How to make money online selling Canva templates in 2025 💰 (Research + Create + Sell)

About this video

Hayes walks through selling Canva templates in three steps: conceptualise, create, and list. For research she searches Etsy itself, noting bestseller badges and repeated trend elements such as colours, fonts and aesthetics, then uses Sales Samurai’s keyword tool to see top listings, tags and price spread; her example settles on a modern, clean 5x7 wedding invitation template, possibly bundled with RSVP and details cards. Creation must start from scratch — she warns it is against Canva policy to take a pre-made Canva template, tweak it and resell it — and sellers should use only free fonts and elements, filtered in Elements, so buyers without Canva Pro do not face watermark charges; she recommends three fonts or fewer and a cohesive look across a bundle. She then generates a Canva template link and builds a separate deliverable: a US Letter PDF containing branding, a thank-you message, an image of the template, and hyperlinked text (and its backing box) pasted with the template link, downloaded as PDF Standard with flattening left unchecked so links stay clickable, then test-clicked. For listing, she suggests Etsy as more beginner-friendly than Shopify, creating square mockup images at least 2,000 pixels wide by layering a transparent-background PNG of the design onto purchased commercial-use mockups from sources such as Etsy, Creative Fabrica or Creative Market, and uploading the access PDF as the digital file. Her closing pro tip is to promote via one social platform, email list-building with a freebie, and collaborations or giveaways with influencers and other sellers.

Key takeaways

• Research on Etsy and with Sales Samurai for bestsellers, repeated styles, tags and price range before designing
• Create templates from scratch and use only free Canva fonts and elements so free-plan buyers avoid watermark fees
• Deliver a PDF, not the template itself: embed the Canva template link as a hyperlink and do not flatten the PDF
• Sell the look with square mockups — layer a transparent PNG onto commercial-use mockup photos for the listing images
• Upload only the access PDF to Etsy, then promote through social media, an email freebie and collaborations

Episode details: published March 12, 2024 · 29:05 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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