Kit Email Template Builder

Design in Temway, send from Kit

Temway is a visual email template builder that connects directly to Kit (formerly ConvertKit). Compose a responsive email with drag-and-drop blocks, then push it into your Kit account as a draft broadcast — ready to review and send to your subscribers.

If you’ve been searching for a “Kit template builder” or “ConvertKit email designer” that gives you tighter layout control than Kit’s native editor without coding raw HTML, this is it. You design; Kit keeps doing what it’s good at — subscriber tagging, sequences, and delivery.

Why design in a separate builder?

Kit’s visual editor is built for creators who want to ship fast, but teams running a regular cadence of broadcasts and sequences tend to hit the same walls:

Responsive columns that drift in Outlook — Kit’s column stacking can render unevenly in Outlook, where older rendering quirks are still a fact of life.
Custom HTML import is fiddly — Kit accepts custom HTML on broadcasts, but hand-authoring clean, client-safe HTML is slow and easy to break.
No single source of truth — every broadcast and sequence 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 Kit draft broadcast.

This isn’t about replacing Kit — it’s about giving creators a faster, more reliable way to design the emails their Kit broadcasts and sequences send.

How the Kit integration works

Connect your Kit account once from your Temway workspace’s integration settings using your Kit API key. When your email is ready, choose Push to Kit. Temway renders the final, inbox-ready HTML and creates a new draft broadcast in your Kit account.

Lands as a draft broadcast — ready to review, set a subject, and send to your subscribers or schedule.
Authenticates with your Kit API key via the X-Kit-Api-Key header.
Client-safe output means the pushed HTML renders consistently across Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and the rest.
Credentials encrypted at rest — your API key is never displayed again after you connect.

Kit-specific details that just work

Because Temway pushes raw HTML into a Kit draft broadcast and Kit processes its own liquid tags at send time, a few things work exactly the way Kit users expect:

Personalization tags pass through. Paste any Kit subscriber tag (for example {{ subscriber.first_name }}) into a Temway text block — it renders into the HTML untouched and resolves normally when Kit sends.
Review and finish inside Kit. The draft broadcast lands with placeholder subject and sender details you should confirm before sending — open it in Kit to set the subject line, preview text, and send or schedule.
Design-only by design. Temway never touches your subscribers, tags, segments, or sequences. Those stay entirely in Kit — Temway only creates the draft broadcast; you decide who receives it.

Start from a Kit-ready template

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

Frequently asked questions

Why does Temway create a draft broadcast instead of a template? Because Kit’s content unit is a broadcast — there’s no separate reusable HTML-template resource in Kit’s API. Temway creates a draft broadcast carrying your rendered HTML. You open it in Kit to confirm the subject and send.

Do Kit subscriber tags work? Yes. Anything you type into a Temway text block — Kit’s liquid subscriber syntax — passes through untouched, and Kit processes it at send time as normal.

Does Temway sync my Kit subscribers or sequences? No. Temway is design-and-push only. Subscribers, tags, segments, sequences, automations, and send settings live entirely in Kit. Temway creates a draft broadcast; you decide who receives it.

What Kit plan do I need? You need a Kit API key, available across Kit plans. Beyond that, subscriber limits and automation features depend on your Kit plan — check Kit’s current pricing for specifics; that’s a Kit question, not a Temway one.

Get started

Connect Kit from your workspace integration settings, then push your first email. The ESP integrations documentation covers the full walkthrough.