> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.huechat.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create an identity-bound recipient invitation

> Requires forms:write AND contacts:read and browser administrator membership. Existing unblocked same-tenant contact. Default expiry 14 days, explicit expiry within 90 days, capped by published expiry. Link returned once; creation does not send or mark sent.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /api/v2/accounts/{accountId}/forms/{formId}/invitations
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  contact:
    name: HueChat support
    email: support@huechat.ai
    url: https://huechat.ai/contact
  description: >-
    Account-scoped REST API for HueChat: conversations, messages, contacts,
    Customer CDP, Sales CRM, forms, appointments, inboxes, teams, agents, AI
    agents and knowledge, WhatsApp templates and broadcasts, workflows and chat
    menus. Authenticate with account-scoped API keys; every route is scoped to
    your own account.
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://huechat.ai/terms
  termsOfService: https://huechat.ai/terms
  title: HueChat API
  version: 2.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://app.huechat.ai
    description: Production
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Agents
    description: The human agents on your account and their availability.
  - name: AI Agents
    description: >-
      Assistants you build to answer customers on their own: persona, language,
      guardrails, tools and a knowledge base, published to inboxes, replying in
      Arabic or English until they hand off to a human. Create, publish, test,
      monitor quality and roll back versions.
  - name: Broadcasts
    description: >-
      Send a WhatsApp template to a list of contacts from a CSV or saved
      audience, with scheduling, pause and resume, and delivery reports.
  - name: Chat Menus
    description: >-
      Numbered or button-driven menus a customer sees at the start of a
      conversation.
  - name: Contacts
    description: >-
      The people your team talks to: phone, email, name, custom attributes,
      labels and notes. One contact can have conversations on several channels.
  - name: Conversations
    description: >-
      A conversation is one thread between a contact and your team on one
      channel, with status, assignee, team, labels, priority and custom
      attributes. List, filter, search, assign, resolve and annotate them.
  - name: Forms
    description: >-
      Form management, assets, delivery, respondent sessions, submissions,
      scheduling, reports and AI-assisted authoring in one group.
  - name: Inboxes
    description: >-
      Connected channels: a WhatsApp Business number, an Instagram or Messenger
      page, an email address or a website live-chat widget. Inboxes decide where
      a conversation comes from and who can see it.
  - name: Knowledge
    description: >-
      Documents, web pages and text that ground an AI agent's answers. Upload,
      point at a URL or paste text; HueChat indexes it and the agent cites it.
  - name: Messages
    description: >-
      Everything said inside a conversation: text, attachments, WhatsApp
      templates and interactive replies. Sending through the API delivers on the
      conversation's channel and shows in the inbox like any agent reply.
  - name: Sales CRM
    description: >-
      The full tenant-scoped Sales workspace: Leads, Companies, Deals, tasks,
      products, price books, quotes, payments, forecasts, reports and settings.
  - name: Teams
    description: Groups of agents used for assignment and reporting.
  - name: Templates
    description: >-
      Pre-approved WhatsApp message formats required by Meta for
      business-initiated messages. Create, sync from Meta, AI-generate,
      test-send and read analytics.
  - name: Workflows
    description: >-
      Automation flows built from triggers and steps: route, tag, reply, wait,
      hand off. Create, publish, version and toggle.
paths:
  /api/v2/accounts/{accountId}/forms/{formId}/invitations:
    parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/accountId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/formId'
    post:
      tags:
        - Forms
      summary: Create an identity-bound recipient invitation
      description: >-
        Requires forms:write AND contacts:read and browser administrator
        membership. Existing unblocked same-tenant contact. Default expiry 14
        days, explicit expiry within 90 days, capped by published expiry. Link
        returned once; creation does not send or mark sent.
      operationId: postApiV2AccountsAccountidFormsFormidInvitations
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                contact_id:
                  type: integer
                  minimum: 1
                expires_at:
                  type: string
                  format: date-time
                single_use:
                  type: boolean
              required:
                - contact_id
              additionalProperties: false
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  invitation:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/ManagedInvitation'
                  url:
                    type: string
                    format: uri
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '402':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PlanDisabled'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '409':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Conflict'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unavailable'
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
components:
  parameters:
    accountId:
      name: accountId
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
    formId:
      name: formId
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        format: uuid
  schemas:
    ManagedInvitation:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
            - active
            - completed
            - revoked
            - expired
        form_version:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        contact_id:
          type: integer
          nullable: true
        source:
          type: string
          enum:
            - whatsapp
            - invitation
            - automation
            - ai
        single_use:
          type: boolean
        expires_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        sent_at:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          format: date-time
        opened_at:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          format: date-time
        started_at:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          format: date-time
        completed_at:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          format: date-time
      description: >-
        Administrative metadata; no token or hash returned. sent_at requires
        provider acceptance, not invitation creation.
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Malformed request, invalid ID/filter or unknown top-level field.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication required.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    PlanDisabled:
      description: Forms is disabled on the workspace plan.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            properties:
              error:
                type: string
              code:
                type: string
                enum:
                  - plan_disabled
              feature:
                type: string
                enum:
                  - forms
    Forbidden:
      description: Invitation, session, membership, or consent requirement not met.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: Form not found in the account or not publicly available.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Conflict:
      description: Stale version, duplicate response, or already used invitation.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    ValidationError:
      description: The request or definition is invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unavailable:
      description: Dependency/configuration unavailable; fail closed.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        Your personal access token where supported, or a scoped API key (`hc_…`)
        created inside HueChat at Account → Developer API. Send it as
        `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.

````