Make your first template

Open the editor

From Templates → New, pick a starter (amusement park, school, gym, office, church). Each starter is sized for CR-80 (85.6 × 54 mm) with 1 mm bleed on the over-bleed-aware print path. Once you pick one, you’re in the editor.

The editor in 60 seconds

• Toolbar top-left: add text, images, photo box, barcode, signature placeholder, shapes.
• Canvas middle: drag layers around. Hold space to pan, scroll to zoom, Cmd/Ctrl + scroll for zoom only.
• Layers panel right: drag to reorder, click to select, search to filter.
• Inspector bottom: properties of the selected layer (font, color, binding, etc.).

Bindings

A text or barcode layer can either show a static string (a department label) or bind to an employee field that swaps per-print. In the inspector, set the Binding:

• first_name, last_name, preferred_name
• position, department, school_year
• employee_id— both as a text label and as a barcode source.

Photos

Add a Photo layer for the employee photo. Set the aspect ratio (3:4 portrait is most common for ID cards), and pick cover (fill the box) or contain(letterbox). BadgeBadger’s cropper enforces this aspect when the operator uploads.

Two-sided cards

Click the Back tab at the top to design the reverse side. Both sides are rendered in a single PDF; retransfer printers with duplex modules handle the flip automatically. Single-sided printers will only print the front.

Save + lock

Templates auto-save. Once a template has been used to print at least one real badge, it’s locked from edits to prevent accidentally changing the design behind your operator’s back. You can still duplicate it (the duplicate is unlocked) or unlock the original from the editor header.