Create a journey message template

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.gratona.com/v1/admin/journeys/message-templates \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "Welcome message",
  "body": "Hello {{first_name}}",
  "channel": "email",
  "subject": "Welcome",
  "impact_story_ids": [
    42
  ],
  "design": "<unknown>",
  "editor_mode": "email",
  "entity_type": "donor"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.gratona.com/v1/admin/journeys/message-templates"

payload = {
    "name": "Welcome message",
    "body": "Hello {{first_name}}",
    "channel": "email",
    "subject": "Welcome",
    "impact_story_ids": [42],
    "design": "<unknown>",
    "editor_mode": "email",
    "entity_type": "donor"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    name: 'Welcome message',
    body: JSON.stringify('Hello {{first_name}}'),
    channel: 'email',
    subject: 'Welcome',
    impact_story_ids: [42],
    design: '<unknown>',
    editor_mode: 'email',
    entity_type: 'donor'
  })
};

fetch('https://api.gratona.com/v1/admin/journeys/message-templates', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.gratona.com/v1/admin/journeys/message-templates",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'name' => 'Welcome message',
    'body' => 'Hello {{first_name}}',
    'channel' => 'email',
    'subject' => 'Welcome',
    'impact_story_ids' => [
        42
    ],
    'design' => '<unknown>',
    'editor_mode' => 'email',
    'entity_type' => 'donor'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.gratona.com/v1/admin/journeys/message-templates"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"Welcome message\",\n  \"body\": \"Hello {{first_name}}\",\n  \"channel\": \"email\",\n  \"subject\": \"Welcome\",\n  \"impact_story_ids\": [\n    42\n  ],\n  \"design\": \"<unknown>\",\n  \"editor_mode\": \"email\",\n  \"entity_type\": \"donor\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.gratona.com/v1/admin/journeys/message-templates")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"Welcome message\",\n  \"body\": \"Hello {{first_name}}\",\n  \"channel\": \"email\",\n  \"subject\": \"Welcome\",\n  \"impact_story_ids\": [\n    42\n  ],\n  \"design\": \"<unknown>\",\n  \"editor_mode\": \"email\",\n  \"entity_type\": \"donor\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.gratona.com/v1/admin/journeys/message-templates")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"name\": \"Welcome message\",\n  \"body\": \"Hello {{first_name}}\",\n  \"channel\": \"email\",\n  \"subject\": \"Welcome\",\n  \"impact_story_ids\": [\n    42\n  ],\n  \"design\": \"<unknown>\",\n  \"editor_mode\": \"email\",\n  \"entity_type\": \"donor\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "id": 42,
    "value": 42,
    "label": "Welcome message",
    "channel": "email",
    "scope_type": "journeys_library",
    "set_id": 42,
    "set_name": "Example",
    "configured": false,
    "enabled": false,
    "last_updated_at": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
    "template_family": "journey_library",
    "trigger": "journey_template:welcome",
    "subject": "Welcome",
    "body": "Hello {{first_name}}",
    "body_preview": "Hello Jane",
    "editor_mode": "email",
    "has_design": false,
    "source_scope_label": "Journeys library",
    "shared_live_link_warning": "Editing this source updates every journey step that is still live-linked to it.",
    "impact_story_ids": [
      42
    ],
    "design": "<unknown>",
    "merge_schema": [
      {}
    ],
    "merge_tags": {},
    "preview_context": {},
    "preview_subject": "Welcome Jane",
    "preview_html": "<p>Hello Jane</p>",
    "from_label": "Example Foundation"
  }
}

{
  "message": "Something went wrong. Please try again.",
  "status": "error",
  "error": "invalid_request",
  "code": "DONOR_NOT_FOUND"
}

{
  "message": "Something went wrong. Please try again.",
  "status": "error",
  "error": "invalid_request",
  "code": "DONOR_NOT_FOUND"
}

{
  "message": "Something went wrong. Please try again.",
  "status": "error",
  "error": "invalid_request",
  "code": "DONOR_NOT_FOUND"
}

{
  "errors": {},
  "status": "error",
  "message": "The given data was invalid."
}