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title: "Verify: send your verification codes in your own email template"
description: "Pin one of your email templates to a Verify custom email sender, and codes arrive in your own design, copy, and translations instead of Bird's built-in email."
canonical: "https://bird.com/changelog/verify-send-your-own-email-template"
---

Verify can now send the one-time passcode in an email you designed. Build the email in [Email Templates](/docs/guides/email/templates), publish it, and choose it as the body of your custom email sender. Your users get your layout, wording, and languages; Verify keeps checking codes, attempts, and expiry exactly as before. The guide [Your own verification email](/docs/guides/verify/email-template) walks through the setup, with the rules the template must meet and how to troubleshoot a refused save.

**Get started**

- [Your own verification email](/docs/guides/verify/email-template): design the template, pin it to your sender, and check what your user receives
- [Senders and branding](/docs/guides/verify/senders): the Bird-managed and custom senders for every Verify channel

## What's new

- **Your template, your domain**: pick a published transactional template under **Email** when you set up a custom sender on **Verify** › **Configure** › **Channels**, or for a single country in Destinations. Templates only send from an address on your own verified domain; the Bird Verify and Authifly senders keep Bird's built-in email.
- **Two variables**: show the passcode with `{{ code }}` and the minutes it stays valid at send time with `{{ expires_in_minutes }}`. Add up to 25 languages; the template's default language is the fallback.
- **Checked when you save and when you send**: every published language must show the code in the body, outside the subject and outside any link. A template that stops meeting the rules after a republish fails that email instead of sending a code-less message, and a pinned template cannot be deleted.
- **Safe in your logs**: the Verify log and message details keep the code masked, as they do for Bird's built-in email.

Ready to try it? Start with [Your own verification email](/docs/guides/verify/email-template).

## Related resources

- [Customer verification](/verify-api) (product)
- [Verify your first customer](/docs/get-started/verify-your-first-customer) (docs)
- [Verify phone numbers at signup](/learn/series/verify-phone-numbers-at-signup) (video)
- [What does OTP mean? One-time passwords explained](/explained/verify/what-does-otp-mean) (answer)

[Get an implementation brief](/learn/workspace?topic=verify)