these open house sign-in sheet templates really free?+

Yes — every style downloads directly as a PDF or an editable Word document with no email signup, no watermark, and no account. Print them, edit them, brand them with your own logo.

Which sign-in sheet template should I use?+

Classic for a standard weekend open house, Privacy-forward when a long form would put visitors off or the seller asked for a light touch, Luxury/broker open when brokerage and price-range interest matter, and Rental when move-in timeline is the qualifying question.

Can I edit the templates in Word or Canva?+

Yes. Each style has an editable .docx download that opens in Word, Google Docs, or Pages — swap in your name, brokerage, and branding. The layouts are simple tables, so rebuilding one in Canva takes a few minutes if you prefer designing there.

What should an open house sign-in sheet include?+

Name, at least one contact field, whether the visitor is working with an agent, and a consent line or checkbox for follow-up. Beyond that, add only what you'll act on — every extra column costs completion rate.

Do visitors have to sign in at an open house?+

You can't force it, but you can make it the norm: greet every visitor, gesture to the sheet, and say the seller asks that everyone signs in. Framed as a security courtesy to the homeowner, nearly everyone does.

Is there a digital version of this sign-in sheet?+

Yes — a free QR sign-in: visitors scan a code and sign in on their own phone, entries arrive legible and complete in a live list, and there's nothing to type up afterward. Creating a QR sheet needs a free ShowingMarket account, because the sheet is tied to a specific open house; the printable templates on this page need no account at all. The two pair well, with paper as the backup.

What do you do with the sign-in sheet after the open house?+

Three things, ideally the same evening. Give the seller the visitor count and any feedback — that is the report they are waiting for. Type the contacts who ticked the consent box into wherever you keep your follow-ups, while you still remember faces. Then keep the sheet itself: it is your record of who entered the home, which matters if anything is ever questioned. Follow-up sent within 24 hours reads as attentive; the same message on Wednesday reads as a mailing list.

Is an open house sign-in sheet legally required?+

There is no general legal requirement to run one, and no visitor can be compelled to sign. What varies is what your brokerage requires and what your state's agency-disclosure and contact-consent rules expect once you do collect details — which is why the consent line stays on every template here. Treat these as practical templates, not legal advice, and follow your brokerage's current guidance on disclosure and follow-up.

When you're tired of typing up handwriting

The digital version of these sheets is a QR code by the door — required fields, a live attendance list, nothing to transcribe. Free with every open house hosted on ShowingMarket.