Glossary

Glossary

Term	Plain-language meaning
Agreement	A document together with recipients, fields, status, and workflow history
Document API	Integration API name for the underlying agreement record
Draft	A document being prepared before the relevant workflow is sent
Template	A reusable starting document that creates a separate draft
Recipient	A person assigned a signing, approval, or viewing task
Reviewer	The person assigned an internal review decision
Field	A place where a recipient signs or enters information
Parallel signing	Recipients can act independently
Sequential signing	Recipient tasks follow a configured order
OTP	One-time code used to verify access to the invited email inbox
MFA	Extra authenticator-app challenge for workspace sign-in
Workspace / organization / tenant	The boundary grouping users, documents, and settings
Role	A category of access assigned to an account or membership
Permission / scope	Authorization to perform a particular operation
Archive	Hide a record from normal active views without deleting it
Electronic signature	A person's recorded electronic signing action
Cryptographic seal	Digital proof used to check integrity of a signed file
Hash	A fingerprint calculated from exact content bytes
Certificate	Public-key identity information used in signing or verification
Trusted timestamp	Signed time evidence from a timestamp service
PAdES	A family of standards for PDF digital signatures
Audit trail	Recorded actions and associated evidence
API	Interface another application uses to communicate with the service
Bearer token	A credential sent with an API request; keep it private
Idempotency key	Identifier used to recognize retries of the same operation
Webhook	HTTP callback notifying your receiver of an event
Outbox	Stored events waiting for background dispatch
HMAC	Shared-secret signature used to authenticate callback bytes
Payload projection	Selecting which event data fields to send
Dead letter	A delivery that failed terminally and may be replayed after correction
Request ID	Trace identifier useful for private troubleshooting

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