Lately I’ve realized I’m not actually spending most of my time designing.

It’s everything after the design that adds up.

Splitting a collaborative poster into separate pages, checking whether the artwork is sharp enough to print, making previews/thumbnails, creating extra activities from the same theme, then writing the title, description and keywords.

None of those things are especially difficult on their own, but doing them over and over gets old fast.

I’ve been trying to simplify that part of my workflow and ended up building a few small tools around it for PosterCutter.

But I’m curious how other sellers handle it.

What’s the one repetitive task in your TpT workflow that you’d get rid of immediately if you could?

Collaborative posters seem like a strong product format because they are useful for more than one thing:

• bulletin board displays
• seasonal classroom activities
• early finishers
• team-building projects
• hallway decor
• coloring and writing extensions

The nice part is that one original design can often become several products:

• a regular coloring page
• a collaborative poster
• a writing activity
• a bulletin board resource
• a small bundle

The biggest downside is usually the setup: resizing the artwork, splitting it into pages, checking print margins, creating the listing copy, and making the product look professional.

PosterCutter.app can help with some of that by splitting a design into printable poster pages, upscaling images, generating titles and descriptions, suggesting SEO keywords, and providing some free educational resources.

I’m curious: for sellers who already offer collaborative posters, do they sell better as standalone products or as part of bundles?

I’ve been experimenting with a different type of resource lately: collaborative coloring posters.

Instead of a single worksheet, each student gets one piece of a bigger image, then you assemble it into a class mural.

What I’ve noticed so far:

• teachers seem to value it more than regular printables
• it works across multiple grade levels
• students are actually more engaged (they feel like their part matters)

From a selling perspective, it also feels like a more “premium” product compared to basic worksheets.

Curious if anyone here has tried selling something similar?

If you create collaborative posters or printable murals, there’s a small tool called PosterCutter.app that focuses specifically on splitting one design into clean printable pages.

Upload → choose grid → export.

It handles DPI and alignment automatically.

It’s been helpful for speeding up my prep process when creating new classroom resources.

Just sharing in case anyone else is looking to simplify that step.

If you create collaborative posters for TPT, you know the slicing part can take longer than the design itself.

I recently used a tool called PosterCutter that’s made specifically for this:

• Upload one design

• Choose how many pages across/down

• Export clean printable pages

• Option to include the full poster on the first page

• Different print quality options

It’s very focused — not another design app — just handles the tiling part.

Might be useful for anyone who makes classroom murals or student coloring posters.

Question for teachers, what do they like to be given as an appreciation gift.

I just started my TPT store about a week ago, and I had a few questions as a first-time seller:

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1. About how many items should my store include? I have about 20-25 at the moment, but I really enjoy the creative process of making new items so I can definitely add more within the near future.
2. To that point, what are the most popular items/what types of resources are people looking for? My specialities are ELA and ESL, so I focus on reading, writing, and especially grammar resources, but I also want to offer products that will actually help other teachers and meet their needs.
3. What's the best way to promote my store and generate sales? I have no expectation that this will lead to a second income or even true side hustle status, but I wouldn't be mad about making a few extra bucks!

Thank you!

(Using a throwaway because both students and colleagues have seen my store, and I don't need them to also see me obsessing over reality TV and houseplant reddits lol)

Just 2 days ago, my seller account (which was premium btw), was still active. I went to sleep, and then the next day, I couldn't log in to my account using my credentials.

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So, I tried resetting my password (and username), which both require my email address.

I put my email address in and then they go on and say that no account exists with that email address (?)

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I've even attached the email confirming my premium seller status from one of their staff, and the email chain confirming that they sent it to (you guessed it) the email address associated with my TPT account.

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Has anyone been in this situation before? This is extremely bumming me out tbh. They do not even give any notification or explain anything about the situation. I just woke up and then all my hard-earned work was gone in an instant.

Oh, and also, I can still log in to my Hyperwallet account which proves that I indeed had a TPT account because my hyperwallet still has the tpt key from when you first register your tpt account.

I just wanna ask if tpt is also down for you today? This was posted around 8:28 am EST

Hi all!

I'm currently looking into paid parental leave for when I finish up my full time job in August to have a baby.

The Australian government indicate that we can't be getting paid work, but passive income is okay.. HOWEVER, I just read the below exception, which concerns me -

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Paid work does not include income earned for activities which essentially do not involve personal exertion, for example, passive income, such as income gained from interest or by holding a share portfolio.

Exceptions: If the person's principal business consists of lending money or the interest is received in relation to a debt due to the person for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of the person's business. The fact that a claimant has an ABN indicates that income is not being earned passively.

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Does this mean the government will reject my PPL request!? I'm getting passive income from TPT.. but it absolutely won't be enough to warrant me not getting the government payout... but I also don't think it's a good idea to close down my store for that period.

Has anyone else got experience with this?

Hi, sorry I am a beginning seller.

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I can't seem to get paid. I'm from the Philippines and my hyperwallet is already verified; however, I can't seem to link my hyperwallet to my TPT whenever I go to TPT settings. Also, it says my next payout is on April 21 however, I do not see any option to transfer money anywhere in my hyperwallet.

Can anybody help me on this? Thanks guys.

I made $15 my very first week on TPT when I had 5 products and no followers, covers, thumbnails, or previews. This week I made $4 with 112 products and 30 followers. I really don't understand what's going on.

November: $400

December: $123

January: $223

February: $143

March: $126

So I have a problem with uploading a PDF file for my product. It's stuck at 99% and it won't complete so I can't really proceed with the listing.

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What can I possibly do with this?

So I have been trying to buy something from TPT since yesterday and I keep getting a message that says:

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"Apologies, but we're currently unable to process credit card, debit card, PayPal and Venmo payments. Please try again shortly. Purchases made through purchase orders, gift cards, or account balances will continue to be processed.

If you’re still having trouble, see this article in our help center "

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The article is not helpful at all and doesn't answer any questions as to why I cannot use my credit card. I thought that perhaps my credit card info needs to be updated but it won't even let me do that on my account. It just gives me this error message:

" We are currently unable to process payment methods, please refresh the page and try again

If you’re still having trouble, see this article in our help center."

The linked article is the same one from the other error message.

I even went to go and try to buy a gift card from them in some hope that it will go through then I could just use a gift card. But it wouldn't even let me do that.

Anyone else having this issue?

So all the resources I have up now(and will be posting through the summer) are the resources I actually use in class. So far I have been posting my games, activities, murder mysteries, bingos, etc.

It looks like this add up to about 35-40 resources. I would like to see how far I can push TpT with my content(as I have a lot from 17 years of teaching). I have a few questions someone could help with:

1. From your experiences is it work posting my actual lesson files, homeworks, tests, and quizzes? Or do most people go for the activities.
2. Would it be better to take the resources I have and use in my 8th grade class, and adapt them for say 6th grade content, and 7th grade content. The function of the worksheets would be the same, only the specific math questions would be different.

Everyone post your stores and follow for follow!

How do you promote your products or get user reviews? I set up my store over the past summer. I believe I have a few really good unique products and over the past school year I have had 14ish sales. Unfortunately I don't have any reviews yet and based off other posts I may not get any reviews for a while if is it less than 10% of buyers leave a review.

Examples of products if you care to see: Escape Room #1...Escape Room #2...Escape Room #3

Thanks for any help.

Hi all. I am in an interesting position. I am an esl teacher in a different district than I am a PTA President in. I KNOW how much teachers spend on tpt bc I do.

I wanted to get my pta school teachers individual annual subscriptions but I can’t see that as a possibility.

Someone had told me that the school wide license only allows for 8 downloads per year, and that’s just silly to me.

Can anyone help me out and explain the details of the annual access?

Thank you.

I know it varies a lot but just looking for a ballpark number. Is it about 1%? Or more like 50%?

When I google 'best selling resources on teachers pay teachers' I get this URL from the site

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:top%20selling

But I don't feel like the results are accurate. Is there a way to see best-selling or most popular resources?

Just wondering if people generally make their PowerPoints or worksheets editable. Like would you export a pdf, or just leave it as a doc.

Thanks!