Waivers

A waiver in Dojo Tiger is a document, not a signature record. You write the text once; families sign it during registration; and the app keeps a numbered version history so you can always answer "what exactly did this parent agree to, and when".

Studio then →Waivers is the screen. Write your waivers before you hand out your registration link — a family who registers before a waiver exists is never asked to sign it.

Creating a waiver

1. 1

   Add Waiver

   Studio then →Waivers → Add Waiver.

2. 2

   Title and body text

   • Title — what the family sees as the heading, e.g. "Liability Waiver", "Photo and Media Release". Up to 200 characters.
   • Waiver Body Text — the full text, up to 50,000 characters. Plain text: paste it straight out of the document you use today. Line breaks are preserved exactly as you type them; there is no bold, no headings and no formatting.
3. 3

   Create Waiver

   It appears in the list marked Active, at v1.

Add as many as you need. Most studios have one or two; a liability waiver and a photo-release are the common pair.

The list

Each row shows the title, an Active or Inactive badge, and the current version number.

Deactivating does not delete anything. The waiver stops being presented to new registrations; signatures already collected against it stay on file and stay visible on the registration and student detail pages. It is the right way to retire a waiver you no longer use.

There is no delete button for a waiver.

Versioning: every save is a new version

This is the part that surprises people, so it is worth being precise.

What that means in practice:

• Signatures never move. A parent who signed v1 has signed v1 for ever. The record on their registration reads "Liability Waiver (v1) — signed by …" with a timestamp and the IP address it came from.
• New registrations sign the current version. From the moment you save, everyone signing is signing v2.
• Nobody is asked to re-sign. There is no bulk "everyone must re-sign the new version" action, and no report of who is on an old version. If a legal change genuinely requires existing families to re-sign, you have to ask them directly.

The Version History list at the bottom of the waiver's page shows every version with its date, and marks which one is current.

What a family actually does

During registration, after the intake form, the family is shown each active waiver in your display order, one at a time:

• the full text in a scrollable box;
• a Type Your Legal Name to Sign field;
• I Agree & Sign, and Decline.

Decline is a real option. Choosing it asks "Are you sure? You can still proceed without signing this waiver" and needs a second press to confirm. A declined waiver is recorded as declined, with the same timestamp treatment as a signature — it is not the same as an unanswered waiver.

A family that declines still completes registration. Nothing in the app blocks a student with an unsigned or declined waiver from being enrolled, appearing on the attendance sheet, or checking in at the kiosk. Enforcing a waiver is a front-desk policy, not a software gate.

Where signatures show up

A studio with no active waivers skips the signing step entirely, and registrations arrive already at Waivers Complete.

Recording a paper waiver

If a family signed on paper — most of your existing roster, most likely — the manual student form can record it. On Students then →Students → Add student, the Record paper waiver card lets you tick which waivers were signed, and enter the date, the signer's name, their relationship and a note.

Those go on file as signatures against the version that is current now, marked as recorded in person rather than online. See Adding students by hand and in bulk.

Common questions

Last reviewed 2 August 2026