The Official SignNow API client v1.8.2

SignNow Node.js REST API Wrapper

Table of Contents

1. About SignNow
2. API Contact Information
3. API and Application
4. Installation
5. Documentation
6. Examples
   • User
     • Create a User
     • Send Verification Email
     • Retrieve User Information
   • OAuth 2.0
     • Request Access Token
     • Verify Access Token
     • Refresh Access Token
   • Document
     • Retrieve a List of the User’s Documents
     • Retrieve a Document Resource
     • Download a Collapsed Document
     • Upload Document
     • Upload File & Extract Fields
     • Update Document (add fields)
     • Create Invite to Sign a Document
     • Create Free Form Invite
     • Cancel Field Invite to Sign a Document
     • Cancel Free Form Invite
     • Create a One-time Use Download URL
     • Merge Existing Documents
     • Get Document History
     • Remove Document
   • Links
     • Create signing link
   • Enumerations
     • Add Enumeration Field to a Document
     • Add Enumeration Options to the Field
   • Template
     • Create a Template
     • Create a Document from a Template
     • Create Invite to Sign a Template
     • Create Free Form Invite from Template
     • Remove Template
     • View Routing Details
     • Update Routing Details
   • Folder
     • Returns a list of folders
     • Returns a list of documents inside a folder
   • Document Group
     • Create Document Group
     • View Document Group
     • Create Invite to Sign a Document Group
     • Cancel Invite to Sign a Document Group
     • Download Document Group
   • Document Group Template
     • Create Document Group Template
     • View Document Group Template
     • Create Invite to Sign a Document Group Template
   • Webhook
     • Returns a list of Webhooks
     • Create a Webhook
   • Embedded
     • Create embedded signing invites for a document without sending emails
     • Create a link for the embedded invite.
     • Delete embedded invites for a document.
   • Promisify methods
7. Unit Tests
8. License
9. Additional Contact Information
   • Support
   • Sales

About SignNow

SignNow is a powerful web-based e-signature solution that streamlines the signing process and overall document flow for businesses of any size. SignNow offers SaaS as well as public and private cloud deployment options using the same underlying API. With SignNow you can easily sign, share and manage documents in compliance with international data laws and industry-specific regulations. SignNow enables you to collect signatures from partners, employees and customers from any device within minutes.

API Contact Information

If you have questions about the SignNow API, please visit https://docs.signnow.com or email api@signnow.com.

See additional contact information at the bottom.

API and Application

Resources	Sandbox	Production
API:	api-eval.signnow.com:443	api.signnow.com:443
Application:	https://app-eval.signnow.com	https://app.signnow.com
Entry page:	https://eval.signnow.com

Installation

@signnow/api-client supports node.js v6.4.0 or later.

To install the latest version of @signnow/api-client run:

npm install @signnow/api-client

Documentation

See API reference in our Documentation.

Examples

To run the examples you will need an API key. You can get one here https://www.signnow.com/api. For a full list of accepted parameters, refer to the SignNow REST Endpoints API guide: https://docs.signnow.com.

Every resource is accessed via your api client instance:

const api = require('@signnow/api-client')({
  credentials: 'ENCODED_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS',
  production: false, // if false uses eval server
});

Every resource returns two parameters. The first param contains any errors and the second contains the results.

User

Create a User

By default verification email is not sent. To send it set verifyEmail option to true.

api.user.create({
  email: 'john@domain.com',
  password: 'your password',
  first_name: 'John',
  last_name: 'Wayne',
  number: '123-456-789',
  options: { verifyEmail: true } // false by default
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Send Verification Email

api.user.verifyEmail({
  email: 'john@domain.com',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Send Verification Email

api.user.verifyEmail({
  email: 'john@domain.com',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Retrieve User Information

api.user.retrieve({
  token: 'your auth token',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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OAuth 2.0

Request Access Token

api.oauth2.requestToken({
  username: 'username',
  password: 'password',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Verify Access Token

api.oauth2.verify({
  token: 'your auth token',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Refresh Access Token

api.oauth2.refreshToken({
  refresh_token: 'your refresh token',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Document

Retrieve a List of the User’s Documents

api.document.list({
  token: 'your auth token',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Retrieve a Document Resource

api.document.view({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Download a Collapsed Document

By default document is downloaded without history or attachments. To download it with history set withHistory option to true. To download it with attachments set withAttachments option to true.

api.document.download({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
  options: { 
    withAttachments: true, // false by default
    withHistory: true, // false by default
  },
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Upload Document

api.document.create({
  token: 'your auth token',
  filepath: 'path to file',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Upload File & Extract Fields

api.document.fieldextract({
  token: 'your auth token',
  filepath: 'path to file',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Update Document (add fields)

const fields = {
  texts: [
    {
      size: 8,
      x: 61,
      y: 72,
      page_number: 0,
      font: 'Arial',
      data: 'sample text',
      line_height: 9.075,
    },
  ],
}

api.document.update({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
  fields,
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Create Invite to Sign a Document

const fieldInvite = {
  from: 'EMAIL_OF_SENDER',
  to: [
    {
      email: 'EMAIL_OF_SIGNER',
      role: 'Signer 1',
      order: 1,
      reassign: '0',
      decline_by_signature: '0',
      reminder: 4,
      expiration_days: 27,
      subject: 'Field invite Signer1',
      message: 'Message',
    },
  ],
};

api.document.invite({
  data: {
    ...fieldInvite,
  },
  id: 'DOCUMENT_ID_GOES_HERE',
  token: 'YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Create Free Form Invite

api.document.invite({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
  data: {
    from: 'email address',
    to: 'email address',
  },
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Cancel Field Invite to Sign a Document

api.document.cancelFieldInvite({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Cancel Free Form Invite

api.document.cancelFreeFormInvite({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'id of invite',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Create a One-time Use Download URL

api.document.share({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Merge Existing Documents

By default original documents are not removed after merging. To remove original documents set removeOriginalDocuments option to true.

api.document.merge({
  token: 'your auth token',
  name: 'the merged doc',
  document_ids: [
    '84a18d12bf7473ea3dd0e4dd1cdcded6ba6281aa',
    'a71d963c49f33176e90c5827069c422616b1500c',
  ],
  options: {
    removeOriginalDocuments: true, // false by default
  },
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Get Document History

api.document.history({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Remove Document

By default document invites are not cancelled during deletion. To cancel all document invites set cancelInvites option to true.

api.document.remove({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
  options: {
    cancelInvites: true, // false by default
  },
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Links

Create Signing Link

api.link.create({
  token: 'your auth token',
  document_id: 'document or template id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Enumerations

Add Enumeration Field to a Document

api.enumerations.addField({
  token: 'your auth token',
  document_id: 'document id',
  x: 150,
  y: 200,
  width: 200,
  height: 50,
  page_number: 0,
  role: 'buyer',
  required: true,
  label: 'Clothing Brand',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Add Enumeration Options to the Field

api.enumerations.addOptions({
  token: 'your auth token',
  enumeration_options: [
    {
      enumeration_id: '8a3501896160b12d4ef7507a81b2f0998b8137b1',
      data: 'Active',
    },
    {
      enumeration_id: '8a3501896160b12d4ef7507a81b2f0998b8137b1',
      data: 'Old Navy',
    },
    {
      enumeration_id: '8a3501896160b12d4ef7507a81b2f0998b8137b1',
      data: 'Volcom',
    },
  ],
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Template

Create a Template

By default original document is not removed after template creation. To remove original document set removeOriginalDocument option to true.

api.template.create({
  token: 'your auth token',
  document_id: 'document id',
  document_name: 'my template',
  options: {
    removeOriginalDocument: true, // false by default
  },
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Create a Document from a Template

api.template.duplicate({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document id',
  name: 'my template',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Create Invite to Sign a Template

const fieldInvite = {
  from: 'EMAIL_OF_SENDER',
  to: [
    {
      email: 'EMAIL_OF_SIGNER',
      role: 'Signer 1',
      order: 1,
      reassign: '0',
      decline_by_signature: '0',
      reminder: 4,
      expiration_days: 27,
      subject: 'Field invite Signer1',
      message: 'Message',
    },
  ],
};

api.template.invite({
  data: {
    ...fieldInvite,
  },
  id: 'TEMPLATE_ID_GOES_HERE',
  token: 'YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Create Free Form Invite from Template

api.template.invite({
  token: 'YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN',
  id: 'TEMPLATE_ID_GOES_HERE',
  data: {
    from: 'EMAIL_OF_SENDER',
    to: 'EMAIL_OF_SIGNER',
  },
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Remove Template

api.template.remove({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'template id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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View Routing Details

api.template.getRoutingDetails({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'template id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Update Routing Details

const routingDetails = {
  template_data: [
    {
      default_email: '',
      inviter_role: false,
      name: 'Signer 1',
      role_id: 'SIGNER 1 ROLE ID',
      signing_order: 1,
      decline_by_signature: true,
    },
    {
      default_email: 'signer2@mail.com',
      inviter_role: false,
      name: 'Signer 2',
      role_id: 'SIGNER 2 ROLE ID',
      signing_order: 2,
    },
  ],
  cc: [
    'cc1@mail.com',
    'cc2@mail.com',
  ],
  cc_step: [
    {
      email: 'cc1@mail.com',
      step: 1,
      name: 'CC 1',
    },
    {
      email: 'cc2@mail.com',
      step: 2,
      name: 'CC 2',
    },
  ],
  invite_link_instructions: 'Invite link signing instruction',
};

api.template.updateRoutingDetails({
  data: routingDetails,
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'template id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Folder

Returns a list of folders

api.folder.list({
  token: 'your auth token',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Returns a list of documents inside a folder

Filters	Values
signing-status	waiting-for-me, waiting-for-others, signed, pending
document-updated	new Date()
document-created	new Date()

Sort	Values
document-name	asc/desc
updated	asc/desc
created	asc/desc

api.folder.documents({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'folder id',
  filter: [
    {
      'signing-status': 'pending',
    },
  ],
  sort: {
    'document-name': 'asc',
  },
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Document Group

Create Document Group

api.documentGroup.create({
  token: 'your auth token',
  group_name: 'my document group name',
  ids: [
    // put document or template IDs here
    '84a18d12bf7473ea3dd0e4dd1cdcded6ba6281aa',
    'a71d963c49f33176e90c5827069c422616b1500c',
  ],
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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View Document Group

api.documentGroup.view({
  token: 'Your auth token',
  id: 'Document Group ID',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Create Invite to Sign a Document Group

const data = {
  invite_steps: [
    {
      order: 1,
      invite_emails: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 1',
          subject: 'Signer 1 Needs Your Signature',
          message: 'Signer 1 invited you to sign Document 1',
          expiration_days: 30,
          reminder: 0,
        },
      ],
      invite_actions: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 1',
          role_name: 'Signer 1',
          action: 'sign',
          document_id: 'Document 1 ID',
          allow_reassign: '0',
          decline_by_signature: '0',
        },
      ],
    },
    {
      order: 2,
      invite_emails: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 2',
          subject: 'Signer 2 Needs Your Signature',
          message: 'Signer 2 invited you to sign Document 2',
          expiration_days: 30,
          reminder: 0,
        },
      ],
      invite_actions: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 2',
          role_name: 'Signer 2',
          action: 'sign',
          document_id: 'Document 2 ID',
          allow_reassign: '0',
          decline_by_signature: '0',
        },
      ],
    },
  ],
};

api.documentGroup.invite({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'Document Group ID',
  data,
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Cancel Invite to Sign a Document Group

api.documentGroup.cancelInvite({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'Document Group ID',
  inviteId: 'Document Group invite ID'
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Download Document Group

By default Document Group is downloaded without history as .zip archive with PDF files. To download it as a signle merged PDF set type to merged. To download document group with history set with_history to after_each_document or after_merged_pdf.

api.documentGroup.download({
  token: 'your auth token',
  id: 'document group ID',
  type: 'merged', // 'zip' by default
  with_history: 'after_each_document', // 'no' by default
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Document Group Template

Create Document Group Template

const routing_details = {
  invite_steps: [
    {
      order: 1,
      invite_emails: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 1',
          subject: 'Signer 1 Needs Your Signature',
          message: 'Signer 1 invited you to sign Document 1',
          expiration_days: 30,
          reminder: 0,
          hasSignActions: true,
          allow_reassign: '0',
        },
      ],
      invite_actions: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 1',
          role_name: 'Signer 1',
          action: 'sign',
          document_id: 'b6f4f61a5662c5c4385b02421397b76dc6d9c8af',
          document_name: 'Document 1',
          allow_reassign: '0',
          decline_by_signature: '0',
        },
      ],
    },
    {
      order: 2,
      invite_emails: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 2',
          subject: 'Signer 2 Needs Your Signature',
          message: 'Signer 2 invited you to sign Document 2',
          expiration_days: 30,
          reminder: 0,
          hasSignActions: true,
          allow_reassign: '0',
        },
      ],
      invite_actions: [
        {
          email: 'Email of Signer 2',
          role_name: 'Signer 2',
          action: 'sign',
          document_id: '14f02aac643770f22a384fe4e7a6b1ed6d15a9b8',
          document_name: 'Document 2',
          allow_reassign: '0',
          decline_by_signature: '0',
        },
      ],
    },
  ],
  include_email_attachments: 0,
};

api.documentGroupTemplate.create({
  token: 'your auth token',
  template_ids: [
      '84a18d12bf7473ea3dd0e4dd1cdcded6ba6281aa',
      'a71d963c49f33176e90c5827069c422616b1500c',
    ],
  template_group_name: 'Document group template name',
  routing_details,
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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View Document Group Template

api.documentGroupTemplate.view({
  token: 'Your auth token',
  id: 'Document Group Template ID',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Create Invite to Sign a Document Group Template

api.documentGroupTemplate.invite({
  token: 'Your auth token',
  id: 'Document Group Template ID'
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

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Webhook

Returns a list of Webhooks

signnow.webhook.list({
  token: 'your auth token',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Create a Webhook

Events	Description
document.create	Webhook is triggered when a document is uploaded to users account in SignNow
document.update	Webhook is triggered when a document is updated (fields added, text added, signature added, etc.)
document.delete	Webhook is triggered when a document is deleted from
invite.create	Webhook is triggered when an invitation to a SignNow document is created.
invite.update	Webhook is triggered when an invite to SignNow document is updated. Ex. A signer has signed the document.

api.webhook.create({
  token: 'your auth token',
  event: 'document.create',
  callback_url: 'http://www.domain.com/path',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Embedded

Create embedded signing invites for a document without sending emails

signnow.embedded.createInvite({
  token: 'access token',
  document_id: 'document id',
  invites: [
    {
      email: 'email of signer',
      role_id: 'role id',
      order: 1,
      auth_method: 'password',
    },
  ],
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Creates a link for the embedded invite.

signnow.embedded.generateInviteLink({
  token: 'access token',
  document_id: 'document id',
  field_invite_unique_id: 'field invite unique id',
  link_expiration: 15,
  auth_method: 'password',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Deletes embedded invites for a document.

signnow.embedded.cancelInvites({
  token: 'access token',
  document_id: 'document id',
}, (err, res) => {
  // handle error or process response data
});

Promisify methods

If you are using node.js version 8.0.0 or higher you can use built in promisify utility:

const { promisify } = require('util');
const api = require('@signnow/api-client')({
  credentials: 'ENCODED_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS',
  production: false, // if false uses eval server
});
const requestToken = promisify(api.oauth2.requestToken);

requestToken({
  username: 'username',
  password: 'password',
})
  .then(res => {
    // process response data
  })
  .catch(err => {
    // handle error
  });

If you are using node.js version prior to 8.0.0 you can use our own simple promisify utility:

const { promisify } = require('@signnow/api-client/utils');
const api = require('@signnow/api-client')({
  credentials: 'ENCODED_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS',
  production: false, // if false uses eval server
});
const requestToken = promisify(api.oauth2.requestToken);

requestToken({
  username: 'username',
  password: 'password',
})
  .then(res => {
    // process response data
  })
  .catch(err => {
    // handle error
  });

Unit Tests

To run the unit test you will need to install "Mocha" and "Chai". You also need to edit a test.settings.js in the test folder of the api client module. The file need to contain the following:

exports.settings = {
  credentials: '[ENCODED CLIENT CREDENTIALS]',
  token: '[ACCESS TOKEN]',
  username: '[SIGNNOW USERNAME]',
  password: '[SIGNNOW PASSWORD]',
  documentid: '[EXISTING DOCUMENT ID]',
  templateid: '[EXISTING TEMPLATE ID]',
  folderid: '[EXISTING FOLDER ID]',
  email: '[FROM EMAIL FOR INVITE]',
  testemail: '[TO EMAIL FOR INVITE]',
};

License

This project is released under the MIT License.

Additional Contact Information

Support

To contact SignNow support, please email support@signnow.com or api@signnow.com.

Sales

For pricing information, please call (800) 831-2050, email sales@signnow.com or visit https://www.signnow.com/contact.