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title: 2038: Template exists. | API Docs
description: A template with this name and language already exists.
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**HTTP status:** `409`.

The account already holds a template registered under this name and language. Nothing was submitted.

## Troubleshooting

- List templates with GET /v1/templates and reuse the existing one, or submit under a new name.

## Related

- [Creating a template](/channel/whatsapp/api/resources/templates/methods/create/index.md)