How to sell teacher resources online with School Ninja – A complete guide
Congratulations! You’ve just made your first step to selling your amazing educational resources online with School Ninja.
The School Ninja Marketplace is an online market where teachers can buy and sell high quality digital resources, worksheets and lesson plans.
With School Ninja it’s easy to showcase your resources with an easy to use online store where you can feature and sell your resources on the Marketplace.
Using a Vendor account you can start posting your resources online in minutes and feature them for sale on the Marketplace. It’s free to sign up and School Ninja only takes a fee from the sale price.
Step 1 – Create an account
If you haven’t created an account with School Ninja yet, it’s a great time to sign up now. Signup is completely free for the basic teacher account, which gives full access to everything you need to create engaging online courses and start selling your worksheets, lesson plans, quizzes and assignments.
First up, simply head to our registration page to register as a teacher.
Step 2 – Apply to become a vendor
Now that you have created your account you can apply to become a Vendor. A Vendor account opens up all of the options to sell products and manage your own little online educational resource store.
After you have created an account. Navigate to your sales account page located at https://www.schoolninja.au/my-account/ and click on the Become a Vendor.
Next you can include some basic information about your store including Store name, Seller Info, Blog or Website and a contact phone number. Finally read and accept the Terms and Conditions, check both checkboxes and click submit.
That’s It!
Now, it’s important to say that in order to get paid for your payments, you will need to include a Paypal email address as well as your ABN/ACN. If you don’t have an ABN, you will have plenty of time to organise one.
Step 3 – Setup your first product to sell
When you have registered as a Vendor a new menu tab opens up on the left sidebar menu called Sales Dashboard.
Click on Sales Dashboard > Add new product to start creating a new product.
A new page will open for a brand new product as shown in the screenshot below. Creating a product takes approximately 15 – 30 minutes and a few simple steps.
1. Add new product Name and product description
First up we need a product name.
In Product name, select the name of your resource. Being simple and accurate when describing your resource will mean that your materials will have a higher visibility when teachers are searching for what you are offering.
In the following example I have created a Science Prac Report template which has been designed for secondary Science students studying the International Baccalaureate from years 7-12.
In this example the Product name should include that it is a Science Prac report template and that it is for IB and MYP students. I have chosen to call my prac report Science Practical Report Template Year 7-12 IB and MYP.
Next, below the Product Name you can include a detailed Product Description of the product. It is essential that you include all the relevant information here for your resource so that customers know what the product is for.
This may include:
- specific subjects
- age groups of the resource
- how many pages it is
- what content, subject, topic or unit the materialscover
You can be as descriptive here as you like and there is no limit to how long this description can be. In the following example I have expanded on the relevance of the product for students studying the International Baccalaureate and included information about how the resource should be used.
Product Description example:
Specially developed for Years 7-12 International Baccalaureate MYP and IB DP programs, this Science practical report has been designed to give stronger scaffolding for secondary school students in designing high quality practical reports in Science.
The report has been trimmed to allow for stronger focus on discussion and put more emphasis on the collection of data and results for Criteria B and C.
Criterion B includes relevant sections for the Report Title, Introduction and Materials and Methods. Criterion C includes Results, Data Processing, Discussion, Conclusion and References.
How to use:
Share a copy of the prac report template with students for relevant science practical.
2. Complete short description and select product category
Well done! We’re nearly there! Next we will include a short description of the product which will feature on the resource page and select the product category.
Product short description
Scroll down below the product data to include a Product Short Description for your product. This is a brief tag line of the product.
What should be included in the short description
The product short description will feature on the front page for the resource so it needs to be a quick feature grab for the resource. Make sure that the short description is less than 50 words and includes a clear description of the product.
Short description example:
Increase student understanding of the practical report writing process with this great Prac report writing template for Criteria B and C. Designed specifically for IB DP and IB MYP Sciences.
3. Upload an image for your product
Next you can upload some images for the product or resource. On the right hand menu, below the Category selection there are two options to include a Product image and Product gallery.
A Product image is the feature image for the product and will be visible on the products page. The Product gallery allows you to upload images of your resources so they can be previewed. By default all images added here have a watermark added over the top of the images.
Upload some images here to showcase your resource. You will want to add enough detail to allow the customer to get a feeling for the resource, however not so much detail that they no longer need to purchase it.
3. Select Virtual or Downloadable
If the product is a downloadable product that customers will download, you can click the checkbox “downloadable”. This will allow you to upload the resource into the product and customers will be able to download the product after they have purchased the product.
4. Select price and upload resource
Add a resource price
In the General tab now you can add add a regular price for the product here. This is the final price the user will pay to purchase the product and includes all GST and processing fees. This price is set in Australian dollars (AUD) and doesn’t need to include any $ in the amount and just the number value.
Products on special or discounted resources
You can also set a regular price and a discounted price for your product if and when you want to have specials and promotions. To have your product on special, simply insert a sale price for the product. You can even set a schedule for the product by clicking on the “Schedule” button next to the product.
In the above example I have made this resource available for $10 regularly, but right now it will be listed as $5 on sale. If you would also like to share your resources for free you can just put 0 for the regular price. Otherwise select a price which is appropriate for the product. For more information about how to price your educational resources, scroll down to our pricing FAQ below.
Upload downloadable resource
If the product is a downloadable worksheet, PDF document, video or any kind of file, select the Downloadable checkbox. This will allow you to upload the file which customers will download when they complete their purchase.
When the checkbox is selected a downloadable files option will appear. Select Add File to upload your resource to the product page. Customers will only be able to download this resource when they have purchased the product.
5. Select Taxes and submit for review.
Lastly we need to select which taxes we want to include with our products. If your ABN or ACN is not registered for GST, they you can leave the product as “standard” which will mean no tax is added to the product.
If you are registered for GST, you will be required to pay GST on the products you sell, so make sure that you select “GST 10%” in the tax class section. When you receive payment for your sales, you will receive both the cost of the goods sold as well as any taxes attributed to the product. School Ninja passes all taxes paid by customers directly to the vendor minus the commission of sale.
Congratulations. You’re all done!
Congratulations! You have now completed your first resource and submitted for review. This process usually takes less than an hour, however please allow up to 24 hours before your materials are published live on the shop.
You are now officially a vendor on the School Ninja marketplace and begun your journey to sell your educational resources online.
Step 4. Promote your store and share links to your resource pages
Now that you have published your amazing new teacher resources you will be able to view your resources live in the School Ninja Marketplace. All of your resources are also available on a vendor page which features all of your products.
School Ninja Marketplace FAQ
What does Agency Sales mean?
Agency sales means that School Ninja is the Agent selling your resources. In general this means that you, the Vendor, holds the goods in their own right and sets the price for the goods.
As the Vendor, you can create products and services to sell through School Ninja and set the price for all goods and services you sell.
As the Agency, School Ninja will advertise your goods in the School Ninja Marketplace, facilitate the sales with the customer and process all transactions. School Ninja will charge a commission on all sales at the time of sale and then pay all Vendors for sales of their products once per month.
When are payments for sales processed?
Payments for all sales are processed monthly. Payments to Vendors are made on the 14th of the following month. This means that all invoices for payments from the first day of September to the last day of September are paid on the 14th of October. This is to ensure that all sales can clear before invoices are paid to vendors.
Why do my products require approval before they are listed in the Marketplace?
We require approval for all products being sold on the School Ninja Marketplace to ensure that products do not breach our Terms and Conditions. School Ninja will manage online content according to the esafety commissioner and reserves the right to remove any content it deems as inappropriate, illegal or harmful content, content which is untrue, or could be related to cyberbullying, cyber abuse, image abuse, violence, sexting or promoting views of extremism.
Do I need to register an ABN?
Yes, you will need to register an ABN and have an ABN listed on your account. This is to ensure that all relevant tax obligations are met for both us and you. Your ABN will also be listed on invoices and sales.
You do not need an ABN to create your account, however If you do not yet have an ABN, you can register for an ABN at https://register.business.gov.au.
Do I need to pay GST on my sales
You only need to charge and pay GST on your sales if you are registered for GST. Generally speaking you only need to register for GST if your annual turnover is above the threshold set by the ATO. At the time of writing this is $75,000.