Templates - Email Love

A template is a ready-made email built from your components. When someone starts an email from a template, the email is a copy. The template stays as it is, to use again. Templates live on each design system’s Templates tab.

Make a template

There are several ways:

New template: on the Templates tab, click New template. It starts with your header and footer and opens in the editor. Add components as you would in an email.
AI chat: in the template editor, open AI chat in the left rail and describe the sections you want. See AI chat.
From setup: a Figma or email setup turns your email designs into templates. Email Love’s starter comes with its own.
From a Figma frame: when you create an email From a Figma frame, tick Save it as a template for everyone.

Set the template’s rules

Open the template and click an empty part of the canvas, then More settings. Or open the ⋯ menu and choose Email settings.

Setting	What it does
Available for emails	Whether the template appears in the email picker.
Layout	Fixed: emails can’t add, move or remove sections. People fill in the open parts of each component. Flexible: people can change the sections.
Allowed components	Any module can be added, or only the ones you pick.

You can also lock fields in a template. A locked field shows “Locked in emails made from this template: what you set here is what they send”. In emails made from it, the field shows Set by the template.

Make a template available

A new template is a draft. It shows Draft on its card, and nobody can pick it yet.

To make it available, click Make available on its card.
To take one out of the picker, open its ⋯ menu and choose Hide from the email picker. Show in the email picker puts it back.

Only available templates appear when someone creates an email.

Use a template

On the Templates tab, click Use template.
Or, when you create an email, choose From a template and pick one.

See Build your first email.

Edit or delete a template

Open the template’s ⋯ menu and choose Edit template or Delete. When a component is updated, templates take the update by themselves, unless it would change their content or they’re in review or approved. Emails already made from a template don’t change when you edit it.

Who can do this

Making and editing templates takes the Design System Admin setting. See Roles and invites. On the Free plan, a design system holds 5 templates of your own. Templates from Email Love’s starter don’t count.

​Make a template

​Set the template’s rules

​Make a template available

​Use a template

​Edit or delete a template

​Who can do this