Graphic designers can make a little extra by selling their designs on various marketplaces. I have listed here all the marketplaces that I have come across. In the end of the post I also added some other extra earning platforms.

Envato Market

To me Envato is the king of all marketplaces. I’m sure you’ve heard of themeforest or graphicriver? They are both part of Envato market among several others such as audiojungle and photodune. If you are an exclusive author, you’ll earn 50% commission and once you have reached $75 000 (!) you will start earning 70% comission. Even so, Envato market has been good to me and they are my nr. 1 choice when selling and buying.

CreativeMarket

You’ll need to apply to become an author. I wish that CreativeMarket would list how many sales each file got just like Envato does. They take 30% commission.

Fiverr

On Fiverr you’ll offer your services for 5 dollars. Most of the best gigs end up costing you more than $5 due to gig extras. If you can offer a service that doesn’t take too long for you to do, you can earn nice extra income. For you to add gig extras you do need to have certain amount of happy customers. Fiverr takes 20% commission, leaving you with $4 per gig. Sign up for fiverr here.

Etsy

Etsy is a place to sell handmade goods, but you do see people selling printable goods and web design services and even Photoshop actions. The only difference between Etsy and the marketplaces mentioned earlier is that they have a listing fee of $0.20 + 3.5% fee on the sale price. Get your first 40 listings for free and use this link: etsy.me/2aA9ZGq

Mojo Marketplace

Another marketplace for you to sell website templates, business cards and logos. You can be an exclusive author and get 50% commission, that will increase as your sales increase. Or you can be an non-exclusive author and be locked on the 50% commission rate. Minimum payment $50 via PayPal as most of the sites. The sales don’t seem to be as great as on Themeforest.com thou. Selling non-exclusively is something to consider so that you can sell the same file on other marketplaces and maximize the sales.

Brand Crowd

Sell your logo designs. Put your excess logo designs for sale. There is no listing fee. You’ll earn 60% of the price.

Freepik

Are you good with vectors? Join the team of designers at Freepik.com.

Pixels2Drive

You can sell variety of graphics as well as web templates and photos. You keep 75% of each sale and set your own prices.

Freelancer.com/marketplace

Sell your virtual files and offer your services. Quiet marketplace.

Inkd

You can sell PowerPoints, flyers, business cards etc.

Bootstrap Bay

At bootstrapbay.com you can sell WordPress and HTML templates. Non exclusive selling. 55-70% commission. So far very quiet marketplace.

Deal sites

Mighty Deals

Daily exclusive deals for creative professionals. Limited time offers. Submit your digital goods for sale to boost your sales and get exposure to your product.

Your design on products

Sell your design printed on goods like t-shirts, hoodies, canvas, mugs etc. You make the design, they take care of the selling and shipping and you get your commission.

Imagekind

You get 100% commission! Now how do they make money? By selling frames to the art work and by selling premium membership. They do have a free plan with limited amount of galleries and groups.

Cafepress

Broad variety of products that you can put your design on. You can set up your own shop.

SpreadShirt

Put your design on t-shirts, hoodies, tank tops and other fabric goods. You can set up your own shop.

Society6

Everything from wall art to t-shirts and home decor

FineArtAmerica

Build your portfolio and sell prints

Redbubble

T-shirts, posters, device cases and many more products that you can put your design on. You’ll decide what you’ll earn from each sale

Zazzle

You can open your own store and set your own royalty rate on every product. Plenty of product options.

Stock sites

Sell you illustration and art work to stock sites.

500px

About 70% commission. Sell photography and digital art

DeviantArt

Sell prints.

Fotolia

Accepts photos, videos and vectors. Commission about 20% to 63%.

BigStockPhoto

Accepts photos, videos and vectors. Commission about 30%.

iStockphoto

Accepts photos, illustrations, videos, audio. You can earn up to 45%.

Graphic Leftovers

Sell photos and vectors. 52% commission on all sales.

Texture Vault

Sell texture

Design contest that you can earn on

These are not really marketplaces, more of contests but thought I’ll list them here as well. If you are a newbie you can test your design skill on these sites.

99design

DesignCrowd

E-commerce platforms

You can start selling goods immediately with the help of these e-commerce platforms. They are fast and easy to set up.

Selz

Place to sell your digital and physical goods safely. 5% + 25¢ per transaction. You can add extra apps for a fee such as PayPal and shopping cart to add multiple products in a single order. By default you can accept credit card payments. Selz let’s you add your store to your Facebook page for free. Easy to set up and they provide extra security measures (fraud prevention) compared if you would sell your items directly with PayPal. Also if you sell digital goods you don’t need to worry about storing your goods on your server.

Gumroad

Place to sell your digital and physical goods. 5% + 25¢ per transaction.

Sellfy

5% per transaction + PayPal fee. Get paid instantly via Stripe, PayPal or Paymill. Facebook & WordPress integration.

Donation platform

Flattr

Receive microdonation from your fans. PayPal donation alternative.

Set up your own webstore

If you yet haven’t done so, you should set up your own shop to sell goods. These days setting up a webstore is easy. If you run a WordPress site, just get free WooCommerce plugin.

So there are quite a few marketplaces out there, only if there would be more hours in a day to create more products for sale. What is your favorite marketplace? Comment below.