The operating system for bail-bond agencies.
Capture each client once. Write jurisdiction-correct bonds across every state. Run a real double-entry ledger, e-sign and online bonding built in, court-date reminders, recovery and forfeiture workspaces, native mobile — all in one place. E-sign, online bonding and the agent app are included, not metered add-ons.
No spreadsheets. No re-keying. No state left guessing. No surprise add-on bill.
Everything an agency runs on, in one place
The whole book of business — clients, bonds, money, court dates, documents, forfeitures and recovery — connected, not stitched together from a binder, a spreadsheet, and a notepad.
The client is the spine
Capture contacts, addresses, employers, references, indemnitors, collateral, IDs and payment methods once. Every bond references the client — edit once, it cascades, with full history kept.
Jurisdiction-aware bonds
Premium, fees, required forms and forfeiture clocks resolve from a data-driven state rules library covering all 50 states and DC — research-based and citation-backed. A new state is data, not a code change.
Money you can trust
A true double-entry ledger — premium, surety charge, BUF, commissions, payment plans and adjustments. Append-only, attributed, and always balanced to the cent.
E-sign & online bonding, built in
Native e-signature — packets, a box designer, timestamping and capture-back — plus online bonding where a client signs the contract remotely. Both included, no per-envelope fees and no third-party account required.
Court-date reminders
Automated email and SMS reminders to defendants and indemnitors, with per-agency lead times, documented consent, and one-tap opt-out — so nobody misses a date.
Forfeiture & surrender
Statutory clocks tracked from the law at event time, a first-hour action panel, and surrender execution — filing set to certificate to automatic exoneration — so a bond never slips to judgment unwatched.
Reporting that writes itself
Financial position, production, A/R aging, commissions, liability and carrier period reports — plus a permission-gated custom report builder and one-click exports.
Recovery operations
When a bond goes sideways, run the apprehension effort — agents, intel, skip-trace, an evidence chain and itemized costs — connected to the same case and money you already manage.
Native mobile, field-first
An iOS and Android app for the jail and the field — capture a client, write a bond, take a payment and check someone in offline, then sync when signal returns. Included, not a separate purchase.
Everything inside
The complete capability list — the whole platform, not a highlight reel. Nearly all of it is included in every plan. A few high-cost items are usage-based and marked with a *.
Clients & bond writing
- The client spine — capture once, reuse everywhere; hard de-dupe, versioned history, edits cascade to open bonds
- State rules library — research-based, citation-backed, effective-date versioned, most-specific-wins down to county & court
- Jurisdiction-aware bond writing with live premium quotes
- Powers inventory — per-agent assignment, soonest-expiry-first picker, expiry alerts
- Re-write bonds post-surrender — liability-only, zero new fees
- Bond-term expiry alerts — statute-cited (e.g. Florida's 36-month rule)
- Cases — bonds grouped under the case as the hub
- Pipeline & intake — call → lead → client, source attribution, conversion reporting
- AI document scan — photo a booking sheet → client, review-then-confirm *
Paperwork, e-sign & online bonding
- Native e-sign — packets, box designer, RFC-3161 timestamping, OTP, capture-back
- Online bonding — contract-as-intake, signed remotely (included, never an add-on)
- Fill your own carrier forms — upload the PDF, map once, filled forever
- Bring-your-own DocuSign / SignNow if you prefer them
- Batch packet printing — whole case, one PDF, in order
- Document requests by text / email link (photo ID, pay stubs…)
- Signed contract auto-fills the client record — no re-keying after signing
Money
- True double-entry ledger — append-only, attributed, always balanced
- Card processing on your own Clover / Square via OAuth, per-brand routing
- Public pay portal — tokenized, per-case payment links
- Payment plans — installment tracking, case-level balances
- Collections worklist — aging, who to call today
- Ledger adjustments — balanced, attributed, reversible
- Receipts on every payment
- Carrier / period reporting — void-safe, never re-reports
- Agent commission statements — pay-period locked, ledger-true
- Every dashboard number drills to its ledger entries
Risk, compliance & recovery
- Forfeiture workspace — statutory clocks, first-hour panel, action log
- Surrender execution — filing set → certificate → automatic exoneration cascade
- Recovery vertical — evidence chain, intel, skip-trace, itemized costs
- Client check-ins — GPS + selfie by text link, no app install; schedules & reminders
- Court-date & FTA reminders — email + SMS, consent-tracked *
- Re-arrest watch — suggest-then-confirm *
- Risk calculator — per-agency opt-in, advisory (never blocks a bond)
- Client tags, do-not-bond & in-custody flags
- Collateral-return deadline alerts — statute-driven
Reporting & back office
- Alerts hub — court dates, deadlines, compliance flags, expiring powers
- Custom report builder — role-gated, saved, shared, CSV
- Canned reports — financial position, production, A/R aging, commissions, liability
- Agent hub — producer profiles, licenses, appointments, CE & 90/30 expiry alerts
- Import your book — dry-run, undo, idempotent, money-safe
- Export your entire book, any time — no support ticket
- Multi-agency / carrier network links — shared visibility, sovereign books
Platform, security & mobile
- Two-factor login — authenticator app + passkeys (passwordless)
- Role-based access — per-role report & data scoping
- Multi-tenant isolation — row-level security at the database
- Immutable audit trail — who and when, can't be rewritten
- Native mobile app — iOS & Android, offline outbox + on-device rules cache, push, signature capture
- SMS & email notification spine — consent, opt-out, quiet hours *
- Background checks & public-records pulls — planned *
* Usage-based — included allowances during beta; fair metered pricing after. Everything else is included, full stop.
Rolling out through beta: the native mobile app and re-arrest watch — see the roadmap for current status.
Capture once. Write fast. Get paid. Stay ahead of court.
One client record, reused everywhere
Bail paperwork is the same data entered over and over. We kill the re-keying: one structured record holds every party, address, ID and payment method, and every bond and document pulls from it.
- Hard de-dupe so a returning client is never entered twice
- Indemnitors, collateral and references modeled as reusable parties
- Versioned history — edits cascade to open bonds, prior values retained
Bonds that already know the rules
Pick the jurisdiction and the engine does the rest — premium rate, surety charge, BUF, the required forms and the forfeiture timeline all resolve from sourced, versioned rule data. Validity is never gated: once the court accepts a bond, it's recorded as valid, with any compliance concerns flagged, not blocked.
- 50 states + DC, each added as data with its citations
- Effective-date versioning — the right rule as of the governing date
- Most-specific-wins down to the county and court
A money system, not a money screen
Premium, surety remittance, BUF, commissions and payment plans run on a real double-entry ledger — append-only and attributed, so it can be audited and never silently edited. Take card payments through your own processor; statements show what's owed, net, at a glance.
- Every economic event's entries sum to zero — guaranteed
- Payment plans, collections worklists and carrier period reports
- Bring your own card processor; receipts on every payment
Alerts before the deadline, not after
Court dates, missed appearances, forfeiture and remission windows, reporting deficiencies and expiring inventory all roll up into one alerts hub — and out to defendants and indemnitors as reminders, the moment they matter.
- Forfeiture-exposure visibility and one-click carrier reporting
- Email + SMS reminders with documented consent and opt-out
- A single place that answers "what needs me today?"
One price. Everything included.
Plans differ by the number of seats — never by features. E-sign, online bonding, the mobile apps, recovery, reporting: all of it is in every tier. No contracts, no bond-volume caps.
The whole team on one system, everything included.
Get started- No contracts
- No bond-volume caps
- Free migration
- Your data is always yours — export everything, anytime, even if you leave
* A few high-cost items are usage-based — SMS, AI document scan, re-arrest watch, and (planned) background checks & public-records pulls. Included allowances during beta; fair metered pricing after. Everything else is included in every tier, full stop.
Founding beta pricing — rate locked 24 months for founding agencies.
The honest total, not the sticker
Bail software sticker prices hide the real bill: e-sign per envelope, online bonding as a paid module, defendant monitoring per head, SMS by the message, background checks each. Here's a like-for-like scenario with the add-ons switched on — so you compare the total you'd actually pay, not the number on the homepage.
A 4-agent agency: 40 active clients on re-arrest watch, ~500 texts/month, online bonding enabled, e-signature in use.
| Capability / cost | SymphonicBail | Captira | eBail | BailBooks | BailVision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What's included at the base price | |||||
| Native e-sign | Included | DocuSign req'da | $0.75/docb | Included | — |
| Online bonding / pay portal | Included | +$29/moc | ◐ tier | +$19.95/mo | — |
| Agent mobile app | Included | — | — | — | — |
| Recovery vertical (evidence, intel, costs) | Included | ◐ | — | — | ◐ |
| Custom report builder | Included | ◐ | — | — | — |
| True double-entry ledger | Included | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | — |
| Bond-volume cap | None | None | None | 20–500/mo by tierd | — |
| Monthly cost — the scenario above | |||||
| Base plan (4 agents) | $1294 seats incl. | $99e | $993 logins incl. | $80Silver, 4 agents | Freef |
| Extra agent seats | Included | 2 logins incl.g | +$94th login | Included | — |
| Online bonding / pay portal | Included | +$29 | ◐ tier | +$19.95 | — |
| SMS (~500/mo) | ~$15* | ~$20h | ~$25h | +$20flat add-on | — |
| Re-arrest watch (40 clients) | ~$40* | ~$54i | ~$23j | — | — |
| E-sign | Included | via DocuSigna | $0.75/docb | Included | — |
| Base sticker /mo | $129 | $99 | $99 | $80 | Freef |
| Realistic monthly total the scenario above | ~$184 | ~$202 | ~$158 | ~$120 | Freef |
The honest read: we undercut Captira's and eBail's real totals while including what they meter — e-sign, online bonding and the mobile app all cost extra there. BailBooks lists a lower sticker, but it caps bond volume by tier and charges flat monthly fees for the payment portal and SMS we include — and it has no mobile app, recovery vertical or custom report builder. We're not the cheapest line on every row; we're the all-in price with no caps and no per-envelope surprises.
Sources & notes. Published vendor pricing, fetched July 2026. Our base tiers are founding beta pricing, rate-locked 24 months; the two usage lines marked * in our column are estimated at the scenario above (SMS ~500 × ~$0.03; re-arrest watch 40 × ~$1). Everything else is included in every tier.
a Captira e-sign runs through a DocuSign dependency — priced here as $0 but it requires your own DocuSign plan. b eBail e-sign: 10 docs free/mo, then $0.75/doc — excluded from the total shown; an active agency signs well past 10. c Captira "Bail Pay" online payments, +$29/mo. d BailBooks tiers cap monthly bond volume (Copper 20 → Silver 500) — the cap is the upsell lever; move up a tier as you grow. e Captira lists a "$65 Small Agency Promo" for ≤4 agents; the standard $99 base is shown. f BailVision is free for AIA-appointed agents — the real cost is captivity: switching sureties means losing your software. g Captira advertises "unlimited agents" but includes only 2 user logins; extra-login pricing isn't published, so a true 4-login setup could cost more than shown. h SMS billed per message at ~$0.05 (Captira / eBail) — ~$20–25 for 400–500 texts. i Captira Defendant Watch: $10/mo + $1.10/defendant (~$54 for 40); arrest-history reports are +$4 each on top. j eBail arrest monitoring: 10 free, then $0.75/defendant (~$23 for 40); background checks are +$4.75 each on top.
Pricing pages: bailbooks.com/pricing.aspx · captira.com · ebail.com · aiasurety.com (BailVision). Competitors change their rate cards — re-verify before relying on this table.
Texting people about their freedom is serious. We treat it that way.
Court-date reminders only work if they're trusted and compliant. Consent is captured up front, every message identifies the agency and offers a one-tap opt-out, and the sensitive data behind it is access-controlled at every layer.
Live today — and what lands before launch
We build in the open, one reviewable piece at a time. Here's where things stand.
Jurisdiction rules engine
50 states + DC, premium / fees / forms / forfeiture clocks resolved from sourced data.
Clients, bonds & cases
The client spine, jurisdiction-aware bond writing, and case-as-hub records.
Double-entry money
Ledger, premium, BUF, commissions, payment plans, collections and carrier reporting.
E-sign & online bonding
Native packets, box designer, timestamping, capture-back, and remote contract signing.
Forfeitures & recovery
Statutory clocks, surrender execution, and the full recovery vertical with evidence chain.
Reminders, alerts & reporting
Email + SMS reminders, the alerts hub, and the standard + custom report suite.
Native mobile, offline-first
Field and jail capture that works with no signal and syncs when it's back — in beta hardening now.
Re-arrest watch
Monitoring that suggests a match for you to confirm — rolling out with usage-based pricing.
Background checks & records
Vendor-agnostic background checks and public-records pulls, metered fairly.
Correctness is a feature
Multi-tenant isolation
Every agency's data is isolated at the database with row-level security — one query can never see another tenant's book.
Append-only money
Payments are immutable ledger entries, never edited in place — so two offline payments never collide and the books can't be quietly altered.
Role-based access
Granular roles and per-record scoping decide who sees what — an agent sees their own powers, not the whole house.
Immutable audit trail
Every meaningful change is recorded with who and when, in a trail that can't be rewritten.
Sourced, not invented
Every jurisdiction rule carries its citations and a verification status. Our rules library is research-based — we never present rules or generated documents as legal advice.
Your accounts, your keys
Bring your own payment processor, e-sign and email accounts. We orchestrate; we don't hold what should stay yours.
Run your whole agency on one system
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