These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between ShopNSign LLC, a California limited liability company (“SHOPNSIGN,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), and the business that creates an account (“Shop,” “you,” or “your”) to use the SHOPNSIGN software, websites, and related services (the “Service”). By creating an account, checking the box at sign-up, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms on behalf of your business, and you confirm you have authority to do so. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
Important: Section 17 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver that affect how disputes are resolved. Please read it carefully.
Contents
- The Service
- Who may use the Service
- Accounts and users
- Subscriptions, billing and auto-renewal
- Cancellation and refunds
- Card payments from your customers (Stripe Connect)
- Text messages, email and WhatsApp
- Electronic signatures
- Your responsibilities as a repair business
- Your data and your customers’ data
- Acceptable use (see Part B)
- AI-assisted features
- Intellectual property
- Suspension and termination
- Disclaimers
- Limitation of liability; indemnity
- Dispute resolution; arbitration; class-action waiver
- General terms
- Contact
1. The Service
SHOPNSIGN is business software for vehicle repair shops (cars, trucks, motorcycles and other vehicles identified by year, make and model). It lets a Shop create estimates and work orders, perform and share vehicle inspections with photos and short videos, send estimates to its customers by text message, email or the Shop’s own WhatsApp, collect electronic signatures and approvals, record payments, accept card payments through the Shop’s own Stripe account, schedule appointments, track parts and inventory, and keep business records. We may add, change or remove features over time. The Service is offered only to businesses located in the United States of America, for use in the United States.
2. Who may use the Service
- The Service is for business use only. You must be a business (sole proprietor, partnership, LLC, corporation or similar) operating in the United States, and the person accepting these Terms must be at least 18 years old.
- You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under U.S. law, including sanctions and export-control laws.
- Your customers (the vehicle owners you serve) do not hold SHOPNSIGN accounts. When they open a signing link, they use the Service under our E-Sign Disclosure, SMS Terms and Privacy Policy, and their relationship for the repair is with you, not with us.
3. Accounts and users
- You must give accurate, current information (including your legal business name, address and contact details) and keep it up to date.
- You may invite employees and assign them roles. You are responsible for everything done under your account and by your users, for choosing their permissions, and for removing access when someone leaves.
- Keep passwords confidential. Tell us right away at contact@shopnsign.com if you believe your account has been accessed without permission.
4. Subscriptions, billing and auto-renewal
- Plans and prices. The Service is sold by subscription. Current plans, prices and features are shown on our pricing page and at checkout. Prices are in U.S. dollars.
- Billing. Subscription fees are billed in advance for each billing period (monthly or yearly) through our payment processor, Stripe. You authorize us and Stripe to charge your payment method on file for all fees when due.
- Automatic renewal. YOUR SUBSCRIPTION RENEWS AUTOMATICALLY AT THE END OF EACH BILLING PERIOD FOR THE SAME PERIOD (MONTH OR YEAR) AT THE THEN-CURRENT PRICE, AND YOUR PAYMENT METHOD WILL BE CHARGED, UNTIL YOU CANCEL. You can cancel at any time, online, from Settings → Billing in the Service, or by emailing contact@shopnsign.com.
- Price changes. We may change prices. We will give you at least 30 days’ notice by email before a new price applies to your subscription, and the change will take effect at your next renewal. If you do not agree, you may cancel before the renewal date.
- Taxes. Fees do not include taxes. Where required by law, we will add applicable sales, use or similar taxes, which you agree to pay.
- Failed payments. If a payment fails, we may retry the charge and, after notice, suspend the Service until the balance is paid.
- Text-message and other usage. Plans may include usage limits (for example, a daily number of text messages) designed to prevent abuse. Limits are described in the Service or on the pricing page.
5. Cancellation and refunds
- How to cancel. You can cancel online at any time from Settings → Billing, or by emailing us. Cancellation stops future renewals. Unless a different rule is stated at checkout, you keep access until the end of the billing period you already paid for.
- Refunds.
- Monthly plans. Monthly fees are non-refundable. If you cancel, your subscription stays active until the end of the billing month you have already paid for, and then does not renew.
- Annual plans. If you cancel an annual plan we will refund the unused full months remaining in your term, on a pro-rated basis (the months already used are not refunded).
Nothing in these Terms limits any refund right you have under applicable law.
- Your data after cancellation. See Section 14.
6. Card payments from your customers (Stripe Connect)
- If you choose to accept cards, you connect your own Stripe account. Card payments from your customers are processed by Stripe and paid to your Stripe account. You are the merchant for those sales; SHOPNSIGN is not a party to the sale between you and your customer, does not hold your funds, and is not a bank, money transmitter or payment processor.
- Your use of Stripe is governed by Stripe’s own agreements (including the Stripe Connected Account Agreement), which you accept with Stripe. Stripe’s processing fees apply.
- SHOPNSIGN currently charges no platform fee on your card payments. If we introduce one, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice and it will apply only to payments after that date.
- Refunds, disputes and chargebacks for repairs are between you and your customer and are handled in your Stripe account. You are responsible for them, and for your own refund and warranty policies toward your customers.
7. Text messages, email and WhatsApp
- Transactional only. The Service sends text messages (SMS) and emails on your behalf, to your own customers, about their own repair — for example, a link to review and sign an estimate, inspection results, status updates and payment links. You may not use the Service to send marketing, promotional or bulk messages.
- Consent is your responsibility. Before you text a customer through the Service, you must have that customer’s consent to receive texts about their repair, obtained in a way that complies with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the CAN-SPAM Act, carrier rules (including CTIA guidelines and A2P 10DLC requirements) and any state law. We provide an SMS consent notice you can display at your counter. You must keep reasonable records of consent and honor opt-outs.
- Opt-outs. Customers can reply STOP (or a similar word such as QUIT, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE or REVOKE) to stop texts, and the Service honors those replies automatically. Under FCC rules, a customer may also revoke consent by any reasonable means — for example by telling your staff, calling or emailing you. You must honor every such request promptly and in any case within 10 business days, record it in the Service, and not text that number again unless the customer opts in again. You may not require customers to use one specific method to opt out.
- Text-message registration. To send texts in the U.S., each Shop’s business must be registered with the mobile carriers (A2P 10DLC). You agree to provide accurate business information (legal name, EIN, address, website) for that registration. Texting may not be available until registration is approved, and carriers may delay or block messages for reasons outside our control.
- WhatsApp. If you turn on WhatsApp, the Service only opens your own WhatsApp app with a message already written; you send it yourself from your phone. Those messages are sent by you under WhatsApp’s terms, are not sent by SHOPNSIGN, and are not stored in the Service.
- Email. Estimate emails are sent from a SHOPNSIGN address with your shop’s name, and replies go to your email address.
- We may suspend messaging for a Shop that generates complaints, carrier filtering, high opt-out rates or otherwise appears to violate this Section or our Acceptable Use Policy.
8. Electronic signatures
- The Service lets your customers review and sign estimates and authorizations electronically, under the federal ESIGN Act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as adopted by the states. Before signing, customers are shown our E-Sign Disclosure and must consent to do business electronically.
- The Service records an audit trail of each signature (such as the time, the document version, and device and network information) and stores a copy of the signed record that you and your customer can download.
- You are responsible for deciding whether an electronic signature is appropriate for a given document, for offering a paper alternative when a customer asks for one or when the law requires it, and for meeting any state rules about the content of estimates, authorizations and invoices (see Section 9).
9. Your responsibilities as a repair business
SHOPNSIGN is a tool. You — not SHOPNSIGN — are the repair business, and you remain fully responsible for your work and for complying with the laws that apply to it. In particular:
- Auto-repair consumer laws. Many states require written estimates, customer authorization before work or before exceeding an estimate, the return or disclosure of replaced parts, specific invoice contents, and record-keeping (for example, California’s Automotive Repair Act and Bureau of Automotive Repair regulations). The Service’s forms and defaults are general and may not meet every state’s requirements. You must review and adapt your estimates, authorizations, policies and invoices to your state’s laws.
- Licenses and registrations your business needs (for example, auto repair dealer registration, smog-check licenses, business licenses).
- Prices, taxes and fees. The labor rates, prices, taxes, environmental (EPA) and shop-supply fees, and discounts you charge are set by you. You are responsible for their accuracy and legality and for collecting and remitting sales tax. The Service’s calculations depend on the rates and settings you enter.
- Work quality and warranties on repairs and parts are your responsibility.
- Record retention. You are responsible for keeping the records the law requires you to keep. Export or download what you need before you close your account.
- Your customers’ privacy. See Section 10 and our Data Processing Addendum.
10. Your data and your customers’ data
- Ownership. As between you and us, you own the data you and your users put into the Service, including your customers’ names, phone numbers, emails, vehicle information, estimates, photos, videos, signatures and payment records (“Shop Data”).
- Our role. We process your customers’ personal information on your behalf, as your service provider/processor, only to provide the Service, under our Data Processing Addendum, which is part of these Terms. We do not sell Shop Data and do not use it for advertising.
- Your role. You are responsible for having a lawful basis and any required notices and consents for the personal information you enter, and for responding to your customers’ privacy requests (the Service includes tools to correct and erase a customer’s personal information while keeping the financial record).
- License to us. You grant us a limited license to host, copy, process, transmit and display Shop Data only as needed to provide, secure and support the Service, and as required by law.
- Aggregated data. We may create de-identified, aggregated statistics about use of the Service (which do not identify you, your users or your customers) to operate and improve the Service.
- Security. We use reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards, described in our Privacy Policy and DPA. No system is perfectly secure.
- Feedback. If you send us suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.
11. Acceptable use
You agree to follow the Acceptable Use Policy in Part B below, which is part of these Terms.
12. AI-assisted features
Some features may use artificial-intelligence tools (for example, an in-app help assistant or voice-to-text dictation). AI output can be inaccurate or incomplete. You are responsible for reviewing any AI-generated text, diagnosis wording, price or translation before you rely on it or send it to a customer. We configure our AI providers' settings to prevent training on Shop Data where those settings are available, and we do not permit our AI providers to use Shop Data to train their general models.
13. Intellectual property
- The Service, its software, design, logos and the SHOPNSIGN name are owned by ShopNSign LLC and its licensors and are protected by law. Subject to these Terms and payment of fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for your internal business during your subscription.
- You may not copy, modify, resell, reverse engineer (except where the law allows it), or build a competing product from the Service.
- Copyright complaints. If you believe content in the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to contact@shopnsign.com with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3).
14. Suspension and termination
- You may stop using the Service and cancel at any time (Section 5).
- We may suspend or terminate your access, with notice when practical, if you materially breach these Terms or the AUP, fail to pay, create a risk to the Service, other users, your customers or the public, or if required by law or a carrier or payment partner.
- Data export and deletion. After your subscription ends, we keep Shop Data for 30 days so you can reactivate or export it. After that we delete or de-identify it within a reasonable time, except copies we must keep by law, in routine backups (which expire on their normal cycle), or to resolve disputes.
- Sections that by their nature should survive (including fees owed, Sections 10, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18) survive termination.
15. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SHOPNSIGN DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR SECURE, THAT MESSAGES WILL BE DELIVERED, OR THAT THE SERVICE OR ITS FORMS WILL SATISFY THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR STATE OR BUSINESS. SHOPNSIGN DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL, TAX OR ACCOUNTING ADVICE.
16. Limitation of liability; indemnity
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) SHOPNSIGN WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL OR DATA, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY; AND (B) SHOPNSIGN’S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITS DO NOT APPLY WHERE THE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THEM.
Indemnity. You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless ShopNSign LLC and its members, employees and agents from third-party claims, fines and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from: your repair work and dealings with your customers; messages sent from your account, including claims under the TCPA or state telemarketing laws; your violation of law or of these Terms; or Shop Data you did not have the right to use.
17. Dispute resolution; arbitration; class-action waiver
- Talk to us first. Before filing a claim, contact us at contact@shopnsign.com; both sides will try in good faith to resolve the dispute within 60 days.
- Binding arbitration. Any dispute that is not resolved will be decided by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, before one arbitrator, held in Sacramento County, California, or by video conference. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.
- Exceptions. Either side may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either side may seek an injunction in court to protect intellectual property or stop unauthorized use of the Service.
- Class-action waiver. CLAIMS MAY BE BROUGHT ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
- Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing us within 30 days after you first accept these Terms.
18. General terms
- Governing law. California law governs these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 17. For any matter not subject to arbitration, the state and federal courts in Sacramento County, California have exclusive jurisdiction.
- Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms. For material changes we will give at least 30 days’ notice by email or in the Service. Continuing to use the Service after the effective date means you accept the changes.
- Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, AUP, DPA, SMS Terms, E-Sign Disclosure and any order form or checkout terms, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
- Force majeure. Neither side is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including outages of carriers, cloud providers or payment networks.
- Notices. We send notices to the email on your account; you send notices to contact@shopnsign.com.
- Severability; no waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Not enforcing a right is not a waiver.
- Language. We may provide translations for convenience. The English version controls.
19. Contact
ShopNSign LLC
2108 N St, Ste N, Sacramento, CA 95816
contact@shopnsign.com
Part B — Acceptable Use Policy
This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) is part of the SHOPNSIGN Terms of Service. It applies to every Shop and every user of the Service.
1. Messaging rules (text, email, WhatsApp)
- Send messages only to your own customers, about their own vehicle and repair, and only with their consent.
- No marketing, promotions, coupons, newsletters, surveys for marketing, or bulk/broadcast messages through SHOPNSIGN texting or email.
- No messages about cannabis, alcohol, tobacco or vaping, firearms, sex or adult content, gambling, loans, debt collection or debt relief, cryptocurrency, or any other content prohibited by mobile carriers (“SHAFT” and similar categories).
- No purchased, rented, shared or scraped phone lists. No texting numbers that replied STOP.
- Identify your shop in messages and do not impersonate anyone.
- Do not hide or alter the signing link, the STOP instructions or other compliance text the Service adds.
2. Honest records
- Do not change a signed estimate or authorization to misrepresent what the customer approved. Use the Service’s revision and re-approval flow.
- Do not backdate records, forge signatures, or sign on behalf of a customer without written authority.
- Do not use the Service to charge a customer for work they did not authorize where the law requires authorization.
3. Content
- Upload only photos, videos and documents you have the right to use, related to the repair. No unlawful, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit or infringing content.
- Do not upload government ID numbers, Social Security numbers, full card numbers or medical information about customers.
4. Security and fair use
- Do not attempt to access other shops’ data, probe or bypass security, share log-ins, or use bots or scrapers.
- Do not overload the Service, introduce malware, or resell or white-label the Service without our written agreement.
- Do not use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of sanctions or export laws.
5. Enforcement
We may investigate suspected violations, remove content, limit or suspend messaging (including our per-shop daily text limit), or suspend or terminate accounts. Report abuse to contact@shopnsign.com.