Now that you’ve created your printables, you may be thinking, where can you list your printable for sale?
The most notable platform is Etsy but did you know that you can also sell your printables elsewhere?
Here are 14 place/ways you can sell your printables.
By the way, if you don’t know what’s printables or how to create printables, click here for a step-by-step guide.
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1. Etsy
Etsy is the most common place for anyone to sell their printables. Most people who sell printables do so via Etsy first.
Etsy is the “it” place for anyone to sell handmade or self-designed items.
Most people wouldn’t consider other options before trying out Etsy first despite it not being entirely free. It cost $0.20 to list an item on Etsy.
Etsy has an internal marketplace where customers search for items to buy so you don’t have to work too hard on bringing customers to your own store.
Etsy already has a loyal base of customers with their wallets ready.
If you want to find out what else you can sell on Etsy, click here.
Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to sell printables on Etsy.
Check out the Etsy section of HelloMoneyTree here for more Etsy-related articles.
Pricing: You have to pay $0.20 to list your item on Etsy for 4 months or until it sold out. There’s also a 6.5% transaction fee.
2. Shopify
This woman makes $7 million per year selling printables on Shopify since starting her store in 2017, read the story here.
Shopify is another place for you to sell your digital products or any products for that matter but it does cost money to host your platform on Shopify.
You can get a free trial on Shopify here.
I wouldn’t recommend you to start selling on Shopify if you’re just starting out because you will have to bring the customers to your store yourself whereas, with other platforms such as Etsy, the customers are already there and they can find your store via searches.
I would only start selling on Shopify once enough email addresses have been collected.
You can offer a freebie to your products to get your customers to sign up for the mailing list.
Click here to see different types of mailing service providers you can use for blogs and for your printable business.
Once you have a list of people to directly reach out to, you can set up your Shopify store and start selling!
When customers search for something on Etsy, they are bombarded by lots of options. They can easily overlook you but if you’re directly marketing to your customers via email, there really isn’t any competitors to steal your customers away from you.
If anything, any competition would be between your own printables.
Shopify is the go-to place for you to self-host your own store. You can do so via a standard WordPress site too but Shopify is known for its e-commerce feature and in many cases does offer better functions and more attractive-looking features.
You can also have a custom domain for your Shopify store so your domain name wouldn’t be something like: www.Shopify.com/store-name instead, it would be www.YourStoreName.com
Pricing:
- Basic: $29/month (2.9% transaction fee + $0.30)
- Shopify: $79/month (2.6% transaction fee + $0.30)
- Advannced: $299/month (2.4% transaction fee + $0.30)
3. Gumroad
Gumroad is an online marketplace where you can buy and sell digital products.
Its customer base is more targeted toward content creators but your customers could really be anyone.
You can definitely sell printables on Gumroad.
You can generate coupon codes and licensed keys with Gumroad.
You also have the option to choose the currency your item is sold at which can be beneficial in converting sales.
Something that I find really cool with Gumroad is that you can let your customers rent your product for a period of time. However, I wouldn’t advise doing this with printables.
You can make more money selling printables than letting your customers rent printables since you can charge more for someone to own the printable it’ll take them less than 30 days to edit and print out.
Pricing: It’s free to list items on Gumroad but you’ll be charged a 9% Gumroad fee when you make a sale.
The more lifetime earning you make, the less Gumroad fee you have to pay.
4. CreativeFabrica
Not a lot of people think about CreativeFabrica when selling printables but it’s a legitimate place to sell digital products.
There aren’t too many types of printables being sold on CreativeFabrica yet so it may be a great time to jump in as customers searching would almost guarantee to find your product.
You can cash out any amount at any time. There’s no limit to how much you must earn in order to cash out of your earnings from CreativeFabrica.
Pricing: It’s free to list items on CreativeFabrica.
5. Facebook groups
There are Facebook groups out there where it allows you to sell your printables but other people would be doing the same thing and it can get quite competitive.
We’re talking about Facebook groups that are made for printable creators. It can acts as a marketplace for printables.
However, you can also join Facebook groups in the niche that your printable is based on and if the rules allowed, you can pitch your sales to members of the group.
You should make sure you are allowed to promote your own product first before leading people back to your own platform otherwise group admins may get upset and ban you.
Pricing: It’s free. You’re just posting links to your own platform where you sell printables.
6. Facebook marketplace
Upon hearing Facebook group, the next place you may think of is the Facebook marketplace.
It’s a marketplace on Facebook where you can sell things including digital products.
You can send your customers the digital files after they purchased them but personally, I wouldn’t like this option as you really have to be on standby ready to answer any questions and send over the files right away after purchase.
It’s not as hands-free compared to other platforms where you can let the platform handle the exchange for you.
The upside is that it’s free to post on the Facebook marketplace.
Pricing: Free. No listing fee.
7. Teachers pay Teachers
Teachers pay Teachers is a platform for teachers to sell printables and other digital files useful for other teachers.
The platform can be categorized into different sections for different levels and ages of students.
You don’t have to prove that you’re a teacher to sell on Teachers pay Teachers.
You may want to read up on the laws regarding the selling of products made to your students in your public or private school where you work as a teacher.
Some laws dictate any product made to your students as school property so if you were to sell it, it may get you in trouble.
You can always create printables that you don’t give out to your actual students to avoid any legal issues.
If you aren’t a teacher, you can still make money on Teachers pay Teachers by making and selling printables that school teachers may find useful.
Pricing: Free
8. Sendowl
You can use Sendowl to sell your products but you have to send the customers there yourself.
You can, for instance, include the link in a Facebook post, and customers can click on the link and make their safe transactions.
Sendowl can also be integrated into your own website in the form of a plugin.
Sendowl is sleek in design and secured. They also have various cool features such as analytical reports, memberships, PDF stamping, multiple languages, and multiple currencies.
However, Sendowl doesn’t have a marketplace where customers go in to search for a product and gets to recommend your store. You have to do all the marketing yourself.
Pricing:
- Basic: $9/month
- Standard: $15/month
- Premium: $24/month
- Business: $39/month
9. Easy Digital Download
Easy digital download is yet another place for you to sell printables but it’s not a marketplace.
What it is, is more like a plugin to be used on your own website to help you make the transactions.
It has detailed statistics, easy customer management, discount codes, etc.
Personally, I don’t think Easy Digital Download looks modern enough. It doesn’t look as aesthetically pleasing compared to other platforms and it is a bit pricy but it’s still worth checking out.
Pricing:
- Personal pass: $199/year
- Extended pass: $399/year
- Professional pass: $599/year
- All-access pass: $999/year
10. Ecwid
You can create a store on Ecwid and start selling but Ecwid, unlike Etsy, doesn’t have a marketplace for customers to search for things and find your products.
You’ll have to bring the customers to your Ecwid store yourself.
Some notable features of Ecwid include the ability to set up the listing once and sync it across different platforms such as Instagram, Tiktok, your own website, Amazon, etc.
You can also control everything via a single dashboard.
Pricing:
- Free: $0/month
- Venture: $12.50/month
- Business: $29.17/month
- Unlimited: $82.50/month
11. Fiverr
You can create a template first and offer to create a custom printable for people on Fiverr.
Some examples of services you can offer include:
- Resume
- Cover letter
- Invites
- Price list
Click here for the 23 different types of printables you can make and sell on Etsy or Fiverr.
Pricing: Free to list but Fiverr takes 20% of your profit for every sale you are able to complete
12. Podia
Podia is a great place to sell digital products not just printables.
You can sell, courses, memberships, downloads, webinars, PDF books, etc on Podia.
You can set up different payment plans, do upsells, do pre-sells, and offer quizzes on Podia.
The great thing about Podia is that payment is instant so you don’t have to wait around for your next payday.
However, Podia is a bit on the pricier side although it doesn’t have any transaction fees.
Your customers can pay through Stripe or Paypal (which each has its own processing fee).
I wouldn’t recommend using Podia to sell your digital products as you have to sell a lot more digital products to break even.
Podia is best for selling other types of digital products that cost more such as courses and webinars.
Pricing:
- Mover: $39/month
- Shaker: $89/month
- Earthquaker: $199/month
13. Payhip
Payhip is another place you can sell your printables.
Payhip doesn’t have its own marketplace so you’ll have to send your customers to your store directly.
You can send a link via social media for your customers to access the Payhip checkout page or you can integrate Payhip with your own website to use seamlessly.
Some notable features of Payhip include: affiliate (encourage your customers to share your product link so they can make a commission), PDF stamp (stamp the printable with your customers’ names to prevent illegal sharing), pay what you want pricing, and social discounts (like and share the post for discounts).
Pricing:
- Free Forever: $0/month (5% transaction fee)
- Plus: $29/month (2% transaction fee)
- Pro: $99/month (no transaction fee)
14. Your own website (Woocommerce)
Another place you can sell your printable is at your own website with a Woocommerce extension.
With the woo-commerce extension, you can easily list your printables for sale for free.
The great thing about selling on your own website using Woocommerce vs selling on Shopify is that it’s cheaper to sell through your own website than on Shopify.
You can also write articles that rank on Google so customers can find you through Google searches.
Say you’ve made wedding invite printables, you can write an article on the topic of wedding such as “How many people should you invite to your wedding” and recommend your readers to check out the wedding invite printable on your store.
With Shopify, since it’s built for selling things and not really for blogging, the Shopify SEO isn’t as good for blog posts.
You may write articles on your Shopify store and realize that no one read your article organically via Google searches.
Nevertheless, blogging isn’t too important if you’re selling printables since most of your customers may come to you via direct emails (like the case with the woman who makes $7 million per year selling printables. Read story here).
If you aren’t too tight on the budget and you already got a mailing list of at least 200 people, I would recommend you to use Shopify over WordPress.
Pricing: free
Final thought
There are a lot of platforms for you to sell your printables. I would start out from Etsy first as Etsy has a dedicated customer base searching for printables every day. It is the most standard place to sell printables.
However, you should give other platforms a try as well. Who knows, you may find yourself making more sales on some of these other platforms compared to Etsy.
