Understand your Fee Breakdown
The fee you're offered for an assignment and the value of the work required to complete it are not always the same thing.
The **Fee Breakdown** helps you see both.
Instead of treating an order as a single dollar amount, The NEST can break the appointment into the individual services and costs that make up the work.
### Service components
Depending on the appointment, your Fee Breakdown may include components such as:
* Statutory notarial acts * Mobile or RON service * Mileage * Printing or E-Docs * Witness services * Additional documents or services * Other applicable charges or adjustments
Not every component applies to every order.
### Mobile and RON service
Your **Mobile Notary** or **RON Notary** amount represents the professional service component of providing the appointment.
It is separate from charges that can be measured independently, such as statutory notarial acts, mileage, or printing.
The applicable default comes from your Rate Structure and can be adjusted when the circumstances of an individual order require it.
### Total Service Value
The individual components combine to show the **Total Service Value** of the appointment based on your rates and the work involved.
This is different from asking what somebody agreed to pay you.
For example, your normal rates may place the service value of an appointment at $110 even though you agreed to complete that particular assignment for $90.
Both numbers are useful, but they mean different things.
### Agreed fee or package rate
The agreed fee is what you actually agreed to be paid for the assignment.
When an agreed or package rate differs from the calculated service value, The NEST can preserve that distinction rather than changing one of the service components simply to make the numbers match.
This lets you see when you're working above, at, or below your normal service value.
### Why keep the two values separate?
If every order is forced to equal the fee you accepted, it's difficult to tell whether that fee was actually good for your business.
Keeping your underlying service values separate gives you better information when reviewing pricing, negotiating future assignments, and evaluating the kinds of work you accept.
Your Fee Breakdown answers:
**What is involved in this appointment, what is that work worth based on my rates, and how does that compare with what I agreed to be paid?**
### Review the breakdown when the order changes
If the scope of an appointment changes, update the order accordingly.
Additional printing, travel, documents, witnesses, services, or other changes can affect the value of the work even when the original agreed fee doesn't change.
Keeping the Fee Breakdown current gives you a more accurate record of what the assignment actually required.