Themeforest, Graphic River, Active Den, Code Canyon and some others is a site run by Envato that allows any designer to place a web template they have created for Wordpress, Joomla, HTML, Drupal, PSD, Flash for sale on their site a great service you may think, well not really if you look closely at the paltry percentage of revenue that ThemeForest gives you the designer upon each item sale.
There is no doubt that ThemeForest have become very successful over the past years but is this success costing some great web designers dearly in hard earned cash, here at social cms buzz we think this to be the case. ThemeForest part of the Envato Network and managed by Collis Ta’eed launched in September 2008 with the aim of providing web template designers with an easy route to market for their creations.
You create a template, theme, or PSD file, You list that template on ThemeForest, You sell that template and You Collect your hard earned cash, this would all seem pretty great and a win win situation for designers right? wrong. Themeforest you see takes a commission as you would expect from a service like it provides as a site needs to monetize, the rate of percentage however that Themeforest takes on each of your template sales is outlandishly high though.
Template sellers can expect to get between 40% and 70% of the overall sale price on each template that they sell through ThemeForest, this would mean that a new member who sets their template for sale at $30 would receive $12 for each sale of his or her work.
Themeforest operate a tier system based upon overall sale value and to reach a 70% payout rate on each sale you would need to sell over $300′000 worth of templates in total according to their payment page. The would mean having to sell 10′000 templates proced at $30 each to reach a percentage payout level of 70%.
Whats more these payout percentage rates can only be achieved if your template is exclusive to ThemeForest meaning you cannot sell copies of this template through any other source. For any non exclusive templates that are listed at ThemeForest you will only receive 25% of their overall sale price. Selling Non-Exclusively The Envato Marketplaces make a great distribution channel for items you are already selling elsewhere.
As a non-exclusive author you will receive 25% of any sales made via our sites. Your items do not need to be exclusively sold on the Envato Marketplaces, and if you wish you can at any time switch over to the regular Exclusive Author plan (providing your portfolio is adjusted so that items are uniquely sold here).
Mainly Theme Forest helped many sites, designers and developers and getting popular everyday because if you check the Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal Themes market you will notice why is so popular and alot of designers uses Envato Market Places this days, so lets try now and see what you think and what can you offer or you might be able to find somethink new for your new projects. Dont forget many other tools available like graphics, vectors, videos, music files etc.
Envato Market Place List that you can visit;
Video Hive and some others. Also dont forget Envato Market offer many other useful sites for web designers, developers that you will love. Wp Temalari sites offers some of the selected items from Envato Market and you can always visit and see the some selected themes, codes, templates.
If you need a web design or hosting domains. 
