# Save and reuse a template

Turn a finished website into a template, for this workspace, an organisation, or sale.

For: People building more than one website

## Saving a website as a template

Save as template lives in the website menu. It takes the whole site, pages, sections, theme and wording, and stores it as a template you can start from again. Give it a name and a sentence on what it is for; the sentence is what future-you reads when choosing one.

Visibility decides who gets it: only this workspace, your organisation's client workspaces, or, where the workspace is part of an organisation, both.

Walkthrough: Saving a website as a template (Saving a website as a template)

1. **From the website menu**: Save as template takes the whole site: pages, sections, theme and wording.
2. **Name it for its use**: Name it after the work it suits, not the client it came from, so future-you can find it.
3. **One sentence on what it is for**: That sentence is what you read when choosing between three similar templates.
4. **Who gets it**: This workspace, or your organisation's client workspaces as well.
5. **Save template**: The website it came from is untouched. Templates can be managed later from Templates.

1. Open the website menu and choose Save as template.
2. Name it after the work it suits, not after the client it came from.
3. Choose who can use it and save.

## Starting from your template

Your templates appear beside the starters when a new website is created, under a tab of their own. Starting from one copies it, exactly like a starter: the original template is never edited by the website that grows from it.

Templates can be managed from the Templates page: renamed, re-described, re-filed, and their visibility changed as an arrangement with a client changes.

Walkthrough: Starting from your own template (The template gallery)

1. **Under its own tab**: Your templates sit beside the starters when a new website is created.
2. **Check the wording**: Templates carry the original business name. Replace it early, while it is still obvious.

Note: A template's wording usually carries the original business name. Replace it early, while it is still obvious, rather than at the end when the eye has stopped seeing it.

## Selling your own

A template can also be sold: set a price, connect a payment account once, and it is offered to others who want the same starting point. Prices, payouts and the simple sales list live on the Templates page.

If that is interesting but not today, the feature waits; nothing about saving templates for personal use involves payment settings.

Warning: Never put a client's confidential content into a template without written permission, even a private one. Templates are shared copies by design.

## Does saving a template affect the website it came from?

No. The template is a copy; the website carries on untouched.

## Can a colleague in another working group use my template?

Through organisation templates, if you share it to the organisation. Otherwise it stays in your workspace.

## Related guides

- [Start from a template](/help/templates/start-from-a-template)
- [Work across workspaces and organisations](/help/workspace-and-people/work-across-workspaces-and-organisations)
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