---
title: "envelope.declined delivered to your endpoint"
method: POST
path: "envelope.declined"
tags: ["Webhooks"]
---

# envelope.declined delivered to your endpoint

`POST envelope.declined` (webhook)

InkSeal sends this request to every active subscription whose `events` array contains `envelope.declined`, or whose `events` is `null`. Verify `X-InkSeal-Signature` against the raw body before doing anything else, and deduplicate on `id`.

## Headers

- `X-InkSeal-Event-Id` string, required
- `X-InkSeal-Signature` string, required
- `X-InkSeal-Timestamp` string, required

## Payload

- object
  - `id` string, required: Stable event id, derived from the transition rather than the clock. Every retry of this event carries the same value.
  - `type` 'envelope.declined', required: The event type.
  - `data` WebhookEnvelopeDeclinedPayload, required: A signer declined, which is terminal for the envelope.
    - `envelopeId` string, required: Public id of the envelope.
    - `declinedAt` string, date-time, required: When the decline committed.
    - `declinedBy` object, required: The signer who declined.
      - `signerId` string, required: Public id of the signer.
      - `name` string, required: The signer's display name.
      - `email` string, required: The signer's email address.
    - `reason` string, required: The reason the signer gave.
  - `timestamp` string, date-time, required: When the transition committed. Not the same as X-InkSeal-Timestamp, which is when this attempt was made.

## Acknowledgement `200`

Acknowledged. Return any 2xx, with or without a body, as soon as the event is stored; do your work afterwards. Anything that is not a 2xx, including a redirect (redirects are never followed) and a response slower than the 30 second timeout, counts as a failure and is retried with exponential backoff from 60 seconds, doubling per attempt and capped at 1 hour, for at most 6 attempts. After the sixth the event is terminal and only a manual retry through POST /webhooks/{webhookId}/events/{eventId}/retry will send it again.

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