Party

A party represents a legal entity in a contract. A contract can be signed between two types of parties or sides of the contract:

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You can add multiple parties to your contract; however, there can be at most 40 parties per contract.

Owner-side party

The owner-side party is the party that created, and therefore owns, the contract.

Many actions and data points are available only to the owner-side party, such as deleting the contract and information about the counterparty participants.

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The owner-side party type is always company and cannot be individual.

The table below displays all the attributes available for the owner-side party.

Attribute	Type	Description
_links	object	Contains links to endpoints associated with the parent object. See Links.
_private_ownerside	object	Contains attributes that are visible only to the owner-side party. See Private owner-side.
country_code	string(country_code)	The country code of the party.
id	integer(signed_integer_id)	The ID of the party.
identification_number	string	The unique organization number of the party.
my_party	boolean	Whether the party belongs to the current user or not.
name	string	The name of the owner-side party.
participants	array [Participant]	The list of participants in the owner side party. See Participant.
type	string(enum)	The owner-side party `type` attribute is always `company`.

Private owner-side

The _private_ownerside object contains attributes that are only visible to the owner-side party.

Attribute	Type	Description
created_time	string(datetime)	The date and time when the party was created.
updated_time	string(datetime)	The date and time when the party was last updated.

Counterparty

Any party that is not the owner-side party is a counterparty.

There are two types of counterparties:

Individual - a single participant who signs the contract on their own behalf.
Company - one or more participants that sign the contract on behalf of a legal entity. This type of counterparty can be used by any company, organization, or government department.

Individual

A contract party of the individual type has a single participant who signs the contract on their own behalf.
The table below shows all attributes available for the individual counterparty.

Attribute	Type	Description
_links	object	Contains links to endpoints associated with the parent object. See Links.
_private_ownerside	object	See Private owner-side individual.
country_code	string(country_code)	The country code of the `individual` party.
id	integer(signed_integer_id)	The unique ID of the `individual` party.
identification_number	string	The date of birth, SSN, personal ID or similar of the `individual` party.
my_party	boolean	Whether the party belongs to the current user or not.
name	string	The name of the `individual` party.
participant	object	The person who represents the contract party with the type `individual`. See Participant.
type	string(enum)	The string constant `individual`, which indicates that this `parties` member is an individual.

Private owner-side individual

The _private_ownerside object of the individual party contains attributes visible only to the owner-side party.

Attribute	Type	Description
created_time	string(datetime)	The date and time when the `individual` party was created.
updated_time	string(datetime)	The date and time when the individual party was last updated.

Company

The contract party with the company type is a legal entity involved in the contract. More than one participant can sign a contract on behalf of the party with the company type.

Attribute	Type	Description
_links	object	Contains links to endpoints associated with the parent object. See Links.
_private_ownerside	object	See Private owner-side company.
country_code	string(country_code)	The country code of the contract party.
id	integer(signed_integer_id)	The unique ID of the company.
identification_number	string	The date of birth, SSN, personal ID, or similar of a company.
my_party	boolean	Whether the party belongs to the current user or not.
name	string	The name of the company.
participants	array	The list of the contract party participants; see Participant.
type	string(enum)	The `type` is always `company`.

Private owner-side company

The _private_ownerside object for the company party contains attributes visible only to the owner-side party. The owner-side party is the party that created the contract.

Attribute	Type	Description
created_time	string(datetime)	The date and time when the company was created.
updated_time	string(datetime)	The date and time when the company was last updated.