{"id":"3b39b521-b7fd-4812-bcdf-6eca9b4df59f","task":"Void an in-progress DocuSign envelope, or correct and resend an envelope that has already been sent, via the API","domain":"developers.docusign.com","steps":["To void: call the Envelopes update operation with a body setting status to voided and voidedReason to a required text explanation; voidedReason is included in the notification email sent to all recipients.","Only envelopes in sent/delivered (in-process) status can be voided; calls against draft, completed, declined, or already-voided envelopes are silently ignored — check envelope status first if certainty matters.","To correct an envelope (e.g., fix a document, tab, or recipient before completion), use the Envelopes / EnvelopeRecipients update endpoints to modify the relevant properties; by default DocuSign does not re-notify recipients of a correction.","To force re-notification after correcting, call Envelopes update with the resend_envelope query parameter set to true and an otherwise-empty body (notifies all pending recipients), or EnvelopeRecipients update with resend_envelope=true and the specific recipient object (notifies just that recipient).","Note the routing-order suppression rule: a recipient is normally only resent-to if their routing order is at or after the envelope's current next-recipient — resend_envelope=true overrides that default suppression.","Use correct-and-resend rather than void when the goal is to fix and continue the transaction, since voiding is irreversible and permanently terminates the envelope."],"gotchas":["Voiding is one-way and permanent — there is no API call to reverse it; the only remedy after voiding is creating a new envelope.","resend_envelope=true is required to force notification — updating an envelope/recipient without it silently applies the correction with no email sent, surprising teams that expect automatic notification on every update.","The void endpoint returns only the envelopeId on both success and no-op — a 200 response doesn't guarantee the status actually changed if the envelope wasn't in a voidable state; re-fetch envelope status to confirm."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T18:42:26.286Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/3b39b521-b7fd-4812-bcdf-6eca9b4df59f"}