Digital products are tools, resources, and templates developed by creators like you. Reach a new creative audience and help them grow their creative practice by sharing your unique expertise, all while growing a new passive income stream.
Digital products allow you to distribute your content on Skillshare in a brand new way. With digital products, you can:
- Share your unique expertise: Go beyond classes with digital products–from ebooks to templates to brushes, color palettes, guides, and more–that share your specific POV and processes.
- Scale your offering: Fuel your own creative business with a new passive income stream, dedicated to helping emerging creatives develop their own practice.
- Find an audience who’ll love you: Skillshare’s community of global emerging and established creative members is the definitive place to reach a new audience that’s craving what you’re looking to share.
Here’s how digital products work on Skillshare:
- A digital product on Skillshare consists of one or more downloadable files. You decide what digital products you want to sell on Skillshare, and for how much. Review Make a Digital Product That Sells for best practices on developing and pricing your own offerings.
- We allow teachers to sell most types of content within the Skillshare community, but there are some we don’t allow. Read our Skillshare Content Guidelines for a full overview of what content we prohibit.
- For each digital product purchased on Skillshare, we apply a 10% platform fee plus applicable transaction fees.
Anyone can start publishing digital products on Skillshare! Make sure:
- You already have a Skillshare teaching account. If you’re not already signed up to teach on Skillshare, head to skillshare.com/teach. Once your application is approved, you'll need to start a class draft. Head to How do I start a new class draft? for instructions.
- You’re eligible to be paid through Wise. Payments for digital product sales uses a different payment system than what we use for class royalty payments. You’ll want to check to make sure your bank account is registered in a country Wise supports. Refer to this article in Wise's Help Center for the full list: Where can I open a Wise balance?