Many people think that many web designers and developer remotely work from home. It is possible for them to keep their hours and create the desired schedule but it is not same as always. All freelancers can choose the most appropriate projects but many other developers who work for a company they spend there a lot of time to code. But sometimes they need to earn some passive income so these developers develops and design some attractive and feature templates in their free time and sell them on some marketplaces which prove to be a good source of income for them. So if you are a web designer or a developer in this blog we will discuss top 5 marketplaces where you can sell your web templates.
As many developers who want to develop an attractive website having multiple features search on these marketplaces where they just buy these templates and make changing into them and use them for their professional looking website. Now a day’s these marketplaces are a good source of winning a core audience so they are looking for ready-made solutions that mix beauty and user-experience. If you sell these templates which are the union of the two elements it will be possible to boost your profit. These are the following five marketplaces where web designers and developers can share their work and can earn a decent amount of money.
1. Template Monster:
It is the most oldest and huge marketplace for selling and buy templates which is working since 2002 and have 20 years of experience to hold its audience. People who are developing from past many years will know this marketplace. This marketplace provides its audience high quality website templates and other assets. When a web developer start boosting up its earning that it is appropriate to start with a commission rate. This marketplace makes it possible for both exclusive and non-exclusive items. In this case your commission will be 50-65% but if your project also takes place on other resources your commission will start at 40%. For authors of Shopify and OpenCart the only requirement to start is $29.
You can start uploading your following CMS and eCommerce templates such as WordPress, Joomla, WooCommerce, Drupal, Shopify, OpenCart, Magento, PrestaShop. Where you also free to submit, HTML, Bootstrap and Admin Template and also different kind of plugins which may include on WordPress plugins, PrestaShop Modules, Magento Extensions and JavaScript Elements.
While for the Graphic designers they don’t need to take care of any kind of commission they just simply get 65% of commission of no matter what and where they sell their projects. They can sell Logos, Fonts, CV Template, and Certificate Designs, illustrations, Patterns, Vectors, Backgrounds, Planners, Corporate identity and many more projects. You can also sell different stock of media and presentation templates for such software, PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides.
2. Envanto Market:
It is another large marketplace for selling templates. Massive number of digital units with different types of assortment powers this marketplace. This marketplace allows selling themes, fonts, stock photos, audio and video, plugins and many other tools. Here it supports ThemeForest which is another place where you can sell templates. This platform supports different CMS templates for popular platforms such as Drupal, Joomla, Concrete 5, MODX, Moodle, Mura, Webflow, Weebly and many more. You can also sell your eCommerce templates here for the many platforms such as WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Drupal, Magento, Shopify, UberCart, VirtueMart and many others.
ThemeForest also accepts UI elements for Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop and Sketch. As it is shown that Envato is one of the most popular digital marketplace and the main reason for this is its incredible traffic. This is the place where people want to make sure biggest number of users notices their work. It gives the author 50% of commission of its each sale.
3. Creative Market:
Creative Market is one of the top marketplaces to sell templates. It is widely-recognized place where photographers and illustrators share their work. You can upload all kind of Graphic items or Projects such as, Icons, Objects, illustrations, Patterns, Fonts, and Textures. You can also upload the templates for Presentations, Mockups, Social Media, Cards, Email, Business cards. All kind of web templates for all kind of platforms can also be uploading such as WordPress, OpenCart, Drupal, Joomla, Bootstrap and HTML/CSS. Also some projects of illustrators, Photoshop, ProCreate and Lightroom can be uploaded on this marketplace.
This marketplace promises for 60% of commission for each sale to the seller. This marketplace also accepts both exclusive and non-exclusive items. You can also decide the costs to set for them. Its feature of review process is also worth mentioning so you will not need for the team to review each and every product if you have already uploaded a decent assortment.
4. Freepik:
This is another top digital marketplace which monetizes your ready-made solutions and does not require any special effort to become a contributor. You just need to register an account then you will be ready to submit your artwork and start your earning. This marketplace provides more than 4 to 5 million graphics so people have a great interest toward this marketplace. In general you can sell the following digital items there, Vectors, Photos, PSD files and Icons.
This marketplace has 18 million monthly unique users so it provides you a great opportunity to showcase your assortment and sell templates to this impressive number of visitors. Its dashboard for admin panel is also very easy to use and you can find all the essential process in one place. You can also track of the review process for your submit items.
5. Design Bundles:
DesignBundles is also a top marketplace. It offers unique deals on premium web design resources and some free stuff. Every graphic designer can register on the marketplace and sell the templates. It has over 1.3 million visitors monthly and 9 million page views per month. The team behind this marketplace offers a quick approval process and selling of products will start as fast as possible. You can free to request the payment anytime. Then you will receive your money in seven days. While using this marketplace you can make your items more popular and this features them on weekly newsletters and social media accounts. So a user has more opportunities to get these features on how much you upload the products.
In term of commission this marketplace offers 50-75% of per sale. It has also minimum price of all the products to stop undercutting. It also provides the support to the user instead of you so it makes smaller workload for you to handle the customers and their queries.
