POST/v1/templates

Create a template with an empty draft

Scope templates.writeIdempotent with a key

Headers

Idempotency-Keystringmax length 255

Up to 255 characters, scoped to the organisation and the endpoint, kept for 24 hours: a repeat with the same body replays the stored response with Idempotent-Replayed: true (API-004).

Body

namestringrequiredmin length 1max length 160

productSpecificationIdstringrequiredmin length 1

folderIdstring or nulldefault null

libraryDesignIdstringmin length 1

Returns

10 fields of the 201 answer

idstringrequired

namestringrequired

folderIdstring or nullrequired

productIdstringrequired

productSpecificationIdstringrequired

draftobjectrequired

3 fields

revisionintegerrequired

updatedAtdate-timerequired

updatedByIdstring or nullrequired

latestVersionobject or nullrequired

6 fields

idstringrequired

numberintegerrequired

publishedAtdate-timerequired

publishedByTypeenumrequired

USERAPI_KEY

publishedByIdstringrequired

staticLayerStatusenumrequired

PENDINGREADYFAILED

archivedAtdate-time or nullrequired

createdAtdate-timerequired

updatedAtdate-timerequired

Responses

201Success

401Authentication required or API key invalid

403Permission or scope missing, organisation suspended

409A request with this Idempotency-Key is still in progress (idempotency_in_progress)

422Validation failed

429Rate limited for this API key and class; wait Retry-After seconds

otherError (RFC 9457 problem details)

curl -X POST https://api.postbuddy.nl/v1/templates \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $POSTBUDDY_API_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: crm-0062p00001Xyz-signed" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "name": "Welcome card", "productSpecificationId": "psp_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K" }'

import { PostBuddyClient } from '@postbuddy/sdk'; const client = new PostBuddyClient({ apiKey: process.env.POSTBUDDY_API_KEY! }); const result = await client.templates.create({ body: { name: 'Welcome card', productSpecificationId: 'psp_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K', },, idempotencyKey: 'crm-0062p00001Xyz-signed', });

import os from postbuddy import Client client = Client(os.environ["POSTBUDDY_API_KEY"]) result = client.templates.create({ "name": "Welcome card", "productSpecificationId": "psp_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", }, idempotency_key="crm-0062p00001Xyz-signed")

{ "id": "tpl_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", "name": "Welcome card", "folderId": "tf_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", "productId": "prd_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", "productSpecificationId": "psp_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", "draft": { "revision": 1, "updatedAt": "2026-10-16T09:14:02.000Z", "updatedById": "obj_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K" }, "latestVersion": { "id": "tv_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", "number": 1, "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T09:14:02.000Z", "publishedByType": "USER", "publishedById": "obj_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", "staticLayerStatus": "READY" }, "archivedAt": "2026-10-16T09:14:02.000Z", "createdAt": "2026-10-16T09:14:02.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-10-16T09:14:02.000Z" }

{ "type": "https://docs.postbuddy.nl/errors/idempotency_in_progress", "title": "Request with this idempotency key in progress", "status": 409, "code": "idempotency_in_progress", "detail": "A request with this Idempotency-Key is still in progress (idempotency_in_progress)", "requestId": "req_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K" }

{ "type": "https://docs.postbuddy.nl/errors/validation_failed", "title": "Validation failed", "status": 422, "code": "validation_failed", "detail": "Validation failed", "requestId": "req_01J9Y2K8QF4T6W8Z0B2D4F6H8K", "errors": [ { "field": "recipient.postalCode", "code": "invalid_string", "message": "Invalid postal code" } ] }