How to Earn Easy Passive Income Selling Canva Templates 💰 (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

About this video

Kate Hayes walks through selling Canva templates from start to finish, distinguishing selling your own templates in your own Etsy, Shopify or Creative Market shop from the Canva Creator program. Template types she lists include invitations, social media posts and stories, planners, guides, worksheets, workbooks, checklists and slide decks. She stresses you need Canva Pro to generate template links, and when designing to use only free elements — filtering out Pro elements marked with a crown — so free-plan customers are not charged, to research bestseller listings on Etsy for style, and to keep a set cohesive with no more than four or five colors and no more than three fonts. Using an example set of 28 Instagram post designs, she shows using Resize to copy it to Instagram story size at 1080 by 1920 pixels, generating a template link for each version, then building a one-page US letter deliverable PDF with a thank-you note, instructions and support contact where the template link is embedded as clickable text. She warns to download as PDF standard with the flatten PDF box unchecked so links stay clickable. For mockups she creates 2000 by 2000 pixel images for Etsy, downloads designs as JPG, and builds grid and phone-frame mockups, noting Etsy allows 10 listing images. Finally she creates an Etsy digital listing, uploads mockups as photos and the PDF as the digital file, and publishes.

Key takeaways

• You need Canva Pro to create template links to sell, but design with only free elements so customers on the free plan are not charged extra
• Keep template sets cohesive with no more than four or five colors and no more than three fonts, informed by Etsy bestseller research
• Deliver templates via a one-page PDF with the template link embedded as clickable text, downloaded as PDF standard without flattening
• Use Resize to offer the same designs in multiple sizes, such as square posts and 1080 by 1920 pixel stories
• Create mockups at 2000 by 2000 pixels for Etsy and use as many of the 10 listing images as possible

Episode details: published July 15, 2025 · 26:24 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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