--- title: "Ad Hoc Groups" slug: "ad-hoc-groups" updated: 2025-09-24T13:27:00Z published: 2025-10-14T14:32:54Z canonical: "docs.onespan.com/ad-hoc-groups" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.onespan.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ad Hoc Groups Ad Hoc Groups feature allows for more flexible recipient management and signing processes. Ad hoc groups are useful for when you would like to create a group for a single transaction only. This is different from regular [Groups](/v1/docs/new-ux-admin-managing-groups), which can be re-used. To enable this feature, contact our [Support Team](https://www.onespan.com/support). > Ad Hoc Groups are not compatible with the [Account Level feature Enforce Authentication](/v1/docs/account-level-features). > > Since you cannot define an authentication method for Ad Hoc Groups, if you enable **Enforce Authentication** on an account you should be aware of the following: > > - Adding an Ad Hoc Groups to transactions when Enforce authentication is on will not be prevented. > - There is no warning or error message if Ad Hoc Groups are included in transactions when Enforce authentication is on. ### **Features** The following features are available for with Ad Hoc Groups: #### Admin Features - **Handover URLs:** Ensure handover URLs are functional for Ad Hoc Group members as signers. - **Callback URLs:** Ensure callback URLs contain information about Ad Hoc Group member signers. - **Language Definition for Ad Hoc Groups**: Ad Hoc Groups can now have a specific language defined for the group. - **Document Visibility**: Document visibility is now supported with Ad Hoc Groups. - **Evidence Summary Improvements**: A cleaner display of Ad Hoc Group recipient information in the Evidence Summary. #### Ad Hoc Group Management - **Adding/Updating Recipients and Members:** You can add and update Ad Hoc Group recipients and their members via the API and UI. - **Adding Myself as an Ad Hoc Group Member**: You can now add the recipient type *Myself* to Ad Hoc Groups. - **Individual signers can now be added as both a signer, and an Ad Hoc Group Member**: Using the UI, you can now designate an individual as both an individual signer for a transaction, and as an Ad Hoc Group member. - **Removing Recipients and Members:** You can remove Ad Hoc Group recipients and their members via the API and UI. - **Replacing Recipients with Ad Hoc Groups:** You can replace a recipient (external signer, internal sender, myself, placeholder, sender group) with an ad hoc group recipient. Similarly, you can replace an Ad Hoc Group with a recipient. - **Layouts**: [Layouts](/v1/docs/layouts) can be saved and applied to Ad Hoc Groups. #### Transaction and Signing Behavior - **Document Preparation:** Prepare documents with signatures and fields for Ad Hoc Group recipients. - **Transaction Sending:** Send transactions for signing with Ad Hoc Group recipients. - **Signing Ceremony Access:** Ad Hoc Group members can access the signing ceremony. - **Signing Completion:** Ad Hoc Group members can complete the signing process. - **Transaction Decline:** Ad Hoc Group members can decline transactions. - **Signing Order**: Using a signing order is now possible. - **Signing Reminders**: Remind buttons are available at both the transaction level and at the recipient level. - **Scheduled email reminders**: You can now define when a signing reminder will be sent to the group. - **Duplicate Signers are now supported**: [Duplicate signers](/v1/docs/account-level-features#allow-duplicate-signers) can be added to an Ad Hoc Group. Duplicate signers are signers who may, for example, have the same name or email address. - **Counter Signing**: [Counter signing](/v1/docs/configuring-recipients#counter-signing) is when a sender first signs a document, waits for another recipient to sign, and then signs the document again, using an automatically enforced signing order. - **Attachments**: You can now add [attachments](/v1/docs/using-the-signer-experience) to an Ad Hoc Group. - **eConsent Display**: The [electronic consent document](/v1/docs/creating-a-consent-document) is displayed for all members of the Ad Hoc Group. - **Mobile Capture Signatures**: With Mobile Capture Signatures the members of the Ad Hoc Group can draw their signature using their finger or a stylus. - **Document and Text Tag Extraction**: [Document](/v1/docs/document-extraction) and [Text](/v1/docs/text-tag-extraction) Tag Extraction enables integrators to automatically extract signatures and fields by placing Document and Text Tags in a document. OneSpan Sign will analyze the uploaded document, and replace every text that matches the Tag pattern with the appropriate signature or field. ### Out of scope features The following features are not yet available: - Signing method **Important Note:** Transactions created in the Alpha release with Ad Hoc Groups will not be compatible with this version. ### **Unsupported Features:** The following, although potentially visible or available from the user interface or API during the BETA, will not be supported with Ad Hoc Groups: - Adding a placeholder type recipient as a member of an Ad Hoc Group - Reassign recipient for ad hoc groups - In person transactions - In person electronic notarization transactions - RON transactions - Virtual Room transactions - Fast Track - Bulk Send - Co-browsing ###