Waiver Guides, Laws and Product News

A liability waiver, or release form, is a legally binding document that informs parties about the inherent or potential risks associated with a given activity.

WaiverFile’s Workflow feature makes collecting and organizing electronic waivers for sports tournaments quick and easy. Rather than pushing everything together into one big messy list, workflows let us group things by tournament, division, conference, gender, team, or any other element you can think of!

WaiverFile offers advanced online waiver signing so check-in will be quick, easy and stress-free. Several options are provided so that a digital waiver can be signed from any computer, tablet, smartphone or from your location.

The most important thing about a waiver form is ensuring it is legally enforceable. Read on to find out some best practices.

Does your business need guests and clients to sign release forms before participating in events and activities? If so, it is important to make sure everyone signs the necessary documents. Find out how to do it and make it easy!

Every business knows the benefits of a well-drafted waiver form, but have you ever considered utilizing online forms ?

Many businesses may wonder how liability waivers work with minors as any contract signed by one is not considered legally valid. Read on to find out more.

Do you manage high profile clients with book tours, music tours, or event appearances? Liability waiver forms are essential for all on-the-road types of tours and activities.

Release forms are necessary any time someone wants to sell or distribute videos. Find out more about release forms for filming to protect your company, entity, or business from legal issues.

Many parents may have been asked to sign a waiver form before their teenager can attend a party. Read on to find out more about its legality.

Not sure if getting a liability waiver written is worth it? Read on to find out more on its pros and cons.

If you’re working in a sports organization, you’ll want to find out how to use waivers to prevent lawsuits. Read to learn more about sports waivers.

Working as an event organizer? Here’s how an event liability waiver can help to protect your business! Read on to learn more.

Electronic waivers are accessible, trustworthy and transparent. That is why so many businesses are switching to electronic waivers.

How can you make sure that the electronic waivers you collect are valid? WaiverFile includes a number of features to ensure that your waivers are authentic and valid.

Any time someone appears in a video, whether for a social media ad, a music video, or documentary, it is important to ensure that they sign video participant release forms.

If you could give your customers a faster way to sign their waiver, would you do it? Of course you would! The faster that customers can complete their check in process, the happier they will be. We’ve worked hard to develop features that help streamline. Here are 3 quick tips you can use to make your customer's signing experience faster.

Getting Started with WaiverFile Our new video will walk you through the initial setup of WaiverFile and setting up your first electronic waiver form. In just a few minutes you'll be online taking waivers and making your business more efficient!

Waivers are essential, legal documents that provide businesses with the protection necessary to manage their legal risk.With WaiverFile, businesses, small and large, can expedite the waiver process by allowing consumers to read, acknowledge and complete the liability forms online before participating in an activity. What kind of businesses can use this kind of service?

If your business requires liability release waivers from customers, then you already know how cumbersome getting them all signed can be. As customers arrive, they need to spend time filling out the form, and then you or your staff have to collect and organize all those pieces of paper. This can be a frustrating task, especially with larger groups. It’s also possible that some customers may be overlooked, creating possible liability. So what's the answer? Electronic waivers help solve all these problems, and bring additional benefits as well. When customers can sign their waiver digitally, the process is faster for several reasons.

We are excited to announce a new feature released this week: signatures! Previously, agreements were made by clicking the ‘I Agree’ button. Now customers can sign their name! If on a computer, the signature is made using your mouse. If on a tablet or mobile device, such as an iphone or ipad, the customer can sign using their finger or a stylus.

Our biggest update yet: online booking with waivers built in, point of sale for the front desk, check-in with QR codes, the WaiverFile Venue app, a website built for you, and a new look for waiver pages and the admin.

We are thrilled to announce that WaiverFile has been featured on Zapier's blog! ?? If you haven't checked it out yet, Zapier has highlighted how WaiverFile can help businesses that require waivers!

We're thrilled to announce that our company has hit a major milestone - our customers have now collected 5 million waivers using WaiverFile! This achievement wouldn't have been possible without our loyal customers and dedicated staff.

We’re excited to announce that as part of the big new set of features we rolled out this week, we have included a new field selector for reports. The new selector has been carefully designed to be easier to follow and easier to use.

Happy new year! We’ve been busy working on a number of new features and wanted to let you know about them.

We are excited to announce that WaiverFile has added integration with Zapier, a leading online connection service that bridges the gap between many online systems.

WaiverFile has now collected over 1 Million waivers! We couldn’t be happier to know that our product is trusted by so many businesses, and it’s surreal that we've accomplished such a huge milestone!

We have some exciting news that we’re happy to finally share with you! Capterra, the world’s leading software discovery and review platform has awarded WaiverFile with two badges.

This week we added some long awaited image features! You can now add images to your waiver forms and signing pages! We also added a screen saver feature so you can display promotional graphics on your waiver kiosks.

We’re excited to announce the release of several new features that we’ve had in the works for some time now. We’ve received lots of great feedback from customers about the types of features they would like to see. Below is an overview of what we have released. Thanks to all our customers who have provided us with such detailed feedback!

We're excited to share that WaiverFile has been featured in Adventure Park Insider magazine!

Scanning a QR code with your iPhone has always required the installation of a third party app. This has slowed the adoption of the QR code. We were very happy to learn that with the release of iOS 11, QR codes can now be scanned using only the standard camera app that ships with the OS. Because of this, you can expect a wider adoption of the QR code as a means of sharing URL’s!

We’ve just released an update to the admin dashboard that you’re going to love!

We've been busy here working on new features and continuing to make WaiverFile an even more powerful, yet easy-to-use tool! Our latest addition is here, and it adds multiple admin user access.

We’ve been very busy this winter working on lots of new features! Here’s a quick update on some of these features that are now available to all...

Once again we've received some really awesome feedback from our customers which has helped us develop more new features. A huge thank you to everyone who has sent in your comments! We're excited once again to announce some great new features inspired by real-world customer feedback. The new features include: Email Waivers to Customers Customers can choose to receive a copy of their waiver via email. Print Waivers When signing from home, customers can have the option to print a copy of their waiver form for their own records. We've also included a series of minor bug fixes and usability improvements that continue to improve the ease of use of WaiverFile. Click below to learn more about these new features and how to enable them in your own WaiverFile site!

We are excited to release an upgraded form validation feature for WaiverFile! After discussing usability issues with a number of our customers, we were able to gather valuable feedback and we've launched a major improvement to the field validation. The usability, particularly on mobile devices, has been greatly improved and redesigned to eliminate any confusion about required fields.

We are excited to announce some new features in WaiverFile that have been released this week! After receiving lots of customer feedback, we have redesigned the dashboard to be easier to use and easier to find out who has signed their waiver. The design handles larger groups much better and also offers new sorting and grouping features.

We have been hard at working developing new features for WaiverFile and are excited to announce that you can now create multiple waiver forms. If you have different waiver or liability agreements that you accept, you can set up each version separately, each with their own settings, custom questions and more.