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What licence should I sell my cut files under?

Nora WhitfieldNora Whitfield3 August 2026 4 replies 1442 views

I sell wedding signage templates. Buyers keep asking whether they can use them for their own paid commissions, and I've been answering ad hoc which is a mess.

How are others structuring this? Personal vs commercial vs "you can sell finished items but not the file"?

4 replies

Dan OkaforDan OkaforLX24 weeks ago

Three tiers is what most of us settle on, and it's what this site's shop uses:

  • Personal — make it for yourself and as gifts. No selling the finished item.
  • Commercial — sell finished physical items you make from the file, unlimited quantity, but you may not redistribute or resell the file itself.
  • Extended — commercial plus the right to use it in your own product designs or teaching materials. Priced 3–5× personal.

The line that matters and that people forget to write down: the file itself is never resellable, ever, at any tier. Say it explicitly in the listing, because "commercial use" reads to some buyers as "I can put it on my own shop".

Marta SilvaMarta SilvaLP44 weeks ago

I also add a plain-English summary at the top of the licence file. Nobody reads legalese. Two bullet points of "yes you can" and "no you can't" prevents 90% of support emails.

Tomasz KleinTomasz KleinLP53 weeks ago

Worth stating the jurisdiction and putting the licence inside the download as a text file, not just on the listing page. When there's a dispute six months later, what shipped with the file is what counts.

Rewrote all my listings with the three tiers and a plain-English box. Support emails down noticeably. Thanks all.

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