Documenso

Documenso is the open-source DocuSign alternative, a developer-friendly e-signature platform for sending, signing, and managing documents. Its public REST API lets you create and upload documents, add recipients and signature fields, send documents for signing, work with reusable templates, and receive webhook events across the document lifecycle. Self-hostable under AGPL.

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APIs

Documenso Documents API

Create, upload, retrieve, download, send, re-send, and delete documents. Upload returns a presigned URL for the document PDF, and documents move through a DRAFT, PENDING, COMPLE...

Documenso Recipients API

Manage the recipients of a document - create, update, and delete signers, approvers, viewers, CCs, and assistants, with configurable roles and signing order.

Documenso Fields API

Add and configure signature and form fields on a document - signatures, initials, name, email, date, text, number, radio, checkbox, and dropdown - positioned by page and percent...

Documenso Templates API

Create, retrieve, and delete reusable document templates, and generate new documents from a template with overridable title, recipients, and meta options.

Documenso Webhooks

Outbound webhook events covering the full document lifecycle - created, sent, opened, signed, completed, rejected, cancelled - plus template events. Payloads are verified with a...

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Documenso Public API

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Pricing Plans

Documenso Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Documenso Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Documenso Finops

FINOPS

Resources

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opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Documenso Public API
  version: '1.0'
request:
  auth:
    type: bearer
    token: '{{apiToken}}'
items:
- info:
    name: Documents
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Get all documents
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents
    docs: Returns a paginated list of documents visible to the API token.
  - info:
      name: Upload a new document
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"recipients\": [\n    {\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"email\":\
          \ \"<string>\",\n      \"role\": \"SIGNER\"\n    }\n  ]\n}"
    docs: Creates a new draft document and returns a presigned upload URL for the PDF.
  - info:
      name: Get a single document
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}
    docs: Retrieve a single document by id.
  - info:
      name: Delete a document
      type: http
    http:
      method: DELETE
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}
    docs: Delete a document by id.
  - info:
      name: Download a signed document
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/download
    docs: Returns a presigned URL to download the signed PDF.
  - info:
      name: Send a document for signing
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/send
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"sendEmail\": true\n}"
    docs: Distributes the document to its recipients for signature.
  - info:
      name: Re-send a document for signing
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/resend
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"recipients\": [0]\n}"
    docs: Re-sends the signing request to selected recipients.
- info:
    name: Recipients
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Create a recipient
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/recipients
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"<string>\",\n  \"role\": \"SIGNER\"\n}"
    docs: Create a recipient for a document.
  - info:
      name: Update a recipient
      type: http
    http:
      method: PATCH
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/recipients/{recipientId}
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"<string>\",\n  \"role\": \"SIGNER\"\n}"
    docs: Update a recipient on a document.
  - info:
      name: Delete a recipient
      type: http
    http:
      method: DELETE
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/recipients/{recipientId}
    docs: Delete a recipient from a document.
- info:
    name: Fields
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Create a field
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/fields
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"recipientId\": 0,\n  \"type\": \"SIGNATURE\",\n  \"pageNumber\": 1,\n  \"pageX\": 0,\n  \"pageY\": 0,\n\
          \  \"pageWidth\": 0,\n  \"pageHeight\": 0\n}"
    docs: Create a field for a document, bound to a recipient and positioned by page and percentage coordinates.
  - info:
      name: Update a field
      type: http
    http:
      method: PATCH
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/fields/{fieldId}
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"recipientId\": 0,\n  \"type\": \"SIGNATURE\",\n  \"pageNumber\": 1,\n  \"pageX\": 0,\n  \"pageY\": 0,\n\
          \  \"pageWidth\": 0,\n  \"pageHeight\": 0\n}"
    docs: Update a field on a document.
  - info:
      name: Delete a field
      type: http
    http:
      method: DELETE
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/documents/{id}/fields/{fieldId}
    docs: Delete a field from a document.
- info:
    name: Templates
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Get all templates
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/templates
    docs: Returns a paginated list of templates.
  - info:
      name: Create a template
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/templates
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"title\": \"<string>\"\n}"
    docs: Creates a new template and returns a presigned upload URL for its PDF.
  - info:
      name: Get a single template
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/templates/{id}
    docs: Retrieve a single template by id.
  - info:
      name: Delete a template
      type: http
    http:
      method: DELETE
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/templates/{id}
    docs: Delete a template by id.
  - info:
      name: Generate a document from a template
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://app.documenso.com/api/v1/templates/{templateId}/generate-document
      body:
        type: json
        data: "{\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"recipients\": [\n    {\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"email\":\
          \ \"<string>\",\n      \"role\": \"SIGNER\"\n    }\n  ]\n}"
    docs: Creates a new document from a template, optionally overriding title, recipients, and meta options.