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A look at which digital products to sell actually move, with the real fee math on a $29 sale across Gumroad and Payhip, plus what my first sale really taught me.
Free digital products to resell exist, but the list is shorter than the results say. Public domain, CC0, CC BY and PLR in the licensors' own words, read today.
Photo presets sell in two markets that share one search result, $9 mobile packs and $95 RAW packs. Spec sheets, per-preset prices and refund pages, read today.
Monogram SVGs are the one cut-file product where the font licence, not the artwork, decides if you may sell. Which licences allow an alphabet, plus file maths.
Gumroad alternatives compared by real fees, read from each platform's own pages: what a $10, $30 and $99 sale keeps on nine routes, and when the money lands.
Print on demand greeting cards through Etsy's fees, supplier by supplier. A $6.50 card clears about $3 with shipping charged and loses money shipped free.
A Notion content calendar template sells at a median $19 against 93 free ones ahead of it. The two-database build Notion's team runs, the prices, the fee math.
The best planner online depends on the job. Five picks by use, what each free tier really caps, yearly prices from the vendors' own pages, and the cost per day.
A GoodNotes notebook cover is one page at the notebook's paper size. Sizes from Goodnotes' own pages, seven live packs from 0.1 MB to 1.3 GB, and $9 pack maths.
How do you sell ebooks on Amazon? Through KDP, free, in three steps. What changed in July 2026, what a $12.99 book now pays, and when 35% beats 70%.
How to sell digital downloads on Etsy, from Etsy's own pages: five files at 20 MB, $0.20 to list, and what a $3 to $100 sale actually leaves you, ads or not.
A GoodNotes planner sells for $9.99 on the Marketplace or $269.99 direct, and the file is the smaller difference. Channel maths, creator terms, the 389 MB trap.
Merch on demand mostly means Amazon Merch, where a $19.99 tee now pays $2.44 unless you bring the traffic. The same shirt through four routes, with the maths.
How to sell on Canva means two separate businesses sharing one phrase. One pays a royalty you don't set. The other you control, and it costs almost nothing.
Cricut and Silhouette machines cost about the same. The software doesn't, and over five years the subscription versus one-time split opens a $448 gap.