Handlebars Helper Function: sha256

Converts a string to a 256-bit hexadecimal SHA-2 hash.

SHA-256 is a one-way hash and isn’t suitable for securely storing passwords or other sensitive data.

This helper is available in the Winter ’27 release of Marketing Cloud Next.

Parameter	Type	Description
STRING_TO_CONVERT	String	Required. The string to hash.
charset	String	The character set to use. Specify as a named parameter. Accepted values are UTF-8 and UTF-16. The default is UTF-8.

The function returns the 256-bit SHA-2 hash as a hexadecimal string.

This example hashes a string of text by using UTF-16 character encoding.

The function returns a hash of the string.