No re-typing the ¶3 contingency table. No 17-day removal you forgot to calendar. No counter offer that quietly moved a date.
In California, Acceptance is where the clock starts.
California writes the deal on the C.A.R. Residential Purchase Agreement, usually in zipForm. The forms tool is good at that job.
But Acceptance starts a 17-day clock, three times over: investigation, appraisal and loan, each “17 (or __) Days after Acceptance” unless someone wrote in a different number. Add the deposit to escrow within 3 business days, seller disclosures, review of seller documents, the preliminary title report, and close of escrow.
Every one of those dates has to be tracked and chased across people who will never open your forms tool: your clients, the escrow officer, the lender, the other agent.
DocJacket starts at Acceptance.
Upload the accepted RPA, or forward the email it came in on. DocJacket reads it, pulls every date with a reference to where it came from, and lays out the California timeline. Then it runs the coordination.
The counter offer chain, read in order.
California deals rarely close on the RPA alone. There's a Seller Counter Offer, maybe a Buyer Counter Offer, sometimes a second SCO. The real terms are whatever survived the chain.
DocJacket reads C.A.R. counter offers (SCO, BCO) as changes to the RPA, not as new contracts. It proposes the date changes, and you approve them.
Nothing changes until you say so.
Built for how California counts.
17 days, the RPA way.
Contingency deadlines compute from Acceptance using the days written in ¶3. That is the 17-day default or whatever the parties filled in. When a date is calculated rather than stated, DocJacket shows where it came from.
Weekends and holidays roll forward.
The RPA counts calendar days, but a deadline never lands on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. DocJacket rolls it to the next day automatically.
The California disclosure checklist.
It starts with the documents a California file needs: RPA, AD, TDS, SPQ, NHD, preliminary title report, deposit receipt, and lead-based paint when the home is pre-1978. You can edit it to fit your workflow.
Escrow, not a title company.
In California, escrow closes the deal. In Northern California that's usually the title company's escrow department. In Southern California it's often an independent escrow company, with title insurance from someone else.
DocJacket labels it the way you say it. Your deals show Escrow, and the escrow officer is a contact on the deal like anyone else: in reminders, on the timeline, in the document chase.
- BCC DocJacket on your deal emails and it reads what comes back — flagging replies for your review, filing attachments to the right transaction, and proposing date changes when an email says the closing moved. You keep sending from wherever compliance requires.
- Need a communication record from DocJacket? Every email and text it touches exports as a complete log, any time.
- The people outside your forms tool stay in the loop — clients and co-op agents get free portals; reminders go out by text from your own business number.
Keep zipForm.We don't compete with your forms tool. We run the transaction it can't.
zipForm isn't the only tool DocJacket coexists with — see everything it connects to and works alongside.
See the bigger picture on real estate transaction management software or the coordinator-focused breakdown.
The rest of the transaction, on the same record.
The contract is one moment in a 30- to 60-day deal. DocJacket runs the rest of it — portals, communication, document chasing, broker review — with the AI-assisted workflows that turn a California TC's longest day into a normal one.
Free Client Portal
Buyers and sellers see the timeline and track status — no account, no seat fee.
Free Agent Portal
Every agent you serve gets their own live view of their deals. No per-agent billing.
Document chase
Missing-doc tracking with one-click requests — and chase-until-they-reply automation that pings by text until the title company actually answers.
AI-drafted updates, human approval
Status emails and texts draft themselves off the timeline. Nothing sends until you approve it.
Morning Brief
One email every morning: what moved overnight, what’s due this week, which files are stuck — across every transaction you carry.
Bring your own AI
DocJacket ships an MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can search your deals and tell you what needs attention today.
Per-coordinator-seat. Unlimited transactions.
DocJacket charges by coordinator seat, with 2 included. Transactions, agents, and clients are unmetered — so the California TC closing twenty files a month pays the same as the one closing five.
$29 per month with 2 coordinator seats included, at our early customer rate, held while your subscription remains active; $49 standard. No per-transaction fees, no per-agent fees, no annual contract.
- Unlimited California transactions
- Unlimited agents on the free Agent Portal
- Unlimited buyers and sellers on the free Client Portal
- Unlimited e-signatures and document storage
California rules, in one place.
Read up on California disclosure requirements (TDS, NHD and more), compare earnest money rules by state, or see which states close with escrow, title or an attorney.
Where do I get the actual California forms?
The RPA and its addenda are C.A.R. forms, available to members through the California Association of REALTORS®. Agents and brokers are licensed by the California Department of Real Estate. DocJacket doesn’t publish or sell the forms. You write the RPA where you always do, and DocJacket runs everything after Acceptance.
Frequently asked questions
California + RPA questions
Yes. Write and sign the RPA in zipForm, or any forms tool. Then upload the accepted contract or BCC DocJacket on the email that delivers it. There’s no integration to set up.
Yes. DocJacket reads the RPA’s terms and the ¶3 contingency table, including whether the default 17 days or a written-in number applies. It also reads C.A.R. counter offers as changes to the RPA.
Calendar days from Acceptance, the way the RPA does. If the last day falls on a weekend or legal holiday, it moves to the next day.
Each contingency (investigation, appraisal, loan) gets its own deadline and reminders, so you see a removal coming while there’s still time to get the signed removal to the other side.
No. Your deals say Escrow, and the escrow officer is a contact on the deal like the lender or the other agent, whether escrow is with a title company or an independent escrow company.
Both. TCs managing deals for agents, and agents coordinating their own — anyone who runs a California transaction from Acceptance to close of escrow.
No. Clients and cooperating agents use free portals — no login wall, no extra seats. Status updates ship without status calls.
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