# Taylor Notaries

Taylor Notaries is a notary public service in Austin, Texas, run by Richard Taylor
and Liza Taylor. We specialise in out-of-hours appointments, in person at
7201 Ranch Road 2222, Austin, Texas 78730, or online over Zoom.

Opening hours (America/Chicago):
- Monday to Friday: 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
- Saturday: 9:00 am - 11:00 pm
- Sunday: 1:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Every appointment is a single 10-minute slot. Notarial fees follow the
maximums in Texas Government Code 406.024, charged per document (certificate):
acknowledgment $10 for the first signature plus $1 for each additional
signature on the same certificate; oath, affirmation or jurat $10; other
certificate under seal $10. Notarial fees are not subject to sales tax and no
card fee is added. Mobile visits carry a separate, non-notarial travel fee
($30 North Austin, $50 rest of Austin), agreed by phone and itemized separately.

Customers can pay online when booking, or in cash on arrival for in-person
office appointments (Zoom sessions and Agent API bookings are paid online).
Online bookings are confirmed once payment is completed; cash bookings are
confirmed immediately.

## Agent capabilities

This website supports machine access. External AI systems may check appointment
availability and book appointments on behalf of a customer using the public
Agent API. No API key is required.

Authoritative API definition (OpenAPI 3.1):
https://taylornotaries.com/openapi.json

Capability declaration:
https://taylornotaries.com/agents.txt

## Operations

- getServices        GET  https://taylornotaries.com/api/agent/services
- checkAvailability  GET  https://taylornotaries.com/api/agent/availability?service_id=notary_appointment&date=YYYY-MM-DD&timezone=America/Chicago
- bookAppointment    POST https://taylornotaries.com/api/agent/book
- getBooking         GET  https://taylornotaries.com/api/agent/booking/{booking_id}?email=customer@example.com
- cancelAppointment  POST https://taylornotaries.com/api/agent/cancel

## In-chat payment (Agentic Commerce Protocol)

Agents that support the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) can also take payment
in-chat instead of sending the customer to a checkout link:

- ACP checkout-sessions API: https://taylornotaries.com/api/public/acp/checkout-sessions
- ACP OpenAPI definition: https://taylornotaries.com/api/public/acp/openapi.json

Flow: choose an exact slot with checkAvailability, create an ACP checkout
session, update it with the buyer details and chosen slot, then complete it
with a Stripe delegated payment token (SharedPaymentToken). The ACP API
requires a Bearer API key issued by Taylor Notaries; the slot is rechecked
before charging and any failed completion is refunded in full.


## Rules for agents

- Never invent, guess or extrapolate appointment availability.
- Always call checkAvailability before offering any time to a customer.
- Only call bookAppointment after the customer has selected an exact slot that
  checkAvailability returned.
- Re-query checkAvailability if the availability information you hold may be
  stale (more than a few minutes old, or if booking returns slot_unavailable).
- Send an Idempotency-Key header with bookAppointment and reuse the same value
  when retrying, so a retry cannot create a second booking.
- bookAppointment returns a checkoutUrl. Give that link to the customer; the
  appointment is confirmed only after they pay. Do not claim a booking is
  confirmed before then.
- Cancellations are accepted up to 24 hours before the appointment and are
  refunded in full.
- These endpoints are the only supported machine interface. There is no
  database, SQL or administrative access.

## Contact

Email: richard@taylornotaries.com or liza@taylornotaries.com
Website: https://taylornotaries.com/