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# Notary API overview

> Use Docusign Notary API to manage your remote online notary tasks.

Manage notaries for your organization with the Notary API, and combine with the eSignature REST API to assign and quickly trigger remote online notarization (RON) sessions.

## Places to start

* [API 101](/docs/notary-api/notary101)
* [How-to guides](/docs/notary-api/how-to)
* [API Reference](/docs/notary-api/reference)

![API overview gist graphic](/_fern-files/_img/07438f910bb49c2fda5f61d64c6482755d105554e2a0971bb24ae7bb3d498441.webp)

## Features

#### Manage your pool of notaries public

Use the Notary API to organize and separate your organization’s notaries public into an easy-to-manage group called a “pool”

#### Manage notaries

Add or remove notaries public from your organization to manage who can perform RON acts in supported states

#### Check commission information

Retrieve specific commission information from your notaries public, such as jurisdiction

#### Create an envelope with a new notary group recipient type

In your eSignature workflow, add this new recipient type to facilitate a RON session with a digital signature and tag with a notarization seal

#### Retrieve notarized agreements

Following the RON session, retrieve the signed and notarized agreement with the Certificate of Completion

## Discover more

* [Introducing the Notary API](https://www.docusign.com/blog/developers/introducing-the-notary-api)
* [An Introduction to Remote Online Notarization with Docusign Notary](https://www.docusign.com/blog/remote-online-notarization-docusign-notary)