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title: "Importing Email Templates from Mail Chimp"
slug: "importing-email-templates-from-mail-chimp"
updated: 2023-05-31T02:49:10Z
published: 2023-05-31T02:49:20Z
canonical: "support.bookingtimes.com/importing-email-templates-from-mail-chimp"
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# Importing email templates from Mail Chimp

This article will detail how to export an email template from mailchimp and turn it into a BookingTimes newsletter.

## Exporting Mail Chimp Template

Once you have finished editing your template in Mail Chimp go to your templates, click on the arrow next to the article of your choice and then click on **Export as HTML**.

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#### Confirm Export

Take note of the warning here which says you can't import the template once you export it, but you may edit it in mail chimp and then export it again to update the article.

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## Opening the Mail Chimp file

Since the file is a special HTML file it will try and open in your browser. We just want to copy the HTML code we will open it with a program like Notepad.

To do this right click on the file you downloaded, hover over 'Open with' and then click on Notepad.

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## Creating the Newsletter

If you haven't created an newsletter already, create a blank newsletter by following this guide: [Sending a newsletter](/v2/docs/newsletters)

Open the source code of your newsletter by clicking on the Sourcecode **<>** icon in the editor tool bar

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6926c75e-9b20-4216-bf9f-d7ca1df9c74f/Images/Documentation/image%28689%29.png)

Copy everything that is in the file you exported into the source code window that popped up and press **OK**. The newsletter should be ready for you to send.

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Warning

We recommend that you don't include a footer from the Mail Chimp template into your newsletter as it doesn't convert well and may not look very nice.