---
title: "Configure Email Templates"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/tutorials/hosted-login-app/nodejs/configure-email-templates/
description: "Create a simple Basic or React application using the features of Catalyst Hosted Authentication that provides user sign-up, application login, password reset, and implements sign-in using prevalent federated identity providers."
last_updated: 2026-08-17T12:16:04Z
service: All Services
type: tutorial
related_links:
  - name: "Email Templates"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/authentication/email-templates/introduction/
---

# Configure Email Templates

Catalyst provides you with [Email Templates](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/authentication/email-templates/introduction/) that you can use to send custom emails to your end-users when they sign up to your application, or on instances when they wish to change their password.

To configure the email templates:

1. Click the **Email Templates** tab in the *Authentication* component to navigate to the relevant section.
    ![catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_intro](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/hosted-login/catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_intro.webp)

2. Click the **Email Verification** tab, then click **Edit** to begin customizing and editing the email content. You can include [placeholders](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/authentication/email-templates/benefits-and-key-concepts/#placeholders) for values to be inserted dynamically.
    ![catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_edit_highlight](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/hosted-login/catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_edit_highlight.webp)

> **Note:**

* You can customize the email content to match your preference.

* The placeholder content (the content that is present between `%%`) will be dynamically populated based on the user details.

* The `%LINK%` placeholder will contain the application's redirection link. The URL is automatically generated by Catalyst when you host your application, and the redirection page can be specified in a [Catalyst configuration file of your project](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cli/v1/project-directory-structure/client-directory/#client-package-json-file). You can also provide a custom link.

3. Make the necessary changes and click **Save**.
    ![catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_save_changes](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/hosted-login/catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_save_changes.webp)

4. To customize the *Reset Password* emails, click the **Password Reset** tab and customize the email content in the same manner as above.
    ![catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_save_pwd_changes](https://catalyst-docs-development.zohostratus.in/images/tutorials/hosted-login/catalyst_authentication_hosted_email_template_save_pwd_changes.webp)

The email templates will now be configured. 

> **Note:**

* You can learn more about *Email Templates* from this [help document](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/authentication/email-templates/introduction/).

* Because we are using *Hosted Login* to authenticate this application, the handling of sending these emails at the required instances will be automatically configured by Catalyst, so you do not have to code the logic to trigger these emails.