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What is Teachers Pay Teachers – An Intro for Digital Sellers

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With back to school time here, teachers are likely well into prepping their classrooms and materials for their new students. If you sell digital goods, consider opening a shop at Teachers Pay Teachers.

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What is Teachers Pay Teachers?

As the name suggests, Teachers Pay Teachers is an online marketplace for teachers to sell digital goods to other teachers. But, they also have publisher accounts where non-teachers can sell to teachers and the educational community. Teachers Pay Teachers (known as TpT, for short) boasts a marketplace with over 7 million active members in 2024.

What Can You Sell at Teachers Pay Teachers?

The Teachers Pay Teachers marketplace features digital goods for educators. Here’s a sample list of what’s for sale on the site:

Lesson Plans and Units
Interactive Notebooks
Center Ideas
Task Cards
Activities
Games
Common Core Resources
Classroom Decor
Cut Files
and much more…

How Much Does It Cost to Sell at Teachers Pay Teachers?

There are two different selling arrangements on Teachers Pay Teachers.

For Teacher Sellers

Two different plans; Basic is free – Premium is $59.95 a year. Here’s a chart from the Teachers Pay Teachers website outlining the differences: 

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For Publishers

If you are not a teacher/educator and want to create educational related digital resources, you can join Teachers Pay Teachers as a Publisher. Publisher accounts cost $29 to create and there is a 50/50 split on the sales of your digital goods.

To create a Publisher account, you have to reach out to the Teachers Pay Teachers support team.

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More Information

Teachers Pay Teachers has an awesome help section of their website that will answer all basic questions related to selling (and buying) on the site. Click here, then click the “Help” link located along the top of the page.

Tell me in the comments, will you try selling on Teachers Pay Teachers?