Shipping on December 5, 2022
We are constantly working to improve your Notarize experience. Here are some highlights of what’s changed.
Release notes and dates are subject to change.
These enhancements were deployed to our Fairfax environment on Friday, December 2, 2022, and our production environment on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
Release Notes
Import/Export Templates - Business
Added import/export document template functionality to the Notarize Business portal (DAS-837).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: Business portal (with access to document templates)
- Transaction Types: All
Authentication session updates
Updated our practice of sending authentication session cookies. Signers will now be logged out of their account when they close their browser or after 30 minutes of inactivity have passed, whichever occurs first (PLAT-2219).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: All
- Transaction Types: All
Real Estate document templates retain name
Individually uploaded documents that match to Real Estate document templates will now retain their original file names instead of getting renamed to the matched template name. Documents that do not match to templates will still be named the original file name plus the number of pages they contain {{original file name_Pages X-Y}}. This change is tied to the split-and-tag-documents organization setting (DAS-874).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: Customers leveraging template matching for Real Estate
- Transaction Types: Real Estate transactions
Import/export document templates
Added import/export document template functionality to the Notarize Business portal (DAS-837).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: Business portal (with access to document templates)
- Transaction Types: All
Password reset limitation
For security purposes, we have limited the number of attempts for password reset by a logged-in user (FAST-966).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: All Notarize application users
- Transaction Types: N/A
Accessibility enhancements - buttons, labels, etc
Added various accessibility enhancements like aria labels to buttons and labels to input fields across the signer experience to make the product easier to use (SE-3150, SE-3008, SE-3004, SE-2995, SE-2961, SE-2932, SE-2763, SE-2762, SE-2722, SE-2716, SE-2698, SE-2696, SE-2354, SE-2350, SE-1840, SE-1837, SE-1825, SE-1824, SE-1822, SE-1821, SE-1813, SE-1778).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: Signers using the web platform
- Transaction Types: All transactions
eSign transactions for Resware integration
Added new eSign transaction type to the ResWare integration. Previously eSign transactions could only be created in our UI (DOCS-7732).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: Title agents creating transactions via ResWare
- Transaction Types: eSign transactions (RE Title portal)
Independent Notary accounts enabled for concurrent signing
All NST accounts will now be enabled to use the concurrent signing feature by default (NX-1693).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: All NST Notaries
- Transaction Types: Multi-signer NST Transactions
Accessibility - multiple screenreader improvements
Added various accessibility enhancements throughout the signer experience to make the product easier to use (SE-1815, SE-1823, SE-2772, SE-3007, SE-3107, SE-3186).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: Signers using the web platform
- Transaction Types: All transactions
Fixed!
Email address validation for Real Estate
Added validation to the Lender and Title portals so that if a user enters an invalid contact email address they will receive an error and won’t be allowed to continue. Invalid email addresses are identified via an MX domain lookup tool (REAL-7784).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: Real Estate customers in the Lender or Title portals
- Transaction Types: Any RON or Hybrid transaction
New Booleen Error Message
We fixed a bug related to invalid boolean requirements being set on documents via our API. “Invalid value for signing_requires_meeting - expected Boolean" will now appear in response to invalid booleans being set. A document will not be added to the transaction until a correct response, true or false, is submitted (DOCS-7928).
Who does this impact?
- Availability: All
- Transaction Types: Business and Real Estate API (mainly only used in RE)