---
title: "Customizing Your Email Templates"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/software/give/customizing-email-templates/"
description: "Your Donation Receipt Emails can be fully customized via your child theme. This article provides you with the resources necessary to do that."
vertical: "Software"
area: "Give"
date: "2016-07-28"
last_modified: "2016-07-28"
---

# Customizing Your Email Templates

Your Donation Receipt Emails can be fully customized via your child theme. This article provides you with the resources necessary to do that.

Like GiveWP single page templates, your Email templates can be fully customized via your theme.

## Tools You Need:

In order to do this, there’s a few things you should be familiar with:

- Basic principles of [child themeing](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
- An IDE or code editor
- A local environment (We recommend [Desktop Server](https://wordimpress.com/how-to-use-desktop-server/))
- Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS and PHP

## Dig Into the Code

This Twenty Sixteen child theme was created as an example of a heavily customized email donation receipt so you can see it live. [Check it out here](https://github.com/WordImpress/give-email-template-demo).

## Watch the Walk-through

## Read a Full Detailed Walk-through

[This article goes into detail on customizing your email receipts](https://givewp.com/create-dramatic-donation-email-receipts/). It covers everything step-by-step including tools for creating responsive email templates.