It depends entirely on your state and on what you're submitting. Some states regulate Live Scan providers and require vendor approval or an agency contract; ink card fingerprinting for FBI channelers and out-of-state applicants is generally much lighter. The course walks you through how to find out what applies where you live — but you're responsible for confirming your own state and agency requirements before you take a paying client.

We're not going to give you a number, because anyone who does is guessing. What you charge depends on your market, whether you travel, and who your clients are. What we can tell you is what the service costs to deliver, how providers typically structure their fees, and where the demand comes from. You do the math for your own area.

No. Most people in this course start with ink cards, because a starter kit costs less than the course itself and requires no vendor agreement. Live Scan is covered so you understand it, can answer client questions about it, and can decide later whether adding it makes sense for your market.

Yes. Fingerprinting is a separate service from notarization — the course is written for notaries because that's who asks us most, but nothing in it requires a commission. Plenty of students come from legal support, HR, security, and general local service businesses.

Yes. Beyond the rolling technique and the FD-258, we cover pricing, your kit and suppliers, mobile and on-site work, who buys the service, and how to get found locally — the pieces you need to turn the skill into a service you actually sell. The bonus Google Maps SEO training goes deeper on getting discovered online.

In detail. An entire module walks the FD-258 field by field — what goes in every box, the blanks that get a card rejected, and how to check your work before the client leaves. It's the module students tell us they replay the most.

The core training is a little over three hours of video. Most students go through it in one or two sittings and then use the cheat sheets as reference once they start taking clients. Access is lifetime, so there's no rush and no expiring enrollment.

Yes — the Google Maps SEO training and the Apostille Agent Certification training are both released to your account at enrollment, at no additional cost. They're separate products we sell on their own; they're bundled here because fingerprinting works best when people can find you and when you have a second service to offer them.

Email us and we'll refund the full $97. We'd rather give the money back than have someone sitting on training they aren't using. You keep the downloads.