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title: Journey designer plan configuration template process, owners, and maintenance
description: Journey plan configuration template management is a collaborative effort that includes ServiceNow admins, journey template owners, and team experts.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-process-owners-maint.html
release: australia
product: Journey Designer
classification: journey-designer
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Use, Journey designer, Employee Journey Management, HR Service Delivery, Employee Service Management]
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# Journey designer plan configuration template process, owners, and maintenance

Journey plan configuration template management is a collaborative effort that includes ServiceNow admins, journey template owners, and team experts.

Creating and managing journeys needs the knowledge and skills of many people. Responsibilities for keeping journey stages and task current aren’t always clearly defined. Journey designer enables a journey administrator to orchestrate and delegate all the activities needed to create and maintain journeys.

**Note:** An administrator must assign owners and approvers to Journey designer plan configurations. For more details, read [Setup the Journey designer plan configuration review and approval process](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-plan-config-admin.md)

-   **ServiceNow application administrator**
    -   [Sets up, configures, and maintains your ServiceNow instance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-configuration.md), including features such as creating and updating [plan configurations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-plan-config-admin.md).
    -   [Assign Journey designer plan configuration owners and approvers.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-assign-pconfig-owner-approver.md)
    -   [Maintain oversight of journey configuration creation and modification process.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-create-mng-decentrlzd-template-configs.md)
-   **Journey owner**
    -   Maintain plan configurations and initiate the approval workflow for plan configuration.
    -   Update and publish changes to plan configurations.
    -   Create and change task templates for your audience.
    -   Add or update stages in a journey.
-   **Journey approver**
    -   A subject matter expert \(SME\) with specialized knowledge about an area in a journey as it relates to business needs, individual roles, and responsibilities.
    -   [Approvers are assigned approval tasks when a journey configuration is created or modified.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-approval-requests.md)

-   **[Journey designer plan configuration owners](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-owner-role-and-responsibility.md)**  
Plan configuration owners create and update plan configurations and publish changes.
-   **[Journey designer plan configuration approvers](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-config-plan-approvers.md)**  
Plan configuration approvers review and approve plan configurations.

**Parent Topic:**[Using Journey designer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/using-jny-dsnr.md)

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[Setup the Journey designer plan configuration review and approval process](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-dsgnr-plan-config-admin.md)

[Assign owners and approvers to a journey configuration](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/journey-designer/jny-assign-pconfig-owner-approver.md)