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Take stock before you decide.

Free worksheet  ·  TPT Seller Guides

TPT has asked Premium sellers to choose between the new Exclusive Seller membership and Basic by December 31. Some of the details are still coming.

This worksheet will not tell you which way to go. (For the money side, the Exclusive or Basic calculator does the sums for you.) That depends on your finances, your plans, and specifics TPT has not published yet. What it does is help you walk into the decision knowing your own numbers, instead of the mood in the comments.

Download the worksheet (PDF)

Six pages, about thirty minutes. Free, no sign-up, no tool required.

What is inside

Four short passes through exports you already have, then a page for what only TPT can answer.

  • What is earning. How much of your income rests on how few products.
  • What buyers search for. Which phrases bring buyers, not just visitors.
  • Where your traffic comes from. How much of it is the marketplace, and how much is yours.
  • What is growing and what is fading. Period against period, so a season does not pass for a trend.
  • What you still need from TPT. The open questions on eligibility and the new AI policy, with room for your own.

You will need your Product Insights, Keyword Stats and Traffic Data exports. Set the date range to the last 90 days before you download them.

Save your exports now

TPT lists Search Analytics and the Keyword Finder among the Exclusive Seller benefits. If there is any chance you end up on Basic in January, download your keyword and product data while you still have Premium access, so you keep a baseline either way.

What is settled, and what is not

From TPT's announcement and the October 8 Town Hall:

  • Premium sellers can opt in or out as often as they like until December 31. After January 1, leaving Exclusive means waiting a full year before you can rejoin.
  • Doing nothing is not final. A store that becomes Basic on January 1 can still upgrade to Exclusive later, but from then on the exclusivity terms apply from the day it signs up.
  • You keep full ownership of your intellectual property on either membership.
  • TPT said more specific eligibility guidance is coming later this month, and that details of the new AI policy will follow in the coming weeks.

For the current terms, check TPT's FAQs for existing Premium sellers and for Basic and new sellers, and TPT's own announcement. They are still being added to.

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