Sharing templates has become a big part of the Manychat community, but protecting your hard work is just as important. The Protected Templates feature makes it easy to share your templates while keeping your ideas and efforts safe, so you can focus on building and sharing with confidence.
How it works
By protecting your template, you ensure that users who install it on their accounts cannot edit it or share it with others—it's entirely up to you how private you want your content to be!
Another great feature is the ability to see a list of accounts whose admins have ever installed your template. Pretty cool, right?
How to create a protected template
Let's walk through the process:
Begin by creating your template and selecting the automations you want it to contain. If you need guidance along the way, don’t worry— here we’ve got a step-by-step guide to help you.
Then, enable template protection:
Protection options
Protect template: Toggle this to prevent others from copying or recreating your template.
Lock for editing: Toggle this to restrict others from editing or viewing your template.
Once activated, users will see the following message when trying to interact with a protected item:
Remote control: Toggle this to see which accounts have installed your template: you can disable it anytime for any particular installation.
To view the list of installations, head to your protected template and click the View Installations button.
Single-use link
Last but not least, to prevent unauthorized sharing, you can generate a unique link for your template that expires after the first installation.
⚠️ Note: Once activated, the permanent link becomes inactive after one use.
This option is available right after you’ve finalized your template.
You can also generate this link from the template’s page.
With these protections in place, you can rest easy knowing your valuable knowledge and hard work won’t be stolen. Share your templates confidently and maintain control over your creations.