(Canva.com Series — Part 08)
Everything so far in this series has stayed on a screen. This last part is about the features that don't: printed products, outside apps talking to Canva, and a marketplace most users never open.
Here's what exists beyond the editor itself.
Canva's least-discovered features tend to live outside the main editing canvas — in the print catalog, the integrations menu, and the apps marketplace. None of them are hidden exactly, but few users go looking.
This guide covers:
- Turning a digital design into a physical printed product
- Third-party integrations that connect Canva to other tools
- The Canva Apps Marketplace
- Selling your own Canva templates
From Screen to Shelf: Canva Print
Canva Print connects a finished digital design directly to a physical fulfillment network — turning planners, journals, wall art, business cards, and similar designs into printed, shipped products without ever leaving the platform. The same design you built for social media or a client project can become a tangible product with a few extra clicks.
Integrations: Canva Talking to Other Apps
The integrations list has grown well beyond simple export options. Recent additions connect Canva to platforms like TikTok, HubSpot, and PayPal for publishing and workflow purposes, while a Google Maps integration lets you embed an interactive location directly into an invitation or event flyer design.
Canva Inside ChatGPT
One of the more unusual integrations works in reverse: instead of bringing tools into Canva, it brings Canva into ChatGPT. Once connected, typing an "@Canva" mention inside a ChatGPT conversation can generate an editable Canva design directly from that chat — turning a brainstorm into a real design without switching tabs.
The Canva Apps Marketplace
Hundreds of apps and plug-ins live in this marketplace, organized into categories like productivity, additional design resources, social media integrations, and marketing tools. Finding one is as simple as searching by name inside the "Apps" tab of the editor and clicking "Connect" — most add-ons activate immediately with no separate installation process outside Canva itself.
Selling Your Own Templates
A secondary market has grown around Canva templates themselves — creators design templates and sell them on marketplaces like Etsy, where a large existing audience actively searches for exactly that kind of digital product. Because templates are digital, there's no inventory, no shipping, and no per-unit production cost, which makes it one of the lower-friction digital product categories to get started in.
Quick Takeaways
- Canva Print turns digital designs into shipped physical products without leaving the platform.
- Integrations now cover publishing platforms, payment tools, and even reverse-integration into ChatGPT.
- The Apps Marketplace holds hundreds of add-ons across productivity, design, and marketing categories.
- Selling original templates on marketplaces like Etsy has become a legitimate digital product business model.
Elena Marchetti
Embedded Systems Engineer & Technical Writer
eBits Tech Platform
@ eBits.icu