eSignature API for Fast, Secure, and Legally Binding Document Signing

Integrate legally binding, SOC 2-compliant eSignatures into your app in less than a day. No monthly minimums, no seat limits, full security.

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How do embedded signatures work?

Instead of directing people to SignWell to sign your document, the optional embedded signing feature lets users fill out and sign it directly on your website or app.

Create a better user experience and reduce the risk of user churn in a multi-step, multi-site onboarding process: your platform, our signatures: quick and hassle-free.

What is an eSignature API?

The SignWell eSignature application programming interface (API) enables you to automate online signature requests. Integrate the API into your web or app code to create, fill out, or send documents for electronic signing.

Our eSignature API helps you quickly and securely request signatures and automate workflows, creating a simple, seamless signing experience.

Build a Secure eSigning Workflow with a Few Lines of Code

The SignWell digital signature API is built around a clean, REST-based architecture. Here is how the four core workflow stages work and what they give your team.

Create and Templatize

Use Text Tags to automatically place signature fields, dates, and initials exactly where they belong in any document. Or call a reusable Template via API to standardize compliance workflows across thousands of users without touching each file individually. The result is faster document prep and dramatically fewer manual errors.

Embedded Signing (White-Label)

Use the Embedded Signing API to display documents in a secure iFrame or modal, keeping users inside your application throughout the entire signing process. Pair this with full white-label customization — your logo, your colors, your domain — so customers never feel like they have left your platform.

See embedded eSign examples

Webhooks and Event Listeners

Configure webhooks to receive real-time event data as soon as a document is viewed, signed, or declined. Use these events to trigger your internal onboarding logic instantly, without polling or manual status checks.

Audit and Archive

Retrieve a tamper-proof PDF and a comprehensive audit trail logging IP address, timestamp, and email for every document. Completed documents can be retrieved via API as a Base64-encoded file or accessed through a secure file URL for integration into your systems.

10,000,000+ documents signed

99.99% uptime reliability

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4.9/5 on Capterra and 4.8/5 on G2

"I am so impressed with the SignWell API. In less than a day, I moved from never using SignWell to a fully functional automation powered by the API. I was able to get precisely the workflow that we needed."

Brian Richards
Brian Richards
WPSessions

Once I reviewed the API documentation and tested it, I knew this was the right choice. I didn't have to deal with unnecessary complexity.

Their API did exactly what we needed and nothing more. This focus made the integration quick and painless.

Franklin Tarter - CTO, SunRaise Capital

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Learn how organizations use SignWell's API to streamline their document workflows.

SignWell Scales With You

Pay-As-You-Go Pricing

Unlike legacy providers that lock you into expensive monthly contracts, SignWell scales with your actual usage. You only pay for the documents you send.

Launch with Zero Overhead

Your first 25 documents every month are free. After that, pay a flat rate of $0.75 per document. No seat limits, no monthly minimums, and no hidden overage fees. If you do not send anything this month, you pay $0.

Custom Plans for High-Scale Needs

For businesses sending high volumes of documents each month, SignWell offers custom enterprise plans built around your usage. Prepay for your API usage to save up to 40%.

Solutions

How the SignWell API can work for your business:

Whether you're signing contracts or embedding signatures into a website or app, the SignWell API can be customized to work for any industry:

Software Development

You create it; we help you add eSignatures — the SignWell API makes it easy to build your ideal integration, no matter your skill level.

Registrations & Onboarding

Effortlessly sign up new customers for your program, membership, or services — finalize onboarding so you can enjoy your growing community.

Sales

Never miss a critical signature — easily automate document signing for your sales process or funnel to keep users flowing through your business experience.

Health

The SignWell API prioritizes security and is HIPAA compliant — safely and securely fill out sensitive health or insurance documents directly on your website or app.

Legal

From client intake forms to contracts, streamline your standard form documents with legally-binding automated signature requests so that you can stay concentrated on your business.

Real Estate

Integrate signing with your existing real estate software or platform. Automate contracts to make signing user-friendly and straightforward, keeping things moving quickly.

10,000,000
documents signed and counting

How SignWell API Powers Critical Workflows at Scale

Eliminate Drop-off with White-Label Integration

The challenge: SaaS businesses that redirect users to a third-party site to sign documents risk losing them mid-onboarding.

How SignWell solves it: The Embedded Signing API keeps the entire experience within your platform.

The outcome: Customers sign contracts without ever leaving your product, resulting in higher completion rates and a smoother onboarding flow.

Accelerate Revenue with Automated Workflows

The challenge: Manually chasing signatures via email slows deal cycles and creates administrative bottlenecks.

How SignWell solves it: When a deal stage changes in your CRM, your system can use the SignWell API to automatically generate and send contracts, with webhooks providing real-time status updates throughout the signing process.

The outcome: Sales documents are sent and filed instantly, eliminating missed revenue opportunities caused by slow paperwork.

Secure Sensitive Data with HIPAA Compliance

The challenge: Health businesses that collect sensitive patient documents digitally face significant regulatory risk if the data is not properly secured.

How SignWell solves it: HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II compliant infrastructure encrypts data and provides a secure, audit-ready trail for every document.

The outcome: Patients can safely complete sensitive health forms directly on your portal, with full compliance and no paper.

Zero-Touch Onboarding at Scale

The challenge: Manually sending individual waivers, NDAs, or membership agreements to thousands of new users is unscalable and error-prone.

How SignWell solves it: Bulk Send and Templates distribute standardized documents to any number of recipients simultaneously.

The outcome: Thousands of new members or employees are onboarded at once with zero administrative touchpoints.

Standardize Compliance for Complex Deals

The challenge: In real estate, managing transactions with multiple signers often results in missing signatures or dates, leading to legal delays.

How SignWell solves it: Coordinates/text tags, along with automated workflows, enforce exactly where signatures, initials, and dates must be placed before a document can be submitted.

The outcome: Deals move quickly with user-friendly, legally binding contracts that are complete every time.

Streamline Client Intake and Retainers

The challenge: Legal teams spend valuable billable hours manually preparing client intake forms and fee agreements.

How SignWell solves it: Automated signature requests integrated into practice management software trigger forms immediately after consultation.

The outcome: Lawyers focus on their cases while the API secures legally binding retainer agreements without any manual preparation.

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