Turnout Board is a one-tap availability board for volunteer fire departments. Members tap a link on their home screen. Officers open one page and see who's in town. Nothing to install, and nobody has a password to forget.
$29 a month for the whole department. Cancel any time.
A real board. Cedar Hollow is a sample department — the names are invented.
How it works
Most departments are set up in an evening. The hard part is already done — your members already know how to tap a button on their phone.
Everyone gets one personal link. They open it once and save it to their home screen. No account, no password, no app store.
Two icons sit on their home screen: I'm Available and I'm Away. One tap sets their status. That is the entire app for a firefighter.
Officers open one page and see who's marked available right now — counted, sorted by rank, updating every thirty seconds.
On the board
Every feature here exists because a volunteer wouldn't have used the board without it.
Going out of town? Set the dates before you leave. The board shows you away and puts you back automatically when you return.
Second shift, night class, a standing meeting. Enter recurring hours once and the board stops counting you during them.
Someone who never taps is presumed available, not blanked out. A board full of question marks is a board nobody trusts.
Pricing
Per department, not per member.
Pay by card or bank account (ACH). Nothing charged for 30 days.
Volunteer departments run on chicken dinners and grant money. Per-seat pricing punishes you for recruiting, and nobody should have to think about the bill before adding a new firefighter to the roster.
Twenty-eight members or two hundred and eighty, it's $29. If your department genuinely can't carry that, write to us — we'd rather your board be up.
Questions
It keeps working. We'll email you, and we'll put a notice on the pages only your officers see, but your board does not go dark over a billing problem.
A card that expired three weeks ago is between us and you — it is not a reason to take the board away from your department.
No. Each member gets a link. They open it once and save it to their home screen, where it looks and behaves like an app — but there's no app store, no download, and no update to chase.
No. The link itself is the login, which is the whole reason people actually use this. A password nobody remembers is a board nobody updates.
Any officer can re-send it from the roster page in a few seconds. Links can also be reissued, which retires the old one.
Your board is reachable only through its link. Links are long and unguessable, they aren't listed anywhere, and we ask search engines not to index them. It is a page for your department, not a public directory.
That's the point of the 30 days. Put your actual members on it and run it through a month of real duty nights — a board you tested with fake names tells you nothing. If it is not earning its keep, cancel and you're not charged.
Keep it. Scheduling software answers "who is on the schedule next Tuesday." This answers "who is around right now," which for a volunteer department is a different question with a different answer.
No. Turnout Board tells you who has marked themselves available — it is the planning picture, not the alarm. Your paging and dispatch systems are how you alert people and respond, and nothing here replaces them or your officers' judgment.
Set your department up tonight. Thirty days free, then $29 a month.
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