What BlueNotary is — and does well
BlueNotary is an online notary marketplace built around remote online notarization. You upload a document, hop on a video call with a commissioned notary public, prove your identity, sign on screen, and walk away with a notarized PDF — usually in minutes, at a low flat rate per session. For a lot of everyday paperwork — a permission slip, an affidavit, a power of attorney you'll hand to someone else — that is genuinely all you need, and a marketplace like BlueNotary, OneNotary, or NotaryCam is a fast, inexpensive way to get it. We're not here to talk you out of a $25 notarization when a $25 notarization is the whole task.
Where an online-notary marketplace stops
The catch shows up when the notarized document has somewhere to go. In real estate, a stamp is rarely the finish line — it's the middle. A notary marketplace hands you the PDF and the job is over on their end. Whatever comes next is on you:
- They don't record it. A notarized memorandum still has to be filed in the county real property records to give constructive notice. That means county formatting rules, fees, and either e-recording or the mail-and-wait paper rail. None of that is in a notary marketplace's scope.
- They don't notify the owner. Best practice on a memorandum of contract is to certified-mail a copy to the owner of record and keep proof. A marketplace notarizes; it does not mail notice or record a sworn certificate of mailing.
- They're online only. If your signer won't do a webcam RON session — an older seller, someone without a smartphone, someone who simply refuses — the marketplace has no answer. There's no one to send.
- There's no exit plan. A memorandum shouldn't sit on a title forever. Tracking its expiration and getting it released is a workflow, not a stamp — and a stale filing left on record is a real liability.
What Jurably adds
Jurably includes the notarization — RON in minutes, about $40 all-in — but treats it as one step in a finished filing rather than the product itself. On a memorandum, you upload the signed contract, verify the parties and legal description, confirm the owner's tax-roll mailing address, and notarize online. Then Jurably certified-mails the notice to the owner and records the memorandum plus a sworn acknowledgment and certificate of mailing at the county — e-recording instantly in the major Texas metros and handling the paper rail everywhere else — and returns a real instrument number you can track. Every filing carries a 180-day auto-expiration, renewal from your filing page, and a prompt to release it the moment the deal closes or dies. It protects a genuine equitable interest and clears when it should — never a tactic to trap a seller, and only ever filed against a real, already-signed contract.
The reluctant-signer problem a webcam can't solve
This is the gap that matters most to investors. Half the time the deal isn't held up by a missing notary — it's held up by a seller who won't get on a video call at all. A pure online marketplace has no move here. Jurably sidesteps it: a memorandum of contract is signed by the buyer alone, in one online notary session, and the seller is notified by certified mail — no one has to get a reluctant seller on camera. (Jurably doesn't dispatch mobile notaries or signing agents; when some other document needs a wet signature, see getting a document signed in person.)
Choose BlueNotary when — choose Jurably when
This isn't a trick question, and the honest answer depends on what "done" means for you.
- Choose BlueNotary, OneNotary, or NotaryCam when all you need is a document notarized online, you'll handle any recording yourself, every signer is comfortable on a webcam, and the lowest per-stamp price is the priority.
- Choose Jurably when the notarized document has to get to the county — recorded, with notice mailed and tracked to an instrument number — or when a signer won't go online and you need a real person sent to them. That's the whole job, not just the stamp.
If your task is "notarize this page," a marketplace is the cheaper tool and we'll happily point you at one. If your task is "get this memorandum signed, notarized, filed, and recorded — and cleared when I'm done," that's the job Jurably is built to finish.
Jurably is a self-help filing and notary service, not a law firm or a title company, and does not provide legal advice. BlueNotary, OneNotary, and NotaryCam are independent companies not affiliated with Jurably; product details and pricing are theirs to change. This page is general information for real-estate investors.