DArnTech / Bookings / for mobile notaries
Booking for the mobile notary who's tired of texting back-and-forth on every signing.
$19/month for solo notaries, $39 for notaries + assistants. Travel-fee auto-calc, ID-verification log, hospital and nursing-home whitelist, NNA compliance fields. Beats NotaryAssist on focus, on your subdomain.
Who this is for
- Freelance notaries doing 15–50 signings/month · currently using Square Appointments, paper, or NotaryAssist
- Signing agents running loan-signing work primarily · refinance cycles, real-estate-closing referrals
- Hospital/nursing-home circuit notaries with recurring facility visits
Honest ARPU caveat: $19/month is our floor pricing — held against thesis premium-undercut discipline. If your notary work is genuinely side-hustle volume ($100-300/month gross), no booking tool will pencil — and that's an honest answer. The product fits 15+ signings/month operators.
Features built for the mobile-notary shape
Travel-fee auto-calculation
Distance-from-base auto-adds to fee. No more "how far is that" mental math when booking. Customer sees total upfront.
Job-type categorization
Loan signing, estate signing, medical-paperwork notarization, single-document — different shapes, different prices, picklist booking.
Hospital/nursing-home whitelist
Save recurring facility locations (Methodist · St. Vincent · IU Health · Riverview · Westview · etc.) as quick-pick destinations. No re-typing addresses.
ID-verification log per signing
Capture ID type, ID number, expiration as part of booking record. Your notary journal entries (legally significant) auto-populated.
NNA compliance reminders
Background check expiration, errors-and-omissions insurance renewal, commission renewal — surfaced as dashboard reminders.
Service-area radius (with travel-fee curve)
First 15 miles free, 16-30 miles +$25, 30+ miles +$50. Configurable tiers. Outside-max-radius requests refused.
Honest comparison
| Tool | Monthly | Honest take |
|---|---|---|
| DArnTech Bookings | $19 (solo) · $39 (notary + assistant) | Notary-vertical shape, self-hosted, focused on what matters. |
| NotaryAssist | $15–30 | Notary-vertical-specific. Matches us on price, less polished UI. |
| Notary Gadget | $13–30 | Tablet-based mobile notary tool. iPad-first workflow. |
| Square Appointments + paper journal | $0–69 | Most common DIY combo. No travel-fee calc, no ID-log integration, no facility whitelist. |
This vertical is queued · ARPU validation gate
Mobile notaries are Vertical 10 in the DArnTech Bookings roadmap. Honest cycle-41 finding: ARPU validation needed before committing build effort — if first 3 conversations reject $19/month, the vertical shifts back. Estimated launch ~6-8 months out. Reach out anyway — early conversations calibrate fit. Email d.arney@darrenarney.com.