Anybody else tired of apps? The dependence of applications to receive and accept orders and all the information throughout a signing process is counterintuitive and wasteful. I want a phone call. I want to send emails. Logging in a thousand times a day is tiresome. Apps are disruptive in the communication process and cause error. Im sick of the apps! Some days I retrieve a verification code upwards of 50 times. The lag it causes in communications is so ineffecient.
Call me on the phone or email me direct so we can negotiate, get questions and answers and resolve issues instantaneously. I think the apps should be canceled, all of them. The signing services should have to employ and pay people to make calls and do the work of communicating instead of this messy process they’ve adopted.
All day, everyday, its apps apps apps.
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The only problem with your idea is that if the signing services have to hire people to do all of the communication, the money to pay those people will have to come from somewhere, and you KNOW where that somewhere will be…out of the notary’s pocket.
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I bet not. Those employees are there earning wages anyway, pushing buttons all day. How about they push the numbers on a phone key pad instead? Apps only transfer administrative labor onto the users, like you and me. THATS where our money is spent. Time spent screwing around with our phones is money.
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I don’t entirely agree with you about the employees being there anyway. They may have some there, but they would have to hire more if they had to be on the phone all day, calling notaries.
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So, you’re saying let’s go back to the way things used to be? I get where you’re coming from, but once the “genie out of the bottle”, it’s hard to get companies to go back.
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The other thing is that from what I can tell, most schedulers work from home now and use their cell phones to communicate with notaries.. So, it’s not like the signing services have centralized offices that they go to work at each day. Maybe the larger ones still do. I don’t know if that’s good or bad but it’s pretty evident that the signing services like to go “lean and mean”, so to speak. Technology helps them do that. I don’t see it changing going forward. Everything is app driven now.
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Everything is app driven now, and its counterintuitive and counterproductive. I challenge you to count how many times a day you “verify your identity” on your phone. And how many minutes or hours are spent in between communications as opposed to seconds in dialogue. Personally, 90% of my business happens by phone and email, direct contact. But the 10% I use apps for takes up a ton of time and effort.
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Oh, that drives me absolutely crazy! There has to be an easier way than having to log in with your username and password (maybe a pin code as well) each time you respond to a blast message. Every stupid site acts like you’re logging into your bank account each time. In reality, you’re logging into a signing service site that only has value to you. Nobody is going to hack into it.
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Employees are there doing specifically what they are supposed to. If they are not schedulers they don’t do it.
Last month I worked via probably 15 different websites and apps.
They aren’t going to go back to a higher payroll that’s just the way it is. And I still get phone calls.
Don’t understand the beef.
The only thing I like better about the phone calls is that it’s easier to negotiate the fee when you’re able to actually talk to someone.
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I heard a rumor that all signing services were owned by Somalians and they worked out of one office building near the Pittsburgh airport.
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Oh, I thought they were in Minnesota.
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Hey…watch what you say about Pittsburgh!
Soon with AI you’ll be lucky to speak to a human.
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Thats already happening. 2 of the tc I work with has ai receptionist which â– â– â– â– â– when things get complicated
Apps are not a problem with me, as long I can get signings, I can deal with them easily…
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If only 10% of you business comes from Apps , Why don’t you just dump the apps and focus on the 90% .
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Well my friend, it’s not about us. Title companies streamline, they are busy and don’t have time to call you, “if” you pick up and then go through a signing and negotiate a fee when there are notaries standing in line ready to accept without the hassle of researching the package. Before the apps, we had a lot of signing services who did that work for them, the middle man who got paid pretty well…apps are cheaper, more efficient, so for the vast majority of offers, technology is here to stay.
PS…They do not negotiate a fee where I live, 20 signing agents for every closing. Certain individuals throughout the years on social media boost making a 6 figure income at this, so we are full up with ton’s of us competing. As long as they have you scan back, teacher checks your work, it’s money saved for them.
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I’m with you 
!!! Another point I like to make is we are “Mobile” , so 90% of the time we are in transit. With state laws posting along every highway and road to be hands free and alert on the roads!! Texting is easier for the companies and possibly cheaper on their manpower, but endangers our lives. And as you point out, all the damn codes to see the job details so you’re not accepting a job blindly! Call me!
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I can only wonder how many accidents have been caused by notaries on the road trying to respond to a job offer. Tell me that you can respond to an offer, read the details of that offer, and respond with a counteroffer, safely, with full attention on your driving.
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