Creating Designs

Overview

Design templates define the embroidery layout your customers personalize. Each template specifies a hoop size, text fields, font options, and optional base design artwork.

Creating a template

1. Go to Designs → Advanced and click New advanced design.
2. Set the hoop dimensions (width and height in mm) to match your physical embroidery hoop.
3. Add one or more text fields — each field has a key, label, placeholder text, and position on the canvas.
4. Assign fonts to each field from your uploaded BX font library.
5. Optionally attach a base design asset (a stitch file) that appears behind the text.

The design editor

The editor has three main areas:

• Canvas — A live stitch preview showing how the final embroidery will look. It updates as you change field values, fonts, and positions.
• Toolbar — Undo/redo, zoom controls, and save.
• Sidebar — Template properties (name, description, status, geometry) and field configuration panels.

Text field options

Each text field supports:

• Font selection — Choose from uploaded BX font families. Each family can have multiple size variants.
• Layout mode — Standard left-to-right, arched text, or circular text.
• Letter spacing and line height — Fine-tune the spacing between characters and lines.
• Text style — Normal, italic, or bold (depending on font support).

Design status

• Draft — Only visible to your team in the dashboard.
• Published — Available on the kiosk and storefront.

Availability

Control where each design appears:

• Kiosk only — Only shown on the in-store kiosk.
• Online only — Only available through the web storefront.
• Both — Available everywhere.

Design library

Upload reusable stitch assets (DST, PES, JEF files) under Designs → Library. These can be used as base designs across multiple templates.