Manage brand template design approval settings
Brand template approval lets you control who can publish or download designs made from specific templates. Use it to maintain design quality and keep everything on-brand.
Design approval settings are available for Canva Teams and Canva Enterprise. Once enabled, you or other team administrators can apply approval requirements to specific Brand Templates during publishing. Learn more about approval settings in Canva.
- From the homepage side panel, select Brand.
- Go to the All Brand Templates tab.
- Select the brand template you’d like to apply design approval conditions to.
- Select (More).
- Select Edit Brand Template. This will redirect you to the Canva editor.
- From the editor menu bar, select Republish with changes.
- In the Republish with changes panel, tick the following:
- Send notification
- Allow design approval requests for designs created from this Brand Template
- Select Publish and close.
Members who require approval will now be required to seek approval on designs created from this template before being able to download or publish the design.
Tip: You can also apply template locks to control which parts of a Brand Template can be edited. This helps maintain brand consistency and reduces time spent reviewing changes.