In this lesson, we’ll talk about how to prepare your new template to be packaged, sold and launched so you can start making money from selling your template.

How to setup payments

If you want to sell your template, the best option is to use Gumroad as your payment provider. Most importantly, Gumroad charges your customer VAT on your behalf, meaning you’ll save lots of time on your accounting by not having to charge customers VAT in their respective country. This is called Merchant of Record.

The other benefits to use Gumroad is they offer email sending capabilitieks, flexible landing page building as well as frequent payouts and full ownership of your customers. Gumroad charges a 10% fee which is decent enough when you’re just starting out as a creator.

Gumroad even offers the option to give them an affiliate fee to bring in customers to your product and you can even set up custom affiliate links if you have friends or other people who want to promote your products.

You can set up a free account on Gumroad right now and get started creating your first sales page and selling your first template. However, if you’re looking for alternatives to Gumroad, you should consider these:

How to setup a sales page

A sales page is the first thing people see when they come to look at your product. You’ll need to have some beautiful cover photos showcasing your templates and its features, as well as a product description that tells people what they’re buying. There are many ways to create product description and some descriptions work well for certain products while other’s work well for other products.

Here are some examples of good product description pages that you can draw inspiration from

Showcasing your template

To showcase your template you need some screenshots of the template inside some cover photos. You can use lots of free apps to create beautiful covers like Canva or Figma without any prior experience.

Ideally when creating your cover photos for the template, you want to showcase a screenshot of the template along with some description and text that talks about the benefits you get from using the template or the problem it solves.

Here are some examples of great cover photos: