From January 1 you either sell your resources only on TPT at 77.5%, or you keep your other stores and take 55%. Which one is right depends on your own sales, so here is a calculator that shows both, and what a store of your own would have to earn.
Free. No sign-up. Your numbers stay in your browser.
Fill in the blanks. The cards show what ends up in your pocket under each choice. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
Last year I sold on TPT and everywhere else, mostly . My resources usually cost .
Use total sales (what buyers paid), from your TPT sales report. Put 0 if TPT is the only place you sell.
Ends December 31
TPT only. Your other stores close.
Keep selling everywhere.
How it is worked out. Premium: you keep 80% of TPT sales, less the $59.95 yearly fee, plus what you keep from your other stores. Exclusive: 77.5% of TPT sales, less $59.95, and nothing from other stores. Basic: 55% of TPT sales, less $0.30 for each resource sold, plus what you keep from your other stores. The $0.15 fee on Premium and Exclusive orders under $3 is left out. Rates are from TPT’s own pages, checked October 3, 2026: the announcement and seller fees and payout rates. This is arithmetic, not financial advice.
Premium let you earn 80% and sell anywhere. It ends December 31, 2026. What replaces it is a choice.
| Premium (ending) | Exclusive | Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You keep | 80% | 77.5% | 55% |
| Transaction fee | $0.15 per resource on orders under $3 | $0.15 per resource on orders under $3 | $0.30 on every resource |
| Membership fee | $59.95 a year | $59.95 a year | $29 once |
| Sell your resources elsewhere | Yes | No | Yes |
| If you do nothing | You must opt in by Dec 31, 11:59pm ET | You become Basic on Jan 1 | |
| Changing your mind | Leave any time; one-year wait to come back | Join Exclusive any time |
Read TPT’s own wording before you decide: Exclusive Seller FAQs and the announcement. We describe the rules; we do not interpret TPT’s terms for you.
The calculator settles this year’s money. It does not settle what happens the next time the terms change. In all three cases the answer is the same: a site, a list and a copy of your work that belong to you.
If most of your income is on TPT, Exclusive is probably the right call for 2027. Take it. TPT’s rules still let you run your own site.
At 55%, every sale that happens on your own store instead is worth far more to you. The job is moving your buyers, not finding new ones.
Exclusive does not allow a membership or subscription that includes your resources, so you are Basic. The membership is now the business.
TPT has the buyers. A store of my own has none.
True on day one. A store does not come with TPT’s search. Sales on your own site come from people who already know you: your email list, your followers, your blog, Pinterest. So the first thing we set up is the free download that turns a visitor into a subscriber. The store grows as the list does.
TPT and Etsy handle sales tax. I do not want that job.
Your store works out the right tax at checkout and collects it. Filing it is yours, with your own state. Other states generally only come into it after about $100,000 a year of sales into that state. Ask your accountant whether your state taxes digital downloads; some do not. We set up the tools. We are not tax advisers.
What if my TPT store is closed one morning?
Sellers have reported exactly that, with no warning. On your own domain you hold the files, the customer list and the checkout, and it is backed up off the server. A bad week on a marketplace stays a bad week.
Most teacher-sellers are not running a big business, and the store should not cost like one. You start with a working store on your own domain and add pieces as they pay for themselves.
Or $250 a year. The store, the hosting and the person who runs the server, in one bill. No cut of your sales.
Start small. Add the extras when they pay for themselves.
Titles, descriptions, prices, previews and files, moved in for you.
Your own email system inside your store: a freebie sign-up, a welcome series, automatic follow-ups after a purchase, and newsletters. $10 a month up to 1,000 subscribers, $25 up to 5,000, $49 up to 15,000.
For your ads and your pins. Views, carts and purchases reported with the sale amount, set up in one Google Tag beside your Analytics so nothing is counted twice.
One payment for access to everything, with renewals and downloads handled.
Extra-licence pricing on each product, the way buyers expect it.
Already on WordPress somewhere else? We bring it across.
We make the changes for you: new products, pages, sales, fixes.
A custom build like the stores below. A fixed quote before any work starts.
Plain hosting without the store is on the hosting page: $15, $25 and $50 a month.
One of these stores is ours. Literacy Stations sells first-grade literacy resources on its own site, on TPT and on other marketplaces. Its main offer is a twelve-month pass to the whole library, and Exclusive does not allow that. So on January 1 it becomes a Basic seller. We are making the same decision you are, on a store we built.
A library, not a shop. The Library Card is one payment for twelve months of everything, so the store sells access rather than items, and keeps serving it every time a teacher comes back for the next unit.
440+ lessons, sold direct. Shop by unit, see the bundle beside the single lesson, and check out without leaving the page. Instant delivery, a membership, and an email list that is hers.
Where the traffic comes from. Articles and free printables bring first grade teachers in, every article carries a free-download sign-up, and Literacy Stations is where they buy.
A school librarian’s book reviews and novel studies.
Culturally responsive teaching resources for teens, sold from its own shop.
No. A Basic seller can sell anywhere. An Exclusive seller can still have a site, as long as the sale of any digital teaching resource happens on TPT. For an Exclusive seller we build the site and the email list now, and the store when you are free to open it.
TPT says you can switch from Exclusive to Basic at any time, without a refund of the annual fee, and that there is then a one-year wait before you can rejoin Exclusive. That is why a site and a list of your own are worth having ready.
Run the calculator first. If the answer is Exclusive, the cheapest useful thing is a simple site that builds your email list. A full store earns its keep when you have buyers to send to it.
No. If you sign Exclusive we build inside it: your site, free resources, your list. Hidden stores and paywalls put your TPT account at risk, and we will not set one up.
The store calculates and collects it at checkout. You register and file with your state. For most sellers that is one state. We set up the tools and point you to your accountant for the rest.
Not the reviews or the buyer list; those stay with TPT. What you can bring is everyone who joins your own email list, which is why that comes first.
No. Up At Last is an independent web shop. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Teachers Pay Teachers. The figures here come from TPT’s published pages.
Your grade and subject, roughly how many resources, and where they sell today. We will tell you plainly whether a store makes sense yet.
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