Add metadata to a Document
or Document Group using the API

Incorporate metadata in any of your documents to identify and track document-related information and ensure the efficient management of your internal records via webhooks.

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  • Fast to deploy
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Streamline document management and ensure a seamless integration with your system of record

Add and track document metadata such as employee IDs, UIDs, author info, and more. Use any custom JSON file to add metadata. Enhance your document management and enable seamless updates of your internal records via webhooks upon document completion. Incorporate metadata into your event subscriptions and receive it directly in your webhook responses.

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Key benefits of including metadata in your Documents and Document Groups via the API

Enhanced searchability

Adding metadata to a document makes it easier to locate specific documents. By assigning relevant tags or keywords, users can quickly find what they're looking for without having to go through each document manually.

Improved organization

Metadata helps categorize and organize documents. It provides additional information about a document to easily sort and classify documents based on various parameters such as creation date, author, customer ID, etc.

Ease of automation

With detailed metadata, businesses can automate specific processes like routing documents to appropriate departments or individuals and updating internal records. This increases efficiency and reduces the chance of human error.

Explore common use cases for document metadata

Contract management

Use metadata to track the progress of each agreement you send for eSignature. Upon completion, you can receive a webhook response with this metadata, allowing for quick updates in internal systems without manual intervention.

Hiring process

Add metadata like an applicant’s name, the position they applied for, and their interview stages to hiring documents. When an applicant completes a document, the HR system will receive a webhook response containing this metadata, automatically updating the applicant’s records.

Safeguarding confidential documents

For industries dealing with sensitive documents, you can add metadata pertaining to the level of confidentiality and authorized personnel. Webhook responses carrying this metadata can trigger specific protocols, like moving a document to a secure storage or notifying authorized employees upon its completion.

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Follow these instructions to establish a Sandbox account:

  1. Visit the airSlate SignNow Developers page. There you can discover more information about the API and create your Sandbox account.
  2. Register for a trial. Provide your email address and click the Create API sandbox button to sign up.
  3. Verify your email address. Check your inbox for the email you receive and follow the link to authenticate your email address.
  4. Access Developer Sandbox. Set a password to gain further access to your developer account.
  5. Include an application. Click Add App, assign a name to your app, and click Add to store your changes. The API token for the application will be generated automatically.
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airSlate SignNow has been an invaluable tool for me in my efforts of making my work time more efficient by focusing on actual work. It has been a great tool for my team and I, as we now have a centralized platform to take care of our signature needs when working on things that require a client's or a coworker's signature. It saves us a lot of time this way. The interface itself is intuitive and is easy to use. Another great thing about airSlate SignNow is that it offers various pre-built templates, which we don't often use, but they are still there for us when we need them.

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I travel two weeks per month and that is a huge amount of time out of the office. Having the possibility to sign crucial documents while traveling is extremely important. It also provides the possibility to have all of them stored and available at one place provided by the application. You don't need extra storage on tour cloud or PC. Once signed, you share it or send it by email from within the application at the same step.

It is multi-platform, I can use it on my smart phone, tablet and personal computer. It also has storage for your signed documents, and of course, you can create folders to be accessed by co-signers.

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We have solved the issue of "how do we get contracts to and from clients as easily as possible". Now clients don't have to worry about printing and signing contracts and then either mailing them or scanning/emailing them. This software is simple for them to use. The Guide function allows them to easily fill in the required information and submit it to us.

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