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

# Templates

> Templates are ready-made emails your team starts from. Make one, decide whether its layout is fixed or flexible, and choose which templates appear in the email picker.

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](https://help.emaillove.com/builder/ai/chat.md#template-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](https://help.emaillove.com/builder/getting-started/first-email.md#2-start-an-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](https://help.emaillove.com/builder/team/overview.md#design-system-admin).

On the Free plan, a design system holds 5 templates of your own. Templates from Email Love's starter don't count.


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