A offer was blasted this morning for small town middle of nowhere Texas for $20.00.,on a Saturday at 7:30 am. This is ridiculous. $20.00 doesn’t even cover the printing. I rejected. I wish there were a site that we could do reviews and critics of the signing companies with out the threat of Black Lists. Something like Survey Monkey where the information would be sent back to the signing company for them to review. So many companies are not from the area you work and have no Idea (and they should) what it takes to do a signing rural or otherwise. Luckily I have a husband that loves numbers and set up a spreadsheet that I can go in and calculate easily my fee needed to make a certain amt per hour. We adjust it yearly to reflect overall costs. But so many notaries I see on here do not know what they are worth or are new and keep accepting these ridiculous offers. All that to say, Signing Companies, DO BETTER. Notaries, know your worth and don’t accept the lowball offers.
Rant over thank you for listening.
@notary.farley You’re Absolutely Spot-On with your astute assessment. 
This is the reason I often express that Professional Signing Agents [PSAs] should create a Schedule of Fees (or a calculating spreadsheet like yours).
For any Notary Cafe members who haven’t yet been able to create a Schedule of Fees for the professional services you provide, please reference this thread (see direct Notary Cafe url below) as it will Guide you through the process.
I’m rural also and counter offer just about everything. It works out for me.
Rural or not, when offers are made thru any platform, you ALWAYS counter with a fee that provides all expenses PLUS PROFIT.
Well yeah of course.
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I live in a major metro area. I get blast requests to the tune of several per day, for signings way ot of town. Typically for towns 3 or more hours away. I think many assigning companies dont check location and just blast to the state.
I agree 100%. But services I was able to sign up for don’t even have a “counter offer” option…
I had to look for the counter offer function for Jot. It is there. Timios accepts no counter when issued from their website. I’m not sure which services do not allow a counter offer? There are services that request a fees page and won’t accept you unless you’re at their required $90 per per order - I think it’s Bankserv but I still counteroffer most of theirs. Which may be why I don’t see very many from them.
What services did you sign up for that don’t allow a counter - that makes me curious.
I have created a fee schedule but I will recalculate milage according to Fed guidelines. Thanks for the update.
Not sure why you’re re-calculating mileage to Fed guidelines…which are generic and aimed at people who are getting wages for time spent driving. You aren’t paid for your time spent driving UNLESS you figure that into your fees. Hope that made sense.
@snyderamy09 Curious . . . Is this something your Certified Public Accountant [CPA]/Tax Accountant has advised you to perform?
@snyderamy09 those “Federal guidelines” you mention are for exemptions on your SE Tax Return. What you charge for mileage is entirely up to you providing your state laws allow you to set a reasonable mileage rate.