How to Upload and Sell Your Web Template on Themeforest
Introduction
This article is a complete guide on uploading and selling your web templates on Themeforest.
What is Themeforest?
ThemeForest?is an online marketplace where people buy and sell digital products related to web design and development. It’s part of the Envato Market and is a sub-product of?Envato.
As a web developer, you can upload your web templates, WordPress themes, or plugins to Themeforest and reach an audience of potential buyers. And Themeforest handles the payment and distribution of your products, so all you have to do is create and upload your templates there, and then wait for the sales to roll in.
How much can you earn?
According to Envato, top-selling authors on the platform can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from their sales. Of course, most sellers earn more modest incomes, but Themeforest can still be a great source of passive income. My current month's sales were $5800k+ on the platform, before taxes.
Getting started with Themeforest
To start selling on ThemeForest, you need to create an Envato account. So go to the?themeforest.net?website and click on the “Sign In” button, choose “Create an Envato account” from here.
Fill in your details and click on “Create Account”
Uploading your template
Now that you created your Envato account, click on the account icon in the top right corner and go to your Dashboard.
Here you can see the “Upload your first item” button, click on it.
Selecting the category
On the next step, select the category of your item, if you’re a web developer you probably need to choose either “Site Template” if your item is an HTML template, or “WordPress” if it’s a WordPress Theme. Select the category and go to the next step
Providing information about your web template
The first part is providing information about your web template.
Uploading your template files to Themeforest
After you provided the necessary information — the second part is uploading your template files to Themeforest.
2.The second part is providing the?Theme Preview, which is a large picture that demonstrates how your web template looks like, the size of it must be 590x300 pixels, and make sure that the naming is as they require — 01_filename.jpg or .png, if you have multiple thumbnails, you can submit all of them and ThemeForest reviewers will choose the one that they think is better.
We have to provide a zip folder of those files. So upload that zip file and choose it under the theme preview section
3.And the third step is to finally upload the web template, which is the zip of all the files that buyers will get when they purchase your template.
The file structure is up to you. My typical template structure is — I have 3 root directories — demo, documentation, and template
Now, we can upload that main zip file and choose it under the “Main File(s)”
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The last “Theme” section is optional, in case you’re uploading a WordPress theme, you need to upload the theme here.
Selecting the category of our item and providing additional information
Set the price of your template
In the last part, you need to set the price of your template.
Regular license means the one-time purchase price of your item, the price is totally up to you, but ThemeForest will also recommend you some range if you’re not sure how to position your item
Click on the “How much of this will I earn?” button to see how much you will actually earn, usually more than 50% of sales go to Themeforest, but that’s the fee that you have to pay to sell on their platform
An extended license means that you’re allowing the item to be used in multiple end products.
Upload ??
Add any comments that you might have for the reviewer under the “Comments” section.
You need to also check the checkbox below it which approves that you have the right to use all the images and assets which you have used in your template.
And that’s it click on the upload button!
Conclusion
Now your template has been submitted for review on Themeforest, you can see your queued items on the right side of your Dashboard.
If it’s a small template, typically they will get back to you within a week, but it might take them up to one month to review your item after which you will get a response to your email.
The response can be of 3 types
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3 个月Hello, Hayk Simonyan, I hope you're doing well. I wanted to ask you about ThemeForest, is there still any demand for it? Is there still any opportunity there? I hope you can answer me, and thank you so much.
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1 年I have made multiple attempts to submit WordPress themes, but unfortunately, they have all been met with hard rejections. I am seeking advice on how to improve my submissions and increase their chances of approval