Tour operators who guide people through activities that run the gamut from river rafting to rock climbing use waivers to help protect themselves from activity-related liabilities.

But what constitutes a solid waiver?

WaiverSign recently engaged Chun T. Wright, who serves as legal counsel to businesses across the country, to answer questions from tour operators who are currently using or considering using WaiverSign’s digital liability waivers. Here are the questions. For answers see: https://www.waiversign.com/blog/online-waiver-questions-from-tour-companies

Q: Can one person sign a liability waiver on behalf of a whole group?

Q: Is there a family or group booking option that makes collecting online waivers with WaiverSign easy?

Q: When should guests sign digital waivers?

Q: If signers need ample time to read the waiver, what about walk-ins?

Q: What if someone books an activity but then doesn’t want to sign the waiver?

Q: Can I require a signer to initial a paragraph on a digital waiver?

Q: How long should waivers be stored?

Q: How do you track clients to ensure they've signed their waivers?

Q: If you're only using WaiverSign (without the RESMARK booking system) do you need to track manually which ones haven't signed?

Q: Is there API integration for WaiverSign?

Q: What are the main differences between an online waiver service like WaiverSign and a service like DocuSign?

Q: Can I use my waiver to collect emergency contact information?

Q: Can WaiverSign take payments, or do I need a separate service to do that?

Q: Does WaiverSign play well with other booking systems?

Q: What if my company works with a local tour operator and we both have waivers? Do all the participants need to sign all the waivers from both companies?

Q: What is the contractual period for WaiverSign? Would we still pay monthly for off-season times?

About WaiverSign
Founded in 2013, WaiverSign offers one of the most efficient, easy-to-use digital liability waivers and electronic liability release solutions available in today’s marketplace. An API (Application Programming Interface) allows other reservation and customer relationship databases to push and pull customer data directly to and from WaiverSign. This provides a simple and fool-proof way for collecting customer information in whatever reservation system being used. For more information, visit https://www.waiversign.com/ or call 877.741.7705.