Before you start
Connect your own Canva account in Settings → Integrations, under Your connections. Each person connects their own. Berchtold brings in only the designs you can open in Canva.
To import a design, you need permission to make designs. If you do not have it, ask a workspace admin.
Import a design
- Open Designs.
- On Templates or My designs, select Import from Canva.
- Find the design. Type part of its name to search your Canva designs.
- Select the design, then select Import.
Canva sends the design to Berchtold. Then Berchtold rebuilds each page. This takes about a minute. You can close the window. Berchtold tells you in the app when the design is ready.
When the import is done, the design opens in the design editor. It is your own design. It has the label Canva.
If you import the same Canva design again without changes, Berchtold opens the design it made before. To import a new version, change the design in Canva first.
What comes in
Berchtold rebuilds each part so you can change it:
| In Canva | In Berchtold |
|---|---|
| Each page | An artboard at the page's size, in the same order |
| Text | Text with its words, font, size, weight, color and alignment |
| Shapes and lines | Shapes and lines with their fill and outline |
| Photos and graphics | Pictures placed and cropped as in Canva. Each one is also saved to your media library. |
| Groups | Groups |
The layers stay in the same order. A flyer or a postcard comes in at its print size.
Some parts cannot be rebuilt, for example a chart, a table or an effect such as a glow. Berchtold brings each one in as a picture. The layer's name ends in "(picture)".
Videos, animation and the data fields of Canva brand templates do not come in.
What is flagged, and why
Canva's license lets you use its stock photos, graphics and Pro fonts in Canva only. Berchtold cannot tell your own pictures from Canva's, so it flags every picture.
Pictures. Every picture is marked Replace before use. A flagged picture stops an export, like a rule marked Fix in the compliance check.
Fonts. Every workspace has 27 built-in fonts, such as Montserrat, Poppins, Lora and Pacifico. A design that uses one keeps it. A font your workspace does not have is replaced by the closest of Inter, Playfair Display or Archivo Black. The text is flagged so you can check it. A font flag does not stop an export. A replacement font can be wider than Canva's. When the words would run onto another line, Berchtold makes them a little smaller to fit.
The editor shows how many things to check. Select Review to open Check before use. Before you export lists the same flags.
Replace a picture or confirm it
For each flagged picture, do one of these:
- Select Replace, then choose a picture from your media library. The flag goes away.
- Make the picture a photo field, such as a listing photo. Berchtold fills it for each listing.
- Select This is my own picture if you uploaded the picture to Canva yourself.
Do not confirm a picture that came from Canva's library.
Check a font
For each flagged font:
- Select Show the text to see the text in the replacement font.
- Select Mark as checked when the text looks right.
To keep Canva's font, a workspace admin adds the font file to the brand kit in Designs → Brand kit. Then choose the font for the text in the editor. The flag goes away.
After the import
You can change the design like any other design. Turn text into fields, such as the address, the price or the agent's name. A workspace admin can make the design a workspace template.
A copy of an imported design keeps its flags.
Through Claude, ChatGPT or Muse
Ask your assistant to import a Canva design. It lists your Canva designs, imports the one you choose and gives you the link and the flags. It never confirms a picture as your own for you.