# Questions Regarding E-Notary, RON, and Other Means to Increase Income **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginner's Questions\ **Created:** [April 4, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.notarycafe.com/t/questions-regarding-e-notary-ron-and-other-means-to-increase-income/55836 "2026-04-04T14:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickOShay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@RickOShay](https://forum.notarycafe.com/u/RickOShay)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.notarycafe.com/t/questions-regarding-e-notary-ron-and-other-means-to-increase-income/55836/1 "2026-04-04T14:47:05Z")
Hi, I have been doing traditional notary work for awhile now. It’s been going great. I still have a main job and do this on the side when I have capacity. Eventually, I would like to step back from the corporate world and transition into this more but need some advise on several points: - I thought that doing Remote Online Notary (RON) would be another method that I could generate additional work/income so started doing some research. I live in Washington state, so from what I understood, I needed to get an endorsement to my traditional notary license. I completed a form with the state and sent it in with the intention of using Notarize/Proof as the RON platform. After I mailed out the form, I realized that RON and electronic notary (E-Notary) are actually two separate things. After searching the forums here it appears that most posts are older and there isn’t much/recent information on either RON or E-notary. The form I actually completed with the state was a request for E-notary, so now I am a little confused on how to get the RON endorsement. - How does one get e-notary work? Seems like having a nice tablet and doing in person but electronic notary would be more popular than it is. Our traditional world is one heavily reliant on paper. Just seems like a natural progression in today’s world to me, yet I didn’t even know it existed until recently and I have been a notary a long time. - What about RON? As mentioned, I did search the forums, but have found the whole process super confusing. I signed up for [Notarize.com](http://Notarize.com) (aka Proof) and did all the testing, and they are waiting for me to get an electronic notary endorsement and RON endorsement, apparently that form I sent in to the state is for e-notary, so now still trying to figure out how to even apply for RON endorsement. I know each state is different. - And finally, what other means to work/income is there out there? If I ever want to transition, I will need more income to make it happen. You don’t know what you don’t know, so I’m trying to see if anyone can give a list of additional sources of work that supplement/compliment this. I have on occasion got through a notary platform a request to go take pictures of a property which I have actually done once. It wasn’t bad, but I get the impression you are walking into a lot of sketchy foreclosure situations. But I’m open to anything. Thanks for your time. ---
**Author:** ![Carmen\_Lane](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.notarycafe.com/carmen_lane/32/33378_2.png) [@Carmen\_Lane](https://forum.notarycafe.com/u/Carmen_Lane)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.notarycafe.com/t/questions-regarding-e-notary-ron-and-other-means-to-increase-income/55836/2 "2026-04-05T01:13:58Z")
> **[Resources and publications: Notaries public | Washington State Department of...](https://dol.wa.gov/professional-licenses/notaries-public/resources-and-publications-notaries-public)** Get step-by-step instructions on how to add the remote notary endorsement > **[Adobe Acrobat](https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:1c8b5145-e6e9-4235-90b9-3178bcd989d8)** > > Adobe Acrobat ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/notarycafe/original/2X/5/536ced5cfa77a57223f140e81670eb5e2685a07d.jpeg) [@system](https://forum.notarycafe.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.notarycafe.com/t/questions-regarding-e-notary-ron-and-other-means-to-increase-income/55836/3 "2026-07-04T01:14:34Z")
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.