Design and branding

Templates, colours and background logo

Choose one of 20 templates for each Brand, apply your colours and add a background logo — with a live preview.

2 min readUpdated 26 October 2026About This Feature
  1. Template — Change template shows each one large, in your colours, before you choose.
  2. Colours — an accent and a second colour: presets, any colour code, or colours found in your logo.
  3. Background logo — your logo or another image as a watermark, 3–20% strength.
  1. Open Settings → Document Design

    With the Brand selected.

  2. Change template

    20 designs in Professional, Minimal, Modern, Creative and Elegant.

  3. Set colours

    Contrast guards keep text readable automatically.

  4. Add a background logo (optional)

    Centred or repeated, greyscale, original or tinted, with a readability check.

  5. Save

    New documents and drafts use it. Issued documents keep their design forever.

Browse all templates first in the template gallery.

Recommended

Use Full size to see the PDF page at 100% before saving — especially with a background logo.

Who can do this:OwnerAdminMember — noViewer — no

Common questions

Can invoices and estimates use different templates?

Each Brand uses one template for both. Different Brands can differ.

Why is my accent colour darker in text?

An accent too light for text on white is darkened for text only, so it stays readable.

Related topics

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Tell us what you were trying to do and which Organization, Brand or document it relates to. The support subject is preselected.

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