---
name: "esign_list_templates"
area: "esign"
title: "List templates"
price: "free"
method: "POST"
url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/esign_list_templates"
mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/esign"
auth: "Authorization: Bearer <conecto_sk_ key>"
docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_list_templates"
---

# List templates (`esign_list_templates`)

The saved templates, with their roles and fields.

The saved templates: their names, titles, roles and fields.

Price: Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads. A call that fails costs nothing.

## Use it when

To find a template's name before sending it.

## Say this to your agent

> Which agreements do we have ready to send?

## Inputs

This tool takes no arguments: send `{}`.

## Example

Written for Hansen & Voss, a restaurant-equipment wholesaler in Hamburg with 60 staff.

MCP: call `esign_list_templates` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/esign` with these arguments:

```json
{}
```

REST:

```bash
curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/esign_list_templates \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'
```

## Response

```json
{
  "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93",
  "tool": "esign_list_templates",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "replayed": false,
  "cost_usd": "$0.00",
  "balance_usd": "$19.75",
  "result": {
    "templates": [
      {
        "name": "trade-account-agreement",
        "title": "Trade account agreement",
        "file_id": "c7feed37-9699-45a7-b80c-ffa79bdf2f48",
        "roles": [
          "Customer",
          "Hansen & Voss"
        ],
        "fields": [
          {
            "kind": "signature",
            "page": 1,
            "x": 10.0,
            "y": 70.0,
            "width": 30.0,
            "height": 5.0,
            "required": true,
            "label": "",
            "role": 1
          },
          {
            "kind": "date",
            "page": 1,
            "x": 45.0,
            "y": 70.0,
            "width": 15.0,
            "height": 4.0,
            "required": true,
            "label": "",
            "role": 1
          }
        ],
        "message": null,
        "order": "parallel",
        "expires_in_days": 30,
        "updated_at": "2026-10-14T08:00:00+00:00"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

`result`: templates: each with its name, title, roles, fields, note, order and expiry.

## Errors

This tool has no errors of its own.

The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md

## Related

- [esign_send](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_send.md): Sends a PDF from the file store to up to 10 people to sign; each gets their own link by email. $0.50 a call.
- [esign_save_template](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_save_template.md): Saves a PDF once with its signature fields placed per signer role, to send again and again. $0.001 a call.
- [esign_send_template](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_send_template.md): Sends a saved template to new signers, one per role: one request, or up to 50 at once. $0.50 per request sent.
- [esign_delete_template](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_delete_template.md): Deletes a saved template; requests already sent from it stay as they are. Free.
- [esign_get](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_get.md): Where a signature request stands: each signer's status, and the signed PDF once everyone signed. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [esign_list](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_list.md): Signature requests, newest first, optionally of one status. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [esign_signing_link](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_signing_link.md): One signer's signing link, to hand over yourself. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [esign_remind](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_remind.md): Emails everyone who still has to sign a reminder with their link, at most once a day. $0.02 a call.
- [esign_cancel](https://conecto.chat/tools/esign/esign_cancel.md): Stops a request before everyone has signed; signers are told and their links stop working. Free.