Notarisations are short, often needed today, and completely wasted if the signer turns up with the wrong document. Your page takes the booking at the hours you actually work, asks what they are signing and what identification they hold, and confirms it with the list attached.
Blu NotaryBook online
Jurat20m · an hour’s notice$25.00
Loan signing60m · the office$150.00
By arrangementEvening · agreed addressBook
Next free1:00 PM6:00 PM7:30 PM
Booked at 08:15
For 13:00
An hour’s notice on a short service
Fee
$25.00
Paid at booking, not at the table
Confirmation
Emailed at once
With the time and the address on it
Every one of these decides whether the appointment can succeed before anybody leaves for it.
Set a service to be bookable an hour ahead and a longer one to need a day. Somebody who needs a document notarised this afternoon can book this afternoon, instead of leaving a message.
A notarisation with the wrong document is not a late appointment, it is a void one. On the paid plans you ask what they are signing, how many signers there are and which identification each of them holds, before the slot is taken.
Charge the fee at the moment of booking through a payment provider you connect. Nobody arrives without cash, nobody is invoiced for twenty minutes, and an appointment that has been paid for is one people keep.
A confirmation on booking and a reminder before the appointment, each with the address or the meeting point and what to bring. The reminder is the second time they read the list, which is usually the time it registers.
Notary work happens in more than one place: a desk you keep, a room you share, or somewhere agreed with the signer. Set each as its own location with its own opening hours and its own booking page, so an appointment offered on a Tuesday evening is one you are actually somewhere for, and the address on the confirmation is the address the signer should go to. Everything across all of them shows in a single calendar, which is the only place you need the whole week at once.
A signer who works nine to five cannot come to a notary who works nine to five, which is why so much of this work happens at seven in the evening and on Saturday mornings. Publish exactly the hours you are willing to work (and only those) and they become the hours that fill. If notary work sits alongside another job, your bookable hours can be the four evenings and one weekend morning you actually have, with the rest of the week invisible on the page.
Twenty past one. The signer is at the table with the document, a pen and a photocopy of a passport. The original is at home, forty minutes away, and the deadline they needed this for is tomorrow morning. The appointment was arranged by text message the night before, and nothing in it said what to bring.
You cannot notarise it and they cannot fix it in the twenty minutes that were booked. On the paid plans Picktime asks which identification each signer holds at the moment the appointment is booked, and puts the answer on the confirmation and on the reminder, so the thing that makes the appointment valid arrives with the person.
An acknowledgement, a jurat, a loan signing, a set of copies certified, each with the time it takes, the fee, and how much notice it needs, so a short one can be booked an hour ahead.
Add the booking fields that decide whether the appointment is valid: what is being signed, how many signers, which identification each of them holds, and whether anything has a deadline on it.
Set your bookable hours to the evenings and weekend mornings you actually keep, and add each place you work as its own location with its own hours and its own address.
The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.
An appointment lands in the calendar you already have open, and the paid plans sync it both ways, so an evening you have committed elsewhere is never offered. A Book Now button goes on your own site and on a Google Business profile, which is where most people looking for a notary nearby actually start.
Picktime runs in a phone browser as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, which matters more here than almost anywhere, because a notary is rarely at a desk when the next booking arrives.
Yes. Picktime’s free plan covers a booking page showing only the hours you work, a fee taken through PayPal at booking, self-service booking and cancelling, and email notifications, with no card and no end date.
Yes. Notice is set per service, so a short notarisation can be bookable an hour ahead while a loan signing needs a day. Most notary work is short notice and the page should let it be.
Yes, and it is the single most useful thing on the form. You write the booking fields yourself, so the page can ask what is being signed, how many signers there are and which identification each of them holds.
Yes. Charge the fee, a percentage or a fixed amount at the moment of booking through a payment provider you connect, so nobody arrives without a way to pay for twenty minutes of work.
Yes. Only the hours you open appear on the booking page, so if notary work sits alongside another job you can publish four evenings and a Saturday morning and nothing else.
Yes, on the paid plans. Each place you work has its own opening hours, its own address and its own booking page, and everything across them shows in one calendar.
No. Picktime schedules the appointments and shows you the day; it does not plan journeys between them or add travel time. If routing is central to how you work, that is worth knowing before you start.
Four different things go by that name and most notaries end up running two or three of them. A journal app records the notarisations you perform, and your commissioning state may have something to say about how. A signing service or marketplace is where loan signings arrive from. A remote online notarisation platform runs the session itself. Picktime is the fourth, the diary that decides when any of the rest happens, and the only one of the four we make.
Most solo notaries do not need one, because a client list attached to the bookings covers what a CRM would be doing. Picktime keeps a record per signer with what they booked and what they answered on the form, on every plan including the free one, and contacts import and export so nothing is trapped in it. A CRM starts to earn its keep when you are chasing title companies and signing services for repeat work, and that is a sales pipeline rather than a diary.
Not this one. Remote online notarisation needs identity proofing, a recorded session and a digital seal, all of it governed by the state that commissioned you, and Picktime does none of those things. What it does alongside such a platform is the booking: the appointment, the fee taken up front and the questions asked before anybody joins. Where the call itself is the appointment, a joining link can be generated with the booking, and Jitsi Meet is the video connection that works on the free plan.
It has the shape of one: the hours are yours and the work arrives in short blocks. We are not going to put a figure on what it pays, because that moves with your state, its fee schedule and how far you will drive. The part people underestimate is the scheduling, since signings cluster at the end of the day and the end of the month, and publishing four evenings and a Saturday morning rather than open availability is what keeps it a side job instead of a second one.
Consultations A paid consultation that is approved before it is confirmed.
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Applications An appointment that is wasted without payslips, and a rate that expires.
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Inspections Booked by an agent, paid for by the buyer, and sized by the property.
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