Start quicker with Postman templates
Browse 70+ customizable templates to kickstart your API design, documentation, development and testing workflows.
Popular Templates
Authorization methods
Learn more about different authorization types and quickly set up auth helpers for your API in Postman.
Backend Developers
User management API prototype
Access pre-designed endpoints for user registration, login, profile management, and more.
Incident response management
Analyze your system’s health, catch bugs or security threats, and swiftly respond to incidents.
Search API prototype
Access pre-defined endpoints for managing search, autocomplete, popular, and related queries.
DevOps Engineer
Frontend Developers
Fullstack Developers
Quality Engineers
Slack API key scanner
Get a report of Slack messages with leaked API keys and sensitive credentials.
Integration testing
Verify how different API endpoints, modules, and services interact with each other.
Functional testing
Verify your API's accuracy, reliability, and compliance with functional specifications.
API protocol 101
Getting started
Workflow optimization
Artificial Intelligence
AI image toolkit
Perform various image-based tasks using endpoints from Replicate, Stable Diffusion, and OpenAI API.
IoT device management API
Endpoints for managing, configuring, controlling, and maintaining devices.
OpenAI: Models and customization
Interact with OpenAI API endpoints for models, embeddings, fine-tunes, and moderations.
Healthcare API
Endpoints for managing patients, medical histories, practitioners, appointments, and diagnostics.
Fintech banking API
Endpoints for managing accounts, payments, transfers, investments, and transactions.
Shopping basket and checkout API
Endpoints for managing a shopping basket and the checkout process.
Documentation
Prototyping
Testing
End-to-end testing
Test the functionality and performance of your API by simulating real-world user scenarios.
API scenario testing
Test API scenarios by iterating through a data set and triggering workflows based on responses.
Contract testing
Test the interactions between two separate systems based on the contracts between them.
FAQs about Postman collection templates
What are Postman collection templates?
Postman collection templates help you speed up your API design, development, testing, and documentation workflows. These templates offer real-world examples and include sample requests, reusable test scripts, and actionable steps for implementing best practices.
You can use these templates to learn how to use Postman, dive into specific use cases, or get ideas and inspiration for making the most of your collections.
How to use Postman templates?
You can use collection templates to fast-track your work, discover better ways to solve problems with Postman, and learn more about APIs.
Each template includes an interactive example and documentation. Start by reviewing the example to understand the solution and familiarize yourself with any new Postman features.
Next, customize the template by updating preset requests with your own API details. You can also copy test scripts from a template and paste them into your own collections.
What kind of API templates does Postman offer?
Postman offers a range of templates across categories including:
- Use cases: Templates that help with API testing, documentation, and prototyping.
- Developer roles: Templates designed for quality engineers and developers (backend, frontend, fullstack) to complete tasks more efficiently.
- Getting started: Templates that help you quickly learn Postman and API basics.
Who can benefit from using Postman collections?
Developers, technical architects, data scientists/engineers, product managers, CXO/VP/Directors, technical writers, students, and professors—practically anyone looking to streamline their API workflows—can benefit from using Postman collections.
