# Send an email from template

To send an email from a prepared template, set the `template` parameter to the template name. 

To create a new email template, open the [Emails section](https://app.encharge.io/emails) in Encharge and click the + icon in the lower-left. You can skip this step if you've already created your email template.

{% hint style="info" %}
If you have previously created the recipient  in Encharge, you can use personalization tags, for example `{{ person.firstName }}` in your email's text. See what fields you can use in [Person Fields](https://app.encharge.io/settings/person-fields).
{% endhint %}

```javascript
const axios = require('axios');

// Send a POST request
axios({
  method: 'post',
  url: 'https://api.encharge.io/v1/emails/send?token=yourAPIKey',
  data: {
    "to": "recipient@example.com",
    "template": "Welcome Email",
    /**
   * Optionally, you can include a dictionary of fields to be replaced.
   * For example, passing
   * `{ "loginURL": "https://app.encharge.io/login/3n2l3ad99"}`
   * will replace
   * `{{ loginURL }}` in the email template.
   */
    "templateProperties": {
      "loginURL": "https://app.encharge.io/login/3n2l3ad99"
    }
  }
});
```

{% hint style="warning" %}
If you provide the `from` parameter, it will overwrite the sender address specified in the template.
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
To use the template ID instead of the template name, pass a number to the `template` parameter above. \
Finding the template ID is easy - open the template in the Encharge app. Look at the URL to find the email ID. In the following URL [https://app.encharge.io/emails?email=123](https://app.encharge.io/emails?emails-folder-item=allEmails\&email=40995), the template ID is 123.
{% endhint %}