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Greg_Villeneuve
June 26, 2024

[LAUNCHED] Figma Slides custom templates should be available on all paid plans

  • June 26, 2024
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Creating custom templates in Figma Slides is only available on the Organization and Enterprise plans per the Figma Learn article. This is a basic feature of any presentation design software, even for decks designed entirely by individuals.

As much as I would love to move our agency away from Google and towards Figma Slides for our pitch decks, this will be a non-starter without this feature. We can’t justify the huge cost increase when no other Organization plan features are relevant to us.

Please consider ungating this from the high-cost plans.

33 replies

Maiken
New Member
June 26, 2024

I would like to second this. I just tried out the beta and immediately ran into this issue. On all other presentation software, you can edit the template.

Even if you can’t publish the template, just editing the template is a basic feature that is needed. Having to update each slide manually each time is not an option.

Paul_Boag
June 27, 2024

Yeah this makes it basically useless to anybody who regularly does presentations. It is a feature that is there by default on any other free slide maker.

Thibault2
June 27, 2024

I agree, it’s a basic feature.

I already love Figma Slides, but without this feature, it’s unusable for an agency wanting to create decks for clients. Not only large enterprises need to create custom templates for clients, small businesses also require this functionality.

The cost gap to upgrade to the Organization plan just to get this feature is not justified for smaller companies.

Peter_Bishop
New Participant
June 27, 2024

Agreed with the comments above. Just spent the last 30 mins trying to edit a template and realized that because we are on the pro model, we can’t. This is a core feature that will stop us from using this. Too bad as otherwise it looks great.

Tucker_S
June 27, 2024

Same here… I have a personal and work Figma account, but even as an individual who wants to build a portfolio deck, I need to be able to edit the template… Not a feature that should be gated on organization. Very frustrated to just have wasted a bunch of time to figure this out.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
June 27, 2024

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto our Slides team for future consideration.

Baffour_Atuah
New Member
June 28, 2024

That’s disappointing, agreed it’s fundamental to any presentation software not just big orgs. It’s essentially the equivalent of a Component Library in Figma Design. You wouldn’t restrict that to just Organisation+

Johan_Schierbeck
June 28, 2024

Makes no sense that you cannot do this with a Pro account. Messy that you cannot create templates with styling that you have saved with your Pro account in Figma. For me, working as the only designer at a smaller agency, it is unreasonable to go from $15 to $45 a month to be able to publish presentation templates.

Nepo
June 28, 2024

Yeah, this makes no sense. Creating and Editing templates should be standard on all plans, even free plans.

Dave_Rowley1
June 28, 2024

+1 - this should be available on any paid plan at least. Every slide tool allows this and conceptually it’s no different than creating a library, style or component that can be leveraged by the entire team. Feels like somewhat manipulative to enforce org upgrade for a single table-stakes feature.