As a notary, you want to find the best ways to grow your business and increase your customer base. Have you considered untethering yourself from your cramped office and bringing your services directly to your clients? Take a few minutes to explore the advantages and you will soon be accepting your first remote customer payment.
The advantages of launching your mobile notary business.
There are several good reasons to take your notary services directly to your customers. These include the following.
- Offer more convenience and flexibility to your customers. People don’t just need notaries during regular business hours. Moreover, some clients’ situations prevent them from easily getting to your office. When you bring your business to them, you can personalize your offerings to meet your client’s specific needs.
- Customers can gather all of the required parties in one place and then simply schedule your services. This eliminates many of the frustrations that occur when trying to get several parties to travel to a notary’s office at a specific time.
- You can still offer economical prices while providing added convenience to your customers. Clients are often more than willing to cover your travel costs in exchange for time savings.
- When you visit your customer in their environment, you are in an optimal position to authenticate and verify all necessary documents, thereby helping to reduce any chances of fraud.
Now that you have gotten a sense of the advantages that come with taking your notary business on the road, you probably have just one more question: How do you go about accepting customer payments away from the fixed credit card terminal in your office?
Wireless technology to the rescue.
iPhones and Androids are everywhere and that includes occupying an increasingly large space in the payments ecosystem. Like so many businesses of all sizes are already doing, you can use your smartphone as a card reader. To make that happen, all you need is software and free or inexpensive mobile card readers from your payment services provider. Then it’s just a simple matter of connecting your phone to your reader with a dongle and ensuring that your systems are configured to process mobile payments.
Setting your notary business free from the confines of the office just might give you the competitive edge you need to rise above the many other similar services in your area. Best of all, you’ll never have to worry that the security of your customers’ payment information has been compromised. That’s because modern mobile card readers integrate seamlessly with the secure, PCI-compliant systems you already rely on to protect the integrity of your clients’ personal information and payment details. As a notary, your reputation and customer service are two of your greatest hallmarks. Incorporating mobile payments into your offerings will help to ensure that your mobile business succeeds beyond even your greatest expectations.
