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If your design already lives in Figma, the Kalpana plugin sends a frame to your workspace as a template, ready to fill with data.

What you need

A Figma frame, component or instance that is the complete creative, such as the sale card.
Text and image layers named by what they hold: Title, Price, Was Price, Badge, Product Image. These names become the column names in your sheet.
Every font in the frame loading in Figma. Custom fonts also need uploading to Brand Assets → Fonts.
Every image at 5 MB or smaller. The plugin can compress larger ones for you.
Permission to create templates in the workspace.

Steps

Install the plugin

In the Studio, open Get Started and choose Install Figma plugin. You can also search for Kalpana in the Figma Community.

Prepare the frame

Try your longest and shortest copy in Figma first, so you see wrapping and overflow early. Select the frame. If you select several things, only the first is exported.

The first time you run the plugin it shows three steps: approve the connection in your browser, pick the workspaces the plugin may use, and paste the code the browser gives you back into the plugin. Choose Continue with web to start.

Choose a workspace and select the frame

Pick the workspace that should own the template. With the frame selected, the plugin reads the design, its fonts and its images.

Create the template

Choose New template, give it a name and description, then choose Create Template.

To add the frame as another page of a template you already have, choose Add as a page instead, search for the template and choose Add page. That is how one template gets several sizes. See Add more sizes to a template.

Open it in the Studio

Go to Templates → My Templates and open the new template. Compare it with Figma, looking at fonts, spacing, effects and images.

Check the result

The template page should show your design with a Variables list holding the text and image layers you named. Every text layer becomes a text variable and every image layer an image variable, so you do not mark anything in Figma.

If something looks different, choose Edit design to fix it in the designer. See Open the designer.

The commonest problem is a missing font. If Figma cannot load a font, the plugin lists each missing family and style and disables export with Fix missing fonts to continue. Install or replace the font in Figma and export again.

If any image is larger than 5 MB, choose Compress all to 5 MB or Reduce images over 5 MB before you create the template.

To remove the plugin's access later, open Settings → Connected assistants, where it appears as Kalpana for Figma, and choose Disconnect.

Bring a design in from Figma