Scrive API review
A developer-focused signing API with identity, bulk sending, callbacks, and templates.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Scrive API is a RESTful document API for developers adding electronic signatures, identity verification, onboarding workflows, approvals, and agreements to applications. It fits customer onboarding portals, internal approval systems, marketplace agreements, and SaaS customer workflows. The API supports document creation, editing, and management, with reusable templates, signatory management, attachments, configurable signing groups, and signer ordering. Application-integrated signing flows are supported, while iframe embedding of Scrive Online is disabled.
The published eSign API plan includes RESTful API access, templates, PIN by SMS authentication, advanced authentication, bundled document sending, and bundled document signing. Broader workflow capabilities include callbacks for document status changes, bulk sending to multiple recipients, author and signatory attachments, and multiple authentication methods such as SMS PIN, eID, and identity verification. OAuth and personal access credentials support integration access, and the API testbed provides a separate environment for integration development. These features give teams room to model workflows that require different signer sequences, identity checks, or repeated document handling.
According to the vendor's pricing page, the API is offered through a customised solution with quote-only pricing. The API Testbed has a 30-day trial with no credit card required, but it is not a permanent free plan. Developer documentation covers separate production and testbed environments, and expert support is described as part of the service. Scrive API is a strong fit for teams building signing and identity workflows directly into software, especially when bulk sending, authentication choice, and callbacks matter. Teams seeking transparent self-serve pricing, a permanent free tier, or iframe embedding of Scrive Online should consider alternatives.
Scrive API pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Multiple signer authentication methods, including SMS PIN, eID, and identity verification
- Bulk sending, bundled signing, templates, and configurable signer ordering
- Callbacks, OAuth credentials, and an API testbed for integration development
- Where it doesn't
- Pricing is quote-only through a customised solution
- No permanent free plan is listed
- Iframe embedding of Scrive Online is disabled
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