How To Become a Remote Online Notary
NotaryHub Team
How do I become a RON?
Becoming an online notary offers numerous benefits that cater to the evolving needs of constituents in the digital age. People have greater expectations for speedNotary Hub and efficiency, with more everyday services moving online each day. Online notarization capabilities help you to modernize your notary practice to meet these expectations.
While traditional notary services will never go away, the ability to provide an online notarization session to constituents extends your reach for where, when, and how you can perform the notarial act.
To use the Notary Hub platform, you must satisfy the following requirements:
- Be a licensed Notary Public in your State
- Have an electronic/remote notary endorsement awarded from your Secretary of State
- Obtain a trusted Digital Document Signing Certificate
Start as a traditional notary public
First, before you can be an online notary public, you need to be a traditional notary public. If you do not already have a traditional notary public commission, that is a necessary first step. To find out what is required in order to become a notary public, find guidance for doing it in your state. This process is typically these high-level steps:
Complete an application for a license with your state
Pay the state’s filing fee
Take an approved notary course (if applies)
Pass the state’s exam and other requirements
Get your commission certificate from your state.
Notaries typically require a surety bond as part of the required steps to get a traditional notary certificate. Find local bond providers, they often can assist with other steps along the way. Notary supplies are easily found online, be sure you find a credible provider who knows the industry well and who has a proven history in the industry.
Add Remote Online Notary (RON)
Second, to answer how to become an online notary, you’ll need to acquire an add-on endorsement for RON from the state, and your state may have requirements and/or fees to complete this step. If you are becoming a notary public at the same time, this can be a simple upgrade to the process and it typically can be completed all at once with your notary certification.
You’ll also need to choose an easy-to-use, secure, and affordable remote online notarization platform to use. (Hello Notary Hub! 👋)
Digital certificate for online notary
In order to perform your notarial duties online you’ll need a digital signature, a digital stamp, along with a digital certificate and electronic journal compatible with the Remote Online Notary (RON) system you choose.
Good news is, Notary Hub makes all these available to our registered notary public users. By seamlessly integrating digital signing certificate acquisition with a trusted vendor, we've eliminated the need for you to purchase a separate IdenTrust certificate, making the whole process more convenient and user-friendly. To make finding, purchasing, and securing your notary compliant X.509 digital document signing certificate we’ve partnered with SSL so that you can easily purchase your cloud-based signing certificate at a discounted rate for the first year. We even prompt you with the option to secure your digital signing certificate during your account set up on Notary Hub — talk about turnkey. How to become an online notary? All you need is 15 minutes, a few easy clicks, and you’re not only a notary public, now you're an online notary!
When your online notary commission expires, Notary Hub will ensure that you retain access to your electronic notary journal, which gives you access to all the remote online notarizations that you've ever performed on the platform. We retain every electronic document, along with the video and audio conference data, via our secure third party vendors. If you choose to renew, we'll support that process through reminders and easy renewal of your digital certificate, which is backed by credential analysis using appropriate third party vendors.