Recipient object
Here is where you will need to provide an array of JSON objects to define the intended recipient of the document. This array can hold up to 30 recipients and 30 non signer recipients.
{ "recipients": [ { "type": "SIGNER", "name": "User 1", "email": "user1@gtest.com", "role": "Signee", "auth_type": "no-auth", "sign_group": 1, "time_zone_name": "Pacific/Auckland", "event_notifications": ["signer_invitation", "envelope_completion"], "excluded_files": ["myfile2.pdf"], "tags": [ { "page_number": 1, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.1, "type": "signature", "optional": false, "file_name": "myfile.pdf", "name": "signee-name" } ], "iso_country_code": "GB", "mobile_number": 7999999999, "witness": { "tags": [ ] }, "rules": [ { "action": "show", "conditions": [ { "trigger_tag_name": "sign-here", "criteria": "has_value" } ], "affected_tag_names": [ "signee-name" ] } ] } ]}Type
This is type of signer.
"type": "SIGNER",| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| SIGNER | User to sign and receive confirmation email. |
| CC | User to receive the confirmation on signing automatically without signing.
|
Name
This is the name of the signer.
"name": "User 1",- This must be between 1 and 100 characters.
- This must not contain special characters:
/\:*?<>|
The email specifies the email address of the target recipient. This must be a valid email address (RFC 5322).
"email": "user1@gtest.com",Roles
This is a string value of role of the recipient, this is free text and can be used to identify the role of the recipient, the maximum length is 50 characters. This must not contain special characters: /\:*?<>|
"role": "Signee",Auth type
This is the level of authorisation you want to set per envelope.
"auth_type": "no-auth", //sign-auth // idv| Auth type | Description |
|---|---|
| no-auth | A digital signature is required. |
| sign-auth | A Yoti scan will be required for this signature. The email_address attribute is added by default to the list of Yoti attributes even if no attributes are provided. |
| idv | An identity verification session will be required for this envelope. More details can be found here. |
If you select sign-auth the the email_address attribute will always be used and a list of additional Yoti attributes that can be used are:
- full_name
- date_of_birth,
- postal_address,
- gender,
- nationality,
- phone_number,
- photo, - This is a photo of the user
- photo_auth. - This is to prompt the user to take a selfie of themselves live via the Yoti App as extra level of security.
Example shown below for sign-auth:
{ "recipients": [ { "type": "SIGNER", "name": "User 1", "email": "user1@gtest.com", "role": "Signee", "auth_type": "sign-auth", "yoti_attributes": [ "full_name", "postal_address", "photo", "gender", "nationality", "date_of_birth" ], "sign_group": 1, "tags": [ ], "iso_country_code": "GB", "mobile_number": "7999999999", } ]}Sign group
This defines an order in which recipients receive invitations to sign a document. For example, all recipients within sign group 1 will be the first to receive a document to sign. Once all recipients from sign group 1 have signed, the document will be sent to sign group 2. There must be at least 1 sign_group, and the order must be sequential, starting from 1.
{ "name": "Test name", "emails": { "invitation": { "body": { "message": "test" } }, "reminders": { "frequency": 2 } }, "recipients": [ { "name": "Test name", "type": "SIGNER", "email": "test@yoti.com", "role": "Tester", "auth_type": "no-auth", "witness": { "auth_type": "sign-auth", "tags": [ { "page_number": 1, "x": 0.15, "y": 0.1, "type": "signature", "optional": false, "file_name": "sample.pdf" } ] }, "sign_group": 2, "tags": [ { "page_number": 1, "x": 0.3, "y": 0.2, "type": "text_field", "optional": false, "file_name": "sample.pdf", "disable_resize": false, "width": 0.4 } ] } ], "notifications": { "destination": "https://hookb.in/8PP6NP7lgjfBWWYjnnLO", "subscriptions": [] }}Time zone name
This will effect the date signed field tag, with the relevant timezone. And Must be a TZ database name. This feature is available upon request.
"time_zone_name": "Pacific/Auckland",Event notifications
This defines the events that trigger email or sms notifications for the recipients. If the event names are included in the array, An email or sms will be sent for that event. If omitted for the standard envelope creation, the signer invitation and envelope completion email notifications will be sent by default. If you include an sms notification, you must also include an email notification. An sms notification requires valid mobile_number and iso_country_code fields.
"event_notifications": ["signer_invitation", "signer_invitation_sms", "envelope_completion"],| Event type | Description | Embedded | Non-embedded |
|---|---|---|---|
| signer_invitation | email notification is sent to the recipient, informing them to sign. | ✅ | ✅ |
| signer_invitation_sms | text message is sent to the recipient, informing them to sign. | ❌ | ✅ |
| envelope_completion | email notification is sent to the recipient, informing that everyone has signed the document. | ✅ | ✅ |
Excluded files
The documents specified in this array will not appear for the user when they are directed to the signing page. The documents need to be valid documents that have been added to the envelope, and there can't be any tags on the excluded documents.
"excluded_files": ["myfile2.pdf"]Country code
If the has_envelope_otps is toggled true, Yoti will return a country code in a valid two letter ISO country code format.
"iso_country_code": "GB",Phone number
If the has_envelope_otps is toggled true, Yoti will return a valid mobile number.
"mobile_number": 7999999999,Add a non signing recipient
You can add an email address to the recipient object that the sender creates so that a non signing recipient receives a copy of the completion pack. The non signing recipient (CC recipient) does not receive an invitation to the envelope while it is in an incomplete state.
Once the envelope is complete and all signers have signed then the completion pack email is triggered and are sent to all recipients including non signing recipients.
"recipients": [ { "type": "SIGNER", "name": "User 1", "email": "user1@gtest.com", "role": "Signee", "auth_type": "no-auth", "sign_group": 1, "country_code": "GB", "phone_number": "7999999999", }, { "type": "CC", "name": "CC Recipient", "email": "cc-recipient@test.com" } ],| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Type | Type of signer, in this case CC. |
| Name | Name of the receipt you want to CC. |
| Email of the recipient to be CC'd |