Advanced Topics: Creating Templates & the Field Catalog

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Design a template from scratch, and the master list of fields behind it.

When the Library doesn’t have what you need, Template Builder lets you design your own document layout visually, with no code — built from Sections that hold Components, and backed by the Field Catalog.

Building the Layout #

  1. Open Template Builder from Templates, Create New, or New, Template.
  2. Click Add New to build a section, or Insert from Library to reuse one from My Sections Library.
  3. Add rows and components inside the section.
  4. Click Save Design.

The Basic category’s Layout group holds the structural pieces — rows with one to four columns, a standalone Column, and a Page break. Its Basic group holds content pieces like Simple text, Rich text, and Field Wrapper.

⚠️ Needs verification

The full list of components in the Basic category’s content group isn’t confirmed yet.

Components & the Field Catalog #

The Components panel groups mapped platform fields into categories: Basic, My Account, Partners, Document Data, Line Items, Forms, Extras, Signatures, and QR Codes.

Every field you place comes from the Field Catalog — a predefined set of fields, each mapped to real account, partner, or document data:

GroupCovers
Account & PartnersCompany and partner identity, addresses, contacts, social media, bank details, tax registrations.
ReferencesLinks to related documents, such as a purchase order.
Document dataSubject, document number, dates, reference numbers, banking symbols, calculated totals.
Section itemsLine items, a free text area, sender/receiver signature blocks.
AttachmentsSupporting files appended to the document.
QR codesPayment QR codes for Switzerland, Slovakia, Czechia, and the EU (SEPA).

ℹ️ Good to know

Some fields — like a company name, address, or document date — are mandatory wherever they’re used. This is set by the Field Catalog itself and can’t be changed per template.

⚠️ Needs verification

Whether an account can add its own field to the catalog, as the underlying design intends, isn’t confirmed as a user-facing capability yet.

Layers, Styles & Settings #

The Layers tab lists your template as a tree — Body, Rows, Columns, and their components — handy for selecting something hard to click on a crowded canvas. The Styles tab configures the selected element’s General, Flex, Dimension, and Typography properties. The gear tab holds page-level Template Settings: Margin and Show Audit Trail, which adds the document’s audit trail to the rendered output.

The menu next to Save Design opens PDF Preview, Meta Data, and Delete Draft.