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A family group of six adults and children standing side by side on a gravel river bank at dawn, all seen from behind, beside an open van with paddles, dry bags and rolled gear in the back.

Group and participant waivers

One booking. Eight guests. Three minors. One link.

Almost every booking in this business is one name and a card, and almost every trip is eight people. The gap between those two facts is where the morning goes.

What this document is

A set of waivers that belongs to a booking rather than to a person — each participant signing their own, each minor routed to a guardian, and one readiness answer for the whole group.

Also called: group waiver · party waiver · participant list · roster waiver · booking waiver

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Page one of the Participant Waiver and Release, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one of the Participant Waiver and Release, as the dashboard prints a blank copy.

Where it goes wrong

Not a feature list. These are the three moments this exists for.

Shoes of different sizes, adults' and children's, lined up on a dock beside a row of life jackets, a clipboard on the planks.

The booking has one name on it

Whoever paid. The other seven people exist only as a number in a field, and you will meet them for the first time at the moment you most need them to have already signed.

Somebody signs on behalf of everybody

It happens every day, on paper, because the form has one line and the queue is moving. It is also the first thing an insurer looks at and the first thing it throws out, because a release signed by somebody else releases nothing.

Seven of eight, and nobody knows which one

The count is easy. The name is the hard part, and the reminder you send to the whole group to be safe is the one that makes the six people who did sign think you have lost their paperwork.

What happens instead

The send screen with several people on one document, each their own signer. The business and the people named are examples.
1

The booker adds the party, once

Names, emails and phone numbers, or a paste from your reservation system through the API. Each person becomes their own signer rather than a line on somebody else's form.

A guardian's consent opening on the parent's own phone, naming the child it is for. The business and the people named are examples.
2

Each person signs their own, and each minor gets a guardian

Adults get their own link on their own phone. A participant under age routes the consent to the guardian named for them, who signs from wherever they are — a separate document with a separate signature.

Who has not signed: counts across the top, then each person still to sign, the document, and how long it has been out. The business and the people named are examples.
3

One answer for the whole booking

Ready, or not ready and the name of who is missing. On a phone, at a counter, or through the API into the screen your staff already look at.

We do not hold the booking

Reservations, payments, availability and the calendar stay in whatever runs them. What this holds is the document side: who has to sign what, who has, and what the group's readiness is right now. The API exists so the reservation system can ask that question and show the answer inside itself, which is where staff are already looking.

Questions

Can one person sign for their whole family?

A guardian signs for each of their own minors, as a separate consent naming that child. An adult cannot sign for another adult, and the product will not pretend otherwise — that is the whole reason the group is modelled as people rather than as a count.

What if the party changes the night before?

Add or remove people and the links follow. Signatures already collected stay; a person added at ten at night gets their own link and can sign before breakfast.

How do walk-ups join a group that is already half signed?

A QR code at the counter adds them to the same booking. The readiness count includes them from the moment they scan it.

Can we see who has not signed without opening a list?

Yes — the count and the missing names come back from the API, so a reservation screen, a tablet at a counter or a text to the guide can carry them. The list is there too, for the person who wants to look.

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