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Each organization account that uses Notary API has a list of notaries that can be easily included to witness signing, called a notary pool. Your organization’s notary pool contains a set of users who can serve as a notary in a remote notary session initiated by your org. You can invite anyone to your notary pool, regardless of whether they have no prior Docusign account, a Docusign account with your (or another) organization, or an individual account.

Note: If you invite someone without a Docusign account to your notary pool, they will be prompted to create one.

By default, a notary pool exists for each Notary account. Use the following procedure to add a member:

  1. Retrieve the ID that identifies the notary pool for your account. Make a GET call to the Notary API https://notary-d.docusign.net/restapi/v1.0/accounts/{{organizationId}}/pools/ endpoint to obtain this value, called poolId in the JSON response.

  2. Ensure that the notary has a Docusign account, then invite them to join your organization’s notary pool. Make a POST request to the Notary API https://notary-d.docusign.net/restapi/v1.0/accounts/{{organizationId}}/pools/{{poolId}}/invites endpoint, using the poolId from the previous request and including the following fields in the request body:

  • email: the email address of the notary

  • name: the name of the notary

For example:

{
    "email": "examplenotary@example.com",
    "name": "Example Notary"
}

Once the notary receives the invitation email, they are asked to accept the request to join your notary pool. Once they join and complete their profile by adding commission information in the Notary UI, they are eligible to begin remotely notarizing documents.

For a full walkthrough demonstrating how to invite a notary into your notary pool, see How to invite a notary to a pool.

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