Did first name and last name support in creating envelopes with the API recently change?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
July 3, 2025
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We used to be able to send envelope creation requests to the API with FirstName and LastName variables in the JSON payload. And the responses included FirstName and LastName. Now we are suddenly getting responses that only include ‘name’. Did something change recently?

Michael.Rave

Docusign Employee

@MegKM

While I am not able to comment if there was a recent change in terms of the response received, I can highlight that it was always best practice to include the name value instead of “FirstName” and “LastName”. If they exists in different fields in the source system, you can concatenate them into “name”, when sending the payload to the Docusign REST API.

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