---
title: "Community welcome email template"
description: "A welcome for new members with the guidelines in short and two numbered first steps. Send it when someone joins."
url: "https://nextmail.sh/email-templates/community-welcome"
---

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# Community welcome email template

A welcome for new members with the guidelines in short and two numbered first steps.

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- **From**
  Northwind <hello@example.com>
- **Subject**
  Welcome to Saltmarsh Camera Club
- **Preview text**
  The guidelines in short, and two good ways to start.

![Preview of the Community welcome template](https://nextmail.sh/email-templates/previews/community-welcome-desktop.webp?v=8117edc8db3a)

community-welcome.txt

```
The guidelines in short, and two good ways to start.

{{communityName}}

Welcome, {{firstName}}

You are now a member of {{communityName}}. Here is how we look after each other, and a good way to start.

Our guidelines, in short:

Be kind, and assume good intent

Disagree with ideas, not with people.

Share, do not sell

Post your own work when it adds to a conversation, not as an advert.

Read the full guidelines [{{guidelinesUrl}}]
Good first steps:

01

Introduce yourself

Tell us who you are and what brought you here.

02

Complete your profile

A photo and a line about you help other members recognise you.

Introduce yourself [{{introductionsUrl}}]

See you soon,

{{hostName}}

You are receiving this because you joined {{communityName}}.
```

Shown with sample values. The HTML and plain-text tabs keep the placeholders.

About

## When to send it

Send it when someone joins. It sums up the guidelines in two lines with a link to the full set, suggests two first steps with a button for the first, and closes with a name from your team.

6 values to fill

## What each send fills in

Required values have to come with every send. The rest fall back to the default shown here.

| Placeholder | Kind | Required | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `{{communityName}}` | Text | Required | None |
| `{{firstName}}` | Text | Required | None |
| `{{introductionsUrl}}` | Link | Required | None |
| `{{guidelinesUrl}}` | Link | Required | None |
| `{{hostName}}` | Text | Required | None |
| `{{unsubscribeUrl}}` | Link | Optional | None |

API

## Send it from your code

Create a template from this design once, then send it with the values for each message.

```
import { init, nextmail } from '@nextmail/sdk' init({ apiKey: process.env.NEXTMAIL_API_KEY }) await nextmail.templates.create({  name: 'Community welcome',  slug: 'community-welcome',  starter: 'community-welcome',  publish: true,}) const sent = await nextmail.templates.send('community-welcome', {  from: 'Northwind <hello@example.com>',  to: 'maya@example.com',  props: {    communityName: 'Saltmarsh Camera Club',    firstName: 'Maya',    introductionsUrl: 'https://example.com/community/introductions',    guidelinesUrl: 'https://example.com/community/guidelines',    hostName: 'Ana Reyes, community lead',  },}) console.log(sent.id, sent.status)
```

Community

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### Community digest

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![Preview of the Welcome template](https://nextmail.sh/email-templates/previews/welcome-desktop.webp?v=d019166ec823)

### Welcome

A sign-up welcome with a short greeting, one button to get started and the link written out underneath.

6 styles

Start from one

## Pick a design, change anything, and send it from your code.

Every template opens in the editor as blocks you can move, restyle or delete, and sends through the API with the values filled in.

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