# plainTextVersion param is not working when creating a marketing email

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/plaintextversion-param-is-not-working-when-creating-a-marketing-email/133628>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** free\
**Created:** [May 30, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/plaintextversion-param-is-not-working-when-creating-a-marketing-email/133628 "2025-05-30T10:31:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Bonfi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Bonfi](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Jeff_Bonfi)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/plaintextversion-param-is-not-working-when-creating-a-marketing-email/133628/1 "2025-05-30T10:31:46Z")

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I’m trying to overwrite the generated plain text version of an email.  
I’m using this endpoint:  
**POST [https://api.hubapi.com/marketing/v3/emails/](https://api.hubapi.com/marketing/v3/emails/)**

As explained in the documentation, I’m passing a payload like this:

```lia-code-sample
{
 ...
 "content": {
 ...
 "plainTextVersion": "My plain text version",
 },
}

```

In the Marketing emails section I select the published email and see the auto-generated plain text version, not the one that I provided to the API

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**Author:** ![kennedyp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@kennedyp](https://community.hubspot.com/u/kennedyp)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/plaintextversion-param-is-not-working-when-creating-a-marketing-email/133628/2 "2025-05-30T20:14:35Z")

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Hi [@Jeff\_Bonfi](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/948355)! Welcome to the Community-- happy to have you here 😊

I’d like to invite @TomM2, @joe12south, and @Humashankar to the thread to see if they can share their insight. Hey y’all-- do you have any additional experience creating plaintext versions with the Marketing Email API to share with us here?

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**Author:** ![Humashankar](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/humashankar/32/30856_2.png) [@Humashankar](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Humashankar)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/plaintextversion-param-is-not-working-when-creating-a-marketing-email/133628/3 "2025-05-31T13:51:30Z")

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Hi [@Jeff\_Bonfi](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/948355)

Currently, the HubSpot API’s plainTextVersion parameter doesn’t consistently override the auto-generated plain text version for marketing emails. To customize this content, manual editing through the UI is the only reliable method.

**Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!**  
**Thank you very much and have a great one!**  
**Warm regards**

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**Author:** ![evaelfie](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/evaelfie/32/65945_2.png) [@evaelfie](https://community.hubspot.com/u/evaelfie)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/plaintextversion-param-is-not-working-when-creating-a-marketing-email/133628/4 "2025-06-01T22:24:50Z")

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You’ll need to manually adjust the area. API will not work.