Trampoline Park Waiver Software: Sign Liability Waivers Online

Yes. A trampoline park can collect waiver signatures electronically, and those signatures are legally valid. Two laws make that work: the federal ESIGN Act, which applies nationwide, and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), which 49 states have adopted. Together they say a contract or signature cannot be denied legal effect just because it is electronic, as long as both parties intended to sign and a record of the signature is kept. A digital waiver is now the standard at trampoline parks, and many insurers prefer it because the dated, timestamped record is cleaner than a stack of paper clipboards.

In practice that means you can text a guest the waiver before they leave home, have a party host send one link to every family, or load the form at a check-in tablet, and each waiver is signed and dated before the jumper reaches the court. Each side keeps an identical dated copy, and the whole record is timestamped, which is exactly what you need the day an injury turns into a question of who signed the waiver and when.

The parent or legal guardian signs, and that detail is the most important one at a trampoline park. Most jumpers are minors, and under contract law in every state a minor's own signature on a waiver is voidable, meaning the child can disaffirm it, so a waiver signed by the kid is worth very little. The adult with capacity to be bound, the parent or guardian, is the party whose signature matters, so the waiver should name that adult and capture their signature, not the child's.

This is one rule the ESIGN Act and UETA do not change. Those laws make an electronic signature as valid as an ink one, but they do not override state capacity rules about who can be bound, and that matters most for a liability waiver that only has a chance of working if the right adult signed it. SignSend lets you address the signing request to the parent or guardian, record who signed and in what capacity with a timestamp, and collect a separate signature for each child on a family's party. The result is paperwork you can actually rely on, with a dated record of the adult who agreed to it. This is general information, not legal advice; have an attorney review your waiver for your state.

Trampoline parks are one of the few recreation businesses some states regulate by name. Michigan's Trampoline Court Safety Act spells out the duties of both the park and the jumper and requires the operator to comply with the ASTM F2970 safety standard for indoor trampoline courts. Arizona requires parks to register annually with the state, show proof of liability insurance, certify an insurance-company inspection, log emergency calls, and notify jumpers of the risk of injury, and most Arizona parks carry the $1 million liability policy the rules expect. Utah passed its own trampoline-park safety legislation in 2019. ASTM F2970 itself is an industry standard, not a law on its own, but several states fold it into their statutes, and courts use it as the yardstick for whether a park behaved reasonably.

What this means for your paperwork: a signed waiver is part of risk management, not a replacement for compliance. It will not protect you from a statutory safety violation, gross negligence, or willful misconduct, and many insurers require a solid, well-documented waiver system as a condition of coverage. So get the waiver your attorney and insurer approved signed by the right adult, keep the dated audit trail, and treat it as one layer alongside ASTM-aligned operations, inspections, supervision, and insurance. SignSend's job is the signing and the record; it does not write your waiver, certify your park, or tell you what your state requires.

Even a well-drafted waiver may not bar a claim brought on behalf of an injured child, and the state you operate in decides whether a parent's pre-injury release holds up at all. In 2008 the Florida Supreme Court ruled that a parent did not have the authority to sign a pre-injury release on behalf of a child for a commercial activity, and California courts have consistently held that parents cannot waive a minor's tort rights, which makes parental waivers largely unenforceable for child injury claims there. Connecticut, Texas, and roughly a dozen other states reach a similar result. Other states, particularly across the Midwest and South, generally enforce a well-drafted parent-signed waiver for a child's recreational participation.

What that means in practice: have a sports-liability attorney draft your waiver for the state your park operates in, make the assumption-of-risk and release language conspicuous and separately initialed, and add a parent indemnification clause where your attorney advises, so the parent agrees to defend and cover claims even in states that will not enforce the release itself. Never rely on a waiver alone in place of insurance and good operations, since no waiver covers gross negligence or a statutory violation. The signing tool's job is to make sure the right adult actually signed and dated the form you put in front of them. SignSend gets the waiver signed and stored with an audit trail; it does not write the waiver or tell you whether your state enforces it.

Beyond the single-visit waiver, many parks sell memberships and annual jump passes that recur and auto-renew. The membership agreement carries the money terms: the monthly or annual price, what the pass includes, the renewal date, and how a member cancels. Because the charge repeats, take care with the renewal and cancellation language. The FTC enforces auto-renewal and negative-option practices under ROSCA and the FTC Act, and several states have automatic renewal laws that require clear disclosure and an easy way to cancel. The practical rule regulators apply is that canceling should not be harder than signing up.

So disclose the renewal plainly, spell out the cancellation notice, and have the member initial the auto-renew clause when they sign, then keep the dated record. A clear, signed membership agreement is what lets you hold a member to the terms and answer a chargeback or complaint with the exact form they agreed to. SignSend captures that signature and acknowledgment with a timestamp; it does not process payments or run your membership billing.

If you already run an all-in-one park platform that handles online booking, POS, party scheduling, and integrated waivers, use it. Those suites do a lot, usually on a tiered plan priced per location or per transaction. SignSend is not trying to replace that. It does one job, getting documents signed, and it does it at a flat monthly rate with no per-waiver fee.

That focus helps in three situations. First, if you are a small or new park still working off a PDF waiver and a clipboard, and you just want it signed properly without buying a full platform. Second, if you do run a platform but need to sign documents it does not handle well: a birthday-party vendor agreement, a fundraiser or group-event contract, a staff or instructor agreement, a facility-rental contract, or a vendor W-9. Third, if you run more than one location and want one simple place to send a document and get it back signed by the right adult. You upload the forms you already use, place the fields, and send. We do not run your bookings or your POS; we get the documents signed and stored with an audit trail.