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  • Common Use Cases
    • Sign contracts and amendments in bulk
    • Give bonus to contractors
    • Reimburse contractor expenses
  • Endpoints
      • POSTAttach a file to contract
      • GETGet worker invite link
      • GETPreview a contract agreement
      • DELRemove invite
      • GETRetrieve contractor payment dates
      • POSTSend contract to worker
      • POSTSign a contract
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Sign a contract

POST
/contracts/:contract_id/signatures
POST
/rest/v2/contracts/:contract_id/signatures
$curl -X POST https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts/37nex2x/signatures \
>     -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>     -d '{
>  "body": {
>    "data": {
>      "client_signature": "John Doe",
>      "contract_template_id": 1024
>    }
>  }
>}'
1{
2  "data": {
3    "created": true
4  }
5}

Signs a contract on behalf of the client (employer), advancing the contract through the hiring workflow. When the contract is awaiting the client signature, it transitions to a pending-contractor-signature state. Can also be used to sign a pending amendment on an already active contract. Token scopes: contracts:write

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## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)
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AuthorizationBearer

Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

Path parameters

contract_idstringRequired
Deel contract id.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.
dataobjectOptional

Response

Successful operation.
dataobject

Errors

400
Bad Request Error
401
Unauthorized Error
403
Forbidden Error
404
Not Found Error
500
Internal Server Error

Authentication

The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail.

1curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
2  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'

Learn more about authentication