Sites Like Teachers Pay Teachers: 9 Places to Sell Your Teaching Resources

If you sell resources on Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), the question of where else to list them got expensive on October 1, 2026. That is the day TPT replaced its Premium Seller membership with an Exclusive Seller membership. This post is for sellers, not buyers: it compares nine sites like Teachers Pay Teachers where you can list your own resources, and every fee and payout below is read off each platform's own pages on October 12, 2026.

We sell our own special education packs, so we have the same decision to make. That is also why no site here paid to be included and none of the links are affiliate links.

The Short Answer: 9 TPT Alternatives for Sellers

These are the nine teachers pay teachers alternatives worth knowing as a seller, and the top sites for teachers to sell lesson plans, worksheets and other digital resources outside TPT. Every one is a marketplace, meaning many sellers list there and buyers can browse and pay on the site. TPT is the baseline row.

Seller terms read from each platform's own pages, October 12, 2026:

Site	Cost to Sell	You Keep	A $5 Sale Pays	Also Sell on TPT	Status
TPT Basic	$29 once	55%, minus $0.30 per resource	$2.45	You can sell anywhere	Open
TPT Exclusive	$59.95 a year	77.5% (80% until Jan 1, 2027)	$3.88 ($4.00 in 2026)	TPT only	Open
Classful	Free	95%, minus 2.9% + $0.30 card processing	About $4.31	Yes, on TPT Basic	Open
Tes	Free	60%, 70% or 80% by sales level	$3.00 to $4.00	Yes, on TPT Basic	Open
TeachSimple	Free (application)	A share of a monthly subscription pool	No per-sale price	Yes, on TPT Basic	Open
Amped Up Learning	No monthly or yearly fee	80% to 90%	$4.00 to $4.50	Yes, on TPT Basic	Open, set up by email
TeacherStore.io	6 months free, then $49 a year	80%, no transaction fees	$4.00	Yes, on TPT Basic	Relaunching Oct 15 to 25
Etsy	$0.20 per listing; a set-up fee may apply	93.5%, minus 3% + $0.25 processing (US)	About $4.08	Yes, on TPT Basic	Open; not teacher-only
Made By Teachers	Basic or premium plan	Up to 80%	Up to $4.00	Yes, on TPT Basic	Not adding new sellers
Classmade	Free (10 resources) or $299.99 CAD a year	85% on Free, 100% on Pro, before Stripe	$4.25 or $5.00, before Stripe	Yes, on TPT Basic	Store builder; shared browse page since Oct 7
TeachShare	Free	90%, before any card fee	$4.50, before any card fee	Yes, on TPT Basic	Open; marketplace inside an AI lesson tool

"A $5 sale pays" is one $5 resource bought on its own by a US buyer, after the platform's fee and any card processing the seller pays. Tes is shown before any VAT or GST, which comes off first where the buyer's country charges it. Etsy is shown without Offsite Ads. Classmade's Stripe fee is set by Stripe and is not published by Classmade. TeachShare's terms say payment-processor fees may also come off a sale, without saying how much.

What Changed at TPT on October 1, 2026

TPT's own fee page now lists two seller memberships. Premium is gone for new sign-ups.

TPT seller memberships, from TPT's Seller Fees and Payout Rates page:

Membership	Fee	Payout Rate	Transaction Fee	Exclusivity
Basic Seller	$29 one time, non-refundable	55% on all sales	30 cents per resource	None
Exclusive Seller	$59.95 a year	77.5% (80% until January 1, 2027)	15 cents per resource, only on orders under $3	Digital educational resources sold only on TPT

TPT gives its reason plainly in the announcement: "TPT resources are being increasingly sold on sites outside of TPT." It also calls the 77.5% rate "a slight decrease from the Premium Seller rate," which was 80%.

If You Are a Premium Seller Now

• You keep 80% through December 31, 2026, whatever you choose.
• To become Exclusive on January 1, you must opt in by December 31 at 11:59pm ET. If you do nothing, your account becomes Basic on January 1.
• If you become Basic, TPT waives the $29 Basic fee and refunds $5 for each month left on your Premium year.
• If you go Exclusive and later switch to Basic, you wait one year before you can rejoin Exclusive.

If You Are New or Already Basic

You can join Exclusive at any time and earn 80% until January 1, 2027, but the exclusivity terms start the day you sign up. You cannot run one Exclusive store and one Basic store: every store you own must be on the same membership.

What an Exclusive Seller Can Still Sell Elsewhere

TPT's list allows clip art and fonts, physical products, courses and professional development, Boom Cards (on Boom), Kindle books and free resources. It does not allow digital educational resources, memberships that include them or licences for them.

What a $5 Sale Pays You on Each Site

The real comparison is not the other site against TPT Exclusive. If you list anywhere else, your TPT store has to be Basic, so each row below sets a $5 sale on that site against the same $5 sale on TPT Basic.

One $5 resource, bought on its own by a US buyer:

Site	What Comes Off	You Keep	Against TPT Basic ($2.45)
TPT Exclusive (2027)	22.5% fee; no transaction fee on orders of $3 or more	$3.88	+$1.43, but you can sell nowhere else
Classful	5% ($0.25) and card processing 2.9% + $0.30 ($0.45)	About $4.31	+$1.86
Tes	40%, 30% or 20%; no fee at $3 or more	$3.00 / $3.50 / $4.00	+$0.55 to +$1.55
TeachSimple	Not sold per item	Pool share	Not comparable
Amped Up Learning	10% to 20%; card fees not published	$4.00 to $4.50	+$1.55 to +$2.05
TeacherStore.io	20%; Stripe comes out of TeacherStore's share	$4.00	+$1.55, plus $49 a year after 6 months
Etsy	$0.20 listing, 6.5% ($0.33), 3% + $0.25 processing ($0.40)	About $4.08	+$1.63 (about $3.33 if an Offsite Ad made the sale)
Made By Teachers	From 20%	Up to $4.00	Up to +$1.55 (closed to new sellers)
Classmade	15% on Free, 0% on Pro, then Stripe	$4.25 / $5.00 before Stripe	+$1.80 / +$2.55 before Stripe
TeachShare	10% ($0.50); card fees not published	$4.50 before any card fee	+$2.05 before any card fee

Orders under $3 cost more on several sites: TPT Exclusive charges 15 cents per resource, Tes charges 20 cents and TPT Basic charges 30 cents at every price. Classful adds 1.5% for international cards and 1% for currency conversion.

Is Listing Elsewhere Worth Dropping to Basic?

Every $5 sale on TPT pays $1.43 less on Basic than on Exclusive. So before a second site earns you anything, it has to cover that gap on everything you still sell on TPT. Here is the arithmetic for a store selling $5 resources, using the 2027 Exclusive rate and its $59.95 fee.

Sales at $5 needed on the other site just to break even:

Your Yearly TPT Sales	Lost by Going Basic	Classful Sales Needed	Etsy Sales Needed	Tes Sales Needed (60%)
$1,000	$225	53	56	76
$5,000	$1,365	318	335	456
$10,000	$2,790	649	685	931

Put simply: the bigger your TPT store, the more a second marketplace has to sell before it pays. A seller with $10,000 a year on TPT needs roughly 650 Classful sales of a $5 item just to stand still. A seller who already earns well on Etsy or their own site, or who has little on TPT to protect, faces a much smaller number.

The table assumes your TPT sales stay the same after the switch and every order is one $5 resource. TPT's Basic fee is $29 once and is waived for Premium sellers who are converted.

The 9 Marketplaces, One by One

Each one below is read off its own seller, fee and help pages. Where a platform does not publish something, we say so rather than guess.

1. Classful

Classful is an open, US-based marketplace for digital teaching resources. Anyone 18 or older can sell, there is no application and a product goes live as soon as you publish it. Its public catalog held 98,473 products on October 12, 2026.

• Fees: No subscription. 5% seller fee plus Stripe processing of 2.9% + $0.30 per sale; 1.5% more for international buyers and 1% for currency conversion. Courses are 20%.
• A $5 sale pays: About $4.31.
• Payout: Through your own Stripe account, monthly on the 1st. Classful's example: a sale on September 18 is confirmed by October 1 and paid on November 1. No minimum is published.
• Cross-listing: Allowed. Classful's FAQ: "Can I sell my products elsewhere? Yes!"
• Sales tax: Classful collects and remits US sales tax for you.

Classful vs TPT comes down to fee against traffic. Classful keeps far less, but it publishes no buyer numbers and has no special education category. Sellers on Reddit (seller reports, not Classful figures) describe the upload as easy and the traffic as thin.

2. Tes

Tes runs a large resource marketplace with over 900,000 resources, centered on UK schools. Anyone 18 or over with a free account can sell, from inside or outside the UK. New uploads can take up to 3 working days to appear.

• Fees: No membership fee. Royalty of 60% (Bronze, under £1,000 of sales in the last 12 months), 70% (Silver, £1,000 to £5,999.99) or 80% (Gold, £6,000 and up), on the price before VAT or GST. A 20p or 20c fee applies only to items under £3 or $3.
• A $5 sale pays: $3.00, $3.50 or $4.00 by tier.
• Payout: You request a withdrawal once your balance is over £10 or $10, at most once a week. It reaches your bank in 5 to 7 working days in the UK or 10 to 12 elsewhere.
• Cross-listing: No exclusivity rule found in Tes's selling FAQ or Author Code.
• AI rule: Tes asks authors not to upload resources generated by AI "that have no (or limited) human input."

Tes's fee pages are dated 2022 and 2024 but are still live, and the numbers match on both.

3. TeachSimple

TeachSimple is a subscription library, not a store. Teachers pay $39.99 a month for everything, and contributors share the subscription money. You apply, and every product goes through a quality review.

• Fees: No listing or promotion fees.
• How you earn: Since September 2026, 100% of net subscription revenue from paying members who make an eligible download that month goes into a pool. Each resource is worth 1 to 10 points, and the pool is split by points. TeachSimple says there is no fixed dollar amount per download.
• A $5 sale pays: Not applicable: nothing is sold per item.
• Payout: By PayPal once your balance reaches $50.00, with TeachSimple paying the PayPal fee.
• Cross-listing: Allowed: "You can also offer your resources on other platforms." Resources must not link to other marketplaces, and each needs an original description of at least 150 words.
• Getting started: A free upload service where TeachSimple's team uploads your products for you. New contributor terms take effect October 19, 2026.

TeachSimple does not publish how many paying members it has, so there is no honest way to estimate what a resource will earn.

4. Amped Up Learning

Amped Up Learning is a smaller marketplace run from Mansfield, Texas. Hundreds of teacher contributor stores (about 500 by our count of its sitemap) sit inside one shop that also sells Amped Up's own card decks and apparel. You email them to open a store; there is no published application form.

• Fees: "Teacher Contributors earn 80%-90% commission on all their sales," and 90% during site-wide sales. No monthly or yearly fees. What decides 80% versus 90% is not published.
• A $5 sale pays: $4.00 to $4.50.
• Payout: Not published: no method, minimum, schedule or tax form is stated on any page we found.
• Cross-listing: No exclusivity clause found. No links to other sales channels inside your resources.
• Extras: Your own coupon codes, site-wide sales and every lesson pinned to Amped Up's Pinterest page.

Ask for the payout terms in writing before you upload.

5. TeacherStore.io

Status, October 12, 2026: the TeacherStore.io marketplace is offline for a rebuild. Its seller page says the new 2.0 site "Launches between October 15th -25th." We will update this section after the relaunch.

TeacherStore.io is a teacher marketplace founded by Tiffiny and Duayne Webster. It is actively rebuilding, and it says it held back on marketing to buyers until the new site is ready, so expect to be early.

• Fees: Seller plan: 6 months free with no card, then $49 a year. Seller Plus is $49 a month and Pro is $299 a month.
• You keep: 80% on every plan. No transaction fees: "Stripe processing fees come out of our 20%."
• A $5 sale pays: $4.00.
• Payout: Monthly via Stripe, $25 minimum. PayPal is promised.
• Cross-listing: Allowed, including your TPT Basic store, Etsy and your own site. You can link to your other stores.
• Extras: You see the name and email of every buyer. A bulk uploader is in beta.

TeacherStore's own pages show different prices for the same plan today: the seller page also reads "then $99/year, just $49/year," an older live page lists the seller plan at $99 a year, and a Pro checkout page shows $199 a month. TeacherStore promises 60 days' notice before any fee change. We will re-read the prices after the relaunch.

6. Etsy

Etsy is a general marketplace, not a teacher-only one, and on Reddit it is the site TPT sellers most often say they already sell on (a seller report, not an Etsy figure). Etsy's rules allow your own designs as digital downloads, and AI-assisted items must say so.

• Fees: $0.20 per listing (charged again when an auto-renewing listing sells), a 6.5% transaction fee, and US payment processing of 3% + $0.25. A one-time set-up fee may apply, and Etsy says the amount varies by location.
• A $5 sale pays: About $4.08. If the sale came through an Offsite Ad, Etsy takes another 15% (12% once your shop has made $10,000 in a year), leaving about $3.33.
• Payout: Fees are deducted before your sales are deposited to your bank through Etsy Payments.
• Cross-listing: No exclusivity.
• Sales tax: Etsy says it calculates, collects and remits US sales tax on your behalf for orders to customers in US locations.

Offsite Ads are optional only while your shop has never made $10,000 in any 365-day period. After that they are required.

7. Made By Teachers

Status, October 12, 2026: Made By Teachers is not taking new sellers. Its seller page reads: "Sorry, we're not currently adding new sellers."

Made By Teachers is a real teacher marketplace with the terms many sellers want: "Receive up to 80% royalties on sales," "We collect and remit taxes," "Earn royalties and get paid monthly" and "You can also sell your resources elsewhere." Its FAQ says monthly earnings are sent by PayPal, minus commission and PayPal fees. Sellers choose a basic or premium account; the plan prices are not shown while sign-ups are closed.

If you are already a seller there, nothing above changes for you. If not, it is one to watch.

8. Classmade

Classmade is mainly a store builder: you get your own storefront at yourname.classmade.co. On October 7, 2026 it announced Discover, a shared page where buyers can browse resources from many sellers and check out on Classmade, which is why it makes this list. (Its own changelog mentions a Discover page as early as July 2026, so treat October 7 as the launch of the browse page as it works today.)

• Fees: Free plan: Classmade keeps 15% and you can have up to 10 resources published. Pro: $299.99 CAD a year or $29.99 CAD a month, and Classmade keeps 0%. Stripe processing applies on both.
• A $5 sale pays: $4.25 on Free or $5.00 on Pro, before Stripe's fee.
• Payout: Stripe deposits to your bank on its regular schedule; the first deposit usually takes a few business days.
• Cross-listing: No exclusivity found; Classmade takes only a non-exclusive license to host and promote your files.
• Sales tax: Classmade says it "does not automatically collect tax for every international purchase" and that US sales-tax rules vary by state, so check this before you sell to US buyers.

Classmade's prices are in Canadian dollars. Buyer traffic is not published.

9. TeachShare

TeachShare is an AI lesson-planning platform (Worksheets AI, Inc., San Francisco) with a marketplace attached: at teachshare.com/marketplace, buyers browse resources from many sellers by subject, grade and type, add them to a cart and pay on the site. Its marketplace terms are a separate document, last modified November 13, 2024, which you accept when you sign in.

• Fees: No listing or membership fee is published. The marketplace terms say "ten percent (10%) of the total transaction amount may be paid to or retained by TeachShare," and that payment-processor fees may also come off a sale. TeachShare says it may change the percentage.
• A $5 sale pays: $4.50 before any card fee.
• Payout: Monthly, for everything earned the month before, through Stripe Connect. An instant payout is available for an extra fee that is not published. No minimum is published.
• Cross-listing: No exclusivity clause found in the marketplace terms.
• Who can sell: Anyone 18 or older with an account; TeachShare "reserves the right to approve or reject" a seller profile. It is run from the United States and bars residents of US-embargoed countries.
• Content rules: You keep ownership. The terms bar "machine-generated content" and let you tick "Allow Remixes," which lets a buyer edit your resource in TeachShare's editor. No clip-art rule is published. TeachShare collects sales tax where it decides it has to.

Buyer and seller counts for the marketplace are not published; TeachShare's site-wide claim is "Trusted by teachers in 60,000 schools." The listings we saw were priced from free to $8.50, and the seller sign-up page sits behind the login.

Can You Sell the Same Resource on TPT and Somewhere Else?

Yes, but only as a TPT Basic seller. Every site in this list allows you to sell the same resource elsewhere, so the only exclusivity rule that matters is TPT's. A few rules apply on TPT whichever membership you hold:

• You may not charge more on TPT for a resource that is free or cheaper elsewhere.
• You may not put links to other sales channels inside your TPT listings or files. TeachSimple and Amped Up Learning have the same rule.
• Exclusive sellers may still promote their resources anywhere, as long as the purchase happens on TPT.

How and When Each Site Pays You

Payout terms as published, October 12, 2026:

Site	How	Minimum	When
TPT	Hyperwallet: direct deposit, PayPal, Venmo or wire	None from TPT; Hyperwallet methods have their own	Monthly, by the 21st (usually around the 10th)
Classful	Your Stripe account	Not published	The 1st of the month after a sale's month is confirmed
Tes	Bank transfer you request	Over £10 or $10	Up to once a week
TeachSimple	PayPal	$50.00	On request; statements monthly
Amped Up Learning	Not published	Not published	Not published
TeacherStore.io	Stripe	$25	Monthly
Etsy	Etsy Payments to your bank	Only in some countries	On your deposit schedule
Made By Teachers	PayPal, minus commission and PayPal fees	Not published	Monthly
Classmade	Stripe to your bank	Not published	Stripe's regular schedule
TeachShare	Stripe Connect	Not published	Monthly, for the month before; instant for an extra fee

Who Can Sell on Each Site

• TPT: anyone who upgrades a buyer account; you do not need to live in the US. A PayPal account pays the membership fee.
• Classful: any account, 18 or older, no application. Payouts need a Stripe account; the list of countries is not published.
• Tes: anyone 18 or older, in or outside the UK, except a few countries Stripe and OFAC block.
• TeachSimple: by application, with a review of every product. Countries are not published.
• Amped Up Learning: by email to askus@ampeduplearning.com. No criteria published.
• TeacherStore.io: teachers and parents, 18 or older, free sign-up.
• Etsy: open to sellers in many countries; processing fees are set country by country.
• Made By Teachers: closed to new sellers. Existing sellers need a PayPal account to be paid.
• Classmade: anyone whose country has a supported Stripe route.
• TeachShare: anyone 18 or older with an account, subject to TeachShare approving your seller profile. Not available to residents of US-embargoed countries.

Where Special Education and Speech Resources Sell

If you make special education, speech or OT materials, the buyer pool matters more than the fee. Here is what each site shows about that audience.

• TPT has top-level categories for Special Education, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Life Skills. Schools can also buy there with school funds.
• Tes has a Special Needs section with 22,429 resources, written for UK schools.
• Classful has no special education category, though a search of its catalog returns 3,868 products for "special education" and 484 for "speech therapy."
• TeachSimple lists Special Education as a subject in its main menu.
• Amped Up Learning has a Speech and Language Therapy Lessons category and a small group of special education contributor stores.
• TeacherStore.io had a Special Ed. Resources shop category before it went offline.
• TeachShare has a Special Education topic in its marketplace filters and quotes a school SLP on its homepage, but publishes no audience figures.
• Etsy, Made By Teachers and Classmade publish no special education audience figures.

What Other Sellers Are Reporting

These are seller reports, not platform figures. They are self-selected and we have not verified them.

• Petitions: two Change.org petitions asking TPT to reconsider had 1,373 and 231 signatures on October 12.
• Reddit: across the r/TeachersPayTeachers threads we read, the most common plan was a seller's own website, followed by Classful and Etsy. Sellers who use Classful praise the easy upload and report low traffic. One seller wrote: "I'm moving everything to Classful."
• Reddit: TPT told one seller by email that "further clarification will be coming later this month." We will update this post if TPT changes the terms.
• Facebook: a post circulating in TPT seller groups, and reposted to Reddit on October 12, calls for a one-day TPT blackout on October 19: no purchases, downloads or uploads.

Where to Sell Teaching Resources First

• You earn most of your money on TPT and have no audience elsewhere: Exclusive probably pays more. Run the break-even table with your own numbers first.
• You already sell well on Etsy or your own site: you are likely Basic anyway, so add Classful, the cheapest open marketplace here.
• Your resources suit UK schools or use SEN wording: Tes.
• You have a large catalog and want passive income without per-item sales: try TeachSimple with part of it, knowing earnings cannot be predicted.
• You want an early-seller spot on a new marketplace: watch TeacherStore.io's relaunch and Classmade's Discover page, and give them a few months to show buyer traffic.
• You already plan lessons in an AI tool and want a store beside it: TeachShare keeps 10%, but it publishes no buyer numbers and its marketplace terms were last updated in 2024.

Before You Move Your Catalog

1. Check every clip art and font license. Some allow selling on any site; others name specific platforms.
2. Remove TPT links and TPT-only wording from your files and previews.
3. Write new descriptions where a site requires it. TeachSimple asks for at least 150 original words and no text copied from other marketplaces.
4. Keep your TPT price the same as or lower than everywhere else.
5. If you are a Premium seller, put December 31, 11:59pm ET in your calendar.

Teachers who want to see how we write for special education classrooms can browse our resources for educators and speech therapy materials.

Sources: TPT Seller Fees and Payout Rates, Exclusive Seller FAQs and the TPT Seller Blog (October 1, 2026); Classful pricing, sell-products and support pages; Tes Selling Resources FAQ and Author Code; TeachSimple Become a Contributor and Contributor Terms; Amped Up Learning Sell With Us; join.teacherstore.io/seller; Etsy Fee Basics, Fees and Payments Policy and Payment Processing Fees; madebyteachers.com/plans; Classmade pricing and FAQ; TeachShare Marketplace Terms of Service and marketplace page. All read October 12, 2026.