The short version
The templates you make here are free for personal use: gifts, crafts, parties, school and classroom projects, and test samples while you work out your own packaging. Using them for a business needs a commercial licence, which will come with BoxTemplate's paid plans. Whatever artwork you add stays yours.
Free: personal use
- For you, your home and the people you give things to. Gift boxes, party favours, wedding favours you give away, storage, crafts, decorations.
- For learning. School, college and classroom projects, workshops and teaching.
- For trying out an idea. Print and fold samples to test the size, the shape and your design before you decide anything.
- You may change the files for your own use: open the SVG or DXF, edit it, build on it.
Needs a commercial licence
- Packaging for products you sell, in a shop, online, on Etsy or at a market.
- Selling the finished boxes themselves.
- Work for a client, or packaging you design for someone else's business.
- Commercial or bulk print runs, and dies made from these templates.
The commercial licence will be part of BoxTemplate's paid plans. If you need it before then, write to cashcodetalks@gmail.com.
Never allowed
- Sharing or selling the template files. The PDF, SVG, DXF and PNG you generate may not be passed on, uploaded, bundled or listed for download, whether you charge for them or not. Send people here instead: they can make their own.
- Removing the line in the margin. Every sheet carries a small line saying where it came from and pointing to this page. It is printed outside the cut lines, so it never ends up on the finished box.
- Copying the tool. The site itself — its code, its text, its drawings and the BoxTemplate name — belongs to BoxTemplate.
Your artwork
A picture you add to a template stays yours, or stays whoever's it was. It never leaves your browser, and BoxTemplate makes no claim on it. Make sure you have the right to use any picture you print.
What changed
Until 5 October 2026, templates made here could be used commercially and the files shared. From that date the terms on this page apply. Templates you downloaded before 5 October 2026 keep the terms they came with.
No warranty
The templates are given as they are, with no guarantee. The geometry is checked, but card thickness, printer scaling and cutting are yours. Print one and fold it before you rely on it. The terms of use say more.
Questions
- Can I make boxes for my Etsy shop?
- You can design and test them here for free. Using them to package or sell products needs the commercial licence.
- Can I give the boxes away?
- Yes, as gifts, favours or at a party. Giving them away to promote a business counts as commercial use.
- Can I use them in class or a workshop?
- Yes. Each student can make their own here. Please do not hand out printed copies as course material you charge for.
- Can I share a template with a friend?
- Share the link to the template instead. It opens with the same shape, so they can make it at their own size.
Contact
Questions about this licence, or a commercial licence now: cashcodetalks@gmail.com.
In effect from 5 October 2026.