Hi when they wanted me to take an order i found out where it was.
If it didn’t pay me enough, i told them to reassign or my fee is x ..to do this job.
That’s the only way to stay profitable. Next…if they’d always provide a pg. count–or, at least, a pg. range.
I totally agree with you. I live in an area where the town of Gardnerville stretches for miles. From my house to the end of Gardnerville can be anywhere from 30 minutes to 1+ hours away. I wish they would put the address on the offer.
Hiring parties will never disclose “details” when they put offers out there. The best is maybe finding out what it is, the zip code and city. It’s not until you accept you find out it’s a POA out in the country with a detour during rush hour, and scan backs, split package and waiting on signer. We all know this is the downfall of our business, rarely if ever changes unless your friend at the hiring company actually picks up the phone and calls you first.
You know the routine, “accept or decline”.
I never pick a job from the job board companies contact me direct from signingorder because of my experience.
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Me either, I don’t work for them, didn’t even know there was a job board, lol. I was generalizing on how most text blast work. The one great thing about experience is you only really work for your tried and true, and how they operate.
I live in a very small town of 3657 people and all of my signings are on average 20-45 mins away. I always make sure that I have an address for the signer and I always check it prior to accepting. I don’t make a lot of money, definitely not enough to make a living. I’m so thankful I don’t have to depend on it. When I started I would take low paying jobs just to get my name out. Not anymore. It’s just not worth my time. I don’t know how notaries survive when they live in rural areas. Unless your out here you just don’t know what it’s like.
I’m rural. I survive by serving six or more counties and quoting based on drive time etc. For some counties I appear to be the only person willing to go there or I charge less than others. I’m not trying to get rich. And I’m okay with how things are going.
I went to a location Tuesday in Klickitat County and the guy told me the first notary assigned was from Beaverton OR - about 2 hours away. And she called to tell him she canceled because she didn’t realize how far it was. I was shocked. If you have a dual commission in OR and WA - you better know where places are before accepting orders. But she fell into the idea she could rush to accept a job and then ask for more money after she just did an order grab with no thought about it.
I had replied to the same order blast at a fee that they called to ask about and I said it snowed up there and is below freezing at night. Schedulers in Arizona - have no idea at all. But someone in Beaverton should have an idea of what local weather is doing. And rushing to accept a job 124 miles from you for $100 and then trying to get 3 times that after the fact. Bad form. I had countered higher than that because it’s only 65 miles but it’s a mountain pass. So after she pulled out the called me. Others may have asked for more but I was okay with the fee I received.
Misleading by omitting addresses could be easily resolved if the signing service algorithm was based on actual driving mileage instead of what appears to be aerial mileage. I live between a mountain range on one side and a large body of water on the opposite side. My territorial limit of 50 miles is useless when the signing service uses aerial miles. Most of my offers are located on the other side of the mountains which is double my territorial driving limit. Responses that it is “too far away” and that I would want $999 to take the job do not work since I continue to get offers for the same job raised in $5 increments until the job is either taken or rescheduled. This is a time ■■■■ that I have no solution for since the signing services downgrade you for not responding. I would welcome any suggestions from the community for a resolution to this problem.
Platforms just do what they do. There isn’t any resolution. I don’t see five dollar increments though not sure what that’s about.
If I can Google to get accurate driving distance, so can the platforms. It’s a no-brainer as far as I’m concerned. As for the $5 increments, I was just responding to one of them at the same time I was writing my reply, they started at $50 for a nearly 5 hour round trip job. There are more than a couple of signing services that do it in my location, but certainly not all.
Agree–Platforms do what they do, but it would sure be appreciated if they’d show some cooperation and consideration towards the ‘boots on the ground’ notaries. I average maybe 1 ‘doable’ offer for every 30 ridiculous-for-one-reason-or-another offer. (Usually, the ridiculous 29 are many, many miles & hours distant. And most don’t take a solid, blunt ‘NO’…they just keep repeating the offers.) Very discourteous conduct that wastes enormous amounts of everyone’s time.
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Amen! I have the same problem which could be easily solved if the platforms gave accurate driving distances and an extra category to check off the equivalent of “take me out of this loop”.
By “downgrade you for not responding,” do you mean if you don’t give a response at all to a text blast? Who the hell has time to respond to every text blast for jobs you aren’t interested in? Especially if you’re driving. Sometimes I think they don’t really care if we get ourselves killed out there as long as we’re responsive to “them”.
Well said if one person said something positive about the companies that hire us, it would snow in Arizonia.
It does snow in some places in Arizona 
I find it annoying that an industry where you have to rely on services to get work complains non stop about the services that give them work.
Unfortunately, the signing services don’t have the technology to personalize all offers that are blasted out there. We usually enter an allowable mile radius when we sign up with the platform but they don’t seem to always pay attention to that, any more than they pay attention to the rates that we require for various document types. Their approach is more of a “throw it up on the wall and see what sticks”. Once you conceptually accept that philosophy you take it with a grain of salt when they post a job 50 miles away for $50. There’s no rule that says you have to apply for it.
Snapdocs shows a response rating on your profile. If you don’t respond to an offer it lowers your response rating. You don’t have to respond right then, you can do it later. It seems silly to me to have that, because every offer isn’t deserving of a response.
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That would explain why I hardly ever hear from SnapDocs anymore. “Good things come in small packages.” 
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