How to make printables to sell, from idea to PDF

Printable ideas to sell

• Checklists: cleaning, packing, moving house, a new baby's hospital bag.
• Planners and trackers: meal plans, habit trackers, budget sheets.
• For children: colouring pages, reward charts, handwriting practice, reading logs.
• For teachers: worksheets, classroom posters, labels.
• For events: party games, fill-in invitations, place cards.
• Wall art and quotes, using only your own designs and words.
• Puzzles you have made yourself: word searches, mazes, crosswords.
• Kitchen pages: recipe cards, shopping lists, cupboard inventories.

The strongest printables do one job someone repeats every week. For more starting points, see digital product ideas and planner ideas.

How to make printables in seven steps

1. Pick one job for the page. "A weekly chore chart for two children" is a printable. "Home organisation" is a category.
2. Choose paper sizes. Buyers in most countries print on A4, while buyers in the US and Canada use US Letter. Offer both, or design so the page fits either.
3. Keep a safe margin. Most home printers cannot print right to the edge, so keep text and lines well inside it: around 10 mm, or half an inch, is a sensible minimum.
4. Design for printing. Canva, a page layout app or a word processor all work. Use dark lines on a white background, leave space to write, and keep large colour areas light so they do not drain ink. Use only fonts and graphics licensed for products you sell.
5. Export a print-ready PDF. A PDF keeps your layout and fonts the same on every computer. Choose the highest-quality or print option your tool offers.
6. Test-print it. Print in colour and in black and white on an ordinary home printer. Check the margins, check that thin lines are not too faint, and check that handwriting fits the spaces. Fix anything, then print again.
7. Add an instructions page. Say which paper size each file is, which print setting to use (such as actual size or fit to page), and how the buyer may use it, for example in their own home or classroom.

Make a printable worth buying

Group related pages into a set that finishes a job: a whole week of meal planning, not a single page. Make the pages consistent in fonts and colours so the set looks like one product. Keep each PDF to a sensible size; files on the Free plan can be up to 50 MB, and Creator and Pro add ZIP packs if you want to include several sizes or files in one download.

Sell your printables

Make preview images that show the pages clearly, ideally one printed and filled in. On the product page, say how many pages there are, which paper sizes are included, and that it is a digital download with nothing posted. Then list it on Bookstorez, a global marketplace where buyers browse printables by category, topic and shop. See how selling on Bookstorez works. Where to sell printables goes further on sample pages, file instructions and pricing.

What selling on Bookstorez costs

Bookstorez is a global marketplace where creators sell ebooks, printables, planners, workbooks and templates, and buyers browse every seller's work in one catalogue. The Free plan has no monthly charge: 3 live products and 10 drafts, at 12% + 30¢ per sale with card fees and tax handling included. The fee is the same whether a buyer arrives through your own link or finds you in the catalogue.

Creator and Pro add featured weeks, which put your products in featured placements across the site, and more books a month from the built-in AI ebook generator. See every plan side by side.

Keep planning

Read digital products to sell, how to sell digital products, how to sell ebooks online or where to sell digital products for free.