Build contracts
into your stack.
Create contracts, read their status and signatures, and react to events the moment they happen — over a small, predictable REST API.
Every request carries your secret key as a bearer token. Generate one in your account’s API settings — treat it like a password.
Authorization: Bearer cc_live_your_key_here
Rate limited by design
Requests are throttled per IP and return X-RateLimit-* headers on 429.
/v1/me— Who the API key belongs to. Use it as the connection test.curl https://api.coventract.com/v1/me \ -H "Authorization: Bearer cc_live_…"
{
300">"data": {
300">"id": 300">"u_9fK2…",
300">"name": 300">"Layla Haddad",
300">"email": 300">"layla@studio.co",
300">"type": 300">"freelancer"
}
}Subscribe a URL to get events the moment they happen:
Each delivery is a POST with an X-Coventract-Signature header. Verify it before trusting the payload.
const expected = crypto
.createHmac("sha256", SECRET)
.update(rawBody)
.digest("hex");
// constant-time compare:
if (expected === header) trust(payload);Zapier & Make
Connection test via /me, instant triggers via webhook subscribe/unsubscribe, polling via /contracts, and create actions.
Any REST client
Plain JSON over HTTPS with bearer auth — Postman, cURL, or your own backend, no SDK required.
Google Drive
Signed contracts save straight to a signer’s Drive with the narrow drive.file scope — nothing else is touched.
You don’t need a developer to wire Coventract into the apps you already use. With Zapier or Make you can turn any Coventract event into an action — for example, the moment a client signs, auto-create an invoice, notify your team, or file the PDF. Five steps:
- 1
Get a catch URL from Zapier or Make
Create a new Zap → choose “Webhooks by Zapier → Catch Hook”. Zapier gives you a unique URL. Copy it. (In Make, use a “Custom webhook” module.)
- 2
Generate your API key
Open Dashboard → Developer API and click Generate API key. Keep it secret — it authenticates your account. This is a Business-plan feature.
- 3
Register the webhook in Coventract
In the same Developer API page, click Add endpoint, paste the Zapier URL, tick the events you care about (e.g. contract.signed), and Create.
- 4
Test it
Back in Zapier, hit “Test trigger”, then sign a test contract in Coventract. Zapier receives the sample data — clientName, amount, title, status.
- 5
Add your action
Point the caught event at any of Zapier’s 6,000+ apps — create a QuickBooks invoice, post to Slack, add a Google Sheets row, update your CRM — then turn the Zap on.
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