# Docustay

> Docustay sends documents for signature. REST API, SDKs for JavaScript/TypeScript and Python, embedded signing, webhooks, an MCP server and agent skills.

## Documentation

- [Docustay developer documentation](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/index.md): Send documents for signature from your own software: REST API, SDKs, embedded signing, webhooks, an MCP server and agent skills.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/quickstart.md): Send a document for signature and follow it, with curl, JavaScript or Python, in about ten minutes.
- [Authentication](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/authentication.md): API keys, the two scopes, test keys and how to keep a key safe.
- [Templates and text tags](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/templates-and-text-tags.md): Make a template from HTML or from a PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or image file by writing text tags where fields go.
- [Embedded signing](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/embedding.md): Show a Docustay signing form inside your own website or app, with a web component and React, Vue and Angular wrappers.
- [Documents from words and people](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/documents-from-words.md): Make a document from written words and the people who sign it, answer a template's questions, let an assistant draft or change it, collect a payment at signing, and send it, all from the API, the SDKs or MCP.
- [Webhooks](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/webhooks.md): Get a signed HTTP call when a document is sent, viewed, signed, declined or expires, and verify it.
- [Test mode](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/test-mode.md): Practice runs that email only you, carry a TEST watermark and are never counted or billed.
- [Errors, retries and limits](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/errors-and-limits.md): The error shape, idempotency, rate limits and upload limits.
- [Email setup](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/email-setup.md): Make email from your own domain arrive: SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, how to verify them in Docustay, how to test, and the self-host settings.
- [SDKs](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/sdks.md): Official clients for JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.
- [MCP server and agent skills](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/mcp-and-skills.md): Let an AI assistant send documents, follow them and save signed copies, with previews and your own key.
- [Connect ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/connector.md): A hosted connector with sign-in: an assistant works on drafts in your workspace and a person approves every send.
- [Licensing](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/licensing.md): Which licence covers which part of Docustay, what the AGPL-3.0 asks of you, which pieces are MIT, and when you need a commercial licence.
- [API reference](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/api-reference.md): Every operation of the Docustay API, generated from the OpenAPI file.
- [Languages](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/languages.md): Fourteen languages for the signing page, the signing emails and the Certificate of Completion, with right-to-left Arabic.
- [Scribe in your own app](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/scribe-embed.md): Show Scribe, the drafting assistant, inside your own page with a draft-only session.
- [Email templates](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/email-templates.md): Change the wording of the eight emails Docustay sends about your documents, with variables, languages, a live preview and a test send.
- [Email API](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/email-api.md): Control the email of a document from your code, edit the templates, read the email log and get a webhook when a message is delivered or bounces.
- [Settings reference](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/settings-reference.md): Every setting a self-hosted Docustay reads, with its default and whether it is required.
- [Upgrade a self-hosted install](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/self-host-upgrade.md): How to move a self-hosted Docustay to a newer version safely, check that it worked, and go back if it did not.
- [Back up and restore](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/self-host-backup.md): What to back up on a self-hosted Docustay, a script that does it, and how to restore it on a new machine.
- [Put Docustay behind your own address](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/self-host-reverse-proxy.md): Serve a self-hosted Docustay on your own domain with HTTPS, using Caddy, nginx or Traefik, and set the address that goes into emails.
- [Pro licence keys](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/self-host-licence.md): How a self-hosted Docustay Pro licence works from purchase to renewal, where the key goes, and what happens when it ends.
- ["Tutorial: e-signatures in a Next.js app"](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/tutorial-nextjs.md): Send a document from a Next.js route, show the signing form inside your page, and check the webhook that says it was signed.
- ["Tutorial: send a document from Python"](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/tutorial-python.md): Send a document from Python, show the signing form on your own page, and verify the webhook, using the Docustay SDK and the standard library.
- ["Tutorial: let an AI agent draft contracts, with a person approving"](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/tutorial-agent.md): Give an AI agent a draft-only key so it can prepare documents but cannot send one until a person approves it in the app.
- [Single sign-on with OpenID Connect](https://docs.docustay.app/docs/self-host-sso.md): Let people sign in to a self-hosted Docustay with your own identity provider, such as Keycloak, Authentik, Entra or Okta.

## Machine-readable

- [OpenAPI 3.1](https://docs.docustay.app/api/openapi.json)
- [Postman collection](https://docs.docustay.app/api/docustay.postman_collection.json)
- [All documentation in one file](https://docs.docustay.app/llms-full.txt)