How to Sell PowerPoint and Google Slides Templates
Presentation templates sell to business professionals, teachers, and students. Here's what formats to offer and where to sell them.
Who buys presentation templates
Business professionals who need to present to clients, teams, or investors. Teachers creating lesson presentations. Students making class projects look professional. Consultants delivering reports.
These buyers pay for time savings. Building a 20-slide deck from scratch takes 3-5 hours. Customizing a template takes 30 minutes. That time difference is worth $10-25 to a busy professional.
What sells
Business pitch decks. Investor presentations, company overviews, sales proposals. Clean, professional layouts with placeholder text and charts. Price: $12-25.Marketing and social media decks. Strategy presentations, campaign reports, brand guidelines. Popular with marketing teams and agencies. Price: $10-20.Education presentations. Lesson templates, interactive quizzes, subject-specific designs (science, history, math). Teachers buy these in bulk. Price: $5-15.Creative presentations. Portfolio presentations for designers, photography showcase decks, wedding planning presentations. Price: $8-18.Conference and event decks. Speaker templates, workshop slides, webinar backgrounds. Niche but consistent demand. Price: $10-20.Formats to offer
Always offer both PowerPoint (.pptx) AND Google Slides. Some buyers have Microsoft Office. Others use Google Workspace. Offering both doubles your potential audience.
PowerPoint: The standard for corporate environments. Design in PowerPoint, save as .pptx. Upload directly to Etsy.Google Slides: Growing fast, especially among smaller businesses and educators. Create a Google Slides version, share with "anyone can view" access, deliver the link in a PDF (same method as Google Sheets templates).Keynote: Apple's presentation app. Smaller market but less competition. If you use a Mac, exporting to Keynote format takes minutes.Design tips for presentation templates
Master slides are everything. Create 8-10 master slide layouts (title slide, content slide, two-column, image-focused, chart slide, quote slide, section divider, closing slide). Buyers apply these layouts to their own content.Consistent visual system. One font pair (header + body), one color palette (primary + accent + neutral), consistent spacing. Every slide should look like it belongs in the same deck.Editable charts and graphs. Include sample charts that buyers can edit with their own data. PowerPoint and Google Slides both support editable charts. This is a feature buyers mention in positive reviews.Include icons and graphics. Drag-and-drop icons relevant to the template's theme. Business templates get finance and growth icons. Education templates get school and learning icons.Where to sell
Etsy: Search for "powerpoint template business" and "google slides template education." Both have active buyer communities. Tags should include format-specific terms. Use our [tag analyzer](/tools/tag-analyzer) for research.Gumroad: Good for niche professional templates where you can reach the audience through LinkedIn content, blog posts, or industry communities.Creative Market: Higher prices, professional audience. If your templates are polished and business-grade, Creative Market's 60% payout (after their 40% commission) on a $25 template still nets you $15.For Etsy listing optimization, see our [SEO guide](/blog/etsy-seo-tags-titles-keywords). For pricing strategy, read [how to price digital products](/blog/how-to-price-digital-products). And for fee math, use our [Etsy fee calculator](/tools/etsy-fee-calculator).