Changelog

API version history, new features, and breaking changes.

v2.0.0 Breaking — March 2026

Multi-Party Contracts & V1 Removal

V2 is a complete rewrite of the external API. V1 has been removed and is no longer available.

Multi-party contracts — Create contracts with 2+ parties via the parties[] array. Each party has a role, legalName, and email.
Automatic signing emails — Draftory sends signing notification emails to all parties when a contract is created.
Signing progress tracking — Responses include signingProgress with signed, total, pending, and percentage fields.
Per-party signing status — GET endpoint returns parties[].hasSigned boolean for each party.
Contract numbers — Each contract receives a human-readable contractNumber (e.g. EXT-20260321-ABCDEFGH).
Signature details — GET endpoint includes full signatures[] array with signerEmail, signerName, signerRole, and signedAt.
New status: partially_signed — Indicates at least one but not all parties have signed.

Breaking Base URL changed from /api/external/v1 to /api/external/v2
Breaking Request body uses parties[] array instead of recipientEmail, recipientName, businessName
Breaking content is now a plain text string instead of a JSON object
Breaking autoSign parameter removed — V2 uses multi-party signature counting
Breaking GET /contracts (list) endpoint removed — use individual contract lookup
Breaking GET /contracts/:id/pdf endpoint removed from external API
Breaking senderName replaces businessName as the display name in emails
Breaking V1 API (/api/external/v1) is fully removed and returns 404

V1	V2
`recipientEmail` + `recipientName`	`parties: [{ role, legalName, email }]`
`businessName`	`senderName`
`content: { title: "..." }`	`content: "TITLE\n\n1. SECTION..."`
`autoSign: true`	Removed (all parties sign individually)
`GET /contracts` (list)	Removed
`GET /contracts/:id/pdf`	Removed from external API
`status: "draft"`	`status: "pending_signature"` (contracts start in this state)

Initial Release — Removed in v2.0.0

Future entries will follow the format: version number, date, list of changes, and a Breaking badge for breaking changes.