Evaluate an offer with Offer Analyzer™

A signing fee can sound good until you calculate what the assignment will actually require.

**Offer Analyzer™** helps you evaluate an opportunity before you accept it so you can make the decision based on the work involved rather than the fee alone.

### Start with what you know

Enter the information available about the opportunity.

The more accurate the information you provide, the more useful the analysis can be.

Depending on the assignment, that may include information about the offered fee, appointment location, travel, printing, and other work required to complete the signing.

### Your rates matter

Offer Analyzer™ works best when your **Rate Structure** is set up under **Settings → Profile**.

Your rates give The NEST a way to evaluate the work using the value you've assigned to your own business services instead of assuming that every notary should price work the same way.

If your rates change, update your Rate Structure so future analyses reflect the way you currently price your business.

### Look beyond the offered fee

The amount offered is only one part of the decision.

An assignment can require travel, printing, appointment time, notarial acts, and other work that isn't obvious when you first see "$100 signing."

Offer Analyzer™ helps put the offer into context so you can evaluate what you're being asked to do for that amount.

### Use the analysis to make your decision

The result isn't a command to accept or reject an assignment.

You may have business reasons for accepting work below your normal target, just as you may have reasons to decline an otherwise profitable assignment.

Offer Analyzer™ gives you information.

**You make the business decision.**

### Counteroffers are business decisions too

An offer doesn't always have to be accepted or declined exactly as presented.

If the assignment makes sense at a different fee, use the analysis to help determine whether you want to counter.

Knowing what the work is likely to require gives you a more useful starting point for negotiation than choosing a counteroffer at random.

### Compare the estimate with what actually happened

An offer analysis is based on what you know before accepting the work.

The completed order records what the assignment actually required.

Over time, comparing those two perspectives can help you become more confident about which assignments are worth accepting and how you price your services.