Resend DocuSign Emails

You can use the “modify recipient(s)” request to trigger a re-send of the email notification to specific recipient(s).

PUT /accounts/{accountId}/envelopes/{envelopeId}/recipients?resend_envelope=true

Be sure to include the querystring parameter/value resend_envelope=true in the URL (as shown above).

For example, if a GET Recipients response shows that an Envelope contains the following recipients:

{
    "signers": [
        {
            "name": "Jane Doe",
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "recipientId": "3",
            "recipientIdGuid": "13e30b8d-3dd6-48e8-ad12-15237611a463",
            "requireIdLookup": "false",
            "userId": "2c9e06eb-f2c5-4bef-957a-5a3dbd6edd25",
            "routingOrder": "1",
            "status": "sent"
        },
        {
            "name": "John Doe",
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "recipientId": "1",
            "recipientIdGuid": "c2273f0f-1430-484a-886c-45ce2fb5e8a8",
            "requireIdLookup": "false",
            "userId": "03c8a856-c0ae-41bf-943d-ac6e92db66a8",
            "routingOrder": "1",
            "note": "",
            "roleName": "Signer1",
            "status": "sent",
            "templateLocked": "false",
            "templateRequired": "false"
        }
    ],
    "agents": [],
    "editors": [],
    "intermediaries": [],
    "carbonCopies": [],
    "certifiedDeliveries": [],
    "inPersonSigners": [],
    "recipientCount": "2",
    "currentRoutingOrder": "1"
}

Then, I could trigger a re-send of the Signing Invitation Email to the incomplete recipient (“Jane Doe”) by using the following request:

PUT https://{{env}}.docusign.net/restapi/{{version}}/accounts/{{acctId}}/envelopes/{{envelopeId}}/recipients?resend_envelope=true

{
  "signers": [
   {
      "recipientId": "3",
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "email": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}

Notice that I’m sending the same (original) values for name and email — so it’s not going to actually modify the recipient — it’ll just re-send the email to Jane, since I included ?resend_envelope=true in the URL.

API Documentation

If you want to re-send the email notification to all pending recipients (i.e., anyone who’s next in the routing order and hasn’t yet completed the envelope), you can do so with the following request:

PUT https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2/accounts/<accountID>/envelopes/<envelopeID>?resend_envelope=true
{}