---
title: "Start Template Link Signing"
method: POST
path: "/api/template-links/{link_id}/start"
tags: ["template-links"]
---

# Start Template Link Signing

`POST /api/template-links/{link_id}/start`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://zsign.io` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://zsign.io/api/template-links/{link_id}/start`
- Auth: none declared

Anonymous: mint a signing session for a walk-up signer.

The rate limits below are checked BEFORE start_signing runs — a limiter
that only trips after the GCS download/upload and DB writes have already
happened would not bound anything.

## Path parameters

- `link_id` string, uuid, required

## Request body

- StartSigningRequest
  - `name` string, required
  - `email` string, email, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- StartSigningResponse
  - `signing_url` string, required

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/zsign/apis/zsign-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/zsign/apis/zsign-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/zsign/apis/zsign-api/revisions/a674ac4137ba?raw)