Features index

The standard of care.

Four jobs, in the order the money moves through them. Write it, keep track of everyone on it, deal with it when somebody does not show, and get paid.

All of this works in every state where commercial bail is written. The court clocks, the premium band and the regulator filings are Virginia today, because Virginia is the state whose law we have read end to end. See where we have done the reading.

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Instrument spec

Everything writes to one running record. Every entry says who did it and when. Nothing can be permanently deleted, because the file has to outlive the bond: a delete here hides the case and keeps the record. In Virginia that floor is three years after the liability ends, and we count it.

Sec. 01

Write the bond

Execution

Type the bond on the phone in your hand and it is written: the case, the people, the fees, the plan and the power you drew, all in one save. Where we have read your state’s law, the premium box will not accept a number the state does not allow, so a bad quote never leaves the lobby.

Write it standing in the lobby, on the phone in your hand
Where we have read your state, the premium box will not take a number it does not allow
Every fee line needs a category and an amount
It all saves together or none of it does, so a refusal never leaves half a bond behind

The premium step of the Bondskeeper write-a-bond flow, on a phone. A rate slider set to 12% whose track runs from 10% to 15%, above the sentence "Virginia bands the premium at not less than 10% and not more than 15% of the bond amount. The control cannot leave the band." and the range that produces on a $25,000 bond, $2,500.00 to $3,750.00.

Sec. 02

Keeping track of everyone

Active monitoring

People come back to court because somebody kept track. Every court date arms a ladder of reminders that tightens as it approaches, counted in the court’s own timezone and not yours. A check-in carries a location and the agent’s own word on it. Every court date we pull in shows where it came from and how sure we are, and anything shaky goes to a person in your office before it goes to your client.

What is on, and what is not

A reminder ladder armed on every court dateEvery plan
Those reminders actually sendingWaiting on carrier registration
Check-in with a location and an attestationEvery plan
Court dates pulled in for you (Virginia)Add-on
A photograph at the check-inNot built
Proof it is a live person, not a photoNot built
Matching a face to the file on recordIn build
Ankle monitor feedsNot built

Sec. 03

When your client does not show

Liability management

The clock starts whether anyone noticed or not. Wherever you write, every recovery call, mile and fee goes in the file from day one, because a motion to get your money back is only as good as the paperwork behind it, and the case stays open until that window has closed. In Virginia we count the statutory clocks on top of that, and we get louder as they run down.

Failure to appear

Missed Chesterfield GDC on 10-12. The court’s notice of default is due within 5 days. Once the default is found you have 150 days, ending at 4:00 PM, to produce the defendant.

Open the recovery file

Every number on this timeline is read out of the same rules the product counts with, so when the law moves and we correct the rules, this page moves with it. The words around them are ours. Outside Virginia these clocks are off, because we will not print a deadline we have not checked.

Recovery timeline

Forfeited

Day 0The defendant does not appearLogged, with where the notice came from.
Day 5Notice of defaultThe court records the default and issues the notice within five days of the missed appearance. Va. Code § 19.2-143.
Default + 150 daysProduce the defendant, by 4:00 PM court timeCounted from the finding of default, not from the missed date. And not midnight: if the forfeited bond is unpaid at that moment, the license of every bondsman on it is suspended.
Default + 24 monthsLast day to get the money back48 months where the defendant is locked up in another state or country. A case that looks dead the day after the 150 days run out is worth working for the rest of this window.

Sec. 04

Money

Ledger control

You keep the merchant account you already have. We charge you monthly and take nothing per transaction, so nobody takes a slice between your customer and your bank. When a card is declined because the bank treats bail as a cash advance, the screen says exactly that and offers a bank payment and a phone number, instead of leaving somebody feeling turned down.

Collateral on the bond

What was put up, by whom and what it is worth, recorded on the bond itself instead of a drawer nobody can search. The receipt is still yours to write and keep: we do not produce one, and we do not count the clock on getting it back.

The DCJS list, on the 5th

Your outstanding bonds for last month, assembled out of what you already typed and waiting on the 5th, instead of a night with a spreadsheet. Virginia only, and the kind of thing that follows once we have read a state.

An example, using your own numbers

Ledger // Any monthUSD

Bonds written	10
Average bond	$10,000
Total you wrote	$100,000
Your premium on that	$10,000
Bondskeeper, all ten bonds	$149

Made-up inputs at a made-up rate, not a projection and not a promise. Your book is your book, and your rate is whatever your state allows. Bring your last twelve months to a demo and we will run yours.

What is built, and what is not

This is a twenty-thousand-agency business and an inflated claim gets repeated at the state association meeting for years. So here are both halves of it, in plain words, before you ask.

Working today

Writing the bond, with the power drawn, the room you have left counted as you go, and the premium held inside the band where we have read your state.
Everything about one bond writes together, or none of it does. A refused post never leaves half a case behind.
Cases, defendants, co-signers, court dates and documents, on one running record that says who did what and when.
Money: payment plans, what is aging, who to call today, and the ledger underneath all three.
A power inventory if you write on a surety, an equity ledger if you are a property bondsman. Two different businesses, two different screens.
The Virginia forfeiture clocks, and the outstanding-bonds list for the 5th, built out of what you already typed.
Settings a shop actually needs: your sureties and power blocks, your people and their licenses, your rates, your templates, your gateway.
The same records on your agents’ phones, installable, with an outbox that holds what they wrote where there was no signal.
A page for the co-signer with your name on it, no app and no password.

Not yet, and said out loud

We do not do nationwide re-arrest monitoring, and we do not track vehicles. Captira does. If those decide it for you, buy Captira.
The lead ledger has its screens and nothing is stored behind them yet, so what it shows today is a demo agency’s calls rather than your office’s. It is next release, and it is free on every plan when it lands.
Everything above works in every state where commercial bail is written. The court clocks, the premium band and the regulator filings are Virginia only, and we will not calculate a premium against rules we have not read.
Court reminders arm at the right instant, in the court’s own time zone. Nothing leaves the building yet: putting a texting number in your agency’s name past the carriers takes as long as it takes, and until it is done a reminder waits in the queue instead of reaching a phone. The co-signer’s sign-in code is in the same queue, so their page is built and waiting on the same registration. We would rather say that than let you find out on a Friday.
You can connect the merchant account you already have. Running the card through it is the next thing to land, so today a payment is one you record rather than one we take.
You type the bond in. Photographing a booking sheet and having the form fill itself is the next thing we want and it does not work today, so the sample on the write screen says on its own face that it is a sample.
Nothing signs yet, in either direction. There is no signature on a phone and nowhere to file a photograph of a paper packet you signed in the lobby, so today the packet is signed and kept the way you keep it now.
A check-in records a location and your agent’s word on it. There is no photograph at a check-in, because there is nowhere yet to put one, and we would rather say that than render a camera button that throws the picture away.
The co-signer’s screen is in English. The text messages are written in English and Spanish, per person rather than per phone, and a third language is a change to the database rather than a translation job, so it is not close.
Matching a face to the file on record is being built. It will be opt-in, state by state, with the defendant’s written consent, and it does not exist today.
The phone app is a web app you install from the browser. The real iOS and Android apps are in build, so that a push arrives at 2 a.m., which is the one thing a web app cannot promise.
Commission statements and your surety’s own report are not built, and month end is poorer for it.
Moving your history off your current system is next release, and we do it with you rather than handing you an importer.

If one of these has changed and this page has not, tell us and we will fix the page rather than argue about it.

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Write your next bond on it.

Five live bonds, free. No card, no countdown. Cases, defendants and co-signers, court dates, payment plans, and check-ins with a location and your agent’s word on it. At five you need a paid plan to write the sixth, and we keep watching the five you have.

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