2025-10-27 Proof Release Notes
The 2025-10-27 Proof release introduces API support for returning signer_id in transaction responses, prompts title customers to confirm sending transactions without uploaded documents, adds specific notary termination reasons for fraud concerns, enables premium organizations to receive MFA codes via phone call for Sign transactions, and fixes a video mirroring display issue.
Summary: API returns signer_id in transaction responses, title customers prompted to confirm document upload, uploaded notary termination options, premium orgs can receive MFA codes via phone call (limited availability), and a video mirroring display issue has been fixed.
DEPLOY-1208 shipping on October 27, 2025
Enhancements
Signer ID
We now expose the signer_id in transaction responses (e.g. create transaction and GET transaction calls). This allows customers to “Save the signer_id” to their own signer records at transaction creation time (BIZ-8482).
- Audience: All
- User roles: All users with permission to send and manage transactions
- Availability: Opt-in (option to make via API)
- Release stage: General availability
- Transaction types: Future transactions
Confirm title transactions without documents
Title customers participating in lender transactions will see a new prompt if they attempt to send transactions without first uploading documents. This is simply a confirmation for the title agent to ensure they meant to send without uploading any documents (BIZ-8491).
- Audience: Title customers
- User roles: All users with permission to send and manage transactions
- Availability: Default change
- Release stage: General availability
- Transaction types: Future transactions (Lender-initiated)
More termination reasons for notaries
Notaries can now share specific reasons when terminating a meeting for potential fraud concerns. This data helps Proof as we continue to track and mitigate instances of fraud (NX-6057).
- Audience: All notaries
- Availability: On by default
- Release stage: General availability
- Transaction types: Future transactions only
Receive MFA code by phone call for Sign transactions
Allow your signers to choose to receive a code by phone call with our new MFA setting for Sign transactions. Prior to this change, signers only had the option to provide a code sent via SMS text message (RX-1807).
- Audience: Premium tiers
- User roles: All users with permission to send and manage transactions
- Availability: Opt in
- Release stage: Limited availability
- Transaction types: Future Sign transactions
Fixes
For a brief period, video displays for certain meetings were not mirrored as expected. All self-views are now mirrored in meetings. No prior recordings have been changed (NX-6135).
- Audience: All
- User roles: Notaries, signers
- Availability: All
Related
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ALTA's Best Practices: The Guide to Securing Your Closings
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Upload title documents to a Collab closing – Proof Help Center
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Completing Transactions – Proof Help Center
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