Dotdigital Email Template Builder

Design in Temway, automate in Dotdigital

Temway is a visual email template builder that connects directly to Dotdigital. Compose a responsive email with drag-and-drop blocks, then push it into your Dotdigital account as a campaign carrying your HTML — ready to review, wire into a program, and send.

If you’ve been searching for a “Dotdigital template builder” that gives you tighter layout control than Dotdigital’s native editor without leaving your marketing-automation stack, this is it. You design; Dotdigital keeps doing what it’s good at — journey orchestration, segmentation, and delivery.

Why design in a separate builder?

Dotdigital’s editor is powerful for enterprise marketing teams, but teams running a regular cadence of campaigns and automated programs tend to hit the same walls:

Responsive columns that drift in Outlook — Dotdigital’s column stacking can render unevenly in Outlook, where older rendering quirks are still a fact of life.
Custom HTML import is fiddly — Dotdigital accepts custom HTML on campaigns, but hand-authoring clean, client-safe HTML is slow and easy to break.
No single source of truth — every campaign and program email starts from scratch, so brand consistency drifts over time.
Dark-mode rendering you can’t fully control — logos invert, transparent PNGs get dark halos, brand colors shift.

Every email Temway exports is built to render correctly across Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail, with responsive behavior already handled. You compose visually; the output is clean HTML that drops straight into a Dotdigital campaign.

This isn’t about replacing Dotdigital — it’s about giving your team a faster, more reliable way to design the emails your Dotdigital programs send.

How the Dotdigital integration works

Connect your Dotdigital account once from your Temway workspace’s integration settings using your API username and your region’s API URL. Dotdigital hosts each account’s API on a region-specific host, so Temway asks for the correct region URL at connect time. When your email is ready, choose Push to Dotdigital. Temway renders the final, inbox-ready HTML and creates a new campaign in your Dotdigital account.

Lands as a campaign carrying your HTML — ready to review, attach to a program, and send.
Region-specific API host — enter your region’s URL (for example https://r1-api.dotdigital.com) at connect time. Find it in Dotdigital under Settings → Access → API Users.
Authenticates with your Dotdigital API username via HTTP Basic auth.
Client-safe output means the pushed HTML renders consistently across Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and the rest.
Credentials encrypted at rest — your API username is never displayed again after you connect.

Dotdigital-specific details that just work

Because Temway pushes raw HTML into a Dotdigital campaign and Dotdigital processes its own personalization at send time, a few things work exactly the way Dotdigital users expect:

Personalization fields pass through. Paste any Dotdigital contact field syntax into a Temway text block — it renders into the HTML untouched and resolves normally when Dotdigital sends.
Review and finish inside Dotdigital. The campaign lands with placeholder details you should confirm before sending — open it in Dotdigital to set the sender, subject, and send or wire into a program.
Design-only by design. Temway never touches your contacts, segments, programs, or automations. Those stay entirely in Dotdigital — Temway only creates the campaign; you decide who receives it.

Start from a Dotdigital-ready template

Don’t begin from a blank canvas. Browse the template gallery for responsive, marketing-friendly starting points — then customize the branding, copy, and layout in Temway before pushing to your Dotdigital account.

Frequently asked questions

Why does Temway need my region URL? Because Dotdigital hosts each account’s API on a region-specific host (for example https://r1-api.dotdigital.com for region 1, https://r2-api.dotdigital.com for region 2). Without the correct region, API requests cannot reach your account. Find yours in Dotdigital under Settings → Access → API Users.

Do Dotdigital personalization fields work? Yes. Anything you type into a Temway text block — Dotdigital’s contact-field syntax — passes through untouched, and Dotdigital processes it at send time as normal.

Does Temway sync my Dotdigital contacts or programs? No. Temway is design-and-push only. Contacts, segments, programs, automations, and send settings live entirely in Dotdigital. Temway creates a campaign; you decide who receives it.

What Dotdigital plan do I need? You need a Dotdigital API username plus your region’s API URL. Beyond that, contact limits and automation features depend on your Dotdigital plan — check Dotdigital’s current pricing for specifics; that’s a Dotdigital question, not a Temway one.

Get started

Connect Dotdigital from your workspace integration settings (have your API username and region URL ready), then push your first email. The ESP integrations documentation covers the full walkthrough.