# Create Templates Folder

Create a new folder to store your templates.

For the full list of folder operations and their limitations, see [Organize Templates and Folders](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/organize-folders).


# OpenAPI definition

```json
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    "description": "PandaDoc API spans a broad range of functionality to help you build incredible documents automation experiences inside your product.\n\nPandaDoc API is organized around REST. Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.\n\n## Getting started\n\nYou can start testing PandaDoc API with a sandbox key on our [Enterprise](https://www.pandadoc.com/pricing/) plan, either active or in trial.\n\nGenerate your [sandbox key](https://developers.pandadoc.com/reference/sandbox-key) on the Developer Dashboard with predefined [rate limits](https://developers.pandadoc.com/reference/limits). Or contact our solutions expert if you work with high-transaction volumes.\n\n## Guides\n\nIf you’re just getting started with PandaDoc, you may want to jump straight into one of our [getting started guides](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/getting-started) for the feature you’re most interested in, whether that’s:\n\n- [Create from template](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/create-send-document),\n- [Upload and send a local PDF](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/upload-and-send-a-local-pdf),\n- or [Listening for changes in document status](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/listen-document-status-changes).\n\nWe also recommend you to discover our dynamic content generation on a fly: [Create from a template with content placeholder](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/create-with-content-placeholders-from-template).\n",
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      "description": "Operations for managing and organizing document folders."
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      "post": {
        "summary": "Create Templates Folder",
        "description": "Create a new folder to store your templates.\n\nFor the full list of folder operations and their limitations, see [Organize Templates and Folders](https://developers.pandadoc.com/docs/organize-folders).\n",
        "operationId": "createTemplateFolder",
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          "required": true,
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              "schema": {
                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/TemplatesFolderCreateRequest"
              },
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                "Create Templates Folder": {
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                    "name": "A new templates folder"
                  }
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                      "date_created": "2024-07-15T17:35:52.981054Z"
                    }
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                }
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            "$ref": "#/components/responses/400ValidationError"
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            "scopes": {
              "read+write": "Use `read+write` to create, send, delete, and download documents, and `read` to view templates and document details."
            }
          }
        },
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          },
          "parent_uuid": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ID of the parent folder. To create a new folder in the root folder, remove this parameter in the request.",
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```