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

I did the same. Spent 30 minutes looking for it. It’s confusing and disappointing. Confusing because you’d expect it to be there and you look for it. Disappointing because it’s core feature in most free presentation software and makes a promising tool unusable.

Yes, agree 100%

Agree, it makes zero sense to keep this feature in the Org plan.

This should definitely not be a feature for orgs and enterprises only. Makes no sense to me.

Yes, I also searched and at some point realised with surprise that there is no templates function.
I was already running around the office cheering and thought we had found a great alternative to pitch.
Sorry, but it’s not worth switching to the organisation plan for this. We don’t need its features otherwise and it’s disproportionately more expensive.
So we’ll stick with pitch.com for the time being and hope that Figma will see sense.

I absolutely agree – I can see why a function like this would not be in the free plan, but for a paying customer with a small team, working in design, it’s a deal breaker not to have custom templates.

+1
I can see limiting the ability to publish the template to a team (just like team libraries), but creation of a template should be for everyone.

+1 - it’s in line with creating component libraries - which is available in the pro plan.

Agree. It’s a basic feature that should be available to all plans.

In what world can we link complex prototypes, use AI, create smart animations, and not set up foundational templates? Makes no sense.

I will say the usability and design possibilities still make me opt for Figma.

But please do release custom template features for everyone!

I wanted to add another reply to mention that the Dylan, the CEO, specifically mentioned during his Config keynote that Figma needs to do a better job of meeting the needs of non-org and enterprise customers, and then a few minutes later they released Slides with an Org and Enterprise-paywalled feature for the core ability to publish templates, so Figma has a long way to go if they want to do more than sound good on stage regarding this particular promise. When he said that I thought “okay, prove it” and they didn’t really offer any specifics on how they will actually make things more equitable for users who aren’t on the Org or Enterprise tier.

I hope they reconsider this paywall, because as a single designer on a pro plan, it would actually be really useful for me to create a template that I can use for multiple slide decks, and obviously as an individual designer, upgrading to an Org plan is pretty much out of the question and way more than I need.

You could argue that publishing templates for internal use is a feature specifically tailored to offering larger teams an option to create more consistent decks, and that the use case just isn’t there for solo designers, but I don’t think that’s true, and really it’s such a simple feature on the surface that this seems hard to justify in any sense that doesn’t involve nickel-and-diming us.