Yes. We are listed on the state's website under our website name Calnotaryclass.com

There are three major steps:

1. Complete this online California Notary training class.
2. Complete state's exam.
3. Submit your application to the state.

We cover all of these steps in great detail during our course. We also link to the appropriate pages on the state's website to make it easy.

After completing our course you can take the state's notary exam through CPS HR Consulting, which is the only organization that the state has approved to administer the exam.

You can find a list of live scan providers on the California Department of Justice's website.

Drugstores with photo services (e.g., Walgreens or CVS) and large post offices typically offer passport photos.

Choose the three (3) hour course if you are renewing your commission and it hasn't expired yet. But if your commission has expired, the state of CA requires that you take the six (6) hour course.

Of course! We know that sometimes it can be difficult to set time aside for training. Our system tracks your progress so you can easily come back to where you left off.

If you can read the information on this page, have watched videos on YouTube or other sites, and can fill out the form on the checkout page, then you have all of the technical skills necessary to succeed. 

We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB, Discover, Diners Club, PayPal, Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Amazon Pay through our secure checkout.

Add the following items:

• The cost of this training course.
• The cost of the state's exam.
• The cost of live scan fingerprinting.
• The cost to apply to the state.
• The cost of your surety bond.
• The cost of your supplies (e.g., seal/stamp and journal). Please refer to the next question for more information about this cost.

Since these costs can vary and depend on your own purchase decisions, it's difficult to quote an exact total cost, but it's sometimes possible to keep the total under $120 depending on what supplies you purchase and the cost of live scan fingerprinting in your county.

We've written a more detailed explanation to this question at our blog here: How much does it cost to become a notary in California?

Not directly, but it's because of a good reason that benefits you. We've found that most training providers in general (not specifically notary training providers) are either supply sellers first and trainers second or trainers first and supply sellers second. That means that they're usually not really good at both. Let us explain. Suppose you sell supplies. One day you might realize that you can also sell training to your customers, but you're not really a trainer; you're a supplier. Since your specialty isn't training you might not make a great course. Now suppose you're a trainer. You probably made a great training course, but one day you realize that you can make more money by selling supplies to your training customers. Since your specialty is not retail, you're probably not going to be able to offer the best prices. We don't know which other notary training vendors that sell supplies are trainers first or which are suppliers first, but we do know that you can usually find supplies at much less expensive prices by purchasing them directly from suppliers that specialize in notary supplies. We're a training company that specializes in training so we don't sell retail products. A seal shouldn't cost you more than about $10-$20 and a register shouldn't cost more than about $15-$20. Those are the prices you'll see if you go to someone that specializes in supplies. Training providers typically can't match these prices. That's why we have partnered with a supply company. Please visit the Notary Supplies section of this site for more information.

Of course! Please contact us for special group pricing. Please include the number of people in your group and the expected timeframe for completion. We don't make everyone complete the training at once so we can still offer a group discount even if you think your company might need to train multiple people over the course of a long period of time. We also do not require any prepayment for group discounts. Simply pay the discounted price for each employee as you need to without tying up your budget with large bulk training package purchases.

We're here to answer all of your questions. Please use the contact form to email us or give us a call. You can even ask us questions about the course content directly on each lesson page.