What is ActaVia?
ActaVia is a marketplace for mobile notary support. Notaries and signing businesses post opportunities, witnesses respond, and both sides handle selection, messaging, completion and payment in one place.
How is ActaVia different from a witness directory?
A directory helps you find a name and a phone number, and then you handle everything else yourself. On ActaVia you post the opportunity, review who responds, choose who you want, coordinate in the app, confirm completion and pay through the platform.
Who can use ActaVia?
Mobile notaries, people who want to work as signing witnesses, and businesses such as signing services. Each account has one role.
Are notaries and witnesses ActaVia employees?
No. ActaVia is a marketplace, not an employer. Notaries and witnesses on ActaVia are independent professionals: they choose which opportunities to respond to and when they're available, and posters choose who they work with.
Do I have to be a notary to be a witness?
No. Witnesses don't need a notary commission. They verify their identity with Stripe before taking or bidding on an opportunity. Notaries can also take witness opportunities.
Can witnesses post opportunities?
No. Posting is limited to notaries with an approved license for the state of the signing, and to standard business and signing-service accounts. Witnesses browse and respond to opportunities.
Does ActaVia guarantee opportunities?
No. ActaVia is a marketplace. Opportunities depend on what notaries and businesses post in your area, and we can't guarantee opportunities or earnings.
How do witnesses get paid?
Through ActaVia, with Stripe. The poster pays the compensation when they post. When the work is done you mark it complete and the poster confirms it. Payment is released within 5 business days after the poster confirms the opportunity is complete, unless the opportunity is under review or an account needs attention. Deposit timing after that depends on your bank. You set up Stripe payouts before posters can select you.
What does it cost to join?
Joining is free. Witnesses pay no fees on their work and receive 100% of the agreed compensation; an optional Witness Pro plan adds extra tools, but you never need it to work. Posters pay a posting fee plus a service fee on top of the compensation. Notary plans lower or remove the posting fee depending on the plan, business plans remove it, and your first plan starts with a free trial. See current amounts on the fee schedule.
Where is ActaVia launching?
We're building the first ActaVia marketplace network in Florida — Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and surrounding areas. Notaries and witnesses elsewhere can join now as ActaVia expands.
How are users verified?
Every user who transacts verifies their identity with Stripe Identity (a government ID and a selfie): witnesses before taking or bidding on an opportunity, notaries before submitting their first state license, and businesses before posting. Notaries also upload their state license with proof of commission and E&O insurance, reviewed and approved by the ActaVia team. ActaVia does not run background checks.
Do I need an app?
No. You can use ActaVia on the web at getactavia.com today. iPhone users can also join our pilot app through Apple TestFlight, and the Android app is coming soon. Join the iPhone pilot (TestFlight).
What kinds of opportunities can be posted?
Signing-support opportunities: in-person witnesses for a notary signing, and notary signings posted by businesses that need a commissioned notary. Each post includes the date, time, location and compensation.