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Selling Websites With Premium Themes - Multiple Licenses Required?

by Stranger Danger
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From my understanding, if I am going to sell multiple websites to multiple clients, and each website has a themeforest theme (such as U-Design or Showtime), I must purchase a license for each and every website that I sell.

Is that correct?

If that is the case, are there any free alternatives to these themes that would allow me to keep my costs low?

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew H
    Usually you have to purchase a licence for each site unless a 'developer' (or similar) licence is available. If I was you I would go read the TOS for theme forest - I am not gonna do it for you

    A lot of templating companies provide 'developer' memberships were you can use unlimited number of templates for a period of time (usually a year). For the company I use this developer membership costs $500/year. But it is well worth it.

    Take a look around.
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  • Profile picture of the author redlegrich
    Yeah, it's really different for each theme provider. I used iThemes and their developer license fee was reasonable. It's usually pretty obvious in the purchase process.
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  • Profile picture of the author vndnbrgj
    I like Themeforrest.... But only purchase themes that have at least 1,000 sales to ensure the developer keeps up with it....

    You want to keep your costs low....???
    Your paying $35 to fill in the blanks..
    Charging at least $500
    Minus misc $65
    Takes no more than 4 hours... Means you net $100/hour

    Is the extra $7.50/hour that big of a deal?

    You could also purchase ElegantThemes membership... It's $40/yr.
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  • Profile picture of the author source47
    You are correct!

    It is in Envato's (Themeforest) TOS that you need to purchase the template again if you want to use it for a different project.

    But this wouldn't be a problem if you were charging each client individually. Right?

    If you are looking to purchase one "template" to use over and over again. You can use the Genesis framework from Studiopress. It's not free but you can purchase all of themes at once and use them for all of your clients' projects. I use Genesis for most projects and Themeforest for other projects. I love both for different reasons.

    I hope that this helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Stranger Danger
    Thank you, all, for responding to my thread.

    To clarify a few things...

    I did read over the terms for those two themes regarding reseller rights, but just wanted a couple of extra opinions to make sure - since this is all new to me.

    Also, the reason I am worried about my costs is because I was thinking of offering free websites in exchange for hosting/maintenance fees (and was thinking that it might be tougher to sell for anything more than $35/month). Since I don't have a lot of experience with web design, I was looking to do a handful of sites completely free (client chooses and pays for their own domain/hosting) - just to get some practice and build up some testimonials and possibly some referrals.

    Thanks again, everyone.
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    • Profile picture of the author vndnbrgj
      Originally Posted by Stranger Danger View Post

      Thank you, all, for responding to my thread.

      To clarify a few things...

      I did read over the terms for those two themes regarding reseller rights, but just wanted a couple of extra opinions to make sure - since this is all new to me.

      Also, the reason I am worried about my costs is because I was thinking of offering free websites in exchange for hosting/maintenance fees (and was thinking that it might be tougher to sell for anything more than $35/month). Since I don't have a lot of experience with web design, I was looking to do a handful of sites completely free (client chooses and pays for their own domain/hosting) - just to get some practice and build up some testimonials and possibly some referrals.

      Thanks again, everyone.
      Then I would start with Elegant Themes....
      It costs $39/year and they currently have 74 different themes.
      All with documentation.

      I also disagree with the fact that you will go broke teaching someone how to use WP. To add a page. You click add a page. Title it. Add content. Publish. To add a post. You click add a post. Title it. Add content. Publish. Oh, you want an image. Click insert media. Determine where it is. (Comp, Library, Url) and click insert.
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  • Profile picture of the author getboris
    If you find a theme on ThemeForest you really like get a developers license or join some theme club, it really pays off. Developer's license are especially good when you want to sell themes or give for free (not a good idea by the way because 95% of your clients have no clue how to work with wordpress and if you will train them for free you will go broke). I am not sure what's your marketing angle is but if you are planning to have more than 10 clients then get developer's license.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stranger Danger
    Thanks again, everyone.

    vndnbrgj-

    I was looking over elegant themes just last night...some of their themes look pretty good. I'll check them out again.

    Thanks.
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