If you’re looking for Thanksgiving digital product ideas to sell on Etsy, don’t overlook spreadsheets. Thanksgiving might seem like a market dominated by printable planners, invitations, games, decorations, recipe cards, and activity sheets. But smart, interactive Google Sheets spreadsheets can be smart product choice for your shop. Let’s see best Thanksgiving spreadsheets to sell on Etsy.
Why Sell Thanksgiving Spreadsheets on Etsy?
Thanksgiving is essentially a giant planning project. There are so many moving parts to hosting a great Thanksgiving meal – from guests, meal planning, menu, grocery shopping, decorations, and so much more.
As enjoyable as it is, having a proper plan in place helps to make this smooth and organized. That’s where smart spreadsheets have a chance to shine. It can calculate, track, filter, and update information automatically making it useful for the buyers.
Thanksgiving Google Sheets to sell on Etsy
1. All in One Thanksgiving Planner
I’ll start with the most comprehensive (not the easiest) one. A comprehensive Thanksgiving planner includes everything someone needs to host a Thanksgiving dinner.
It includes Thanksgiving meal planner, smart automated grocery list, cooking schedule, guest list, potluck tracker, and much more. This way, you’re providing one solution to their problem, “how do I host a great Thanksgiving dinner.”
What to include in an All-in-One Thanksgiving Planner?
You want to include a smart, intuitive dashboard that helps them keep track of everything in one place. It should have guest and rsvp tracker to keep track of how many guests are attending, Thanksgiving menu planner – which is essential for the dinner, automated grocery list and shopping list based on what’s available. You can also include budget tracker to ensure party remains under budget, and a potluck planner.
2. Friendsgiving Planner
Thanksgiving isn’t only for traditional family dinner, it could also be for close friends. Once you have the comprehensive Thanksgiving planner in place, you can customize it as Friendsgiving planner as well. Though the base may be same for both, target audience is different for both. So, adjust the family oriented tabs with friends oriented tabs, swap the graphics to give them more fun look and you can easily list a new product in your store.
What to include in Friendsgiving Planner?
Keep emphasis on Potluck organizer, games, activities, assignments for clear communication, shared expenses, and schedule.
3. Thanksgiving Meal Planner
While the all-in-one Thanksgiving planner can be comprehensive, some may get intimidated by a big planner and only want to plan small portion of their Thanksgiving event. You can create Thanksgiving meal planner for them.
Easiest way to create this is to reuse existing Thanksgiving planner and offer Thanksgiving Meal Planner as a separate product in your store.
What to include in Thanksgiving Meal Planner?
Make sure to include smart shopping list creator based on ingredients available in the pantry. This will make it super easy for buyer to carry it to the store and buy all required ingredients.
4. Potluck Coordinator
Not only Friendsgiving, even traditional family dinner may involve some level of potluck with different members bringing different dishes. A Potluck Coordinator helps to organize and keep track of who is bringing what.
What to include in Potluck Organizer?
The purpose of potluck organizer is to maintain clear responsibility and communication. Include dish name, owner, confirmation, by when they will arrive.
Bonus – Gratitude Journal & Games
So, this may not be strictly spreadsheet products, but I want to share here as I want you to offer a complete customer experience. All of the above mentioned products handle planning, organizing and hosting an amazing Thanksgiving dinner. Party games help in keeping the audience engaged, so demand increases during busy holiday season.
New templates in your shop every month
You’ve got product ideas and list of what to include in each one. That’s more than 5 spreadsheets to design, build, and test during the busy holiday season.
The Savvy Template Hub is the shortcut. Every month, new done-for-you templates land in your account, already built and tested, with commercial use rights included.And related keywords and listing template so you can list them in a day.You rebrand them and list them. No need to build anything or find the keywords you can rank for.
You bring the brand. I’ve already done the product and marketing part.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. When is the right time to publish Thanksgiving spreadsheets?
Thanksgiving products are mainly seasonal, so you want to publish them before the holiday rush. You want to give at least 4-6 weeks for your listings to be optimized and found before the rush begins. Check Etsy keyword tools like eRank or Insightfactory to gauge the demand for the products.
2. Is a Thanksgiving spreadsheet worth selling on Etsy?
Yes, the conversion rate during peak season is significantly higher than evergreen products because buyers arrive with urgency.
3. Should I offer Google Sheets and Excel versions?
For holiday templates, Google Sheets is the primary format worth building. An Excel version can be offered as a secondary download in the same listing once the Google Sheets version is proven, but it is not the starting priority.
Final Thoughts
If you’re looking for Thanksgiving digital products to sell on Etsy, don’t limit yourself to printables. You can offer full product line of smart Google Sheets Thanksgiving products that can bring seasonal sales.
You can get started by buying a PLR Thanksgiving Google Sheet template, customize it and sell it in your store.
Want a starter template that you can customize to get feel of Google Sheets templates?
